Punjab Teacher Eligibility Test 2012 (PSTET) Syllabus (1-5 Class)

PSTET 2012 Syllabus Environment Studies For Teachers (Class I-V)

Syllabus

Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) Paper I ,

Part-4

(For a person who intends to be a Teacher for Classes I to V)

Environment Studies

Total Questions: 30 (Multiple Choice)

Total Marks: 30

Unit - I (Marks-05)

• Family Personal relationships, nuclear and joint families, social abuses (child marriage, dowry system, child labour, theft); addiction (intoxication, smoking) and its personal, social and economical bad effects.
• Clothes and Habitats - Clothes for different seasons; maintenance of clothes at home; handloom and powerloom; habitats of living beings, various types of houses; cleanliness of houses and neighboring areas; Different types of materials for building houses.

Unit—II (Marks-05)

• Profession - Profession of your surroundings (stitching clothes, gardening, farming, animal rearing, vegetable vendor etc.), small and cottage industries; major industries of Rajasthan State, Need for consumer protection, co-operative societies.
• Public places and Institutions - Public places like school, hospital, post office, bus stand, railway station; Public property (street light, road, bus, train, public buildings etc.); wastage of electricity and water; employment policies; general information about Panchayat, legislative assembly and parliament.
• Our Culture and Civilization - Fairs and festivals, National festivals; Dresses, food-habits and art and craft of Rajasthan; Tourist places of Rajasthan; Great personalities of Rajasthan.

Unit — III (Marks-05)

• Transport and Communication - Means of transport and communication; Rules for pedestrians and transport; Effects of means of communication on the life style.
• Personal Hygiene - External parts of our body and their cleanliness; general information about the internal parts of the body; Balance diet and its importance; Common diseases (gastroenteritis, amoebiosis, methaemoglobin, anemia, fluorosis, malaria, dengue.) their causes and methods of prevention; Pulse Polio campaign.
• Living Beings~ Levels of organisation of plants and animals, diversity of living organisms, state flower, state tree, state bird, state animal; knowledge of reserve forest and wild life (national parks, sanctuaries, tiger reserve, world heritage), conservation of species of plants and animals, knowledge of Kharif and Rabi crops.

Unit — IV (Marks-05)

• Matter and Energy - Common properties of substances (colour, state, ductility, solubility) various types of fuels; types of energy and transformation of one form into another; Applications of energy in daily life, sources of light, common properties of light. > Basic knowledge of air, water, forest, wetlands and deserts; different kind of pollution, renewable and non-renewable resources of energy in Rajasthan and concept of their conservation; weather and climate; water cycle.

Unit - V (Marks-05)

• Concept and scope of Environment Studies
• Significance of Environment Studies, Integrated Environment Studies
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts Activities

Unit — VI (Marks-05)

• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation
• Teaching material/Aids
• Problems of Teaching

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