Resources by The Salters' Chemistry Club

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...

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.