Day 49-50 Bonding

We started our topic of bonding with a video - Untamed Science: Elements of Hockey.   *This is my favorite way to introduce the lesson.  If you've never watched Untamed Science - beware.  It's a little loud and goofy but the message is good and students like it. Unfortunately, this link uses flash which no longer works.  I use a disk from our school got when we adopted the Pearson Science textbook

I found this video which gives good information.

We used our textbooks and information from the video to fill in a sematic chart:

For advanced students we finished by completing Lewis dot diagrams.  There is a great foldable from www.middleschoolscience.com Unfortunately this website hasn't been working.  Here is a picture of what it looks like:

For other students I use "bonding with a classmate" from www.sciencespot.net

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