All Practical skills and safety articles
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IdeasAdd 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The real prize of entering STEM competitions
Both you and your students can gain a lot from participating in science competitions besides winning
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Chalky spinach
Use this video and experiment in your classroom or set as an activity for students to try out at home to explore why eating raw spinach leaves makes your mouth feel chalky.
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Exhibition chemistry
The reaction of magnesium with steam
How to bridge a common gap in students’ understanding of the reactivity series
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Resource
How to purify water
A video aimed at learners, kit list, instruction, and explanation about how to get clean water from contaminated water using the stages of the water cycle.
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Strategies to boost learning
You’ll be hooked on these approaches to improving the quality of student work
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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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Titration – practical videos | 16–18 students
Learn how to prepare a standard solution, calculate the concentration of an unknown acid or moles of a known solid, and understand the different types of titration.
