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Consolidate knowledge, encourage independent learning and help students self-assess with this activity

Education in Chemistry

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Consolidate knowledge, encourage independent learning and help students self-assess with this activity

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5 ways to teach excess and limiting reagents to 14–16s

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Tips for helping learners get to grips with this tricky part of quantitative chemistry

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Success with GUESS for solving equation-based problems

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Help your 11–16 students calculate answers independently and effectively with this acronym

  • Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell

  • Experiment with surface tension and convection currents

  • Dissolve coloured sweets to create a rainbow

  • Demonstrations with dry ice

  • Non-burning paper: investigate the fire triangle and conditions for combustion

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How metacognition improves student engagement and outcomes

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Two strategies to improve learners’ thinking about thinking when solving chemistry problems

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How PhET simulations help students with abstract concepts

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Use digital resources to improve students’ chemistry learning outcomes

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Celebrate curiosity, creativity and co-operation in your chemistry lessons

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They’re key to learners identifying positively with chemistry and achieving success

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Why detentions don’t work

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Attention rather than detention is the way to foster positive behaviour in students

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And the survey says …

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The Science Teaching Survey tells us what it’s like to be an educator today, and helps the RSC Education team provide effective support to you and influence policymakers

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Why detentions work

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Because they deter negative behaviours and paralyse peer pressure

  • Teaching atom economy, percentage yield and green chemistry post-16

  • How to teach atomic structure at 14–16

  • Teaching isomerism at post-16

  • Teaching conservation of mass at 14–16

  • How to teach Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution curves at post-16

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Exam board issues unprecedented statement about the inductive effect

What implications will this have for the curriculum and for teachers?

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Seawater system slashes methane emissions

Breakthrough reactor system aims to reduce methane emissions from waste

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Breakthrough method produces flexible diamond films

New method shows promise for mass producing ultrathin diamond films for use in the electronic industry

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The changing post-16 landscape

Following a review of post-16 qualifications in England, the options are changing and AAQs loom on the horizon for science teachers and learners 

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