Resources
Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Puzzles A-D
A rich set of activities that are ideal as starters or plenaries in chemistry lessons for students aged 11-16.
Salters' Chemistry Club: a gas cannon
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students see how gas pressure can shoot the cork from a bottle. Vinegar and sodium hydrogen carbonate react to form carbon dioxide and the pressure of the gas...
Salters' Chemistry Club: a magic box
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students use copper sulphate and ammonia solution to make ‘magic’ pictures. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’...
Salters' Chemistry Club: alien blood and messy volcanoes
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club. The activity looks at chemical effects in the film industry and requires students to make some fake blood....
Salters' Chemistry Club: bath bombs
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students make a simple bath bomb. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity.
Salters' Chemistry Club: bouncing custard balls
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club in which students explore a simple cross-linking reaction between two polymers by making bouncy balls out of custard powder. The aim is to convey the...
Salters' Chemistry Club: burning food
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students carry out flame tests with different foods and consider whether the food contains any metals. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry...
Salters' Chemistry Club: chemical magic
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, the activity describes a ‘magic’ trick using chemical reactions to change water into ‘wine’. ...
Salters' Chemistry Club: chemical problems to solve
This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. In this activity, students are challenged to remove the colour from the three samples of copper sulphate solution using three different methods. They then have to...
Salters' Chemistry Club: chemistry in the 23rd century
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students design and build a cell or even a battery which will give the highest voltage. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop...