All Misconceptions articles – Page 2
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Introducing “chemical reactions” | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and introduce chemical reactions to learners, helping them to distinguish between chemical change, and change of state.
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Students’ ideas about the differences between elements, compounds and mixtures | Beyond appearances
Differences between elements, compounds and mixtures form the basis for understanding chemical reactions, explore how students gain these ideas.
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Students’ ideas about specific chemical events: closed system reactions | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to understand the relative densities of matter and particle theory.
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Students’ ideas about changes of state | Beyond appearances
Changes in state need changes in thinking to be understood, explore how to support learners to develop a new way of seeing state changes
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Students’ ideas about the particulate nature of matter | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to discover how young learners form ideas about the particulate nature of matter.
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States of matter | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances, and discover the way in which children understand the states of matter.
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CPD
How to teach electrochemistry at post-16
Use these tips to help your students calculate redox reactions and create electrochemical cells
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Electrochemical cells misconception buster | 16–18 years
Probe learners’ knowledge of setting up electrochemical cells, redox equations and calculations
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CPD
How to teach quantitative chemistry at post-16
Use these tips to help your students successfully calculate reacting masses and limiting agents
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CPD
How to teach moles at post-16
Use this explainer to help students overcome misconceptions of this fundamental quantity
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Ideas
Banish misconceptions with digital whiteboards
A quick, low-stakes way to see what students are thinking, with everything from 3D molecule modelling to organic chemistry
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Teaching spectroscopic techniques at post-16
Use these ideas and resources to help your students master spectroscopy
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Harness the power of video to dispel misconceptions
A creative solution to reveal and resolve confusion about displacement reactions
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Spot the entropy errors worksheet | 16–18 years
Develop your learners’ metacognitive skills using thermodynamics questions and calculations
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Review
Teaching secondary chemistry, 3rd edition
From misconceptions to maths, this book is an essential resource
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News
Is every substance a molecule?
Use this to help chemistry students accurately apply covalent bonding models
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CPD
Teaching curly arrows at post-16
Tips and resources to help you teach chemical processes and organic reaction mechanisms
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Demystifying scientific symbolic language
Teach your students how to understand and use chemical symbols in their learning
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Modelling ionic bonds with plasticine
Mould your students’ understanding of ionic bond formation and overcome misconceptions
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Teach electrochemical cells using number grids
Make explaining electrochemical cells and calculating potentials simple with number grids