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Alkanes and Alkenes Instructional VideoAlkanes and Alkenes Instructional Video
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Fuse School
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10th - Higher Ed
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5:53
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10 mins
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Alkanes and Alkenes

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Need your class to be keen on alkenes? Organic chemistry scholars discover the relationship between alkanes and alkenes in a short video. The narrator guides them through drawing and naming both groups of molecules, as well as reveals the trick to writing their formulas. The content also reviews the process of covalent single and double bonding.

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Concepts

organic chemistry, hydrocarbons, covalent bonds, double bonds, carbon, hydrogen

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Continue the trend in linking both types of molecules to their common forms by having the class research common alkanes and alkenes
  • Use the pauses within the resource to check for understanding

Classroom Considerations

  • Does not require any prior knowledge 

Pros

  • The well-organized content progresses logically from smaller to larger alkanes, then to alkenes
  • Animated sequences build the molecules then name them, which helps to reinforce nomenclature

Cons

  • None

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