All Resource articles – Page 28
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ResourceParacetamol book
This book consists of seven freestanding activities that can be used in a wide range of teaching and learning situations in both academic and vocational courses.
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ResourceNew 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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ResourceMake a molecule
Learn about the types of molecules found in fruits and sweets, as well as how molecules are formed
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ResourceMaking Medicines
An interactive resource from ABPI covering the process of making of medicines from research and development to to manufacture.
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ResourceOutreach: 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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ResourceOn 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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ResourceYou 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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ResourceOrganic 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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ResourceBendy bones
What makes bones strong? Children can learn about the role that calcium plays in skeletons
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ResourceChemistry'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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ResourceAdvanced 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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ResourceSunscreen and UV light
A fun demo to teach about UV light and the action/importance of sunscreen
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ResourceMeasuring 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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ResourceAspirin 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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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – Sun lotion
Learn from scientists at Croda about how the chemistry behind sun lotions helps protect our skin from damaging ultraviolet radiation.
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ResourceChemistry in your cupboard: Gaviscon
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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ResourceChemistry 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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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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ResourceChallenging 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.