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Remote teaching support
Ideas and resources for teachers working from home
Home resource collections
Learning at home for 11–14
A selection of curriculum-relevant resources and activities to use remotely with your 11–14 classes
Learning at home for 14–16
Keep your 14–16 classes learning remotely with these curriculum-relevant resources and activities
Learning at home for 16–18
Use these curriculum-relevant resources and activities remotely with your 16–18 classes
Activities for developing key secondary school chemistry skills remotely
Ready-to-go ideas and resources for developing your students’ key skills while home learning, including interpreting graphs and writing about practicals
Chemistry 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
Practicals
How to teach practical chemistry remotely
Ideas for keeping up students’ practical skills while schools are closed
Back to basics with spectrophotometry
How to demonstrate the Beer–Lambert law using your smartphone as a light meter
Use on-screen simulations to successfully boost data skills
Perfect for remote teaching, but they’ve a role in classroom settings too
How to make the most of practical videos
Use these four strategies to ensure successful learning – whether remote learning or in school
Practical videos | 14–16 years
Videos of core practical experiments for flipped learning, remote teaching or revision
Practical videos | 16–18 years
Videos of key practical techniques and apparatus for revision, flipped learning or remote teaching
On-screen experiments
Screen experiments
Interactive virtual laboratories to introduce students to experimental techniques and help them make the most of practical work, featuring titration and aspirin synthesis.
PhET interactive simulations
Explore chemical concepts using these interactive simulations: covering acid-base solutions, Beer's Law, atomic structure, concentration and the pH scale
Teacher and student well-being
How to look after students’ well-being
Signs to look out for and how to help during the pandemic
6 ways to motivate students while teaching remotely
Ideas to keep pupils motivated and engaged while learning remotely
Maintaining good mental heath
How to achieve a work-life balance that works for you and keeps you mentally well
Self-care tips for teachers
Be happier, healthier and more productive
Advice from Barnardo’s Education Community
Resources to help teaching staff support both young people and themselves during the pandemic
Approaches to remote teaching
Taking a week-by-week approach to remote teaching
Help students manage their workload with weekly assignments and feedback
How to make effective use of pre-recorded lessons
Try this great approach for introducing new content and letting learners rewatch to their heart’s desire
Using investigations to engage your 11–14 students
Try this proven approach to remote teaching with your science classes
How to use a slide show for a live lesson
Catherine Smith shares her strategy for teaching a remote lesson on the Hess cycle
How to run a quiz for distance learning
Kristy Turner shares the structure for a lesson using a semi-live approach to quizzing
Communicating with parents
How to reply to parents’ questions about homeschooling
Advice on answering questions from parents and carers with children learning from home during the Covid-19 pandemic
How to stay in touch while teaching remotely
Staying in touch when remote teaching is important, but what’s the best way to go about it as far as your students, their parents and your colleagues are concerned?
Remote feedback
One simple way to provide quick and effective online feedback
Use objective-based marking to save time and engage students with online feedback
Giving successful remote feedback
How to ensure you feed back effectively when students are learning at home
Remote technology
Top tips to make the most of remote teaching technology
Teachers share their dos and don’ts of using Google and Microsoft remote offerings
5 smart tips for using Google Classroom with your classes
Get started and uncover the secrets to teaching remotely
5 teaching technologies to improve socially-distanced learning
One teacher reveals which technologies have improved their teaching in 2020. Which do you use?
Tips from the EEF
How students learn effectively from home
Wondering how to nail remote teaching? The EEF shares some ideas to help you master content and strategy
What you need to know about flipped learning
The fast guide to flipped learning
How to make the most of lesson time
How to implement flipped learning in 2021
Flipped learning could save time and help close the attainment gap as education moves back to the classroom – here’s how to bring it into yours
How to flip learning successfully remotely
It’s the perfect approach for effective distance learning
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A Future in Chemistry
Real-life career stories and articles to inspire and inform you about your future in chemistry
Support from the Royal Society
Science at Home resources for teachers
Advice from the RSB
Resources from the Royal Society of Biology
Support from the IOP
Find out how the Institute of Physics is supporting schools and colleges during Covid-19
Resources
Check out some of our other teaching and learning resources
Secondary
Over 1800 resources to save you time, spark excitement and encourage understanding
Higher education
Support your students with the skills they need to succeed at degree level and beyond
Curriculum support
Find out how we can support you in delivering the national curriculum for chemistry and science
Analysis
Explore the principles and practice of spectroscopy and other analytical methods
Periodic table
Explore the elements with your students using these innovative and interactive resources