Published from 2012–2015, The Mole was the Royal Society of Chemistry’s magazine for students, and anyone inspired to dig deeper into chemistry. Prior to 2012, Education in Chemistry published a supplement for students called InfoChem.
Chemistry is NOT like... people!
While analogies are useful for explaining chemical processes, they should be used carefully, says Tom Husband
Measuring the speed of light with chocolate
Discover how you can measure the speed of light by melting chocolate in your kitchen in this article from the ‘Avogadro’s lab’ series.
Waste not, want not
Elinor Hughes investigates some of the latest developments in recycling food waste
Charles West: Research geochemist
Ida Emilie Steinmark talks to a chemist who gave up a career as a footballer
Funded by you
Declan Fleming investigates how crowdfunding helped a chemist to uncover the secrets behind some familiar reactions
Why not try…
Or instead, why not take a look at some of the more recent articles published in Education in Chemistry.
Help your students to develop their chemistry identities
Inspire the next generation of chemists by reinforcing learners’ developing chemistry identities
Experiment with surface tension and curious convection currents
Use this demonstration when teaching concentration gradients, diffusion and convection at 11–16
Porous polymer promises to combat climate crisis
This cutting-edge research is the perfect context for teaching your 14–16 learners about tackling climate change
Make worked examples count in quantitative chemistry
Four teacher-tested approaches to encourage self-explanation and build learners’ confidence, engagement and understanding
Boost learners’ knowledge retrieval with cognitive science
A successful strategy to transform the teaching and learning of disciplinary and substantive knowledge into a more effective and enjoyable experience
