S. Chand Awareness Science For Class 5

About the book

This special edition of the popular awareness science series consist to 6 books that take into account the requirements of CBSE’s continues and comprehensive evaluation (CCE). The learning objectives in every chapter clearly lay down the expected outcome from the chapter. Warming up I aimed at initiating discussion in class to bring out what the children already know, with a view to making them participate in the learning process, and developing independent thinking skills. The text lays emphasis on understanding concepts rather than merely providing information to be memorized.  To assist in understanding, very simple and direct language has been used. The linked internet sites in each chapter help the children acquire wider knowledge, carry out research, conduct experiments and play educational games. Multiple choice questions (MCQs) included in exercises for formative and summative assessment help to develop reasoning skills. The HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) questions encourage thinking and applications. The formative assessment projects section provides a variety of projects-fond out, do it yourself experiments, model making, observation and deduction, information gathering and presentation, field trips, etc. these help to develop a scientific attitude in children by developing skills, observation skills, reasoning skills, application skills and technological skills. In keeping with the CCE scheme, two summative assessment test papers have been included.