Chapter 1 Chemistry in Our Lives 1.3 Learning Chemistry: A Study Plan Learning Goal Develop a study plan for learning chemistry. Students discuss a chemistry problem with their professor during office hours. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.

Text Features for Learning Using the study features in the text will help you prepare for class and exams. Looking Ahead outlines the chapter topics. Glossary and Index lists and defines key terms in the chapter. Key Math Skills needed for the chapter are reviewed. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc.

Text Features for Learning Core Chemistry Skills are indicated by icons in the margin and summarized at the end of each chapter. Chapter Readiness highlight the Key Math Skills and Core Chemistry Skills needed in the current chapter.

Features to Help You Study Before reading the chapter, review the topics in Looking Ahead. Read the Concept Checks; they help you to understand the key ideas. Work through the Sample Problems and compare your solution to the one provided. Chemistry Links to Health, to History, to Industry, and to the Environment connect the chemical concepts you are learning to real-life situations.

Features to Help You Study At the end of the chapter are study aids, including Chapter Reviews Concept Maps Key Terms Understanding the Concepts

Features to Help You Study Additional Questions and Problems and Challenge Problems Key Math Skills Core Chemistry Skills Combining Ideas reviews concepts from three to four chapters.

Questions and Problems Questions and Problems placed after each section are written to help you understand the material and give immediate applications of new ideas. An Analyze the Problem feature shows how to organize the data in the word problems to obtain the solution.

Questions and Problems Understanding the Concepts, Additional Questions and Problems, and Challenge Questions give you more practice in understanding concepts and problem solving. Answers placed at the end of each chapter give feedback to odd-numbered questions.

Active Learning Active participation while reading the text will help you learn the material more quickly and with more understanding.

Steps in Active Learning

Make a Study Plan Consider some of these ideas when making a plan on how to approach your studying and learning in chemistry. ___ reading the chapter before lecture ___ going to lecture ___ reviewing the learning goals ___ keeping a problem notebook

Make a Study Plan ___ reading the text as an active learner ___ working the Questions and Problems that follow each section ___ being an active learner in lectures ___ organizing a study group ___ seeing the professor during office hours

Make a Study Plan ___ reviewing Key Math Skills and Core Chemistry Skills attending review sessions organizing my own review session studying as often as possible

Learning Check Which activity would be part of a successful study plan? staying out late the night before an exam reading the text before class working problems with a study group skipping the lecture one or two times a week discussing a problem with the instructor

Solution Which activity would be part of a successful study plan? (No) staying out late the night before an exam (Yes) reading the text before class (Yes) working problems with a study group (No) skipping the lecture one or two times a week (Yes) discussing a problem with the instructor