All Secondary education articles
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IdeasThe fast guide to enquiry-based learning
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about EBL and how to incorporate it into your chemistry lessons
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No words necessary: the classroom hand signals you need to know
15 essential gestures to control students’ behaviour and save your voice when teaching from the front
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Analysis
Why schools need more science technicians
Boosting technician numbers could improve workload for everyone – but how can it be done?
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Feature
TIMSS 2019: How are students doing in science?
Why has attainment decreased in England but stayed the same in Ireland – and what can educators learn from it?
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Ideas
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
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Feature
A new approach to marking
Reduce your marking time and increase student’s engagement with your feedback
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Exhibition chemistry
The screaming jelly baby
Demonstrate energy release in action with this spectacular experiment
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News
This is why you should teach metacognition explicitly
Research-based tips to ensure that metacognitive strategies become a life-long part of your students’ study skills
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Ideas
One simple way to provide quick and effective online feedback
Use objective-based marking to save time and engage students with online feedback
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Classroom questions: cold calling, the back row and key concepts
Experts answer questions about key concepts, socially distanced teaching and assessing understanding from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
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5 teaching technologies to improve socially-distanced learning
One teacher reveals which technologies have improved their teaching in 2020. Which do you use?
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How to teach reading in science
Worried your students struggle with chemistry texts? You're not alone. Here are two solutions
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Opinion
Teaching creative chemistry
It’s not just the arts that are creative, chemistry is too. And it’s an essential element in its teaching
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Ideas
Strategies to succeed in post-16 courses
Passing exams at 18 requires specific skills and strategies. Here’s how to support students to develop them
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Feature
Your place or mine? The local business of lithium mining
Lithium-ion batteries will power the next generation of electric cars, but how can we mine lithium with minimal impact on the environment?
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Resource
Lithium: separation, mining and battery power | 11–14 years
Test your 11–14 students’ knowledge of separation techniques; elements, mixtures and compounds; periodic table trends
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Feature
Why you need A-level chemistry to study dietetics
Which parts of the chemistry curriculum will your 16–18 students find useful to become a dietician?
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News
Seeding the ocean against climate change
Volcanic ash could be a key ingredient to sequester carbon dioxide
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Resource
Runaway reactions
Ask your 16–18 students to take a closer look at ammonium nitrate and enthalpy
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Feature
How to look after students’ well-being
Signs to look out for and how to help during the pandemic
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