ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Environmental Education

At the primary level, the focus is on imparting Environmental Education in classes I to V. This approach will encourage the young learners to look at the environment in a holistic manner and see the underlying unity in the physical and social context in which they live. In order to realize the above objective, the curriculum envisages the need for integrating four essential dimensions of the environment viz physical, geographical, social and cultural. Concepts of science fall in place within the parameters of the above environments which form the universe of their learning and understanding. Ritzy C-suite^® envisages a pedagogy which would promote the much needed ownership of the environment by the learners so that they take responsibility for environmental concerns and related issues.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Teaching of Social Science

The subject of Social Science has a critical role in the learning process. This helps in formulating social attitudes, building patriotism, internationalism, brotherhood, understanding of social dynamics, role and responsibilities of social institutions and the process of governance. Geography as an integral component of this subject provides an insight to geo-structures, climatic conditions, resources and their availability, natural products apart from patterns of cultivation, food products and the sources of economy of countries worldwide. Further, it provides the undercurrent of relationships between nations. Political Science and Economics also form an integral component of Social Science.

CBSE curriculum has integrated the basic concepts of social institutions and their interdependence into the fabric of the syllabus at the primary level in the subject of Environmental Education. Social and cultural environment find a significant place in this curriculum. The focus from classes III to V is to learn Social Science as an integrated subject understanding the cross-links between its various components and seeing social orders in a unified manner. However from class VI onwards, there is a greater thrust on studying History, Geography, Political Structures and Economics as individual components under the umbrella of Social Science. The cross curricular linkages will however be maintained. The focus in history is targeting on the trends in world history. The weightage of the world history would be extended to seventy per cent of the total value of the history curriculum while the rest would focus on the local/native history of the countries/states in which the schools adopting this international curriculum are situated.