All Resource articles – Page 6

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Discussion | Beyond appearances

Engage in the discussion around going beyond appearances and think about your own approach to the chemical world.

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Students’ ideas about open system chemical events | Beyond appearances

Go beyond appearances to explore open system chemical events, and the key difficulties students have with them.

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Students’ ideas about chemical equilibria | Beyond appearances

Go beyond appearances to help support students ideas around chemical equilibria  

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Introducing “chemical reactions” | Beyond appearances

Move beyond appearances and introduce chemical reactions to learners, helping them to distinguish between chemical change, and change of state.

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Students’ ideas about the differences between elements, compounds and mixtures | Beyond appearances

Differences between elements, compounds and mixtures form the basis for understanding chemical reactions, explore how students gain these ideas.

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Students’ ideas about specific chemical events: closed system reactions | Beyond appearances

Move beyond appearances to understand the relative densities of matter and particle theory.

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Students’ ideas about changes of state | Beyond appearances

Changes in state need changes in thinking to be understood, explore how to support learners to develop a new way of seeing state changes

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Students’ ideas about the particulate nature of matter | Beyond appearances

Move beyond appearances to discover how young learners form ideas about the particulate nature of matter.

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States of matter | Beyond appearances

Go beyond appearances, and discover the way in which children understand the states of matter.  

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Electrochemical cells misconception buster | 16–18 years

Probe learners’ knowledge of setting up electrochemical cells, redox equations and calculations

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Pesticides and agricultural productivity calculations | 14–16 years

Link food security to yield, percentage yield and atom economy

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Quicksand investigation | 14–16 years

Discover the properties of non-Newtonian fluids and how these could help you escape from quicksand

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Modelling large molecules | 11–14 years

Use this resource to review monomers and polymers

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Investigating the sugar content and pH of fizzy drinks | 11–14 years

Compare fizzy drinks’ ingredients, acidities and health implications

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Salt (for cooking) activities | 11–14 years

Uncover the properties and health implications of salt in our diets

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Baking investigation | 11–14 years

Discover the purpose of each ingredient and test methods used to make cupcakes

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Custard experiment | 11–14 years

Introduce your learners to Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids as well as the explosive nature of powders

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Encapsulation experiment | 11–14 years

Investigate encapsulation and the role it plays in helping probiotics travel to the gut

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Infection | 11–14 years

Introduce your learners to infection and how to treat some infectious diseases

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Investigating cold reactions | 11–14 years

Explore what is meant by ‘cold’ and the applications of endothermic reactions