• The bamboo and rope bridge is being used in – ASSAM
• The trolly – LADAKH
• Cement bridge – Normal Areas or Over Water
• Vallam (small wooden boat) – KERALA
• Camel cart – RAJASTHAN
• Bullock carts – Villages in Plains
• The paths are rocky and uneven- In mountains – UTTARAKHAND
• A bird has its eyes on its head and the holes are covered with feathers-they help them to hear.
• Lizard has the same kind of ears!
• Crocodile too has its eyes like this but we can’t see them.
• DIFFERENT PATTERNS ON THE ANIMALS ARE DUE TO THE HAIR ON THEIR
SKIN
- Without hair on an animal’s body there would be no pattern! [ CTET-Sept2016]
• Animals with ears, hair on the body – GIVES BIRTH
• Animals with no ears outside the body – LAYS EGGS
• The oldest female elephant becomes the head of the herd.
• There’s no male elephant in the herd- they left as they turn 14 or 15!
• An adult elephant can eat up to 100kgs of leaves and twigs in one day.
• Elephants sleep for only two to four hours a day.
• The mud keeps their skin cool.
• Their big ears also work like fans- they flap these to keep themselves cool.
• There are 10 to 12 female elephants and young ones in a herd.
• Khejadi village is near JODHPUR in Rajasthan.
• Places were built by woods at that time- about 300 years ago!
• The people of this village were called BISHNOIS .
• The KHEJADI tree can grow up without much water.
• It gives beans and Don’t get affected by insects.
• Story from BOCHACHA village in MUZZAFARPUR district in BIHAR.
• Honeybees lay their eggs from October to December.
• Every beehive has one Queen Bee that lays eggs.
• There are only few males in the hive.
• Most of the bees in the hive are worker bees.
• The male bees have no special role as workers.
• Train is started from GANDHIDHAM in KUTCH – GUJRAT
• Food of GUJRAT- dhokla with chutney, lemon rice, mithai.
• AHMEDABAD and Valsad are in GUJRAT.
• Kozhikode is in KERALA.
• Madgaon is in GOA.
• There are total 2000 bridges and 92 tunnels in the route from Goa to
Kerala.
EVS Pedagogy from NCERT!
• Children can learn the classification skills by categorizing the animals, things, etc.
• Motivate children to collect information from their surroundings as they learn a lot from their surroundings.
• Give children opportunities to observe the nature(not just sit in the class)
- i.e Active Participation.
• Teacher can connect the classroom to the outside world.
• Encourage them to work in groups- it will help them to learn diversity.
• A teacher can inspire them to read stories.
• Enhance their creativity by promoting activities such as arts and crafts.
• Works can be given e.g draw something and observe yourself.
• Let them be the judge sometimes or give them opportunities to classify plants, animals etc.
• Let them recite the stories or other things do not force them to memorize.
• Community resources- A doctor, a farmer, their grandparents can discuss about plants to help them know more (real life examples).
• Encourage children to make friends with a tree- water it, look after it.
• It will develop their concern for the environment.
Teacher should promote student’s regional songs, rhymes related to water.
• Make them sensitize towards issues like discrimination.
• Give them opportunities to observe and ask questions.
• To clarify few things discussions can be held.
• Encourage them to use locally available resources or materials.
• Choose situations which children can understand and relate to, so that they can perform better such as games.
• we all have different abilities.
• Relate things to children’s own experiences it will make them sensitive towards issues.
• Give them opportunities to express themselves.
• Encourage them towards things such as origami, finger painting, arts and crafts etc.
• Children must know the characteristics of birds even if they do not know their names.
• A teacher can organize a discussion over good or bad effects of rain.
• Children can consult their family members for things like cooking.
• Discussion can be done on how fuel effect our environment, teacher can use news reports on the same.
• A teacher should include children’s experiences into conversations.
• Give them real life examples as much as possible.
• A story can be better taught by including role plays-this will enhance their creativity.
Give them opportunities by which they can learn by doing them.
• Let them give opportunities to help each other.
• Discussion on gender issues such as technology, different business related gender issues, alcohol consumption - can be held.
• Let them observe birds closely to know about them- teacher can help them make a bird bath for this.
• Children can share their experiences on local methods of collecting water.
• Things are interdependent in our environment.
• Encourage children to locate some place on map-this will increase their understanding of places, directions and distances.
• Encourage children to ask their elders about animals and insects. Discuss with the children about the reducing number of birds due to changes in the environment.
• Debate helps children look at any issue from different angles- teacher can also explain them the meaning of term debate.
• Teacher can explain different people’s role in our society, life etc.
• A railway time table can be brought to classroom. Help the children to learn
how to read the time-table. You can use time-table to devise many interesting activities to teach geography, mathematics, etc.
• Through games, a teacher can bring children’s attention to the point that we make rules for our lives, the way we do for games, so that things can be done in a proper manner.
• Discussion can be done about discrimination in games on the basis of gender, caste and class.
• Encourage children to observe flowers closely.
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EVs Pedagogy, environment pedagogy
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