INTRODUCTIONTO

CHEMISTRYSECTIONS 1.1 and 1.2

Chemistry is

Matter is

PART 1 Why Should We Study Chemistry?

PART 2 A Brief Overview of the

Different Subdivisions of Chemistry

PART 3 Chemistry and Technology

in the Modern World

PART 1Why should we study chemistry?

Everything we are…everything we do –

is CHEMISTRY!

We are made of ________________

We breathe

___________(air).

Wewear

__________(clothes).

We eat

___________etc., etc…

The best reason (I think) to study chemistry is to explain the

____________

____________(i.e., to understand how things work)

It changes the way you see the world!

HOW THINGS WORKS…ACCORDING TO CHEMISTRY

Another important reason is to make choices; i.e to be an

_________________________________

Finally, thereis preparingfor a

____________

The abbreviation STEM has been in the news a lot in recent years. In 2009, President Obama launched a $260 million program to enhance STEM education.

QUESTION #1 What does STEM stands for? Write your answer on the back page.

(Google it – if you don’t know!)

NSTA

“STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future A new report released last week by the U.S. Department of Commerce on U.S. employment in the STEM fields finds that in 2010, 7.6 million people (5.5 percent of the labor force) worked in STEM occupations. Over the past 10 years, growth in STEM jobs was three times greater than that of non-STEM jobs, and STEM jobs are expected to continue to grow at a faster rate than other jobs in the coming decade. STEM workers are also less likely to experience joblessness. Further findings show STEM workers command higher wages, earning about 26 percent more than their non-STEM counterparts. STEM degree holders also enjoy higher earnings, regardless of whether they work in STEM or non-STEM occupations. Likewise, college graduates—no matter what their major—enjoy an earnings premium for having a STEM job.” NSTA

PART 2 –

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE DIFFERENT

SUBDIVISIONS OF CHEMISTRY

Chemistry is divided into

__________major areas of study…

________________ CHEMISTRYis the chemistry of substances containing

CARBON

QUESTION #2 – Why did I put pictures of charcoal and a diamond on this slide? Go to the very last page in your handout to answer

this question. Use google, if needed

One example of an organic substance is

CAFFEINE!

_________________________ CHEMISTRY

is mostly about substances that do not contain carbon

FLAME TESTS

What substance does a sample contain, and how much?

focuses onthe composition

of matter:

_________________________________________________________CHEMISTRY

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY deals with the

_________________

_________________

&________________transfer that occurs when matter undergoes a

_________________

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

a)

b)

__________________ is the chemistry

of living things.

For example, DNA is a very important molecule in living things.

QUESTION #3 -Write down TWO facts you know about DNA on the last

page of this handout. Use Google, if needed.

PART 3

Chemistry and technology in the

modern world

QUESTION #4What is

TECHNOLOGY?

Write down the definition given in Wikipedia, on the last page of

this handout.(Use this definition, rather than your text’s)

What aspects of life involve technology that includes chemistry?

For each of the following 6 slides, determine the general area of

technology depicted, and write it on the back page of this handout.

HINT: Look on pages 8-11 of your text.

QUESTION #5

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QUESTION #8(This is not mentioned in your book,

but we couldn’t live without it!!)

QUESTION #9

QUESTION #10

This is an artist’s conception of what one of the newly discovered,

potentially earth-like exoplanets

would look like!

Chemistry is apart of all aspects

of life!

QUESTION #1

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QUESTION #3

QUESTION #4

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QUESTION #10