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ACT ONE: There will be 2 sets of play-doh at each desk. Your job will be to make two spheres and to smash them together until they stick.

First, try and drop one on top of the other to make it stick If that does not work, try a "high five" approach with a ball of play-doh in each hand If that does not work, do what you have to do to make two of them stick.

Question: How is this like to atoms trying to combine to form a compound (use the term energy in your response). . ACT TWO . Discuss valence electrons, remind people. . Discuss the octet rule. . ACT THREE . Have practice examples on the board of how ionic compounds are formed. . ACT FOUR . Worksheet on these. . ACT FIVE . Answer as a group. . ACT SIX