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Professional development articles
Selected articles from Education in Chemistry. Discover new ideas for teaching tricky topics.
Improving practical work with integrated instructions
Do your students struggle to follow written instructions?
Lab safety
Encourage students to assess risk effectively
Rate experiments
Enhance your rate of reaction practical work
Observation skills
How to develop students’ observation skills in practical chemistry
Making measurements
Help your students use appropriate apparatus to make and record a range of measurements
Monitoring reactions
Encourage students to observe and measure reactions
Separation techniques
Distilling the essentials of separation
Evaporation, filtration and crystallisation
How to add variety and context to lessons while getting students familiar with apparatus
Inorganic chemical tests
Joe Ogborn takes a tour of teaching inorganic chemical tests
Chemical energetics: words matter
How you can help your students avoid common misconceptions about energy change?
Measuring energy changes
Get practical with students and arm them with the skills and knowledge they need
Chemical bonding: the octet rules ... OK?
Kay Stephenson and Dorothy Warren explain common misconceptions and show you how you could help your students
Redox chemistry
David Everett shows how you could help your students with redox chemistry
Rates of reactions
Steve Hacker explains how the concept of reaction rates could be introduced
Practical electrolysis
Ideas for enhancing electrolysis practical work
Organic chemistry: smelly and difficult?
How you can help your students avoid difficulties with organic chemistry
Practical distillation
How to develop your students’ distillation knowledge and practical skills
Laboratory skills
Resources to develop students’ practical abilities
Practical chromatography
Ideas for enhancing practical chromatography
Applying practical knowledge to unfamiliar contexts
Prepare students to use their learning in different situations
Acids and bases
Morag Easson explains how to neutralise student difficulties
Practical organic chemistry
David Everett describes some difficulties with the topic and shows how you could help your students
Moles and titrations
Dorothy Warren describes some of the difficulties with teaching this topic and shows how you can help your students to master aspects of quantitative chemistry
Understanding equilibrium: a delicate balance
Steve Hacker describes some of the difficulties with teaching this topic and shows how you could help your students
Using models
How to overcome the difficulties with teaching scientific models and some warnings about using easily-accessible resources
Practical science
Derek Denby explains how to get the most out of lab work
The periodic table
Introduce students to its structure and order