Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers: Making Aircraft from Seaweed

Creating a balsa wood substitute from calcium alginate for World War 2 aircraft production.

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Anecdotes: Aluminium
The story of the discovery of the Hall-Heroult process for purifying aluminium.
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Teaching rates of reaction post-16
2021-06-23T10:59:00Z
Ideas and activities to help students explore reaction dynamics and mechanisms
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A 3D-printed material replacing elephant ivory
2021-06-18T07:47:00Z
Show your students a new context when studying composite materials and thermosetting polymers

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Introducing moles numeracy worksheet | 14–16 years
2021-06-17T13:39:00Z
Use the context of cooking to get students more comfortable with concepts such as balanced equations, ratios and reagents
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Controlled variable investigations: wrong report worksheet | 11–14
2021-06-08T10:38:00Z
Use this ‘wrong report’ activity to tackle common misconceptions and elicit discussion about surrounding controlled variables
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Transition metal games | 16–18 years
Three engaging classroom games to familiarise learners with keywords for the transition metals topic, based on Jeopardy!, Articulate! and Taboo