Question

How will you design real life based learning in your classroom for teaching learning of EVS?

Answer 1

We are all continually trying to respond to a rapidly evolving global economy and the many dynamic cultural shifts therein. This response includes new pedagogies that are evidenced by new standards, assessments, tools and learning environments.
One such attempt to connect how the real world is problem-solving and what one can do in classroom environments is through Design Thinking. Early design thinking appeared in the late 60’s and early 70’s and has recently started to influence and infiltrate business and K-12 environments.
Much of the influence is coming from folks at IDEO, the industry leader, and the d. School at Stanford University, the higher education torchbearer. The rationale behind design thinking centers on a pedagogy aimed at creating and facilitating future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. It is about creating creative and collaborative workflows engineered to tackle big projects and prototyping to discover new solutions.
And although we have K-12 schools incorporating design thinking into their curriculum and instruction, as well as educators attending design thinking workshops at places like the d. School at Stanford, what does design thinking really look like in K-12 classrooms and schools?
Kicking Off The School Year
New Tech High School Napa Principal Riley Johnson began this school year with a three-day school-wide design thinking challenge for his staff and students.
According to Johnson, it was important that both students and teachers were immediately immersed into a three-day design thinking environment that would set the tone, culture and their mindsets for the upcoming school year.
Johnson said 415 students participated in a cross-curricular, cross-grade challenge that examined the question: “How might we tackle a problem that our community (global, national or local) faces?”
Teachers guided the students through specific themes and students selected a theme that interested them most before getting in mixed grade groups. The themes were: teens, human rights, water, privacy, violence, equity, immigration, change as growth, food waste and robotics. Students, in their theme groups, had to go through a process of building empathy in potential users, creating a needs statement, brainstorming and ideation, generating prototypes and testing their ideas. Everyone presented and there were prizes awarded.
New Tech High Napa teacher Angelene Warnock said they were hoping to build a sense of shared empathy by taking all 415 students through the process together. “We hope to use design thinking as a stepping stone to deepening the already strong student culture we have,” said Warnock.
Even the New Tech High Napa students appreciated the school-wide intro to design thinking. “As a student, it was exciting to be able to start the year different from all other schools,” said senior Ami Ambu. “New Tech High has always stood out and gone down their own path and this challenge will help us continue to do that into the future.”
The High School Classroom
Veteran science teacher Rebecca Girard, of Notre Dame High School in Belmont, CA, has been using design thinking as the foundational approach for her students to solve real-world problems.
Her students develop their own driving questions to investigate ways to share their learning. The scientific method and design thinking have many similarities according to Girard. “Over the past couple of years, I have been more clear about using the design thinking model in my science classes. I have especially focused on developing empathy and creating projects to share with others for feedback and reflection,” said Girard.

Answer 2

As we are becoming more modern and industrial day by day we are constantly polluting our mother nature.

That's why learning environmental science is becoming more and more important nowadays.

But any kind of education is worthless without the real life implementation of the gained education.

Same applies for the EVS also,we can easily design real life based learning circumstances by implementing the basics of the environmental science education in our surroundings.