All RSC Education articles in Education in Chemistry – Online extras 2020
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Feature
A new approach to marking
Reduce your marking time and increase student’s engagement with your feedback
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Soundbite
Electrochemistry could secure astronauts oxygen on the Moon
Extracting oxygen and metals from moon rock may help build new lunar base
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Opinion
Teaching creative chemistry
It’s not just the arts that are creative, chemistry is too. And it’s an essential element in its teaching
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Resource
Lithium: separation, mining and battery power | 11–14 years
Test your 11–14 students’ knowledge of separation techniques; elements, mixtures and compounds; periodic table trends
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Feature
The grand end of term quiz
Looking for something fun to wrap up the term? Challenge your 14–16 students with this chemistry-themed quiz
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Resource
Prepare oxalic acid as a primary standard
The toxic ingredient lurking in green vegetables, oxalic acid is familiar to Advanced Higher students for other reasons
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Feature
Why you need A-level chemistry to study dietetics
Which parts of the chemistry curriculum will your 16–18 students find useful to become a dietician?
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Resource
Runaway reactions
Ask your 16–18 students to take a closer look at ammonium nitrate and enthalpy
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Feature
How to succeed in your teacher training – and enjoy it
How to not only survive the initial teacher training year, but to thrive
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Feature
How to look after students’ well-being
Signs to look out for and how to help during the pandemic
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Resource
Plant-based plastics | 11–14 years
Put chemistry into context and encourage your 11–14 students to use their critical thinking skills with these classroom activities
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Opinion
Should we teach chemistry from primary?
Secondary school teacher Ian Stuart shares the benefits of teaching atomic theory to seven- and eight-year olds
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Article
Why you need chemistry to study … at university
Explore with your students how 16–18 chemistry links with university courses
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Feature
Taking a blended learning approach to HE
Learn from lecturer Sara Kyne’s experiences of welcoming first-year chemistry students
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Ideas
Science competitions your students can enter this year
Tap into your students’ passion for science with this year’s school science competitions
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Resource
Innovations in packaging
Explore polymers and redox via food wrap innovations with this activity for 11–16 students
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Maths
How to approach graphs in chemistry
Help your students turn graphs from pictures into mathematical objects
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Feature
Exam results 2020: Algorithms, grades and chaos
What do students think about the U-turns on pre-university exam results?
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Article
Speed date your way to successful school-industry partnerships
Why you should approach industry outreach in the same way as finding a new partner
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Ideas
The fast guide to blended learning
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about teaching science with this approach