Wonders of water day 1

Thursday September 5th  

Based on this cartoon – What type of Bond is this “marriage” depicting since the guy states “I Do! Here’s my Valence Electron Baby” Ionic (In ionic bonds electrons are lost or gained, this causes charges and then the attraction of a negative ion to a positive ion.)

What if instead the “boy” atom said, “I do, Let’s share our valence electrons baby” Which type of bond would it be referring to? Covalent.  When electrons are SHARED, this is known as a covalent bond (which makes for a MUCH better relationship ;) 

We reviewed the last couple slides from yesterday and then started into the following notes/activities.

I had your cups of happy water ready on your desk for you..... as we stared our first slide



Then we built our first water molecule



The large red atom is the oxygen, the small white atoms
are hydrogen.



You then made smaller water molecules to see how water interacts with other water molecules

I had you guess, based on your understanding of water structure, how two water molecules would bond with each other.

Most of you were able to infer that the hydrogen end of one water molecule would be attracted to the negative end
of another.