Resources
Salters' Chemistry Club: hard evidence
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students make plaster casts of teeth marks in an apple in this forensic science activity. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop...
Salters' Chemistry Club: hydrogen balloons
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students explode balloons containing hydrogen. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Salters' Chemistry Club: investigating shampoos
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students investigate different shampoos by testing their pH, and by comparing flow properties, which makes the most lather and the grease removing properties....
Salters' Chemistry Club: investigating smarties and m&ms
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, a chromatography activity using smarties and m&ms. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity.
Salters' Chemistry Club: King Kong's hand
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students use the carbon dioxide produced from reacting sodium bicarbonate with vinegar to blow up a rubber glove. The aim is to convey the excitement of...
Salters' Chemistry Club: magic sand
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, magic sand is sand that has been treated with a hydrophobic coating. This activity is more than an entertaining trick. The material was originally developed for...
Salters' Chemistry Club: make a snowflake
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, making crystals from borax solution. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.
Salters' Chemistry Club: making a blueprint
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, blueprints are made by placing a drawing over a specially treated paper and exposing it to strong (UV) light. The blueprint is then washed (fixed). The light...
Salters' Chemistry Club: making and colouring glass beads
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, an investigation into the colour of metal salts and oxides by making coloured beads of borax glass using the flame of a Bunsen burner. The aim is to...
Salters' Chemistry Club: mystery metal
This resource describes an activity for an informal chemistry club, students use flame tests to investigate metals. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity.