 Look at the Highlights and explore the one that looks most interesting.  Read a News item or check out the latest Tip.  Sign up for the Newsletter.

my.rsc.org/talkchemistry  Register for Talk Chemistry (note: this is completely free and you can leave at any time).  Click on “Settings” and set your preferences for notifications.  Post a message in the “Welcome” forum.

 Which element has the highest boiling point?  What percentage of the Earth’s crust is sodium?  How many elements of alchemy are there?  How many elements did Berzelius discover?  When was Tungsten discovered?  Watch the video for your favourite element.

Magazines  Find these magazines on Learn Chemistry.  Browse through the issues  How could you use The Mole or EiC in a lesson?

 What happened in chemistry on your birthday?  How could you use this in a lesson? website: on this day in chemistry

website: Experimentation Hub  What Global Experiments have been run in the past?  Has your school entered data in the past?  Watch one of the demonstration videos.

resource: experiment  Find a new experiment to try out in class.  Find an activity to run with a science club.

website: Faces of Chemistry  Pick a resource and suggest how it might be used in class.

Chemistry in your Bathroom search: bathroom  How many animated areas are on the main page?  Read one of the articles and test your knowledge with the quiz.

search: gridlocks  Select a Gridlocks:11-14 (Level 1) game.  Can you solve the puzzle? (without looking at the answers)  Don’t have access to computers? You can print the PDF’s and play as a card sort activity too!

search: challenging  Explore the Challenging Chemistry resources: Challenging Medicines and Challenging Plants.  Read the Pedagogical Overview for one of the topics. Challenging Chemistry

More Able & Talented Chemistry search: gifted  Explore one or two of the workbooks.  Which groups of students are these resources suitable for? Resources containing a mix of theoretical and practical activities.

mechanism  In Core Investigative Skills, complete the section on Skeletal representations. What score did you get?

website: Spectra School  Read the Introduction to Spectroscopy.  Click on Interactive Spectra and try to Identify a compound.  Find out about Spectroscopy in a Suitcase

search: cupboard  What areas of the curriculum are linked to the information on Veet?  Which product works by cross-linking a polymer derived from seaweed?

 Explore the website  How do you think you could use this resource in your school?  Which area of the site do you think is the most useful?

search: starters  Pick a topic and have a go at the questions.  How might you use this with a class?

search: chemistry simulations  Build an Atom – Try the activities and then play the games at the end

 Our peer-reviewed journal for Chemistry Educators  Free to read  How could you use this during your training?  In the future?

website: Experimentation Hub  Step-by-step guidance through the synthesis of Aspirin  Students can dip in and out of the experiment and save their progress  Teachers can use their progress to discover misconceptions

website: Experimentation Hub  Step-by-step guidance through titration experiments  Students can dip in and out of the experiments and save their progress  Teachers can use their progress to discover misconceptions

Event Type: ChemNet  How many ChemNet events are there for students around the Country?  How many are there in your region?

 Have a go at one question from each section  How would you use this with your students?  Could you do this as a paper-based activity as well? Search: Problem Solving Tutor

Search: Curriculum alignment tool  Currently in the beta-testing stage  How will this be helpful to you?  Are there any changes that you want to suggest?

 Which Online CPD course are available now?  How much do the courses cost?  How do you get a discount on the courses?