All Practical skills and safety articles
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Ideas3 key skills your post-16 chemists need for university
How to help your students make the transition to higher education more smoothly
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Ideas
Teaching chemical changes (at Halloween)
Turn your younger students into wizards at chemistry with these simple practical ideas
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Resource
Fertilisers and sustainability | 16–18 years
Investigate the rate of hydrolysis of urea and assess your learners’ practical skills, includes extension green chemistry questions on sustainable fertilisers
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Feature
The challenges of practical work post-16
What are the difficulties students face when they begin to tackle experiments in their last years of secondary school chemistry?
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Resource
Microscale 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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CPD
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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Opinion
Why you should use virtual labs
Digital technologies, online animations and virtual experiments have an important role to play in practical learning, argue teachers Euan Douglas and Ramrajiv Rajendram
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Experiment
Antibacterial properties of the halogens
Use this practical to investigate how solutions of the halogens inhibit the growth of bacteria and which is most effective
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Ideas
Add sustainable management of water to your existing lessons
Quick and simple tips and activities to link UN sustainable development goal 6 to separation techniques, potable water and more
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CPD
How to teach controlled variable investigations at 11–14
Get your younger students confident with different types of variables and conducting well-controlled investigations
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Ideas
How to choose the right practical simulation
Make sure you pick the right virtual practical for your students by asking yourself these 6 questions
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Ideas
Practise purposeful practicals
Identify the reason you’re teaching a particular experiment to ensure students learn not just how to do it, but the concept and technique too
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Ideas
3 ideas to make the most of an hour for practical work
Time in the lab is valuable. Try these three tried-and-tested ways to squeeze the most out of every precious minute of your practical lessons
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Feature
Make learning chemistry child’s play
Does play have a role in science learning for older children? This is how to bring more creativity to older students’ learning and why it’s important
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Resource
Microscale technicians in trouble! investigation
Some solutions have been mixed up – help the technicians work out which is which
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Job profile
Research & development team leader - smart food labels
Giorgia leads a team at a small company that is helping to fight food waste by developing smart labels technology
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Job profile
Secondary school science teacher
Alice teaches in a secondary school chemistry department helping her students thrive in the future
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Ideas
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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Job profile
Analyst – higher apprentice, organic chemistry
Katty monitors the levels of organic materials in drinking and wastewater to ensure it is safe to drink.
