Abstract

The main objective of the study was to find out whether there is any significant relationship between utilization of community resources in teaching chemistry and students’ achievement. The investigator has adopted the survey method. The population of the present study includes all the high and higher secondary school chemistry handling teachers of Thoothukudi district. Four tools were developed by the investigators were used to study the variables. Percentage analysis, t-test, and correlation analysis were used for analysis of data. The major findings were that, the secondary level chemistry teachers have moderate level of awareness on availability of community resources, there is significant difference between Tamil and English medium school secondary level chemistry teachers in their utilization of health resources, there is significant relationship between utilization of chemical resources.