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Investigating the Shapes of Covalent Molecules and Measuring their Respective Bond Lengths and Bond Angles Lesson PlanInvestigating the Shapes of Covalent Molecules and Measuring their Respective Bond Lengths and Bond Angles Lesson Plan
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Investigating the Shapes of Covalent Molecules and Measuring their Respective Bond Lengths and Bond Angles

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High schoolers will draw Lewis structures of common covalent compounds using a Chem 3D computer program. They will predict the shapes of the molecules, complete a data table, and formulate rules for predicting shapes of molecules. In the end, they will make conclusions from the data they find.

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covalent compounds, molecules

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bond angles, bond lengths, covalent compounds, molecules, science
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9th - 12th
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Science
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