Lesson: Polar Bonding Chemistry • Second Year of Secondary School

In this lesson, we will learn how to identify polar bonds within molecules and assess their effect on the polarity of the molecule as a whole.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

explain the difference between ionic, polar, and covalent bonds,
compare the electronegativity of atoms in a bond to identify when bonds are polar,
assign partial charges to the atoms of a polar bond,
analyze polar bonds, bond angles, and the stereochemistry of a molecule to deduce whether the molecule is a permanent dipole,
construct dipole moments for a variety of molecules.