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IdeasCreating a culture of error
Use these 5 teacher-tested tips to help your students learn (and grow) from their mistakes
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Improve students’ understanding of stereoisomers with these evidence-based ideas
Discover three effective methods to help your students understand molecular rotations
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Tweak your questions to improve students’ problem-solving skills
How changing the format of practice questions can improve learners’ skills
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Escape the classroom: and try microscale chemistry
Escape room puzzles based on simple microscale reactions for students
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Empower learners to own their success
Foster questioning and analytical thinking in the classroom
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Teach electrochemical cells using number grids
Make explaining electrochemical cells and calculating potentials simple with number grids
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Should we let students write on tables?
Use this handy technique to effectively engage disinterested learners
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Growing decision trees
Use this essential learning aid to help students solve complex chemistry problems
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How to teach structure determination post-16
Students find this process puzzling. Help them solve it with these ideas and tips
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How to solve a murder
Combine chemical analysis and practical activities to crack a crime and engage younger students
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Same molecule, different representations
Chemistry is full of varied representations. How do we help our students identify the information encoded within them?
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Teaching tips for chemical kinetics
Students’ understanding is mostly assessed through numerical problems. Sometimes performance does not reflect understanding. Here’s why
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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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Sustainable consumption: individual action | 14–16 years
A research and reflect activity to get your learners thinking about the materials they consume and the impact of individual actions
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Job profile
Process chemist – higher apprentice, pharmaceuticals
Erin helps turn new medicines into finished products so that they can be mass-produced for patients.
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Effective questioning in organic chemistry
How to use conversation to help stuck students solve their own problems
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Real-life contexts for thermodynamics
Use this infographic with your 16–18 students and get them working with thermochemistry, intermolecular forces and free energy
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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
