March 2007
Full issue available online.
Column
QCA consults on KS3 review
QCA invites teachers to submit their views on its revised programme of study for KS3 science by April 30.
RSC Bill Bryson prize
The theme for this year's Royal Society of Chemistry's Bill Bryson prize for science communication is the science of travel.
Cash for HE chemistry experience
Ten projects designed to improve students' initial experience of studying chemistry have received funding through the Chemistry for Our Future programme
RSC to support student ambassadors scheme
To encourage more chemistry undergraduates to consider teaching as a career, the RSC is putting money into the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme.
Summer school
The Royal Society of Chemistry will be running an INSET materials summer school in London in July.
Interact with online crystal structures
A new, free online resource could help teachers introduce and illustrate to students the structural chemistry of course favourites.
Discuss science and shape the future
A DTI-funded public engagement programme, Sciencehorizons, aims to broaden the debate on how developments in science and technology could be used in the future.
Salters' chemistry camps
The Universities of St Andrews, Birmingham, Manchester, Ulster, York and Leeds will be hosting a four-day Salters' Chemistry Camp.
In brief
Items: Various short items
Soundbite molecules
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: frog defence against A...
Chemistry trails
Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry. In this issue: Bath railings
Web watch
Tony Tooth, chemistry teacher at The King's School in Ely, takes a look at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: a library of websites
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters, March 2007
Exhibition Chemistry
Exhibition chemistry
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination, by Colin Baker of Bedford School. In this issue: the dehydration of sucrose
Features
US chemical education going green
Kathryn Roberts meets Mary Kirchhoff, the new director of education at the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington DC
Microscale chemistry
The range of school experiments being done on the microscale is growing. Here are examples from Key Stage 3, through Key Stage 4, to A-level
Flu drugs - pathway to discovery
If bird flu ever starts to transmit from human to human, with no effective vaccine available our only defence will be the antiviral drugs Relenza and Tamiflu
Mendeleev - the man and his legacy...
A look at the life and work of Russia's most famous chemist, who died 100 years ago
The Periodic Tables of Mendeleev
How Mendeleev corrected the atomic weights of In, Ce and U, and thus constructed the remarkable Periodic Table of 1871
Reviews
Practical environmental analysis (2nd edn)
M. Radojevic and V. Bashkin
Lesson kits for chemistry: crude oil - organic chemistry; quantitative chemistry
Birchfield Interactive
The Periodic Table: its story and its significance
Eric R. Scerri
Chemistry for the biosciences - the essential concepts
Jonathan Crowe, Tony Bradshaw and Paul Monk (eds)
Distillates
Plug and play bone repair
New method for printing artificial bone using ink made from living bone could aid reconstructive surgery
Molecular light switch
Scientists have developed the molecular equivalent of a solar panel, which can act as a light signal processor.
Bird flu's long tail could signal its end
US scientists map the long protein tail of the influenza A virus
Plastic shape shifter for smart stents
German and American researchers have developed temperature-controlled 'triple-shaped plastics'
Infochem
