Chemistry doesn't just happen in test tubes

New chemistry graduates may be brilliant at nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy but they often may have no idea once they get outside the laboratory. Non-chemists teaching chemistry may lack the background to help children relate to their chemical surroundings. This talk will open delegates' eyes to chemistry all around them: bricks, metals, concrete, graveyards, re-cycling. The things that we all see every day, but don't notice. There will also be a few more quirky examples – gas anodes, boron rods, and what's the (chemical) connection between stained glass windows and lateral flow tests? Using the environment to teach chemistry, some examples will be suitable for teaching 11 year-olds, others for pre-university students. The intended audience is those teaching chemistry at secondary school level, both specialist chemists and those with other backgrounds. It will particularly appeal to trainee and early career teachers and has proved popular in that past with international audiences.