Contextualising core practicals

By Ian McDaid2025-06-02T04:57:00

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How to use students’ everyday experiences to aid understanding in experiments

Research shows that students are more likely to see science as relevant to wider society than to their everyday life. For this reason, it is helpful to contextualise practical work using everyday examples, so learners see how chemistry plays a part in even the most day-to-day experiences. So, how can we do it? How can we put chemistry in context? STEM leader, Ian McDaid shares six examples which will get your students thinking.

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