September 2006
Vol 43, No 5. Full issue available online.
Column
A new look
Welcome to the new academic year, and to a new look for Education in Chemistry (EIC).
RSC Council heads for Downing Street
The energy challenge. Chemical scientists will have a major role to play in meeting the objectives set out in the Government's energy policy.
UK Olympiad team excels in Korea
All four students in the team representing the UK at the finals of the 38th International Chemistry Olympiad have returned as medallists from the competition held at Yeungnam Unive...
First look at A-level alternative
This month UK independent and international schools will receive drafts of a new post-16 qualification that will be available in 2008 as an alternative to A-levels and the IB.
Communicating science
In July the winners of the first RSC Bill Bryson Prize for science communication were selected from over 400 entries from secondary schools and 60 entries from primary schools.
Final call for Science on Stage delegates
The UK national steering group of Science on Stage, the Europe-wide festival for science teachers, is inviting teachers to apply to take part in the next Science on Stage event.
Non-specialist teachers - help is on the way
GlaxoSmithKline and the RSC have agreed to support a three-year programme aimed at raising the quality of chemistry teaching among non-specialist secondary school teachers in the U...
Short items
In brief..., and other items
Soundbite molecules - lead poisoning
Simon Cotton, teacher at Uppingham School, takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: lead poisoning
Medicinal compounds
John Mann, Queen's University Belfast, takes a look at drugs on the market. In this issue: Rationing the drugs for Alzheimer's disease
In search of solutions
Put your questions on chemistry teaching to our experts. In this issue: thiosulfate coordination
Did you know?
Ted Lister, chemical education consultant, shares anecdotes and 'did you knows' to help you add that 'wow' factor to your lessons. In this issue: copper bottoms
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: air, earth, water and fire.
Web watch
Wilson Flood, chemistry education consultant, takes a look at some websites of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: International Baccalaureate, resources, environment...
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters, September 2006
Exhibition Chemistry
Making ethyne
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination, by Colin Baker of Bedford School. In this issue: making ethyne
Features
Making the most of starch
With some clever chemistry starch represents an enormous and sustainable source of renewable carbon for non-food applications.
A forgotten anniversary?
Has the significance of William Henry Perkin's synthesis of the purple dye mauveine begun to fade?
Dirty air
What constitutes ground-level air pollution and what are the impacts of such pollutants on Man and the environment?
Chapattis and the English disease
In the early 1700s in England 'nothing was so much feared or talk'd of as Rickets among Children'. We now know that this softening of the bones, leading to bowed legs and other def...
Reviews
Macabre chemistry
John Emsley
GCSE science foundation and higher
University of York Science Education Group and Nuffield Curriculum Centre
AQA GCSE science resources for all tiers (3 resources)
Nigel English (ed)
Chemistry for the 21st century
University of York Science Education Group and Nuffield Curriculum Centre
AQA foundation
David Glover, Jean Martin and Helen Norris
