After drawing the bonds, we built them using gumdrops, raisins, and toothpicks. The gumdrops represented atoms, the raisins represented hydrogen, and the toothpicks represented bonds. I was present the first time my group built our structures but we were told that we didn't build them correctly. Unfortunately, I left school while my group corrected them, so all I have is the picture to show for it. The first time we built them, we included too many bonds. After I left my group corrected the molecular structures so that there was the right number of bonds.
During this lab I learned that every molecule has a different structure and way that the valence electrons are displayed. You have to make sure that you place everything according to its blueprints. I also learned how to not only construct molecule structures, but also how to understand how they work.