Who could actually relate chemistry to baking?! I mean, I love to cook and bake, but when it comes to studying chemistry and electrons and atoms and all of that complicated stuff, I completely blank out because, to be honest, science isn’t my thing at all!

To begin with, I had absolutely no idea what ionic or covalent bonds were. What was the difference between the two? I didn’t even know what an ion or compound or even what an electron or element was. All of which I’ve now learned and know thanks to the very unimportant and stressful animation project my teacher assigned. I got to understand how bonds were made when a number of elements make a deal with each other and trade electrons to stabilize one another and I learned about different bonds such as an ionic being a metal paired with a non metal or metal paired with metal and a covalent bond being two or more non metals paired together.

Having said that, as much as chemistry and science aren’t my favourite subject, even I had questions about this topic. Below is a chart with all my original thoughts when we first began this unit. My knowledge has expanded so much since and I’m very excited to share with you what I’ve learned. Below is my original mind map of all the questions or info I had for this year’s chemistry unit.