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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Covalent Bonding
This interactive activity from ChemThink takes a closer look at a covalent bond: how it is formed and how the sharing of two electrons can keep atoms together.
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Chemical Processes: Covalent Bonds: Intramolecular and Intermolecular Forces
Explains what intramolecular and intermolecular forces are and the different types for each. Includes lots of examples.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Covalent Bonding
A learning module giving the definition of a covalent bond, the compounds and elements they make up and why they form. Module includes reading and review questions.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Chemical Bonds: Covalent or Ionic or What?
Use this resource to understand polar covalence in ion-derived solids.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Polarity and Intermolecular Forces
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial describes how the electronegativity difference between two atoms in a covalent bond results in the formation of a nonpolar covalent,...
Other
Personal Site: Covalent Bonding Single Bonds
This site is a personal site that gives "a simple view of covalent bonding" including explanations, diagrams, and examples.
Michael Blaber, PhD
Florida State University: Basic Concepts of Covalent Bonding: Covalent Bonding
Good introduction and graphics make this a solid page for understanding the orbital role in bonding and molecular geometry. The author is a professor at Florida State University.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Bond Polarity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Polarity and covalent bonds.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Bond Polarity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers polarity and covalent bonds.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Covalent Bonding
This activity helps students review basic covalent nomenclature.
Michael Blaber, PhD
Fsu: Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding: Polarity and Electronegativity
Florida State University provides an explanation of electronegativity of elements and its affect on bond type.
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.
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...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Molecule Polarity
When is a molecule polar? Change the electronegativity of atoms in a molecule to see how it affects polarity. See how the molecule behaves in an electric field. Change the bond angle to see how shape affects polarity. See how it works...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Polarity in Chemical Bonds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will determine the polarity of a chemical bond using the electronegativity chart, and then distinguish between nonpolar covalent, polar covalent, and ionic...
Frostburg State University
General Chemistry: Why Oh, Nh, and Fh Bonds Are Polar
Frostburg State University provides a brief explanation to the question of why small hydrogen molecules, such as OH, NH, and FH, are very polar.
Other
University of Texas Dallas: Electron Appetites
The first section of this lecture on polarity and electronegativity discusses what polar covalent bonds are by using carbon dioxide as an example.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Water Is a Polar Molecule
Students develop their own water molecule model to help them understand the idea that water has a slight positive charge at one end of the molecule and a slight negative charge at the other.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characteristics of Chemical Bonds: Lesson 2
This lesson will present the basic properties and characteristics of chemical bonds. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Characteristics of Chemical Bonds."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Characteristics of Chemical Bonds: Lesson 4
This lesson will present the basic properties and characteristics of chemical bonds. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Characteristics of Chemical Bonds."