All Problem solving articles
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ResourceSustainable 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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Ideas
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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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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The ‘broken’ practical approach
Take this approach to practical work to ensure students are learning, not just doing
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Job profile
Senior director of chip research
Jason talks about his team’s important work on a platform that allows scientists to sequence DNA wherever they are and uncover viral outbreaks, or identify new species.
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Ideas
The fast guide to enquiry-based learning
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about EBL and how to incorporate it into your chemistry lessons
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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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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
Executive editor, scientific publishing
Katie uses her chemistry background and works with scientists around the world to advance the chemical sciences by publishing the latest leading research in scientific journals
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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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Chief technology officer and co-founder of a robotic chemists’ company
Benjamin explains how he’s innovating industry by creating robotic chemists who can speed up new discoveries
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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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Opinion
Teaching creative chemistry
It’s not just the arts that are creative, chemistry is too. And it’s an essential element in its teaching
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Feature
Using gestures in the classroom
Harness the power of hands to supercharge students’ retrieval and problem solving and assess their understanding
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Resource
Innovations in packaging
Explore polymers and redox via food wrap innovations with this activity for 11–16 students
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Job profile
Chief technology officer
Cristina helps develop technology that could change lives by extracting disease from the body
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Ideas
Escape the classroom: and explore colour change reactions
In this escape room article, students explore colour change reactions to reveal hidden codes
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Job profile
Analytical chemists, Thames Water
Harsh and Michael describe their vital work keeping the region’s water and sewage systems safe and operational at all times
