I love a good analogy, the sillier the better: anything to get pupils to link an abstract concept to something familiar. For ...

This resource aims to develop learners’ understanding of the basic particle model by extending it to represent elements that are made up of individual atoms and those that are made up of separate ...

Follow this step-by-step guide to using ratio tables to deepen all of your learners' conceptual and mathematical ...

The first of three steps, in practical experiments, that show learners how to prepare paracetamol ...

Download the scaffolded and unscaffolded student worksheets and teacher guidance (including answers) as MS Word and pdf, and the presentation slides as MS PowerPoint and pdf. Crude oil is a mixture of ...

Use this poster and fact sheet to aid your students’ fluency with carrying out flame tests and analysing the results A flame test is an analytical technique used to identify the presence of certain ...

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 ...

Technician notes as MS Word or pdf to help you set up and run this demonstration. Watch a demonstration of this experiment and download the technician notes from the Education in Chemistry website: ...

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As summer rolls around, there’s nothing better than sitting out in the garden and sipping a nice, cool drink of cola or lemonade. But have you noticed that some drinks are fizzier than others? Or ever ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released the Round one grade boundaries for this year’s UK Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO), with 65% of participants achieving bronze, silver or gold awards. On ...

Following integrated instructions, learners will observe the electrolysis of copper chloride. Read our article How to teach extraction of metals for more support and ideas for teaching this topic.