Science routines

Routines for Science

1. SCIENCE

2. Curricular Expectations at the Primary Stage Point out/ raise issues related to equality, justice and respect for human dignity and rights Awareness about immediate/wider surroundings Nurture natural curiosity and creativity for the immediate surroundings Develop various processes/skills Develop sensitivity for the natural, physical and human resources Making observation, posing questions, looking for various resources of learning in search of the questions, planning investigations, making and testing hypothesis, using various tools for collecting, analysing and interpreting data, communicating explanations with evidences, justifying explanations, critically thinking to consider and evaluate alternative explanations, reflecting on their thinking by comparing what they think with what scientific community thinks, and engaging in sustained discussion.

3. Curricular Expectations at the Primary Stage Observe Wo (U) nderstanding Share

4. Curricular Expectations at the upper Primary Stage Respect for human dignity and rights, gender equity, values of honesty, integrity, cooperation and concern for life. scientific temper and scientific thinking understanding about the nature of scientific knowledge Process skills of science Appreciation for historical aspects of evolution of science sensitivity towards environmental concerns

5. Must be criteria Technology

6. Activities planned & executed Science Skills development Pilot project completed From academic year 2017-18 Subject specific

7. Must be criteria

8. Subject specific

9. Activities - Planning Benchmarks exclusively for Velammal Editing Lab Network resource Centre Technology based Plickers

10. Workshop Usage of Blogs for teaching @ Kelambakkam Introduction on blog How to set up a blog platform Benefits of blogging for teaching Usage of blogger using Google platform Setting up of individual classroom blogging Insertion of images, video, PPT and pdf in a blogger Setting up of account in slideshare How to embed codings in blogger Concepts taught Technology based

11. Tool to assess the impact of blogs for teaching Pre-test Training Post-test