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In school environmental education, what is called its backbone?Read the answer and worked solution →A varied set of projects differing in difficulty and skills covered is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which measurement could all Indian schools collect?Read the answer and worked solution →How should environmental education enter school learning?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of domains is hard to assess in fieldwork activities?Read the answer and worked solution →Which new way of assessing project work is suggested?Read the answer and worked solution →Which hills get very heavy rain from rising monsoon winds?Read the answer and worked solution →Building a public website of student-collected environment data suits which subject?Read the answer and worked solution →What do Biodiversity Management Committees mainly prepare?Read the answer and worked solution →Biodiversity Management Committees exist at which level?Read the answer and worked solution →Which national body does the 2002 Act on biodiversity create?Read the answer and worked solution →Mapping the neighbourhood in class: what is said about scale?Read the answer and worked solution →A first map of the neighbourhood may begin as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Recording local names of habitats on a map helps the study of what?Read the answer and worked solution →How could the history of weed spread be reconstructed by pupils?Read the answer and worked solution →Which crop did orchard owners irrigate heavily in Uttara Kannada?Read the answer and worked solution →The Kaveri water dispute is between which two states?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is named as a tribal language in biodiversity register work?Read the answer and worked solution →People's understanding of biodiversity is often expressed through what?Read the answer and worked solution →Activity-based learning rests on children doing what?Read the answer and worked solution →Activity-based learning sees the child chiefly as which learner?Read the answer and worked solution →After the trial, how many primary schools of the district adopted ABL?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school first designed and tested ABL in the 1990s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which agency supported Chennai Corporation in introducing ABL?Read the answer and worked solution →Under what name did Gujarat begin ABL in 2010?Read the answer and worked solution →In ABL, what does SLM stand for?Read the answer and worked solution →In ABL, finishing a group of cards completes what?Read the answer and worked solution →When does an ABL child take the exam card?Read the answer and worked solution →How are ABL milestones shown on the common chart?Read the answer and worked solution →An ABL child absent for a day does what on return?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In school environmental education, what is called its backbone?

  1. Lectures and dictation
  2. Projects and activities
  3. Annual written tests
  4. Memorised definitions
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Correct answer: B. Projects and activities

1. Environmental education aims at skills, attitudes and values, which are built by doing. 2. So projects and activities are named as its backbone. 3. Lectures, tests and memorised definitions cannot build fieldwork skills. _Source: NCERT Position Paper, Habitat and Learning, 4.3.3 Projects and activities_

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A varied set of projects differing in difficulty and skills covered is called what?

  1. A ladder of milestones
  2. A cluster of syllabi
  3. A bank of worksheets
  4. A basket of activities
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Correct answer: D. A basket of activities

1. Environmental education needs projects of different difficulty levels and skill coverage. 2. Such a varied collection is described as a basket of activities. 3. A ladder of milestones belongs to activity-based learning cards, and syllabi or worksheets are not collections of projects. _Source: NCERT Position Paper, Habitat and Learning, 4.3.3 Projects and activities_

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Which measurement could all Indian schools collect?

  1. Depth of underground water
  2. Height of Himalayan peaks
  3. Depth of the ocean trenches
  4. Speed of cyclones at sea
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Correct answer: A. Depth of underground water

1. Some activities are planned for schools throughout the country to feed a public database. 2. The depth of the water table is the example given for such nationwide work. 3. Peaks, ocean trenches and sea cyclones are not things pupils can measure locally. _Source: NCERT Position Paper, Habitat and Learning, 4.3.3 Projects and activities_

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