Stealth learning – how chemical card games can improve student participation
Play your cards right: Everyone enjoys playing games, so use chemical card games to get students to learn through play without them realising.
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Play your cards right: Everyone enjoys playing games, so use chemical card games to get students to learn through play without them realising.
When talking of finite resources, the chemical elements themselves are often overlooked. Learn more about elements in danger.
Helium: gas of awe, wonder, and worry. Is it time to give this noble gas the respect it deserves?
Fusion and fission: both release energy, but how do these processes differ and what are the implications for electricity generation?
The periodic table hangs on the wall in just about every chemistry classroom. But its now-iconic design could have looked very different.
As a lightweight, super-strong metal, beryllium is an engineer’s dream – but it also has some less convenient qualities.
From samurai swords to healthy tomato plants, this little-known element has wider uses than you might expect.
‘The Elements’ and ‘The Compounds’ are two series of professionally produced podcasts, each lasting between 5 and 7 minutes.
There are a number of reasons why you might not want to read this review: perhaps you do not teach chemistry, you are resisting the use of video clips in your teaching, or you are looking for non-English teaching materials. These are not good reasons though, as you will see. I challenge you to…
Professor Eric Scerri is a leading philosopher of science who specialises in the history and philosophy of the periodic table.
Stealth learning – how chemical card games can improve student participation
Elements in danger!
Elements in focus: helium
Fusion vs fission
Arranging the elements: the evolving design of the periodic table
Elements in focus: beryllium
Elements in focus: molybdenum
Podcasts ‘The Elements’ and ‘The Compounds’, by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Periodic Table of Videos website, by the University of Nottingham, UK
The Periodic Table: its Story and Significance, By Eric R Scerri