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INTRODUCTION
All children are naturally motivated to to every corner of India and even across
learn and are capable of learning. They South Asia, unleashing a wave of
are natural learners and knowledge is creativity and scientific temper among
the outcome of their own activity. young students and their teachers.
Children learn through interactions Science is a powerful way of
with the environment around, nature, investigating and understanding the
things and people – both through actions world. Therefore, the teaching of science
and through languages. They construct must enable children to examine and
knowledge by connecting new ideas to analyse their everyday experiences. Every
their existing ideas based on materials/ resource must be explored to enable
activities presented to them. The children to express themselves and to
structuring and restructuring of ideas handle objects. Concerns and issues
are essential features as children pertaining to the environment should be
progress in learning. They actively given importance on all possible
engage with the world around them, occasions through a wide range of
exploring, responding, inventing, activities involving outdoor project
working things out, and interpreting. works. Some of the information and
In order to stimulate creativity and understanding, flowing from such
inventiveness in science, National activities and projects could contribute
Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 to the elaboration of a publicly
emphasises on activities, experiments, accessible database, which would in turn
technological modules etc. NCF –2005 also become a valuable educational resource.
encourages implementation of various Well-planned student projects may lead
curricular activities (even if these to knowledge generation. Such projects
are not part of the examination) through may then get a place for display in
a massive expansion of non-formal various science exhibitions.
channels such as organisation of science The National Council of Educational
exhibition at the national level for Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi
school students, with feeder events at organises Jawaharlal Nehru National Science
school/block/tehsil/district/region/ Exhibition for Children (JNNSEC) every year
state levels. The objective must be to for popularising science amongst children,
search and nurture inventive/creative teachers and public in general. This
talent among students. NCF – 2005 further exhibition is a culmination of various
exhibitions organised in the previous
envisages the upgradation of current
year by the States, UTs and other
activity in this regard by many orders
organisations at district, zonal,
of magnitude, through co-ordination of
regional and finally at the state level.
state and central agencies, NGOs, teacher
Selected schools from all States and
associations etc., financial support and
Union Territories, the Kendriya
mobilisation of experts in the country.
Vidyalaya Sangathan, the Navodaya
Such a movement should gradually spread
Vidyalaya Samiti, Department of Atomic