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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Chemical Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Chemistry: The Nature of the Chemical Bond

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about ionic, polar covalent, and non-polar covalent bonding.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Single and Multiple Covalent Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Chemical Processes: Covalent Bonds: Intramolecular and Intermolecular Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what intramolecular and intermolecular forces are and the different types for each. Includes lots of examples.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Comparing Potential Energy of Bond

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the change in potential energy when molecules are separated from each other or broken apart.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Why Does Water Dissolve Sugar?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan in which young scholars design an experiment to determine if different types of liquids affect the amount of dissolution of an M&M candy shell.