All News articles – Page 9
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Students’ struggle with multiple representations
How important is it for students to be able to move between chemical representations to grasp fundamental chemical concepts and phenomena?
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Philosophical discussion promotes confidence in the classroom
How encouraging students to engage in philosophical dialogue can yield surprising results
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A step closer to post-lithium energy storage
Calcium batteries could be viable thanks to a new electrolyte
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Algae produce synthetic chemicals
Surprise discovery as research shows trihalogenated anilines make synthetic chemicals
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Choose chemical representations carefully
How the combination of representations you use impacts your students’ learning
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Making ethanol from lignin
A new method can produce ethanol from rewnable lignin and carbon dioxide
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Be forceful with chemical bonding
Help your students understand chemical bonding with force-based models
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How silkworms can help astronauts
Silk fibres stay tough and ductile even at low temperatures, making them potentially perfect for space
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Smartphones modified to detect norovirus
Handheld detection system is sensitive enough to catch just a few particles of norovirus
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Microbes and renewable energy turn carbon dioxide into edible protein
A new process uses microbes and renewable energy to make proteins for human consumption
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Enhance explanations of intermolecular forces
How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding
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Thank the Nobel prize winners for your mobile phone
Start a lesson with the Nobel prize-winning chemistry involved in lithium-ion batteries
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Which is best: practical or simulation?
Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes?
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Catalyst metal recovery adds greener notes to whisky production
Magnetite nanoparticles recover copper waste from whisky manufacturing process
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2D synthetic clay sheets could create easy to recycle crisp packets
Inorganic nanosheets could lower the carbon footprint of food packaging
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Poly(ionic liquid)s act like taste buds for simple sugars
New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
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Metacognitive motivation
How it can positively influence students’ beliefs in their own abilities