All Properties of matter articles – Page 9

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    Water and hydrogels

    Challenge your students to answer the question: are we wasting water?

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    The water cycle: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘water cycle’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how different liquids evaporate at different rates, and the factors that affect these rates.

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    The Mpemba effect

    Help discover why warm water freezes quicker than cold water. The Royal Society of Chemistry offered £1000 for the best and most creative explanation of this phenomenon, known as the Mpemba effect. View the winning entry, try the experiment for yourself, or read the original paper.

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    The properties of materials and their everyday uses: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘properties of materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how the properties of materials affects their suitability for different uses.

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    Solids, Liquids and Gases

    Cartoon animations that explain in simple terms why different materials have different properties and how they change on heating and cooling. Other animations cover separating solids from liquids and show what happens to a solid when it dissolves in a liquid. Courtesy of the ABPI.

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    Solids, liquids and gases: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘solids, liquids and gases’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn about solids, liquids and gases, and understand that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled.

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    Separating mixtures: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘separating mixtures’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how sieving can separate particles of different sizes and other methods used for separating mixtures.

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    Rocks and soils: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘rocks and soils’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that different types of rocks and soils have different properties.

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    Thermochromic materials

    A hidden use of chemistry in everyday life includes thermochromic materials that change colour when exposed to heat or cold

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    Magic sand

    2016-12-12T13:29:00Z

    Putting the magic in magic sand this resource explores hydrophobic substances and how they work

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    Crystal chemistry

    A fun experiment to grow your own crystals using everyday items in your learning space, great to get learners interacting with science

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    Insulation and conduction: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘Insulation and conduction’ chapter from That’s Chemistry!: This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how materials have different properties, including whether they are conductors or insulators of heat and/or electricity.

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    Mixing and dissolving materials: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘mixing and dissolving materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that mixtures are made up of more than one substance and that some mixtures can be separated.

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    Heating and cooling materials: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘heating and cooling materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how the properties of some materials change when they are heated, and that some of these changes are irreversible.

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    Chemistry in your shopping basket

    Demonstrate the diversity of chemistry in our day-to-day lives with this collection of experiments. Includes kit list and safety instructions for five practicals

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    Science festivals

    This set of handouts can be used to inspire people of all ages to take up chemistry in their own home! Racing raisins, cornflour gloop, erupting volcanoes, reaction times and iron from breakfast cereal are all covered here

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    Hand warmers

    Use these student activities and teacher guide to investigate reusable and disposable hand warmers. You will compare reusable variants made with sodium acetate vs disposable handwarmers. You can also try making your own hand warmers. These activities may work well as a project on class topics like ‘winter’ or ‘body ...

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    Chemistry stinks

    2016-12-02T12:11:00Z

    Jacob Cox, Simon Rees and Peter Banks describe educational techniques linking the sense of smell with memory

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    Gold nanoclusters offer route to better vaccines

    2016-08-12T00:00:00Z

    New technique improves immune response and safety of hepatitis E vaccine

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    The 2011 International Year of Chemistry Experiment

    2016-08-03T15:24:00Z

    Worksheets and data from the 2011 mass participation experiment. Measure the acidity (pH) and salinity of your local water.