Instructions for Week 4 (Week of May 11)

  1. Read the newsela article (link to PDF posted to iLearn).
  2. Review the additional resources (Polar Bears and Penguins, use the interactive periodic table link to see where the metals and nonmetals are on the periodic table)
  3. Take notes on the different types of bonding and connect this back to what you learned about electronegativity. 
  4. Draw a double bubble diagram in your notes to compare the two types of bonding.
  5. To turn in: Complete the sentence stems: [You may use these key words metal, nonmetal, covalent, ionic or use other science words]
    1. In an ionic bond, you would expect to see both ____ and _____ types of elements.
    2. In a covalent bond, you would only expect to see _______ elements.
    3. Based on their electronegativities, you would expect ____ elements to pull on electrons more strongly than ______ elements.
    4. If ______ elements pull more strongly on bonding electrons than _____ elements, then you would expect ______ to be negative and ______ to be positive ions.
    5. Sodium and chlorine form a compound called salt which is held together by _____ bonds.
    6. Carbon and hydrogen and oxygen form many different compounds when bonded together in different ways, but almost all of these would be called _____ bonds.

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