Jo Haywood

Jul 8, 2024 | edu.rsc.org | Jo Haywood

Use these ideas and tips to help your students master titrationTitration is a form of volumetric analysis that we use to work out the concentration of a solution by reacting it with another solution of known concentration. We determine the end-point of the reaction by observing a change, for example a pH change, by adding an indicator and observing a colour change.

Oct 12, 2023 | edu.rsc.org | Hayley M Bennett |Jo Haywood |Morag Easson |Kit Chapman

When chlorophyll breaks down, leaves reveal their inner chemistryEvery autumn, nature swaps its coat of green for an ensemble of red, yellow, orange and brown. Fashion followers take inspiration from this seasonal shift. Preschoolers seek out the multicoloured leaves for crafts.

Oct 9, 2023 | edu.rsc.org | Hayley M Bennett |Jo Haywood |Morag Easson |Nina Notman

Explore the chemical composition of supplements and find out if they really are vitalIn 17th century London, doctors noticed increasing numbers of children with a disease called rickets. Rickets affects children’s bones, making them softer and weaker than they should be and sometimes causing children’s legs to bend together or apart too much at the knees.

May 11, 2023 | edu.rsc.org | Jo Haywood

Every reaction in chemistry, be it pharmaceutical synthesis or setting off fireworks, depends on reagents reacting in the right proportions. If we consider a simple reaction, heating sodium metal and placing it in chlorine gas to make sodium chloride, why do we care about reacting masses? Well, sodium chloride is often added to food and is pretty reactive.

Apr 14, 2023 | edu.rsc.org | Jo Haywood

Source: © Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images At the start of 2020, there was a lot of talk about Covid-19 and what might happen, but there was disbelief that schools would shut. And then, with just a few days to prepare, most schools closed. So what did teacher trainers do next? We immediately transferred our PGCE course activity online, for both faculty-based teaching and school placements. Trainees and mentors adapted amazingly to the sudden change.