Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy, to make learning of Science and Mathematics a joyful and meaningful activity, to bring focus on innovation and use of technology has set up the Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan(RAA).
Objectives
- To enable children to become motivated and engaged in Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) through observation, experimentation, inference drawing, model building, rational reasoning, testability etc.
- To create curiosity, excitement and exploration among school children in Science, Mathematics and Technology.
- To create a culture of thinking, inventing, tinkering and doing to promote enquiry based learning in Schools.
- To achieve learning levels appropriate to the class of study in Science and Mathematics.
- To encourage and nurture schools to be incubators of Innovation.
Eligibility
Target Age group |
Every child of 6-18 Years age |
Target classes/ courses |
1. Children from Classes I to XII |
2. Children of Open Schools 6-18years |
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3. Children of Special Schools (for disabled children) |
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4. Children studying in Special Training Centres (bridge programmes) |
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Target School / Institutions |
1. State / UT Government and local body Schools |
2. Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas and other Central Government Schools |
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3. Special Schools (for disabled children) |
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4. Open Schools systems of children of 6-18 years |
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5. Special Training Centres (bridge programmes) |
Benefits
- Workshops & seminars to be held with school boards to rectify assessment systems.
- Strengthening School Science and Mathematics Laboratories.
- Provision of Teaching-learning equipment and materials.
- Use of Technology in Science and Mathematics teaching.
- Development of Resource Materials.
- Strengthening teacher support institutions through use of technology.
- Effective Classroom transaction: teaching learning.
- Hands on-Activity based learning (tod phod jod), Problem Solving, Modeling ,Experimentation and Demonstration, Self learning ,Peer to peer collaborative learning, Online resources ( in local language), use Culture of Beyond Textbooks and inquiry based learning.
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