Teaching: Co-Curricular Science Activities

Co-curricular science activities are those areas of the total curriculum involving experiences not usually provided for in the typical classroom. They include club activities, assembly programmes, interschool athletics, intra-mural athletics, students government and other activities under the guidance of the school. 

These activities, do directly or indirectly emoy a pedagogical technique,often called the project method, which seeks to offer the students complete freedom of choice of the problem to be solved, as well as the means to be employed in solving it. The result is that in place of externally imposed tasks of the traditional kind, the activities of the students are centered around a number of spontaneous projects.

A project involves four major steps of proposing, planning, executing and evaluating. For a project to be educationally valuable, it must meet the following requirements:

1. It must clearly engage the learners' interest,

2. It must involve an intrinsically worthwhile activity,

3. It must in the course of its development, present problems that can arouse a new curiosity in the student and create a demand for fresh information,

4. It must cover a sufficient time span and ensure proper continuity by avoiding a mere succession of unrelated activities.

           Some uses of the Activities

Through co-curricular activities, students will be equipped with basic understanding of the activities existing in say manufacturing industries in a country, certain important man made and natural features of the environment, as well as build on their classroom experiences and interact productivity with other students outside their immediate environment.

These and other benefits are possible through science club activities, science fairs, exhibitions and educational tours.

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