Teaching tips to tackle maths anxiety
Help your students develop their numeracy confidence with these back-to-basics steps
How to teach organic mechanisms using roleplay
Improve your students’ understanding of one of post-16 chemistry’s trickiest topics
Add AI to your students’ toolbox
How to upskill learners to use AI as an interactive tutor, reduce frustration and build their confidence at home
Ways to teach the mole at 14–16
Use these four ideas to effectively teach and contextualise this crucial chemistry unit
Make worked examples count in quantitative chemistry
Four teacher-tested approaches to encourage self-explanation and build learners’ confidence, engagement and understanding
How to help students master decoding command words
Use these three strategies to prepare your 14–16 learners for exam success
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How to teach atomic structure at 14–16
Strengthen your students’ grasp of the atom and electronic configurations with these models and strategies
Teaching isomerism at post-16
Ensure your students succeed with structural and stereoisomerism
Teaching conservation of mass at 14–16
Help learners master the concept of conservation of mass with these hands-on teaching ideas
Experiment with surface tension and convection currents
Use this demonstration when teaching concentration gradients, diffusion and convection at 11–16
Dissolve coloured sweets to create a rainbow
Demonstrate diffusion, density and the particle model to your 14–16 learners in this easy experiment
Demonstrations with dry ice
Explore changes of state and neutralisation reactions with this trio of demonstrations using solid carbon dioxide
Looking at groups 1, 7 and 0 on the periodic table
Turn 14–16 learners onto the key trends they need to understand for exam success with this poster, fact sheet and classroom activity
All you need to teach titration effectively
Help your post-16 learners grasp the titration method with this poster, fact sheet and practical example
Use adaptive teaching to improve access and progress for SEN students
Read how microbarriers are getting in the way of your SEN students’ progress – and ideas for removing obstacles in four areas of need
10 research-informed ideas to maximise chemistry practicals
Use these ideas from the latest chemistry education research to improve learning from your classroom laboratory experiments
How PhET simulations help students with abstract concepts
Use digital resources to improve students’ chemistry learning outcomes
Celebrate curiosity, creativity and co-operation in your chemistry lessons
They’re key to learners identifying positively with chemistry and achieving success
Improve assessment accessibility for multilingual learners
Teaching tips to help you tackle four key language challenges EAL learners face in chemistry
Foster more diverse involvement in all science lessons
Understand the challenges faced by students with concealable or hidden characteristics to engage all your learners in classroom research
Help learners understand and compare the Bohr and electron cloud models
Make the abstract nature of atomic theory more concrete with these evidence-informed teaching tips
Unpacking representations
Teach learners how to interpret and compare different chemical representations
