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 ...

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From 2011–2012 we published a number of articles looking at the science behind Breaking Bad. These articles were part of the On-Screen Chemistry series originally published in InfoChem and later in ...

Decolonising chemistry curriculums is about more than including Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic scientists in our lessons. It means considering not just the scientist’s work, but the context ...

In context worksheets ask learners to apply their knowledge of organic chemistry topics to interesting contexts from everyday life, helping them develop their skills in applying knowledge. The ...

Selecting a good solvent is the key to performing a successful recrystallisation Ideally, the material to be recrystallised should be sparingly soluble at room temperature and yet quite soluble at its ...

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 ...

Exciting, simple experiments to engage learners with key topics in primary science, featuring classroom slides, teaching notes and video demonstrations. Links to the resources in English, Welsh and ...

The British are a nation of tea lovers and coffee enthusiasts. We collectively drink over 100 million cups of tea and around 95 million cups of coffee every single day of the year. For many, part of ...

Among its recommendations to improve secondary science, the Education Endowment Foundation suggests teachers boost their knowledge of and challenging of student’s misconceptions. Here, I want to add ...