Wem pupils get a taste for chemistry . . . with cupcakes
Students at a Shropshire college have shown science can be fun as well as tasty by creating a periodic table out of cupcakes.
A-level students at Adams College, in Lowe Hill, Wem, made the delicious treats with their chemistry teacher Penny Corp.
Miss Corp said hit television show Great British Bake Off gave her the idea to create a lesson she hopes her students will never forget.
She said: "I'm into the Great British Bake Off and I thought this would be a memorable way for teaching something important.
"The students don't have to know the periodic table off by heart for their exams, but we use it all the time – probably every lesson – so it's a good way for them to appreciate all the elements on the table, particularly the radioactive ones at the bottom which they don't deal with often."
More than 60 students from two AS-level and two A-level classes had the elements divided between them for preparation, before bringing their cupcakes to college for assembly into the table. Each cupcake was decorated with an element's abbreviated symbol, like H for hydrogen.
