This is an introductory inquiry activity in which students will take self guided notes by reading prompts, analyzing models, and answering scaffolded questions. The activity covers the importance of IMFs, types of IMFs, and practice identifying types of intermolecular forces and ranking the strength between them. Students can use this as a reference guide for future practice. No direct teaching in necessary.

This product can easily be used as a printed off activity, or as a TpT Easel Digital Activity. 

This product comes with an answer key! 

Learning Standards:

Performance Expectation: HS-PS1-3 Matter and its Interactions: Plan and conduct an investigation to gather evidence to compare the structure of substances at the bulk scale to infer the strength of electrical forces between particles.

Disciplinary Core Idea: PS2.B: Types of Interactions - Attraction and repulsion between electric charges at the atomic scale explain the structure, properties, and transformations of matter, as well as the contact forces between material objects. 

Cross Cutting Concept: Patterns - Different patterns may be observed at each of the scales at which a system is studied and can provide evidence for causality in explanations of phenomena. 

Learning Objectives: 

Students will be able to…

• Differentiate between intermolecular and intramolecular forces
• Identify the three different types of intermolecular forces
• Describe the impact that intermolecular forces have the properties of substances
• Rank molecules based on the strength of the intermolecular forces
• Model intermolecular forces between molecules