Environmental Education Coursebook 4

Features

The key features of books 1 to 5 are as follows:
1. Enables children to fully understand our culture and traditions, thus fostering in them values which will allow them to meet the challenges of modernity.
2. Helps children identify with nature and guide them to preserve its precious gifts.
3. Reinforces concepts through challenging exercises and activities at the end of each chapter.
4. Raises the sensitivity of learners towards their surroundings through stimulating hands-on activities.
5. Motivates the learners to expand their knowledge through exciting things to do in Try this!
6. Clarifies important points through conversations between Bumbles the Bee and Chirpy the Sparrow.
7. Illustrates concepts through Did you know features in each lesson.
8. Provides extensive Teacher's Notes.
The key features of books 6 to 10 are as follows:
9. Easy, conversational style – questions are raised and points clarified through conversations between an environmentalist and two students.
10. Lists of websites and books provide additional information.
11. Each lesson has true stories that illustrate the concepts in interesting ways.
12. Boxes provide additional information.
13. New terms are explained at the end of each lesson.
14. A number of individual and group activities, and interesting exercises have been included.
15. Interesting exercises have been included.
16. An end-section raises deeper questions for the students to think about and discuss in the class.
17. A glossary at the end of the book makes it easy to revise the terms discussed in the book.
18. Tips for teachers are given at the end of the book.