All Resource articles – Page 24
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Chemistry and Sport - weightlifting
Find out why chalk is as important in weightlifting as it is in tennis, rock climbing, and even fire-fighting.
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Faces of Chemistry – Biosensors
Find out how scientists at the material science laboratory, QMUL, develop biosensors to enhance sport performance.
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Chemistry and Sport - football
Materials chemistry has revolutionised the game of football and given us the balls, gloves, and goalposts we play with.
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Chemistry and Sport - Athletics: 400m
Discover the chemistry behind one of the toughest athletic events - the 400m race.
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The effect of cooking on vitamin C in cabbage | 16–18 years
Plan a titration experiment to discover more about the changes in vitamins and enzymes during cooking. Includes kit list and safety instructions
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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
Learn 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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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
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
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