1. How to Study Science

2. Good Study Habits Know how you learn best: A. Reading B. Writing C. Visualizing or seeing D. Listening E. Doing

3. Good Study Habits Know how you learn best: A. Reading B. Writing C. Visualizing or seeing D. Listening E. Doing

4. Helpful Hints Create a mental picture of the abstract world you study Try to relate everyday experience to your science class Study science everyday and correct your mistakes as they occur

5. Helpful Hints Create a mental picture of the abstract world you study Try to relate everyday experience to your science class Study science everyday and correct your mistakes as they occur

6. What Materials am I expected to Learn? Sources of Information: 1. Objectives 2. Lectures 3. Textbook 4. Assigned Problems 5. Handouts

7. How Should I Study? 1. Skim the text before lecture 2. Attend the lecture and take notes 3. Organize your notes and find the meaning of new words 4. Read the textbook 5. Use notes and textbook to solve problems

8. How Should I Study? 6. Set time aside for review 7. Form self-test questions from text and notes.

9. Questions to Consider Am I making appropriate use of my instructor for help? Are there personal reasons why I am giving minimum time and attention to chemistry study? Is the stress of the course too much for me to manage?

10. Questions to Consider Am I in the right course at the right time?

11. Types of Science Content 1. Facts Statements about how the world is and how the world will be represented. Example: Acetic acid is a weak acid 2. Concepts These are ideas about matter represented by a single word

12. Types of Chemical Content Example: Exclusion principle 3. Rules They are generalizations about how the world works. They relate concepts to one another. Example: How to name inorganic compounds.

13. Types of Chemical Content 4. Problems They describe a specific situation and then ask you to find some new information about that situation. An algorithm is a sequence of steps for solving a specific type of problem.

14. Vocabulary In one semester of science course you will learn more new vocabulary than in one semester of elementary Spanish course. Science uses Greek and latin Make yourself familiar with the vocabulary

15. Memorization Techniques 1. Use as many senses as possibe: Look Write Say the word loud Listen to yourself saying them 2. Search for rules or patterns that all or parts of material may follow

16. Memorization Techniques 3. Create Mnemonic devices. 4. Spread memorization over time (avoid cramming) 5. Practice recalling information in a random order (use flash card) Test yourself in different ways Keep studying until you have over-learned the material

17. Learning Concepts What does the concept word mean? Essential characteristics: What exactly something is or is not What are examples of that idea? Identify the parts of the idea that must be understood

18. Mastering Science Rules A Science rule is a generalization that summarizes the behavior of different substances 1. Learn the facts and concepts on which a rule is based 2. Try to restate the rule in your own words

19. Mastering Chemical Rules 3. Determine when the rule applies 4. Determine what the rule accomplishes 5. Identify exceptions to the rule