This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.

The topics covered in these materials include charge: size ratio (charge density); atomic structure and core charge; electronegativity; bond polarity; lattice energy; hydration of ions; hydrogen bonding; melting temperature; boiling temperature; atomic size and base strength.

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Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.