All Resource articles – Page 23

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    Oranges and lemons

    Discover the hidden secrets of lemons and oranges with this open experiment, where learners can design their own investigation. Includes kit list and safety instructions. 

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    Organic chemists: Fighting blindness

    The RSC Organic Division Council have developed scientific case-studies to highlight the importance of organic synthesis in every aspect of life.

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    Paracetamol book

    This book consists of seven freestanding activities that can be used singly or as a coherent package in a wide range of teaching and learning situations in both academic and vocational courses.

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    New drugs for old: pharmaceuticals

    This is a problem-based case study looks at the isolation, identification and synthesis of a pharmaceutical drug. Students are involved in screening natural herbal remedies for their active ingredients. 

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    Make a molecule

    Help children learn more about the types of molecules found in fruits and sweets, as well as how molecules are formed

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    Making Medicines

    An interactive resource from ABPI covering the process of making of medicines from research and development to to manufacture. 

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    Outreach: speedy star jumps

    An activity that allows the collection of data to test whether sports drinks make a difference to performance during short, high intensity exercise.

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    Aspirin

    Students undertake the synthesis and analysis of aspirin.

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    On This Day - Mar 19 : Walter Haworth was born

    Besides determining the structures of many sugars, his most famous work was discovering the structure of Vitamin C and creating its first artificial synthesis – work which earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937.

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    You are what you ate

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    This C/PBL resource looks at the metabolic causes and incidence of obesity in the cultural and social environment within which students, tutors, and institutions operate. Students are presented with a problem, the growing incidence of obesity, in a real life context in which the core subject, metabolic chemistry, plays a ...

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    Organic chemists: contributing to food production | 16–18 years

    This scientific case-study highlights the importance of organic synthesis in more efficient food production.

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    Bendy bones

    What makes bones strong? Children can learn about the role that calcium plays in skeletons

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    Chemistry's interfaces: nutrition

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    This C/PBL resource is an introduction to some of the most important aspects of chemical biology. Its introduces students to a number of important chemical structures which play major biological roles within human metabolism. 

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    Advanced Medicinal Chemistry

    This course material gives real-life examples of drug discovery and information on the drug discovery process through an industrial context, produced by Dr Ray Leslie of NTU and AstraZeneca.

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    Sunscreen and UV light

    A fun demo to teach about UV light and the action/importance of sunscreen

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    Measuring vitamin C in food

    Get your students to test their fruit and vegetables for vitamin C using simple kitchen equipment and household items

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    Aspirin book

    This book contains eight free-standing activities that can be used singly or as a coherent package in a wide range of teaching and learning situations for both academic and vocational courses.

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    Faces of Chemistry – Sun lotion

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    Learn from scientists at Croda about how the chemistry behind sun lotions helps protect our skin from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

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    Chemistry in your cupboard: Gaviscon

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    Link the post-16 topics of acid and base neutralisation, weak acids, bonding and carboxylic acids to the topic of antacids. Learn about a range of real life contexts for these chemical ideas through written material, and questions to encourage learning and test understanding. 

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    Crisps

    Combining research, a practical investigation and a presentation of results.