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Books, Worksheets and Puzzles
Key Skills for Scientists
Copyright: 2007Kristy Macdonald
This compact, user-friendly book is intended as a pocket reference for degree students and graduates, giving advice on all aspects of communication skills.
Chemistry for the Gifted and Talented
Copyright: 2007Tim Jolliff
Chemistry for the Gifted and Talented is a refreshingly challenging educational book containing a wide range of differentiated activities for use in school and college.
Inspirational Chemistry
Copyright: 2006V Wong
This book and supplementary information contains experiments and resources which support the teaching of chemistry in schools.
Cutting Edge Chemistry
Copyright: 2006Aimed at post-16 chemistry students, this book shows how the principles of chemistry learned in post-16 courses still apply in the most advanced research.
Kitchen Chemistry
Copyright: 2005Ted Lister
Suitable for a wide range of ages, this book provides an exciting context for some familiar chemistry and a way to engage students with the subject.
Conservation Chemistry
Copyright: 2005Ted Lister
This text hopes to encourage teachers/students to consider the chemical sciences in their widest context and to reinforce the beneficial aspects of chemistry in unlikely contexts.
Aspirin
Copyright: 2003Colin Osborne
Aimed at post-16 students in chemistry, this book contains activities for both academic and vocational courses.
Enhancing Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories
Copyright: 2003John Carnduff
This books surveys existing materials for pre-laboratory and post-laboratory exercises in the chemical sciences.
Paracetamol
Copyright: 2002Frank Ellis
Aimed at post-16 students, this book provides a series of classroom activities, both written and practical, relating to paracetamol.
Atom@tak
Copyright: 2002S Elliott
This unique card game, for up to four players, is a game of chance and tactics for all ages.
Chemistry at the Races
Copyright: 2002Maria J Pack
This resource demonstrates how a combination of modern techniques is used to ensure that horseracing is both fair and prevents abuse of the horses involved.
Chemical Misconceptions
Copyright: 2002Keith Taber
Part 2 provides strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have, by including ready to use classroom resources.
Chemical Misconceptions
Copyright: 2002Keith Taber
Part 1 deals with the theory of misconceptions, by including information on some of the key alternative conceptions that have been uncovered by research.
Chemists in a Social and Historical Context
Copyright: 2001Dorothy Warren
This resource includes a range of activities designed to look at different aspects of teaching about people in chemistry and the chemical sciences to 11-19 year old students.
The Nature of Science
Copyright: 2001Dorothy Warren
The Nature of Science includes a range of activities designed to look at different aspects of the nature of science and to teach investigative skills to 11-19 year old students.
Health, Safety and Risk
Copyright: 2001Dorothy Warren
This resource includes a range of activities for 11-19 year old students designed to promote an understanding of health, safety and risk within the world of school and work.
Climate Change
Copyright: 2001Dorothy Warren
This is a flexible resource and can be used to study both ideas and evidence and the nature of science, and also when teaching key skills.
More Modern Chemical Techniques
Copyright: 2001Ralph Levenson
This book identifies some applications of important chemical techniques in use today which illustrate how chemistry is using state-of-the-art technology to push back the frontiers.
Classic Chemistry Experiments
Copyright: 2000Kevin Hutchings
This book is designed as a teaching aid to help communicate the excitement and wonder of chemistry to students.
Sodium Carbonate
Copyright: 2000The booklet and photocopiable worksheets are suitable for pre- and post-16 students and aim is to encourage the students to apply chemical principles in an unfamiliar context.
That's Chemistry!
Copyright: 2000Jan Rees
That's Chemistry! is a concise manual of ideas, activities and investigations about the science of materials and their properties for teachers to use with primary age children.
Progressive Development of Practical Skills in Chemistry
Copyright: 1999Trialled in universities across the UK pre-publication, students and lecturers will welcome this book as an aid to the development of skills in degree courses.
Communicating Chemistry
Copyright: 1999This book can be used as a modular text, or as a set of "stand alone" exercises. It is aimed at students in the penultimate year of a chemistry degree.
Chemistry of Art
Copyright: 2000Martyn Berry
Produced in collaboration with the National Gallery, this resource pack outlines a range of activities for pre- and post-16 students of chemistry and art.
Learning About Materials
Copyright: 1998Ted Lister
This book presents useful material in the form of teacher's notes and photocopiable worksheets. It will be useful at pre- and post-16 level.
Microscale Chemistry
Copyright: 1998John Skinner
This book contains microscale experiments designed for use in schools and colleges.
Modern Chemical Techniques
Copyright: 1997Ben Faust
This book is based on a series of symposia that enabled individuals to update their chemical skills and learn about the newest methods, techniques, and instrumentation available.
Classic Chemistry Demonstrations
Copyright: 1996Ted Lister
An essential resource book for all chemistry teachers, containing a collection of experiments for demonstration in front of a class of students from school to undergraduate age.
In Search of More Solutions
Copyright: 1995Janet Taylor
This book provides students with opportunities to develop their problem-solving skills and teachers with ideas for assignments and investigations.
