3D Molecule Whiteboard
Name or draw a compound; rotate the ball-and-stick model and zoom into an atom's electron shells.
Opens a live board in your browser. No install, no hardware.
Acetic acid, CH₃COOH. Drag to rotate; click an atom for its electron shells.
A molecule drawn flat on a board hides the thing that matters: its shape. Boardsy turns a name or a sketch into a rotatable 3D model with correct bonds, then lets a student click any atom to fly into its electron shells — protons, shells, and valence electrons, all labeled.
45-minute outline
How to teach it
- Recall (5 min): what does a structural formula not tell us? (Shape.)
- Build (10 min): name a compound; rotate the model as a class.
- Zoom in (15 min): click an atom, count the valence electrons, connect to bonding.
- Check (10 min): Analyze the structure and push a short check.
Standard
NGSS MS-PS1
This lesson is built to support NGSS MS-PS1 for Grades 8–9. Alignment is a teaching guide, not an official endorsement — check it against your district's pacing.
“Rotating a real molecule instead of pointing at a flat picture changed how they talked about bonds.”
Teach 3D Molecule Whiteboard tomorrow.
Open the live board, invite your class, and start.