Multimedia Chemistry in Tamil for 10 th Standard Students

An attractive Multimedia contents in chemistry has been developed in both Tamil and English for 10 standard students. The chapters covered in this work are Periodic Classifications, Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonding, Phosphorous, Halogens, Metals, Organic Chemistry and Chemical Industry. The contents of the above topics have been created and carefully developed into a Multimedia self-learning material without affecting the scientific nature and facts. The chemical principles and concepts of the above topics have been explained with suitable animations supported with narrative background voice. This Multimedia courseware has been organized as a menu driven, animated, self-learning interactive movie, which is composed of large number of graphical art work, animated movie clippings, attractive text formats and a simple navigation system. Sound effects for button click events and background dialogues for demonstrative movie clippings are provided throughout contents. Interactivity is provided in suitable situations. Exercises for the students have been included at the end of each chapter to test the understanding of the students after browsing the contents. The complete contents have been developed using the software Macromedia Flash 5.0. This Learning Material as a whole forms as a supplement for the 10 standard students. Since Learning Material of this kind has been developed in Tamil for the first time, it provides an easy and enjoyable plot from for the Tamil medium students to learn chemistry in an intuitive way. This learning material has been developed in such a way to enhance the learning habits of students and to be considered as an effective teaching aid in schools teaching chemistry. Introduction Multimedia knowledge representation, as a cognitive tool, provides the possibility of multiple perspectives and a realistic learning environment. The real power of media and technology to improve education may only be realized when students actively use them as cognitive tools. Computer based cognitive tools have been intentionally adopted to enable and facilitate critical thinking and higher order learning, computers as tutors have positive effects on learning and are