Resources by The Salters' Chemistry Club

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 1-4

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 1: This activity looks at chemical effects in the film industry and students make some fake blood. Activity 2: This activity describes a ‘magic’ trick using...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 11-13

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. Activity 11: Students investigate emulsions by making salad dressing, mayonnaise and a strawberry bombe. Activity 12: Students use food colouring to dye eggs. Activity...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 14-17

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. Activity 14: Students use an exothermic reaction to make a heat pack. Activity 15: Students investigate reactions with copper. Activity 16: Students write with a...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 18-23

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.

Activity 18: Students use copper sulphate and ammonia solution to make ‘magic’ pictures.

Activity 19: Students carry out flame tests with different foods...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 26-29

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity. Activity 26: Electroplating is used to plate a thin layer of a valuable metal on top of a less valuable one. Students have a go at plating the faces on foreign coins....

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 5-7

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 5: Students use a foaming agent to make a foam fire extinguisher. Activity 6: Students float bubbles on carbon dioxide gas to examine them more closely. Activity...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume One: Activities 8-10

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop their curiosity. Activity 8: This demonstration shows neutralisation and the range of indicator colours. Activity 9: Students explore the chemistry of fragrance. Activity 7: Students carry...

Salters' Chemistry Club Volume Two: Activities 11-15

This resource describes activities for an informal chemistry club. The aim is to convey the excitement of chemistry and develop students’ curiosity.

Activity 11: Magic sand is sand that has been treated with a hydrophobic coating. This activity is more than an entertaining trick. The material was originally...