All Observing and measuring articles
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ResourceMicroscale neutralisation and precipitation reactions
Hone your students’ observation skills by asking them to observe two microscale reactions: neutralising citric acid and creating a lead iodide precipitate
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Teaching observation skills at 11–14
Observation is a key skill for budding chemists. This is how to develop it with your younger students
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Process chemist – higher apprentice, pharmaceuticals
Erin helps turn new medicines into finished products so that they can be mass-produced for patients.
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Explaining observations in energetics quiz
Get your 11–14 students applying their rates of reactions knowledge to new contexts
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The ‘broken’ practical approach
Take this approach to practical work to ensure students are learning, not just doing
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The fast guide to enquiry-based learning
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about EBL and how to incorporate it into your chemistry lessons
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Make learning chemistry child’s play
Does play have a role in science learning for older children? This is h ow to bring more creativity to older students’ learning and why it’s important
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Activities for developing key secondary school chemistry skills remotely
Ready-to-go ideas and resources for developing your students’ key skills while home learning, including interpreting graphs and writing about practicals
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Back to basics with spectrophotometry
How to demonstrate the Beer–Lambert law using your smartphone as a light meter
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Smartphone spectroscopy: Beer–Lambert law
Use your smartphone to measure changes in concentration across different concentrations of squash at home or in the classroom. Use your results to predict the concentration of an unknown dilution of squash.
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Investigating surface tension with milk
Explore surface tension by making patterns in milk using items from the kitchen cupboard. Includes a video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction and explanation.
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Kitchen roll chromatography
Have a go at paper chromatography at home or in the classroom with items from a kitchen. Includes video aimed at learners, instructions, and explanation.
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How to make butter
Try making butter at home or in the classroom using items from your kitchen cupboard. Includes video aimed at pupils, kit list, instruction, and explanation.
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Making bath bombs
Learn how to make fizzing bath bombs using ingredients from your kitchen cupboards. Includes video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction, and explanation.
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Red cabbage rainbows
In this activity, learners create rainbows using homemade red cabbage indicator paper. Includes video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction, and explanation.
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Putting fires out
How can we use vinegar and sodium bicarbonate to make a fire extinguisher?
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The science of ice cream
Videos discussing the science of ice cream with, celebrity chef, Heston Blumenthal.
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Should beans be cooked with the lid on or off?
An investigation into whether having the lid on or off affects the colour of green vegetables.
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A Cartesian diver
Use this famous experiment to illustrate the changes in density of gases and liquids when compressed
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Separating mixtures | Primary science video demonstrations
Fun demonstrations of different mixtures, including racing liquids and rainbow colours.
