NGC and Curriculum

All NGC activity targets the students. The content analysis of the textbooks reveals that there are some topical and extremely environmentally important items in the curriculum. The learning of these items will neither be long lasting nor effective without activities and action programmes. The National Green Corps activity in-fact supplements the curriculum. Learning without behavioral modification or without habit formation is futile, especially in the field of environmental protection and conservation.
The Supreme Court order 860/91 has, in fact, come as a helping hand for us. The Court ordered that the school curriculum has to have the environmental component. It instructed the National Council for Educational Research and Training, New Delhi to study the syllabi of various classes and incorporate changes to facilitate environmental education in schools. The NCERT came up with a sensitively worked out syllabus for all classes upto X. It even worked out the teaching methodologies and likely outcome of such activities.
As schools grappled with the new subject, APNGC realised the need to provide proper published material to support all activity towards environment education. Several schools approached us for the material.
Realising the urgency and the fact that all hard work done so far will be lost if the ship of environment education is left rudderless without any written material to fall back on, APNGC came up with activity books for all classes from Class I to Class X. These books aim to help children understand their environment more sensitively. They aim to make the students want to take care of their environment.APNGC has also brought out literature for college students. The reading material published is in the form of orientation books and activity booklets for graduate study streams and for students of law, medicine, engineering and education. Written material is also planned for students of management, agriculture and other streams.