Ctet EVs IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

• 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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