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Concord Consortium

Breaking a Molecular Bond

For Students 9th - 12th
Breaking up is hard, especially with a third part involved! Watch as molecules of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen try to keep it together as a neutral third atom bombards them. Users control the reactive molecules and the velocity of the...
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Spark Notes

Review of Chemical Bonding: Review Test

For Students 9th - 12th
This is an online exercise in which chemistry learners answer a series of multiple choice questions about bonding. Topics addressed include ionic and covalent bonds, electronegativity, ions, valence electrons, resonance structure, and...
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Shapes of Molecules—Distortion from the Pure Geometry

For Students 6th - 12th
Ready to introduce the realities of molecular geometry to chemistry pupils? Use a logic-based interactive! Perfect as individual practice, the puzzles explore the bond angles and repulsions present in three common molecular shapes.
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Concord Consortium

Polarization

For Students 9th - 12th
This is one cool resource for teaching about polarity! Chemistry scholars observe electron distribution and molecular shape as they select different non-metals and form bonds. The interactive offers two views, surface charge and electron...
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Shapes of Molecules—Geometry of Central Atom

For Students 6th - 12th
How is a molecule's shape determined? Explore bond angles, lone pairs, and VSEPR theory through a logic-based activity. Chemists pull together information about the major molecular shapes, then use it to solve puzzles.
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Concord Consortium

Unshared Electrons and the "Bent" Shape

For Students 9th - 12th
Why is water always so bent out of shape? Scholars investigate the molecular geometry of the water molecule using a 3-D resource. The interactive features options such as rotation and the ability to view electron pairs.
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Concord Consortium

Making Molecules

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
It's molecule magic! Skillful scholars explore the effects of different atoms on molecular polarization using an intuitive interactive. The resource displays the charge at different locations on the molecule, then adapts as the user...
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Shapes of Molecules—Hybrid Orbitals

For Students 6th - 12th
Take your chemistry class' knowledge of molecular geometry to the next level! Introduce orbital hybridization with a series of related games. Individuals complete a data table in the first activity, then solve Sudoku-like puzzles using...
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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molecular Shapes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will learn about covalent molecules and how the VSEPR theory predicts the shapes of covalently-bonded molecules.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Strength of Intermetallic Bonds

For Students 9th - 10th
View two different substances made from the same two elements. Observe the different strengths of bonds between the two different substances.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Self Assembling Lattice Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
View this simulation to see how lattice structures are formed when particles of different shapes and charges form bonds.