Course 
Overview
ABD's Understanding Our Environment is an enriching series of books for students in grades 1 and 2. The series motivates students to connect with their surroundings by developing an awareness of their natural, social and cultural environment. The book encourages an 'Activity-based' approach rather than a 'topical' approach in the curricular area. The different domains of learning, i.e., cognitive, affective and psychomotor (head, heart, hand) have been incorporated in an integrated manner. It inculcates theme-based learning skills in conjunction with the latest syllabi enlisted under the objectives of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. The series shapes a variety of transversal 21st-century skills and develops their innate holistic learning.
Some Highlighting
Key Features
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Understanding Our Environment are:
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Learning Objectives: Apprise learners about the important concepts and skills that they will learn.
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Warm-Up: Questions in each chapter’s starting are given to trigger brain storming of the concepts.
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Knowledge-pedia: Factoids update the learners with new and amazing facts that add on to their knowledge.
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Tips for Teachers: Ready references and valuable tips for facilitators to plan interesting activities and provide handy tips on diverse topics to the students.
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Test Your Knowledge!: Encourages the students to think and connect with daily activities and real life situations to answer the questions.
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Read and Recall: Offers a quick glimpse on key points and core concepts covered in the chapter.
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Difficult Words: Supplements new words and increases the subject oriented terminology.
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My Granny Says: Age-old classic anecdotes and suggestions transcended by grandmothers that cater to our internal and external environment.
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Knowledge Based Questions: Assess the knowledge level of the students from the classroom learning imparted.
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Understanding Based Questions: To check their level of understanding and comprehension through reflective questions.
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Remembering Based Questions: To test the memory level and long-term retaining of concepts in the learner’s mind.
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Application/Concept Based Questions: Exemplify the application of the concepts learnt in each chapter.
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Analysis Based Questions: Test the analytical skills of the learners as they assess the given information (table or image) to answer the questions given.
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HOTS: Promote Higher Order Thinking Skills where learners go beyond text and research to answer the questions.
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Subject Integration: Interdisciplinary approach integrates every chapter with other subjects seamlessly.
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Activity: To incorporate activity-based modules, where the concept of ‘learning by doing’ is followed right from an early age.
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Life Skills: Refine the values and life skills to develop the core competencies and desired behavioural objectives.
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21st Century Skill Activities: Encourages the students to widen their learning by performs the activities.
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Test Papers: Chapter based varied range of questions to drill the concept in child-centric way.
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