Poems: A Tool for Amalgamating Chemistry With Arts for Effective Learning

Abstract

Teaching different branches of chemistry in class room is a Herculean task. Students with various backgrounds and mindsets are the biggest challenge every chemistry teacher faces. An integrated method of teaching like: talk and chalk, audio visuals, quizzes, puzzles, riddles, cartoons and poetry, improves learning abilities and covers wide band of student learners. At degree and post graduate levels, various emotional changes occurring in tender minds. By framing relevant poems, these emotions can be effectively utilized and channelized towards learning chemistry. A safer method is use clichés as currencies to barter knowledge in chemistry. Combination of arts with chemistry can spark up learning in young minds, leading to long term memory stamping. This paper presents few poems that correlate chemistry with emotions.