All Resource articles – Page 65
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ResourceSolar cells and circuits
Explore how to set up an electrical circuit containing solar cells and how connecting them in different ways will produce different results.
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ResourceMake a Grtäzel cell
Make a dye sensitised solar cell using household items such as raspberries.
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ResourceSolar cells and absorption
Explore the relationship between light and absorption in solar cells.
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ResourceSolar cell in a drinking straw
Capture electricity from sunlight using raspberry juice and drinking straws.
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ResourceEnergy Card Sort
Sort solar energy themed cards into groups and work out the connections between those in the groupsust
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ResourceChlorophyll fluorescence
Make a plant fluoresce by simply crushing it and shining a light on it.
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ResourceMixing colours
Demonstrate how putting different colours together combine to give the full picture.
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ResourceModelling igneous rocks
This activity is designed for students aged 11-14, to support work on the formation of rocks and on igneous activity.
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ResourceIgneous Processes
Igneous rocks form by exciting processes, and contain evidence about their origins. This is just as well, since many of them form below ground where they cannot be observed.
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ResourceChemistry Now: Combinatorial Chemistry
Combinatorial chemistry is a group of techniques for synthesising large arrays of related chemicals and is increasingly being used by pharmaceutical companies in their search for new drugs.
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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – Women in Chemistry
Follow the adventures of eight leading women in chemistry and celebrate the common element that catalysed their journeys: a life-changing, chance-taking, thrill-seeking love of science.
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ResourceWash Bag Chemistry
‘Wash Bag Chemistry’ has the potential to be a truly cross curricular activity. The Business Studies department in a school can take on the task of compiling the product reports and teaching the business outcomes that could be covered. The Art department could also be involved –pupils could design logos ...
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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – Packaging gases
Discover how scientists from BOC remove gases from the air and use them in food packaging and processing.
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ResourceChallenging Plants: Fertilisers
Nutrients essential for plant growth are obtained naturally from soil or other growing media. However, supplies become depleted and fertilisers are needed to increase the availability of nutrients to plants. An understanding of chemical changes is used to making fertilisers, often designed to meet specific requirements such as particular nutrient ...
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ResourceChallenging Plants: Analytical Methods
Investigations of plants and soil often require the application of some basic analytical methods. Some important ones are given here.
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ResourceIt's a Gas: Part 1
A series of short videos of fun demonstrations about the chemistry of the gases in our atmosphere, taken from a lecture by Dr. Peter Wothers of the University of Cambridge. Video: It’s a Gas: 01 - Gases of the Atmosphere Part 1 Video: It’s ...
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ResourceIt's a Gas: Part 2
A series of short videos of fun demonstrations about the chemistry of the gases in our atmosphere, taken from a lecture by Dr. Peter Wothers of the University of Cambridge. Video: It’s a Gas: 12 - Respiration Video: It’s a Gas: 13 - Properties ...