Practical and enquiry skills
Experiments in this section can be used to teach practical and enquiry skills including the collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of primary data.
While we are still at an early stage with this website it's probably more useful to look at the page with our complete list of experiments in alphabetical order. See the list on About this website.
We are starting with GCSE-level experiments.
Experiments
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Melting and freezing stearic acid
In this class practical solid stearic acid (a constituent of wax) can be heated until it melts and allowed to cool again until it freezes. This allows students to observe melting and freezing points.
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Developing a glue
This experiment shows how to make a glue from soured milk and a base.
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Neutralisation – ‘curing acidity’
Simple experiment to show the pH and temperature changes when an acidic solution is neutralised by the addition of slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) or limestone (calcium carbonate).
