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Support students to make sense of models
How your subject knowledge and teaching knowledge combine to transform students’ understanding
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A stabilised sulfur allotrope that’s making sustainable Li–S batteries work
Energy-dense lithium–sulfur batteries are making their way into the energy industry
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Tweak your questions to improve students’ problem-solving skills
How changing the format of practice questions can improve learners’ skills
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Drug pollution in wastewater
Extent of pharmaceutical pollution on every continent on Earth revealed
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Boost confidence in STEM
Discover how writing tasks can stimulate learning and boost confidence
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Cooking up sustainable batteries
Find out how microwaves can improve the environmental credentials of electrochemical cells
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Mechanistic reasoning in the chemistry classroom
Do teachers need to rethink their explanations depending on their teaching context?
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Forming Earth’s ancient atmosphere from space dust
Uncover how sun-weathered asteroids could be the ancient source of Earth’s water
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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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Turning scrap metal into hi-tech alloys
Electrochemically stripping carbon from steel during recycling
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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