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Everything you need to teach the structure of the atom

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With this poster and fact sheet, your 14–16 learners will soon know their electrons from their protons

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Scaffold learning with decision trees

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Help students unravel complex topics with a decision tree – a visual support you can gradually remove

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Frayer models offer a window into students’ science capital

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Use the literacy framework to explore, break down, explain and consolidate chemistry concepts

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Ways to teach formation of salts

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Secure your learners’ understanding of this core topic with teacher-tested recall strategies and experiments

  • 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

  • Dissolve coloured sweets to create a rainbow

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How making mistakes 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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How metacognition improves student engagement and outcomes

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Two strategies to improve learners’ thinking about thinking when solving chemistry problems

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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

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29 editable literacy resources for your science lessons

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Download a wealth of support to help improve learners’ literacy skills

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Why do stereotypes in science persist?

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RSC education coordinator, Rebecca Laye explores why the stereotype of a ‘typical’ scientist is alive and well in 2025

  • How to teach collision theory and what affects rates of reaction 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

  • How to teach atomic structure at 14–16

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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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Medieval bear’s teeth prove historic lead pollution

Palaeontologists discover how metal extraction 1000 years ago affected wildlife

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Exam board issues unprecedented statement about the inductive effect

What implications will this have for the curriculum and for teachers?

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Seawater system slashes methane emissions

Breakthrough reactor system aims to reduce methane emissions from waste

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