Learning Environmental Studies at Primary Level is designed to forge an integrated perspective that draws upon insight from Science, Social Science and Environmental Science. Environmental Education at this level is all about preparing learners to become a global citizen with the ability to think critically, to develop sensitivity and respect for the natural and socio-cultural environment. The teacher plays a pivotal role in the formal education system where the teachers active participation and innovativeness are crucial for effective teaching and learning to occur. The NCF 2005 indicates the following as some of the objectives of teaching EVS:To train children to locate and comprehend relationships between the natural, social and cultural environment;To develop an understanding based on observation and illustration, drawn from lived experiences and physical, biological, social and cultural aspects of life rather than abstractions;To create cognitive capacity and resourcefulness to make the child curious about social phenomena, starting with the family and moving on to wider spaces;To nurture the curiosity and creativity of the child particularly in relation to the natural environment (including artefacts and people);To develop an awareness about environmental issues;To engage the child in exploratory and hands-on activities to acquire basic cognitive and psychomotor skills through observation, classification, inference, etc.To emphasise design and fabrication, estimation and measurement as a prelude to the development of technological and quantitative skills at later stages;To be able to critically address gender concerns and issues of marginalisation and oppression with values of equality and justice, and respect for human dignity and rights.Additional InformationSpecific Objectives explain the genesis of environmental studies at the primary stage of educationdescribe the objectives and scope of EVS at the primary stageconduct real-life based hands-on activities in the schoolselect and use appropriate learning resources from the environmentcarry out effective continuous and comprehensive learning assessmentHence, we conclude that to memorize basic scientific concepts and principles is not required to teach Environmental Studies.