According to N.C.F. 2005 in the upper primary stage science curriculum, which…
2021
According to N.C.F. 2005 in the upper primary stage science curriculum, which of the following is recommended?
a. Concepts should be linked to making sense of everyday experience.
b. Concepts should be arrived at from activities/experiments.
c. Concepts should be taught through disciplinary approach.
d. Along with concepts, laws and theories need to be introduced
- A.
a, b and c
- B.
a and b
- C.
a, b and d
- D.
a and d
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Concept: NCF 2005's Position Paper on Teaching of Science lays out a graded, stage-wise pedagogy for school science: at the upper-primary stage, concepts are meant to grow out of the learner's own everyday experience and out of hands-on activity/experimentation, building understanding inductively. A formal, subject-divided treatment of science, and the explicit introduction of laws and theories, are not part of this upper-primary design — NCF 2005 places both later in schooling, once learners are ready for more structured, abstract science.
Application: The stem offers four descriptive statements about how science concepts could be taught. Two of them — rooting concepts in the learner's everyday experience, and building concepts up from activities and experiments — describe exactly the inductive, experience-led approach NCF 2005 prescribes for the upper-primary stage. The other two — teaching through a formal, subject-divided approach, and introducing laws and theories alongside concepts — describe an approach NCF 2005 keeps for later in schooling, once learners are ready for more formal, abstract science. This question asks specifically about the upper-primary stage, so the combination that keeps only the experience-led, activity-based ideas is the one that matches NCF 2005's recommendation for this stage.
Cross-check:
A combination that also brings in the subject-divided teaching idea overreaches: NCF 2005 does not expect that shift at the upper-primary stage.
A combination that also brings in the laws-and-theories idea likewise overreaches beyond what NCF 2005 expects at this stage.
A combination that drops the activities/experiments idea in favour of the laws-and-theories idea gets the stage-appropriateness backwards: it keeps an idea NCF 2005 defers to later schooling while discarding one it wants at the upper-primary stage itself.