1010 Intro Day & Meta

Welcome to
CHEM 1010

Dr. Adamczyk (Uhh-dam-zick)
[e-mail]

A little about me…

My fur babies Dixie Mae and Buckminster

Open Ended

What is your major?

Poll

Have you ever taken a chemistry course?

• Yes, within the last 2 years

• Yes, but it's been awhile

• Never

Poll

Have you ever been in a flipped course?

• Yes

• No

• Never heard of flipped

Flipped
Classroom for
CHEM 1010

Watch the lecture content videos prior to lecture
Q&A session

Take notes using the note outlines or your own

Practice the given problems at the end of the
notes in your learning journal

Come to Q&A session to work/discuss the
problems and address any questions

Lecture sessions may include more practice
problems

Team Point Competition

•Earn bonus points with your group:

•Group members must complete learning journals
before class
•Turn in answers for specified LJ problems
•Turn in answers for in-class problems
•Thoughtful questions

Team with highest points per unit gets 3 bonus points for that exam. Points scaffold down.

Poll

What group structure would you prefer?

• Colors

• Superheros

• Animals

• Mythical Creatures

Open Ended

What do you already know about metacognition?

METACOGNITION

The ability to think
about your thinking

Be consciously aware of
oneself as a problem
solver

To monitor and control
one's mental processing

To be aware of the type
of learning that you are
doing

METACOGNITION EXERCISE

Count all the vowels in the words on
the next slide in 45 seconds

Dollar Bill

Dice

Tricycle

Four-leaf clover

Hand

Six pack

Seven-up

Octopus

Cat Lives

Bowling Pins

Football team

Dozen eggs

Unlucky Friday

Valentine's Day

Quarter hour

Poll

How many words or phrases do you remember?

• 1-3

• 4-6

• 7-10

• 11+

Dollar Bill

Dice

Tricycle

Four-leaf clover

Hand

Six pack

Seven-up

Octopus

Cat Lives

Bowling Pins

Football team

Dozen eggs

Unlucky Friday

Valentine's Day

Quarter hour

Poll

How many words or phrases do you remember the second time?

• 1-3

• 4-6

• 7-10

• 11+

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATTEMPTS?

We knew what the task was

We knew how the information was organized

Open Ended

How would you study for a chemistry exam?

Poll

What would be harder: get an A on an exam or teach someone the topic?

• get an A

• teach someone

LEARNING STRATEGIES

Do think aloud exercises

Memorize everything you're told (element
names, molecular shapes)

Solve problems without looking at an example or the
solution

Ask "why", "how", "what if" questions

Give mini lectures on concepts

Aim for 100% mastery.

Multiple Choice

Which of these compounds is considered an electrolyte?

• Table salt, NaCl

• Sugar, $$C_{12}H_{22}O_{11}$$

• Ethanol,

  $$CH_3CH_2OH$$

Multiple Choice

What is the term for when gas turns into a liquid?

• freezing

• sublimation

• condensation

• evaporation

Multiple Choice

What gives DNA its double helix structure?

• covalent bonds

• hydrogen bonds

• ionic bonds

• basic bonds