Student Contact Hours: 90
Maximum Mark: 50
- Internal Assessment: 15
- Annual Examination: 35
P 3.3 PEDAGOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SYLLABUS
Unit 1
Concept of Environmental Studies (EVS), its evolution and significance as a curricular area at primary level; EVS - an approach, a discipline or both; environmental studies and environmental education; its scope-integration related to the physical, social, historical and cultural aspects of the environments.
Unit 2
Basic considerations in developing curriculum in EVS: relating cognitive growth of children to the development of concepts; alternative frameworks; differences in approaches to the construction and transaction of curriculum at classes I and II and classes III to V; a review of different sets of curricular materials including text books.
Unit 3
Understanding the method of science : process approach in EVS; planning for and organisation of teaching-learning activities; unit and lesson planning; role of inquiry, experiment, discussion, drama etc; evaluation and testing.
Examples of practical work to be undertaken :
(i) Organising and planning for an excursion; learning how to make observations and
recording them; conducting surveys.
(ii) Using equipment and materials : films, reports, documents, newspapers, local maps,
atlas, wall charts; map drawing and reading weather charts; making charts, diagrams
and models.
(iii) Collection and presentation of specimens : leaves, rocks, stamps, flags, news items
etc. (classifying the material collected and maintaining a museum).
(iv) Undertaking a project e.g. planting and nurturing a tree (in science) and an oral history
project in social studies).
Reading material will be uploaded soon.
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