Education in Chemistry

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⚡ Use these demos, diagrams and classroom strategies for confident lessons on electrolysis, ions and electrodes
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📚 Teaching electrolysis?
Find out how to spiral the curriculum, tackle misconceptions and make redox stick
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Teach electrolysis at 14–16 Encourage learners to be positive about electrolysis

🧪 Copper sulfate, Post-it notes and flowcharts. Everything you need for lessons on electrolysis
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🔬 Struggling to teach electrolysis? Find practical tips and ideas with links to all the resources needed to help your students master this topic 👇
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When designing a cognitive interest cue, you can activate prior learning to highlight any gaps in learners’ knowledge. Find the design process in teacher trainer Dom Shibli’s article
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Improve engagement with cognitive interest cues Unlock your students' scientific curiosity with lesson starters that grab their attention

Chemistry topics can seem abstract and unrelatable to students’ lives – the key to engagement is a structured lesson starter that captures their interest. Find out more ⬇️
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An illustration of of a key unlocking a head with aluminium and gold and their everyday uses.

‘To engage in learning, students must first decide if the content is worthy of their attention’. Teacher trainer Dom Shibli shares tips to hook learners
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Forge a future in chemistry - chemistry is making the difference.

Congratulations to all students in Scotland receiving results today! Wondering what’s next?

We’ve pulled together everything you need – career ideas, resources to help you plan your future, and a map to find local chemistry employers: rsc.li/results-2025

#ChemSky #ResultsDay

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Unlock your students’ intellectual curiosity and engage them in chemistry lessons with cognitive interest cues
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🧲 Overcome ionic bonding misconceptions with plasticine models
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💡 These teacher-tested ideas bring chemistry to life — perfect for boosting understanding and engagement in your classroom.

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🔬 Teach nanoparticles with a modelling approach to scale
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🍡 Model atomic structure and radioactive decay with playdough
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🧪 Make chemistry click with models!
Help students grasp tricky topics like scale, bonding, radioactive decay, and atomic structure with these hands-on ideas:

🧠 Solve problems with models
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🙌 Get students moving
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➡️ Part 2 below 👇

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How to build an equilibrium simulation Deepen your post-16 learners' understanding of reversible chemical reactions while improving their IT skills

Use this tool to deepen your post-16 learners' understanding of how chemical reactions progress, while building valuable IT skills:
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Turn your 16–18 learners into equilibrium experts (and simulation programmers) with this chemistry teachers' hack for bringing this complex concept to life 👉
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How to build an equilibrium simulation Deepen your post-16 learners' understanding of reversible chemical reactions while improving their IT skills

Understanding equilibrium can be challenging for learners – remove misunderstanding from the equation with a tool that your post-16 students can create themselves:
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Simulations are a great way to probe learner understanding, but they often come with a hefty price tag. Chemistry teacher Harry Martin shares how you can guide learners to build their own using Excel 👇
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Flipped learning builds solid foundations Discover how this approach can boost learners' understanding and engagement with the first year of post-16 chemistry

Increase post-16 learners’ engagement with chemistry and the number and type of questions they ask with this flipped learning approach
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Flipped learning builds solid foundations Discover how this approach can boost learners' understanding and engagement with the first year of post-16 chemistry

Long Road Sixth Form College uses scale, from subatomic particles to molecules and giant structures, throughout their preparation and in-lesson worksheets. Try them now ⬇️
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Flipped learning builds solid foundations Discover how this approach can boost learners' understanding and engagement with the first year of post-16 chemistry

Build students’ foundations with flipped learning so they can tackle any exam question and apply their knowledge to future situations
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YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

We're saddened to hear that the musical satirist Tom Lehrer passed away this weekend. His original and witty songs were loved by audiences worldwide, but to chemists he'll always be remembered for this classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3...

Flipped learning builds solid foundations Discover how this approach can boost learners' understanding and engagement with the first year of post-16 chemistry

A-level teachers Zoë Thorn and Simon Colebrooke developed their Fundamentals of chemistry teaching sequence to improve their post-16 learners’ outcomes. Read about the approach and download the first resources
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Introducing a new way to find RSC teaching resources Everything you need to teach key chemistry topics, organised by purpose, to save you time and transform your lessons

Fresh resources + all your favourites = new @rsc.org Education topic packages! 🧪
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Introducing a new way to find RSC teaching resources Everything you need to teach key chemistry topics, organised by purpose, to save you time and transform your lessons

Prepped, delivered, assessed, enriched and literate!✨ Our new @rsc.org education topic packages organise resources by YOUR teaching needs 👇
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Teaching structure and bonding? Find out about the @rsc.org topic packages ▶️ edu.rsc.org/rsc-educatio...

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Introducing a new way to find RSC teaching resources Everything you need to teach key chemistry topics, organised by purpose, to save you time and transform your lessons

Introducing the new RSC Education topic resource packages, designed to make your life easier. Classroom-ready experiments, engaging activities, assessment tools, and even new literacy support – all curated by teachers, for teachers 👍
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Unlike like famous puppy toilet tissue, forever chemicals/PFAS aren’t soft, strong and very, very long. They’re useful, strong and very, very long-lived.
How can we tackle them? @kitchapman.bsky.social investigates: edu.rsc.org/everyday-che...
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What are forever chemicals? Discover the positives and negatives of PFAS and how scientists are mitigating their risks

Strong fluorine–carbon bonds are the root of PFAS’s popularity – and of their dark side. Phase out, clean up or live with? @kitchapman.bsky.social looks at the possibilities
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Alstroemeria flowers are often use for the development of dissection skills and scientific writing.

Bananas offering an unexpected view of chlorophyll.

Our 'Awesome Plants' poster comes with wow real-life examples of plant science and accompanying resources.

Bramble rust seen under the lens of a microscope.

Calling Early Career Teachers 🎙️

Are you in need of help & support for teaching #biology using plants? Looking to explore resources developed for teaching key principles?

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What’s used in non-stick pans and nail polish, found in rivers and us, and is linked to thyroid disease and high cholesterol?
Answer: PFAS, aka forever chemicals
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