Consistency is an intervention. A student’s own successful experience of a task is one of the strongest sources of their ...

Connect underlying mechanisms to the bigger picture to teach biology that sticks with your learners Chemistry teachers who ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) have revealed the grade boundaries for round one of the 2026 UK Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO), with more than 70% of participants achieving a gold, silver or bronze ...

Most of us can remember a trip from our school days. For me, the one that stands out was a visit some 30 years ago to a large-scale research laboratory working with radioactive materials. I still ...

The chemical reactions that lead to the formation of salts are exciting for students, with lots of nice experiments, colour changes, fizzes and pops. However, beyond this there is a large amount for ...

Russian polymath Mikhail Lomonosov first proposed the law of conservation of mass in the mid-18th century and people widely accepted it from the 1780s due to the work of Antoine Lavoisier. As a ...

Chemistry education research is great for navigating our way to the teaching strategies that will have the most impact for our students. Engaging with research helps to ensure our practice is evidence ...

What would you think was happening if all your buttons suddenly turned to dust? This is what happened to the soldiers in Napoleon’s army during their invasion into Russia over 200 years ago. And ...

Alex Johnstone developed a model based on a triangle to explain why chemistry can feel difficult, if not incomprehensible, to some students. He explained that if you communicate a theory on three ...

Redox reactions are all around us. Some, such as photosynthesis, respiration and combustion, are essential to life. Others, like rusting, are mildly annoying. Oxidation makes sense to students when ...

Equilibrium is an important process in industry, eg for making ammonia using the Haber process which is a reversible reaction. Manufacturers want to make as much product as possible, minimising the ...

Discover the reactivity and reactions of alkenes with your 14–16 students with these classroom ideas and activities We don’t directly use alkenes in our everyday lives, but they are important in the ...