Resources
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 18-23
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Activity 18: Students use copper sulphate and ammonia solution to make ‘magic’ pictures.
Activity 19: Students carry out flame tests with different foods...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 26-29
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. Activity 26: Electroplating is used to plate a thin layer of a valuable metal on top of a less valuable one. Students have a go at plating the faces on foreign coins....
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 5-7
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 5: Students use a foaming agent to make a foam fire extinguisher. Activity 6: Students float bubbles on carbon dioxide gas to examine them more closely. Activity...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 8-10
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 8: This demonstration shows neutralisation and the range of indicator colours. Activity 9: Students explore the chemistry of fragrance. Activity 7: Students carry...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 11-15
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Activity 11: Magic sand is sand that has been treated with a hydrophobic coating. This activity is more than an entertaining trick. The material was originally...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 16-18
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. Activity 16: Making crystals from borax solution. Activity 17: Students grow stalactites from sodium carbonate. Activity 18: Students make different types of glue and...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 20-22
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Activity 20: Making paper from recycled newspaper.
Activity 21: A glass blowing activity.
Activity 22: Students design a key ring fob or a tag for...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 24-29
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Activity 24: An investigation into the colour of metal salts and oxides by making coloured beads of borax glass using the flame of a Bunsen burner.
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Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 3-7
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Activity 3: Students explore a simple cross-linking reaction between two polymers by making bouncy balls out of custard powder.
Activity 4: Students see...
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 8-10
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Activity 8: In this ‘magic’ trick, a flower is put in water with Phenolphthalein indicator solution. When the flower is sprayed with sodium carbonate solution...