All News articles – Page 5
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How to apply pedagogical knowledge effectively
Develop your PCK to help students grasp and apply subject knowledge
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Milking the potential of proteins to provide safe drinking water
Removing arsenic from tap water to make it safe to drink
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A virtual check for CO₂ capture tech
Finding carbon recovery materials using software and not lab tests
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Same molecule, different representations
Chemistry is full of varied representations. How do we help our students identify the information encoded within them?
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New Guinness World Records title for highest voltage fruit battery
2923 connected lemons: the recipe for a new Guinness World Records title, awarded to the RSC and Saiful Islam
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Turning scrap metal into hi-tech alloys
Electrochemically stripping carbon from steel during recycling
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The RSC’s 2021 Education Prize winners
The Royal Society of Chemistry announces the winners of its Education Prizes, celebrating exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences
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Cooling homes with an endothermic reaction
Looking at the use of ammonium nitrate in a new and renewable cooling process
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Teaching tips for chemical kinetics
Students’ understanding is mostly assessed through numerical problems. Sometimes performance does not reflect understanding. Here’s why
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Sunlight produces thousands of compounds from plastic
Scientists dispel the theory that sunlight exposure simply fragments macroplastics that persist in the environment, but what are the implications for the environment?
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Do our students suffer from chemophobia?
How your teaching can equip students to recognise and ward off misinformation
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What’s carbon dioxide got to do with it?
Examining the role that CO₂ plays in the supermarket’s empty shelves
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A carbon allotrope that can scratch diamond
The amorphous carbon material created from buckminsterfullerene
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Understanding why chemistry is important boosts results
Use simple interventions to help students work out the real-life reasons why it is important to study chemistry
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Graphene veil prevents fading
Atomically-thin graphene lattices are being used as a barrier against ageing
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Leaded petrol still poisoning London’s air
20 years after it was banned, leaded petrol remains a significant contributor to air pollution in the UK’s capital
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What affects students’ self-assessment skills?
A study investigating students’ self-assessed understanding has implications for your practice
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How microbes convert waste plastic bottles into vanillin
Show students how chemistry is upcycling plastic monomers into higher value alternative products
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A 3D-printed material replacing elephant ivory
Show your students a new context when studying composite materials and thermosetting polymers