• Why is it useful to learn problem solving skills?

• Building a model or baking a cake.

• How did you know what to do?

• How could you make or fix something if there were no instructions or guidelines?

• Chemistry is the study of the composition of matter and the changes that matter undergoes.– Chemistry affects all aspects of life and most

natural events because all living and nonliving thing are made of __________.

• Chemistry: What comes to mind?

Living Non- living

What are five traditional areas of study in chemistry?

• Organic chemistry• Inorganic chemistry

• Biochemistry• Analytical chemistry • Physical chemistry

Description of each

• Chemicals containing carbon• Chemicals that do not

contain carbon• Living organisms• Composition of matter• Mechanism, rate, and

transfer when undergoing change

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Q: Why would you study a puffer(blow)fish if you were a biochemist?

Q: Why would you study a puffer(blow)fish if you were an organic chemist?

Pufferfish are generally believed to be the second-most poisonous vertebrates in the world, after the golden poison frog.

• What daily activities do you do that may involve a chemical process or contact with chemicals?

• Can you think of four items or activities that do not involve chemistry?