School education is a significant part of one’s life span that endeavours to impart critical thinking, reasoning and logic among children. Within the paradigm of school education, science as a discipline is a dynamic, expanding body of knowledge covering ever new domains of experience. The very fact that science teaching entails questioning, experimenting, engaging in inquiry, innovating, and creating/ reinventing a body of knowledge by children as well as children in their classroom and in the laboratories is the basis of the historic Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme.
November 2015, volume 39, No 11