[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will name ionic compounds containing main group or transition metals, covalent compounds, acids, and bases, using...

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.

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...

This lesson will provide naming rules for ionic compounds containing polyatomic ions and give examples. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Ionic Compounds: Naming Compounds with Polyatomic Ions in Formula."

Article defines and explains compounds which are either ionic or covalent and molecules which are the simplest unit of a covalent compound. Molecules can be represented in many different ways.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will name ionic compounds containing main group or transition metals, covalent compounds, acids, and bases, using...

Discover different types of compounds such as binary covalent, binary ionic, binary acids, and oxyacids. Explore links that give information about writing names and formulas for different compounds.

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...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of covalent compound, how they are named and how they differ from ionic compounds.

Students will measure the conductivity of several compounds and solutions in order to predict the bond types (ionic or covalent) in the substances tested.

[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,...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores chemical compounds and how elements form different compounds.

Excellent graphics help this page explain the relationship between electronegativity and bond polarity.

Here you can find some great information about the 14th element in the periodic table, "silicon." Content focuses on silicon's electrons, where you can find silicon in nature and in the home, and how silicon combines with other elements.

Explanation of attractive forces and energy changes involved in bonding.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents rules for writing and naming ionic and covalent compounds. There is a short assessment using Activotes.

Read and learn about the process in which compounds are named and written. View several examples of written compounds and have access to links that give more information about writing names and formulas for compounds.

Here at Chem4Kids you can find some great information about the 11th element in the periodic table, "sodium." Content focuses on sodium's electrons, where you can find sodium in nature and in the home, and how sodium combines with other...

Here you can find some great information about the 9th element in the periodic table, "fluorine." Content focuses on fluorine's electrons, where you can find fluorine in nature and in the home, and how fluorine combines with other elements.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to write chemical formulae and what they represent about the substance.

Here you can find some great information about the 8th element in the periodic table, "oxygen." Content focuses on oxygen's electrons, where you can find oxygen in nature and in the home, and how oxygen combines with other elements.

Did you ever wonder how or why atoms bond together? This interactive tutorial sheds some light on why bonds form and the difference between ionic and covalent bonds.

Here you can find out about hydrogen, the first element in the periodic table. Content includes shell information, where to find it in nature, and why it is helpful to us.

Here you can find lots of great information about helium. Learn about its electrons, where it exists in nature, and about the element itself!