Bonding Basics: Ionic, Covalent and Metallic Bonding An interactive introduction to the three main types of chemical bonding for GCSE Chemistry. Students explore how the types of elements involved determine whether ionic, covalent or metallic bonding occurs. Through simple animated particle models, they discover what happens to electrons during bonding and how this produces different structures. Using familiar examples including sodium chloride, magnesium oxide, hydrogen, water and pure metals, students can predict bonding types, observe electron transfer, sharing or delocalisation, and compare the resulting structures. The simulation includes a side-by-side comparison of all three bonding types and an interactive knowledge check, making it ideal for introducing chemical bonding before studying each type in greater detail. simopsis