All RSC Education articles in Non-EiC content – Page 5

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28 chemistry puzzles for 11-14 years

Try these sudoku-style chemistry puzzles for 11–14 year olds to reinforce your students’ understanding of key ideas, featuring printable worksheets and answers.
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45 chemistry puzzles for 16-18 years

Try these chemistry puzzles based on sudoku to help 16–18 year old students consolidate their knowledge about key topics, with printable worksheets and answers.
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28 o bosau cemeg i fyfyrwyr 14–16 oed

Defnyddiwch y posau hyn, sydd wedi’u hysbrydoli gan sudoku, ynghyd â’r taflenni gwaith a’r atebion y gallwch eu hargraffu, i helpu pobl ifanc 14–16 oed i gyfnerthu eu dealltwriaeth o gysyniadau cemegol allweddol.
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28 chemistry puzzles for 14-16 years

Use these sudoku-inspired puzzles with printable worksheets and answers to help 14–16 year olds consolidate their understanding of key chemical concepts.
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Gemau grid: 101 o bosau cemeg y gallwch eu hargraffu

Archwiliwch y posau cemeg hyn, sy’n debyg i bosau sudoku, gyda thaflenni gwaith ac atebion y gallwch eu hargraffu, a darganfyddwch sut i’w defnyddio i ennyn diddordeb eich myfyrwyr mewn pynciau allweddol.
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Gridlocks: 101 printable chemistry puzzles

Explore these sudoku-style chemistry puzzles with printable worksheets and answers, and discover how they can be used to engage your students with key topics.
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Business Skills for Chemists

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

Develop key business and entrepreneurial skills using these course materials and self-study resources for undergraduate chemistry students.
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Limestone Inquiry

This activity is most appropriate for students aged 14-16 to illustrate useful materials made from rocks in the context of problems associated with extraction of raw materials.
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Limestone Chemistry

This activity is most appropriate for students aged 14-16 to illustrate chemical reactions and useful materials made from rocks.
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Schools’ Analyst past papers 2012

Investigate the amount of active ingredient in aspirin tablets, paracetamol tablets and cold and flu remedies.
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Infrared Spectrometer

Watch an illuminating six-minute video explaining how infrared spectroscopy works.
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Halogens

The halogens, group 7, are an important group of elements both chemically and socially. They are unusual in that they are coloured and diatomic. They also have an order of reactivity that is the opposite of the metals in groups 1 and 2. In fact they are all very reactive, ...
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Minerals & elements in the Earth's Crust

Use questions about the composition of minerals and ores to reinforce work on elements, compounds, symbols and formulae.
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Earth's Crust

The aim of this ‘starter’ activity is to introduce students to the common elements found in the Earth.
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Hosting industrial placements in chemistry - Guidance and best practice

Provides guidance on best practice to companies hosting year-long industrial placements for students.
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Synthesis and Analysis

Synthesis and analysis are two key aspects of chemistry, particularly when exploring the role of chemistry in an industrial context and relating the products formed to applications in everyday life. In order to successfully synthesise any material it is necessary to have an understanding of the starting materials, the ...
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Structure and Bonding

Knowledge of structure and bonding can help explain the properties of materials. All the properties of a particular substance depend upon the elements present and how they are bonded to each other. This programme is designed to develop students understanding of structure and bonding as well as developing thinking ...
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On This Day – Jan 01: Eugène Demarcay was born

In 1901 he used spectroscopy to analyse material that had been carefully separated from samarium magnesium nitrate and discovered the element europium (Eu). His specialist knowledge of spectroscopy also helped Marie Curie confirm she had discovered radium (Ra). Related resources: Marie Curie and Aspects of the History of ...
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On This Day - Feb 01 : Roger Tsien was born

He shares the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie for their discovery of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). GFP is a protein that glows bright green in the presence of blue light and is found in Aequorea victoria jellyfish.
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On This Day – Jan 02 : Rudolf Clausius was born

He was one of the central founders of thermodynamics. He introduced the concept of entropy and stated the second law of thermodynamics for the first time. He also introduced concepts of kinetic theory to explain motion of gas molecules, in particular the mean free path of particles.