1. 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.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. Steps in Active Learning

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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