Some examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to ionic bonding:
In ionic bonding, they both want to get full outer shells
In sodium chloride the two atoms are very close, but they do not actually touch
There's ionic bonding in a sodium chloride molecule
An ionic bond is like love: an example of a student-generated simile from the ASCEND enrichment project.
This is just one of a wide range of science topics that learners have talked about in ECLIPSE projects.
Return to ECLIPSE homepage
List of science topics
Dr Keith S Taber kst24@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
© Keith S Taber