In this activity students use a smartphone to determine the precise amount of copper in an aqueous solution of nitric acid. Students collect comparative values of different copper-solutions with special apps to produce a diagram and estimate the amount of copper, based on the Lambert-Beer Law that explains that the...

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching kinetics A level. Curriculum links include catalysis, activation energy, activation enthalpy, enthalpy profile, enzymes, rates, Boltzmann, Arrhenius, rate equations, half-life and reaction mechanisms.

Although produced to support...

The Nuffield Science Teaching Project produced a Sample Scheme in the 1960s to 1970s to illustrate a new approach to lesson sequences. The scheme included details of suggested experiments and advice to teachers regarding handling class discussions and setting homework.

The scheme acted as a stimulus to...

The contents of the Chemistry strand of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences were broadly the same in both the first and second editions of the publications. The second edition of the Teachers’ Guide showed how the course matched to the 1992 version of the National Curriculum.

Contents of both editions...

The accredited specification for OCR Chemistry A AS Level (H032).

The accredited specification for OCR Chemistry B (Salters) AS Level (H033). 

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching about Group 2 and Group 17 (halogen) trends and reactions at A level. Curriculum links include trends, reactivity, chlorine, displacement, and redox.

Although produced to support the teaching of OCR AS/A Level Chemistry A...

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching about rates at A level. Curriculum links include  collision theory, rates experiments, reaction mechanisms, rate equations, half-life, calculations, order of reaction, graphs, rate-determining step, and kinetics.

Although...

This Catalyst article looks at the noble gases (Group 0 or 8 in the periodic table) which are almost inert. This article shows how they were discovered through the use of fractional distillation and looks at their chemical and physical properties.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2011,...

The Salters’ Chemistry Course Guide, published by the University of York Science Education Group, was written to provide an introduction to the course and to supplement the sixteen unit guides which made up the main body of the course. Some parts were written for...

From Practical Action, in this activity students design and make a product using local and/or organic ingredients. They will also gain knowledge and understanding of the design and make process, write a design specification and produce a step-by-step plan for making a product. Further resources are available from...

The revised edition of the Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data was based on the first edition. However there were many changes because of feedback from users, changes in syllabuses, and the availability of better sources of data. The content was changed.

Conversion tables and tables of mathematical...

This article introduces Laura Waters, who is a chemist at Huddersfield University with an interest in both doing scientific research and communicating her work to a wide audience.

The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2015, Volume 25, Issue 4.

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Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these activities look at career opportunities in plant biology, as well as useful classroom activities and practical investigations. The range of careers and activities covered include: