Use ideas from this issue

Contextualise chemistry

• Use these teacher-tested ideas in your lessons on conservation of mass at 11–14 and 14–16
• Provide real-world research on tattoo ink pigments when teaching analytical techniques and hydrogen-powered vehicles for fuel cells
• Why does copper jewellery turn your skin green? Find out in the latest Everyday chemistry article

Try this

• Display this poster and model periodic table trends with your 14–16 learners
• Watch the Exhibition chemistry demo for ideas on how to teach surface tension, temperature changes and curious convection currents
• Help learners decode command words and overcome four chemistry language challenges in assessments
• Read the post-16 CPD article and download the lesson plan, presentation and student worksheet on Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution curves
• Consider why your learners’ handwriting is getting harder to read and provide them with opportunities to improve it