Creative Resources for Teaching Bonding and Intermolecular Forces
By AACT on October 27, 2026
As members of AACT, you have access to a huge classroom resource library. Finding the right labs and learning opportunities for your classroom can be overwhelming. This article highlights creative resources for teaching bonding and intermolecular forces with thoughtful, new approaches to the subject. For more ideas, visit the bonding unit plan.
Try gamifying bonding with Chemists in the Lab! The game is set up similar to Settlers of Catan and students use their knowledge of ratios of ionic compounds to build settlements and score points.
A forensics twist can bring curiosity to the table for many chemistry students. Use this to your advantage with the Murder Mystery lab, where students use their knowledge of ionic and covalent compounds to determine if a victim was murdered or died accidentally.
Dive into polarity with the T-shirt Chromatography activity. Solubility and polarity are used to inform students about different chromatography techniques. These chromatography techniques are used to make a beautiful shirt!
We hope that the activities in this unit plan will help you to reinforce several of the topics covered in a unit on bonding and intermolecular forces. Most of these lessons were made possible by great teachers who shared their own resources. We need your help to keep the collection growing. Do you have a great demonstration, activity, or lesson related to this topic that you would like to share with the community? Please send it along for consideration.