How do you do it?

May 10, 2019

Personally, I find section 9.2 one of the hardest parts of the course to teach. It relates to voltaic cells. I can never remember is it left minus right or vice versa, which side is positive, which is negative? In order to help teach this I put together a useful set...

Simple Organic Lab Work

April 8, 2019

I love organic chemistry but am well aware that this view of things is not held by all teachers and students! However, I feel I teach the subject well, but when it comes to lab work I do not do so well and this is something I need to work on. Today’s blog post aims to...

Supporting Your Students with Revision

March 11, 2019

At the time of writing, it is only February. I’m still making my way through the course but I am already beginning to think ahead to the end of the course and revision activities for my students. One activity I recently carried out in a teacher workshop involved...

Biochemistry Option: Section B8 Nucleic acids

February 20, 2019

The nucleic acids section of the biochemistry option now has personal significance for me. Towards the end of last year, I was diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes. This came as a bit of a shock to me. I was not overweight and have a relatively healthy BMI of 23.6....

Diabetes

February 18, 2019

This section of the option now has significant personal significance for me. At the end of November 2018, I was diagnosed with diabetes. Initially, this came as something of a shock to me. I eat a healthy diet, don’t drink too much and am not overweight (I have a...

The Halogens

January 11, 2019

Topic 3.2 of the periodic table deals with periodic trends. In particular, under the applications and skills section, we are told to ‘discuss the similarities and differences in the properties of elements in the same group, with reference to the halogens (group...