All Resource articles – Page 24
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ResourceChemistry in your cupboard: Nurofen
Link the post-16 topics of bonding and solubility, isomerisation and reactions of organic functional groups to the topic of analgesics. 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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Chemistry in your cupboard: Dettol
Link the post-16 topics of phenols, bonding and acids and bases to the topic of antiseptics.
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Challenging Medicines: Physiochemical Properties - Practicals
Practical experiments associated with the handouts for Physiochemical Properties. Investigating the dissolution, pKₐ and rates of hydrolysis of everyday tablets are covered.
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Molecules against malaria
This medicinal chemistry case study is designed to introduce students to the development of antimalarial 4-aminoquinolines and the early stages of drug discovery and development. It focuses on antimalarial 4-aminoquinolines (4-AQs) and involves an introduction to malaria, its causes, societal impact and the need for new drugs. It then presents ...
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Challenging Medicines: Body Chemistry
Medicines and the development of pharmaceutical drugs have the potential to help us take on the challenge of human health - Improving and maintaining accessible health, including disease prevention.
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Challenging Medicines: Analysing Medicines - Practicals
Experiments that involve the colorimetric analysis of medicines and can be applied to other activities.
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Challenging Medicines: Introduction/Pedagogical Overview
Medicines and the development of pharmaceutical drugs have the potential to help us take on the challenge of human health - Improving and maintaining accessible health, including disease prevention.
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Challenging Medicines: Physiochemical Properties
These resource sheets look at the different physiochemical properties of medicines. Pharmacokinetic processes, dissolution, ionisation and dissociation are all covered here.
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Challenging Medicines: Making Medicines - Practicals and PPT
These resources show the extent to which everyday medicines can be made in the classroom. Using straightforward processes milk of magnesia and ear drops can all be made.
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Updated Periodic Table wallchart
Newly updated for 2017, including the four new elements! Display this two-sided periodic table poster in your classroom. On one side, a Visual Elements version, with fascinating element artwork by Murray Robertson. On the other side is a bold colour-coded version, emphasising readability and clarity. The wallchart is available in ...
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A model of mass spectrometry
Use this modelling activity to explore your students’ understanding of the process of fragmentation in mass spectrometry.
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On This Day - Nov 23 : Henry Moseley was born
He developed a law concerning the characteristic X-rays that are emitted by atoms, and thus allowed atomic numbers to be defined. Until this point, these numbers in the periodic table were simply an element’s place, rather than being associated with a physical property.
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Northern Ireland chemistry curriculum map
Plan your implementation and delivery of the Northern Irish chemistry curriculum, whether you teach at foundation phase or undergraduate level.
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English chemistry curriculum map
Use this map to get an overview of the English chemistry curriculum, from primary to undergraduate level.
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Chemical comparisons
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Scotland curriculum for excellence guide: early to second level science
A linking document for primary science teachers in Scotland, which maps Royal Society of Chemistry resources to experiences and outcomes from the Curriculum for Excellence.
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On This Day – Jul 23 : Vladimir Prelog was born
He was the first person to synthesize the unusually symmetrical hydrocarbon adamantane, whose derivatives are routinely used for medical applications. He shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “his research into stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions”.
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Chemical misconceptions I: Concepts in chemistry
A person can be said to have acquired a concept once they are able to identify examples, and distinguish them from non-examples, this resource aims to support learners do so.
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Scaffolding explanations
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
