All Resource articles – Page 38
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ResourceIf rocks could talk
A series of ‘interviews’ with different rocks. From these ‘interviews’ students learn about different types of rocks, how and where in the rock cycle they are formed as well as their defining features. Clicking on key words reveals further information, images and quiz questions. This resource has been developed by ...
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ResourceFloating garden challenge
Design and build a model structure with Practical Action’s floating garden challenge
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ResourceGrouping and classifying materials: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘grouping and classifying materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at the key ideas and activities that can be used to teach primary students how to group and classify materials.
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ResourceHeating and cooling materials: That’s Chemistry!
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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ResourceCracking Chemistry!
Work your way through these fun chemistry practicals developed by National Science & Engineering Week.
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ResourceChemistry in sport
Our very first global experiment compares the performance enhancement of student-made sports drinks vs water
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ResourceBurning: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘burning’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that when materials are burned new materials are formed, and that this process in not reversible.
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ResourceBeat the flood challenge
Links to Practical Action’s beat the flood challenge, including the teacher and student materials, beat the flood poster, competition winners and schools’ experiences of the challenge. Video: Beat the flood
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ResourceModelling sedimentary rocks
Students use syringes to make samples of sedimentary rock from sand both with and without cementing agents.
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ResourceWeathering and erosion
Examine the ways in which water can weather rocks, by solution and by freeze-thaw.
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ResourceHand 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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ResourceLimestone weathering
This activity is designed for students aged 11-14. It can be used to reinforce work on the reactions of carbonates with acids as well as the chemical weathering of rock.
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ResourceMaking a volcano
Simulate ways in which both extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks may form
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ResourceWood conservation - the Mary Rose
The Mary Rose is a wooden Tudor warship that sank off Portsmouth in 1545. While on the sea bed, most of her hull became covered in silt, which effectively sealed it and the artefacts it contained in anaerobic (air-free) conditions and preserved them from decay.
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ResourceNitration of methyl benzoate
Synthesise and recrystallize a sample of methyl 3-nitrobenzoate.
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ResourceInvestigating the reaction between manganate(VII) and ethanedioate ions
Use a continuous monitoring method to investigate the redox reaction between potassium manganate(VII) and ethanedioate ions.
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ResourceOn This Day - Nov 07 : Raman was born
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and the discovery of the Raman effect. This effect is the change in the wavelength of light when a light beam is deflected by molecules. Raman spectroscopy has since become a key tool for chemical characterisation.
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ResourceChemistry in your cupboard
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: Veet
Link the post-16 topics of amino acids and proteins, bonding, reaction rates and equilibria and Le Chateliers principle to the topic of hair removal. Learn about a range of real life contexts for these chemical ideas through written material, and questions to encourage learning and test understanding.