How can we relate chemistry to english?

Question

any answers..??can you please me?because that is my project..

Answer 1

English wouldn't exist if it weren't for people, which are made of molecules, which are made of chemistry.

Answer 2

simple, you can't understand chemistry without understanding English.

Answer 3

You could have students write essays about chemistry-related topics. You could teach vocabulary lessons on terminology found in the chemistry.

You could do instructional read-alouds using books with chemistry-related themes.

You could assign spelling words that come from the domain of chemistry.

You could have students make predictions, compare and contrast, make inferences, create mind-maps, semantic webs...all used in language arts/reading comprehension.

Students could read or write poetry or plays about chemistry. They could write brochures. They could write menus and analyze the chemical components of the food on it.

English/language arts can incorporate most other subjects easily.

Answer 4

Quite a few ways, actually.

Both English and chemistry are trying to use symbols ("representations") to communicate ideas.  What we consider units of understandable communication in English and chemistry are just different.  We use words to illustrate something in English ("baking soda"); we use letters (chemical symbols), numbers, graphs, etc.  to talk something in chemistry (NaHCO3 as baking soda, for example).  We understand that the symbols have meanings, and part of learning chemistry and English is to learn what those meanings are (e.g., Na means "sodium" in chemistry.  In English, whole sets of letters all chunked together and separated by spaces (what we call "words") have a one meaning on its own.  etc.)

English supports chemistry.  Granted, you learn chemistry in English (well, a lot of people do anyway), but in order for scientists to talk about chemistry, they use written language (English, German, French, whatever.).  The symbols of chemistry don't necessarily tell the whole story of what happened during an experiment -- they can't -- just as English can't tell you everything about the chemistry of an experiment (or, at least, using English becomes too cumbersome).  Imagine taking an algebra problem and writing out the solution all out in English.  A nightmare at best, almost impossible at worst.  

When you read a chemistry book, you'll notice that the pages are always a mixture of English (the words), chemical equations (chemistry language), graph (math language), and diagrams (a mixture of chemistry, English, and math languages).  We use language for convenience and for making our thoughts clear to other people -- so in a chemistry text, we start mixing all these different languages together.  Sadly, most of the time, this just makes the beginning chemistry student more confused.

Here's another one:

Take a piece of literature like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl).  Remember the molten chocolate river?  Or the Gobstoppers that last forever?   I can't help but wonder what the melting point of the chocolate is in that chocolate river is, or the density of that chocolate and whether the boat that Willy Wonka and company use to sail through that thing should sink, or what compounds that Gobstopper is made of.

Fine, I'll bet that Roald Dahl was NOT thinking about all of that when he wrote the book, but those are interesting questions that have ties to chemistry.  Depending on your knowledge/experience, you can interpret a literary work however you want -- including using a bit of science, though that may kill the fantasy off a little bit.

Answer 5

without english without chemistry...chemistry is being taught in english