A chemistry walks  viewers through non-polar covalent, polar covalent, and ionic bonds and how to determine the type of specific chemical bonds. 

Concepts

chemical bonds, covalent bonds, ionic bonds, polar bond, ions, valence electrons

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Challenge individuals to create one type of non-metal bond to try to stump the others in the class

Classroom Considerations

• Requires prior knowledge of valence electrons and energy levels
• Remember YouTube comments are open to the public and often contain language that is inappropriate
• Video is the seventh in a series of 14

Pros

• Includes closed captioning in English, French, Thai, and Spanish (Spain)
• Provides many examples and a description of how to solve each

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4