How to teach collision theory and what affects rates of reaction at 14–16
Help students tackle the topic of collision theory head on with these teaching strategies
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Scaffold learning with decision trees
Help students unravel complex topics with a decision tree – a visual support you can gradually remove
Frayer models offer a window into students’ science capital
Use the literacy framework to explore, break down, explain and consolidate chemistry concepts
Ways to teach formation of salts
Secure your learners’ understanding of this core topic with teacher-tested recall strategies and experiments
Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer
Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell
Experiment with surface tension and convection currents
Dissolve coloured sweets to create a rainbow
Demonstrations with dry ice
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How making mistakes impacts student engagement
Understand how learners respond to and recover from different types of errors in the chemistry lab to improve student outcomes
Use students' drawings to understand their thinking
How to develop your recognition and interpretation skills to better evaluate learners’ chemical representations
How metacognition improves student engagement and outcomes
Two strategies to improve learners’ thinking about thinking when solving chemistry problems
Why do stereotypes in science persist?
RSC education coordinator, Rebecca Laye explores why the stereotype of a ‘typical’ scientist is alive and well in 2025
How we’re reducing our carbon footprint
Discover how Education in Chemistry is balancing climate concerns with classroom content
Why and how we should teach literacy in science lessons
Scientific literacy is a key skill for all learners and it should feature in all our teaching, says Ben Rogers
