All Practical skills and safety articles
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IdeasTake a microscale approach to electrochemical cells
How you can use Petri dish galvanic cells to support learning about electricity
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Opinion
Maximise learning with microscale
Find out why and how a small-scale approach to practical work reaps big rewards in your classroom
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Feature
Risk assessing your chemistry practicals
Keep on top of risk assessments to ensure your practical lessons are safe
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Review
Understanding chemistry through microscale practical work, Bob Worley and David Paterson
Ready to take the small-scale approach into your chemistry classroom? You might want to read this comprehensive guide first
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Ideas
The fast guide to microscale practical work
Every chemistry teacher’s must-have guide to this no-fuss method for practical work
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Ideas
Escape the classroom: and try microscale chemistry
Escape room puzzles based on simple microscale reactions for students
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Ideas
Everyday neutralisation myths busted
Give real-world relevance to neutralisation reactions by testing the basicity of toothpastes
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Resource
Is toothpaste basic? | 11–14 years
Test the basicity of toothpastes and give context to neutralisation reactions
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Ideas
How to solve a murder
Combine chemical analysis and practical activities to crack a crime and engage younger students
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Ideas
When things go wrong in the classroom, a video can help
Practical demo gone wrong in the chemistry lab? Here’s how to save the day
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Ideas
3 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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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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Experiment
Antibacterial properties of the halogens | 14–18 years
Use this practical to investigate how solutions of the halogens inhibit the growth of bacteria and which is most effective
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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
