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Covalent bonding | 14–16 years
Find all the support you need to prepare, deliver, assess and enrich your teaching of covalent bonding, plus target language and literacy skills
Prepare
CPD articleHow to teach covalent bonding
Everything you need to teach 14–16 chemistry students this topic
Deliver
ResourceCovalent bonding | Developing understanding | 14–16 years
Develop learners’ understanding of the size and shape of covalent structures by interpreting a range of diagrams and models
ResourceCovalent bonding in water | Johnstone’s triangle worksheets | 14–16 years
Use these worksheets to develop learners’ understanding of covalent bonding, including symbolic models and how macroscopic properties relate to the type of bonding
ResourceCovalent bonding | Structure strip | 14–16 years
Understand covalent bonding diagrams and their limitations, with this scaffolded writing activity
ResourceCovalent bonding tiles | 14–16 years
Help learners to visualise the shape and structure of simple covalent molecules with these manipulative covalent bonding tiles.
PosterHow to draw dot and cross diagrams
Use this step-by-step approach to covalent bonding with your 14–16 learners
Assess
ResourceBonding | Review my learning | 14–16 years
A set of differentiated worksheets with answers to identify learning gaps and misconceptions on the topic of bonding
QuizMolecular structures and bonding | Bridging the knowledge gap | 14–16 years
Support your students with the transition to post-16 study with this quiz on molecular structures and bonding
ResourceCovalent structure and bonding | Knowledge check | 14–16
Assess learning on covalent structure and bonding with two levels of worksheet
ResourceCovalent structure and bonding in our bodies | In context | 14–16
Put covalent bonding into context with questions about the human body, its composition and the nutrition needed to support human health
Enrich
NewsHigh pressure forces heavy hydrogen to act like a metal
Explore metallic bonding and isotopes with this latest research looking at metallic hydrogen
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Use this real-world context when teaching about giant covalent structures
ProjectBonding workshop | Chemistry for All project | 14–16 years
A series of activites, demonstrations and experiments exploring simple covalent molecules and hydrocarbons
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Look at the life cycle of solar panels suffering from a dusting of silica
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Overview resources for Structure and bonding | 14–16 years
Discover more chemistry teaching resources to engage 14–16 learners with structure and bonding