All Secondary education articles – Page 16
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FeatureThinking out of the box - skills for work
Elizabeth Page explains how a problem-based learning approach to chemistry module design helps students develop the skills they need for employment
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FeatureSpectroscopy in your classroom - portable analysis
Tracy McGhie explains how your students can solve a murder mystery using state-of-the-art equipment
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NewsSelf-evaluation for science subject leaders
Ofsted has published guidance for science subject leaders on self-evaluation to help implement, monitor and evaluate school improvement
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FeatureThere's teaching, and there's teaching
Starting university marks a new chapter in a student's life, with a brand new set of opportunities and challenges. But the different teaching style in higher education can prove to be an unexpected shock to the system. Catherine Smith explores what educators on either side can do to ease the transition
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FeatureStudent-generated assessment
Simon Bates and Ross Galloway tell us how students can use PeerWise to design high quality and effective learning material
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FeatureJump-starting lectures
There is an emerging trend towards using pre-lecture activities to support tertiary level learning: the options investigated
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FeatureChemical Bonding
A masterclass in teaching the topic of bonding, basing chemical explanation on physical forces
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MathsTrigonometry in chemistry
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University
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FeatureTwo-step bromine attack
An experiment for the classroom to show that bromine adds to an alkene by two-step electrophilic addition
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FeatureInvestigating Crystal Structures
Sixthformers are introduced to Madelung constants as a way of investigating ionic crystal structures
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MathsThe exponential function
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University
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FeatureIntuitive thinking and learning chemistry
Understanding students' intuitions about the world could provide insight into their misconceptions of chemical concepts
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FeatureInvestigations get real
What real chemists do can be the basis of motivating investigations and learning in school chemistry
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FeatureInvestigating activation energies
A challenge for post-16 students to investigate the activation energies of the enzyme-catalysed and the inorganic-catalysed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
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FeaturePhenols in medicine
Phenol encountered in school or college chemistry laboratories demands special respect on account of its toxic and corrosive nature. But phenol and its derivatives do have a few medicinal surprises
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FeatureChemistry, medicine and genetic analysis
In the near future, doctors will be able to carry out a 'while you wait' test, using genetic analysis, for chlamydia, the silent disease that can lead to infertility in women.