All Pedagogy articles
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ResourceStudents’ difficulties with stoichiometry | Beyond appearances
Go beyond apperances and clarify the difficulties that students have around “the mole concept”.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about chemical bonding | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to develop students ideas around chemical bonding
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about thermodynamics | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances and help learner to understand the thermodynamic reaction from chemical bonds.
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ResourceStudents’ thinking about acids, bases and neutralisation | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and support learners to identify the key misconceptions around acids and bases among secondary aged students.
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ResourceDiscussion | Beyond appearances
Engage in the discussion around going beyond appearances and think about your own approach to the chemical world.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about open system chemical events | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances to explore open system chemical events, and the key difficulties students have with them.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about chemical equilibria | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances to help support students ideas around chemical equilibria
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ResourceIntroducing “chemical reactions” | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and introduce chemical reactions to learners, helping them to distinguish between chemical change, and change of state.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about the differences between elements, compounds and mixtures | Beyond appearances
Differences between elements, compounds and mixtures form the basis for understanding chemical reactions, explore how students gain these ideas.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about specific chemical events: closed system reactions | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to understand the relative densities of matter and particle theory.
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about changes of state | Beyond appearances
Changes in state need changes in thinking to be understood, explore how to support learners to develop a new way of seeing state changes
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ResourceStudents’ ideas about the particulate nature of matter | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to discover how young learners form ideas about the particulate nature of matter.
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ResourceStates of matter | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances, and discover the way in which children understand the states of matter.
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FeatureHere comes the summer
We think a lot about what students forget over the summer break, but what about teachers?
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Q&AClassroom questions: Reducing teacher talk, beating NQT exhaustion and boosting test performance
Experts answer questions about reducing teacher talk, NQT exhaustion and helping pupils whose test performance doesn’t match their classroom understanding
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FeatureDon’t worry about summer learning loss
Kristy Turner arms you with the knowledge to understand and mitigate students’ forgetting over the holidays
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IdeasPolish your exam knowledge to boost students’ grades: 6 ways to improve your assessment skills
Discover how getting to grips with the detail of exam specs will improve outcomes
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ResourceCemeg yn y Cwricwlwm i Gymru – cynllunio cefnogaeth
Canllawiau, gan gynnwys templed sgiliau ac enghraifft gwaith, i gefnogi athrawon gyda threfnu’r cwricwlwm a chynnydd ym Maes Dysgu ac Arbenigedd Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg y Cwricwlwm i Gymru, cam cynnydd 4.
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Opinion‘Science education has failed’
Covid has shown people aren’t prepared for societal challenges of the future: it’s time to put science and environment literacy at the heart of science education
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FeatureAre misconceptions on your RADAAR?
How to use the EEF’s RADAAR framework to help you better consider misconceptions when planning your lessons and curriculums