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Boiling without heating

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Overcome common misconceptions about changes of state and vaporisation with water, a syringe and reduced pressure

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Improve engagement with cognitive interest cues

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Unlock your students’ scientific curiosity with lesson starters that grab their attention

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How to build an equilibrium simulation

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Deepen your post-16 learners’ understanding of reversible chemical reactions while improving their IT skills

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Get particular about particles

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Be creative when demonstrating coarse, fine and nanoparticles – make a model

  • Boiling without heating

  • Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect

  • Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer

  • Demonstrate electrochemistry with a gravity cell

  • Experiment with surface tension and convection currents

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Creative exercises to connect concepts in organic chemistry

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Learn how to use purposeful prompts to encourage students to make meaningful connections between newly learned and previously covered ideas

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How making mistakes in practicals impacts student engagement

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Understand how learners respond to and recover from different types of errors in the chemistry lab to improve student outcomes

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Use students' drawings to understand their thinking

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How to develop your recognition and interpretation skills to better evaluate learners’ chemical representations

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Develop key scientific skills with practical videos

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Enhance understanding, revise key content and inspire budding scientists with core practical videos for 14–16 learners

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Foster deeper comprehension and engagement with oracy

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It’s time to recognise speaking and listening as a cornerstone of learning science

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Do you know your safety spectacles from your goggles?

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Overcome any confusion and make the right decisions for safety in your school environment, advises Andrea from Isaac Science

  • Teach electrolysis at 14–16

  • Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16

  • How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16

  • How to teach solubility at 14–16

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

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Reversing our reliance on fractional distillation of crude oil

Scientists use semi-permeable polymer membrane and reverse osmosis to separate mixtures of hydrocarbons and save energy

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Volcanic ash cloud turned brain to glass

Explore changes of state with this real-life horrible history

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Curiosity rover finds missing carbon on Mars

Nasa rover uncovers groundbreaking evidence that supports theories that there was once water on Mars

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Medieval bear’s teeth prove historic lead pollution

Palaeontologists discover how metal extraction 1000 years ago affected wildlife

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