Use ideas from this issue

Here’s your quick fix of ideas from the latest issue:

• Investigate the composition and life cycle of compostable plastics, with two worksheets, for 14–16 and 16–18 students.
• Discover the roles of pH, solubility and polymerisation in paper preservation.
• Improve your classroom practice with these evidence-based teaching tips on using animations effectively and boosting your students’ self-belief. 
• Boost your students’ confidence with these approaches to converting measurements and working with units.
• Letting students make mistakes can provide a valuable learning experience. 
• Read the four strategies guaranteed to help students grasp reaction mechanisms.
• Find out how to devise definitions to avoid introducing misconceptions. 
• Use these activities and analogies to introduce the periodic table to 11–14 students.
• Show students how to apply their existing knowledge to new contexts and scenarios.