Curated OER
Water - the (Nearly) Universal Solvent
In this water worksheet, high schoolers explore the reasons why water is considered a universal solvent. Students compare different ways to change the dissolving rate of a solute. This worksheet has 11 fill in the blank and 8 matching...
Curated OER
VSEPR And Polarity
For this VSEPR theory worksheet, students evaluate the electron-pair geometry of organic and inorganic molecules. They construct Lewis structures and resonance structures for 17 compounds and complete 3 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Doing Lewis Dot Diagrams
Students observe the periodic table and draw the Lewis Dot Diagram. In this investigative lesson students construct information on several elements including the Lewis Dot Formation and take a quiz on the information they learned.
Curated OER
Chemical Compounds
In this chemical compounds learning exercise, students write the name of compounds from their chemical formula, balance equations, write electronic configurations for elements, and draw Lewis dot structures. This learning exercise has 8...
Curated OER
Water - the (Nearly) Universal Solvent
In this solvent worksheet, students explore why water is considered a universal solvent. Students explore what can change dissolving rates. This worksheet has 8 matching, 3 short answer, 11 fill in the blank, and 4 problems to solve.
Curated OER
An Introduction To Material Sciences
Students investigate the concept of molecular structure. They describe the behavior of simulated molecules and identify any dislocations in crystalline structures. They also define various related vocabulary words and use them in...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ionic and Covalent Bonding
In this tutorial, students learn about ionic and covalent bonds and predict which elements will form which type of bond. Includes interactive exercises as well as videos.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Single and Multiple Covalent Bonds
Explains what covalent bonds are and the difference between them and ionic bonds. Discusses the properties of polar and non-polar covalent bonds, and single and multiple covalent bonds, and gives analogies and examples of how covalent...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Chemistry: The Nature of the Chemical Bond
This site talks about ionic, polar covalent, and non-polar covalent bonding.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Bonds
By working through this web-based activity, students differentiate between ionic, non-polar covalent, and polar covalent bonds. Specifically, distinctions are made between bonding types based on orbital shapes and electronegativity...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Bonding and Chemical Reactions
Through informational text, interactive puzzles, and review questions, students differentiate ionic and covalent bonds and identify the properties of each. They also use oxidation numbers to predict formulas of ionic compounds, name...
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry Online: Ionic and Molecular Compounds
Provides a good outline of the concepts involved in ionic and covalent bonding, with links to definition of terms. Features a list of common molecular compounds and a chart that compares ionic and molecular compounds.
University of Florida
University of Florida: General Chemistry I: Chemical Bonding
Notes on covalent bonding, bond length, bond energies, Lewis dot structures, and percent ionic character. Colorful graphics.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Bonding
In this module students explore the properties of chemicals with covalent and ionic bonds. Students learn that there are different types of covalent bonds, polar and nonpolar, and that the type of covalent bond along with the shape of a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Chemical Bonds
This interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain demonstrates how attractive forces between atoms create chemical bonds, resulting in the formation of molecules and compounds.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Bonds: Covalent or Ionic or What?
Use this resource to understand polar covalence in ion-derived solids.
Other
All About Covalent Compounds!
Visit this site to find out what covalent compounds are, how covalent bonding is different from ionic bonding, how the properties of covalent compounds differ from ionic compounds, and how to name covalent compounds. There is also a link...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Energy Levels, Electrons, Ionic Bonding
Students discover that ionic bonding occurs when electrons are transferred from one atom to the other and not shared as in covalent bonding.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Chemical Bonds
Learn here about chemical bonds, a weak or strong electrical attraction that holds atoms in the same vicinity.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Bonds in General
A summary of bonding terms and the importance of electrons in bonding.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Binary Covalent Compounds
An explanation of bonding in binary covalent compounds. Rules for naming binary covalent compounds using common names and system names are also provided.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Conductivity and Bonding
Students will measure the conductivity of several compounds and solutions in order to predict the bond types (ionic or covalent) in the substances tested.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Electronegativity & Bond Polarity
Excellent graphics help this page explain the relationship between electronegativity and bond polarity.
University of Southern California
Atomic Bonds
This slide show on atomic bonds contains several slides on electron affinity. Other topics include covalent, Sigma and Pi bonds, and atomic bonding in solids.