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At Alevel what apparatus can students be asked to draw in the exam.

I have
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Reflux
Distillation
Reduced pressure filtration

Any others?

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No more #ChatChemistry chats for this year, but we’ll be rebooting in January. We’re looking for additional admins to help run chats and manage the account, so let us know if you’re interested!

What are your thoughts #ChatChemistry?

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Sorry for no #ChatChemistry this week… we had @janeteachesscience.bsky.social lined up to run a chat but then I forgot it was Wednesday 🤦🏻‍♂️

As previously mentioned, we’re short of active admins here, so if anyone is interested in helping out, drop us a DM

Just FYI, #ChatChemistry is for chemistry education chat and posts

Just FYI, #ChatChemistry is for chemistry education chat

Recordings from a recent symposium on language in chemistry education now available here #ChatChemistry

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We’re following you now (didn’t realise we weren’t) so now it should work!

For what it’s worth, more wizards are needed since our move over to Bluesky – if anyone is interested in being more regularly involved, drop us a DM! #ChatChemistry

Thanks to @drdavidboyce.bsky.social for a brilliant #ChatChemistry discussion tonight 👏

We’re still looking for hosts for the remaining three chats for this year… drop us a DM if you’ve got a topic you’d like to host on!

That draws us to an end of our hosted #ChatChemistry discussion tonight - however the questions will remain here and you can interact with them as and when you please. Let’s keep the discussions going and see you all next time for @chatchemistry.bsky.social

Interesting. Does it do colour change? I would like something that times a certain colour change. The PAG 10.3 is really hard to tell when it goes the final shade of yellow at lower temperatures. #ChatChemistry

Also breaking up vitamin tablets to varying degrees and timing how long it takes for them to dissolve. Similarly different size alkaline agar cubes with phenolphthalein added. React and time the colour change.
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My favourite, although the data are subjective, is to investigate the rate of a glow stick reaction based. Submerge them in different temperatures of water. You can make a nice scale from dimmest to brightest.
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Third question - looking not at graphs but the experiments that might produce the data for one. Hit me with every cool and interesting rate of reaction practical and demo that you know. #ChatChemistry

#ChatChemistry I think line of best fit always a challenge. We are fighting against Maths! But it’s also a timing and language issue My Y9 recently really struggled—plotting points and understanding x y axis. Let alone scales. It’s a big cog load.

I have tried Desmos - positives - it is great for drawing tangents on rate graphs, giving you coefficients of power laws and fantastic at plotting mathematical functions - like the first derivative of a function fitted to data. Downside - the learning curve is second order. #ChatChemistry

Draw by hand and make sure students know that the line of best fit might be curved. The maths department drums into them that it’s a straight line. So that’s what they do for every graph.
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How do you discuss the subjectivity of a line of best fit? With software it finds the best fit by linear regression - are humans as good? 🤔 #ChatChemistry

Here comes question 2. It’s all about graph drawing. Do you use software? How important is the lost art of using a pencil and ruler? What is your best advice? #ChatChemistry

Great advice - sometimes it is best to get them proficient in use of logs and then double back after with the deeper meaning after they are more familiar with how they are used #ChatChemistry