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
Sharing science stories to inspire and engage
Pick a tale of a chemistry discovery (or disagreement!) to tell your students from these examples, complete with teaching tips
Make revision active
Consolidate knowledge, encourage independent learning and help students self-assess with this activity
5 ways to teach excess and limiting reagents to 14–16 learners
Tips for helping learners get to grips with this tricky part of quantitative chemistry
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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
How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16
Tips and ideas to enhance your teaching of conjugated pi systems
How to teach solubility at 14–16
Concentrate learners’ minds on the key aspects of solutions
Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer
Use just sodium polyacrylate, water and table salt to amaze learners and show how chemists modify materials for their purposes
Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell
Video, kit list and teaching tips to set up a one-beaker copper–zinc voltaic cell to explore redox reactions
Experiment with surface tension and convection currents
Use this demonstration when teaching concentration gradients, diffusion and convection at 11–16
How to teach condensation polymerisation
Everything you need to ensure post-16 learners understand condensation polymers
How to teach Earth’s atmospheric pollution
Get to the burning issues of climate change, acid rain and smog with this poster, fact sheet and activity for 11–14 learners
Contextualising core practicals
How to use students’ everyday experiences to aid understanding in experiments
Research-informed tips for using dialogic teaching
Use extended periods of talk between students to improve the quality of their responses in chemistry
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
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