Resources
Salters' Chemistry Club: clock reactions
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 react acidified potassium iodide solution with a solution of starch and hydrogen sulphate solution. The reaction mixture stays colourless...
Salters' Chemistry Club: cooking is chemistry
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students investigate emulsions by making salad dressing, mayonnaise and a strawberry bombe. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop...
Salters' Chemistry Club: create your own chemistry trail
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students investigate the best material and conditions for producing strong composite ice. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop...
Salters' Chemistry Club: crunchy foam and microwave meringues
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, in which students explore the use of gases in cooking, and make honeycomb as well as meringue. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop...
Salters' Chemistry Club: crystal gardens
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students' curiosity. Students use metal salts to grow a crystal garden in a solution of sodium silicate.
Salters' Chemistry Club: crystal growing
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club. The activity looks at saturated solutions and crystals. The aim is to develop students' excitement and curiosity about chemistry and chemical processes....
Salters' Chemistry Club: custard behaving strangely
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students mix custard powder and water and explore its strange properties. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity....
Salters' Chemistry Club: disappearing worms
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students investigate polymers by making worms from sodium alginate and placing them in solutions which cross-ink the polymer or break down the cross links...
Salters' Chemistry Club: dyeing your eggs
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students use food colouring to dye eggs. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Salters' Chemistry Club: eggsperiment
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 investigate what egg shells are made of.