**New way (for me anyway) to teach balancing chemical equations** Prior K: deducing elements/atoms within formulae. Main benefit: focus on avoiding the misconception that you can change the formula of the substances. #teamscience #teamchemistry #science #asechat #cogscisci

When two students turn up to do revision in the morning, each eating a cucumber for breakfast as a healthy diet improves exam results.

Help...I have an interview lesson next week - year 8 extracting metals. Normally I would get them to extract copper using carbon - am not going to do this. Should I demo it? Any alternatives/activities?

Here it is...the brand new "77 MORE Simple STEM Activities for Families" Find a PDF at dailystem.com/resources (thank you everyone for suggesting ideas!) #RemoteLearning #STEM #parenting #COVID19

Will be sure to retweet these each week! 🚀 🌎 🧺 🔬

Changing my job title to 'Resetter of passwords'. ☹

So last weekend I made this Google Docs Add-On to create a fill-in-the-gap task or also known as cloze from any text paragraphs. That’s why I named it CLOZEit ha! Highlight/Underline the words you’d like them to be blank - then click create - done! ✅ clozeit.syedkhairi.com

Y7Cells. Thinking about where #antiracism would fit in. Prepared a lesson about specialised cells within the context of skin (integumentary system), skin tone, UV & human evolution, UV beads investigation; follow up with the human heart, health and empathy for others.

When the school cat sleeps on your desk for the whole day...classes kept quiet so they didn't wake him up. Shall encourage him in more often.

Promised I wouldn’t post about it because to be honest, that pic makes me 🤢 but this is too good not to share.

If anyone is interested in my Core Question approach, which - without being too much of a douchebag about it - is *incredibly* powerful, link below. > achemicalorthodoxy.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/fix…

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NEW: Boosted 'how much'll you pay for the energy price cap after 1 Oct' calc (what you pay varies with region and usage) -Now for DD, prepay, and pay in receipt of bills -Also includes the £400 winter discount Try (& pls share) our price guarantee calc: moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/what…

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