Environmental approach to primary science curricula - experience of an integrated day
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1978
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Caribbean Regional Science Project
Abstract
The Rural Education and Agriculture Project (REAP) in Belize is an attempt to make rural primary education more relevant to the needs and life experience of children. One of its goals is to produce a curriculum that integrates rural environmental knowledge, skills, and attitudes into existing curricula. REAP was organized and developed at a seminar/workshop by teachers of project schools in July 1977. Areas of study identified were: soils, plants, animals, weather, land/water, agricultural practices, village study, ecology and health/nutrition. Science-related activities in each area of study are described