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ASSIGNMENT

TOPIC: RELEVANCE AND SCOPE OF

MANMADE RESOURCES FOR BETTER

SCIENCE TEACHING AND LEARNING –ZOO,

MUSEUM, AND BOTANICAL GARDEN

SUBMITTEDBY

MRS. JYOTHI K.S. (LECTURER NATURAL SCIENCE

SUBMITTED TO

RAJINA. V

TEACHERTRAINEE

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NATURAL SCIENCE

) SUBMITTED ON

25-08-2014

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INDEX

SERIAL NO.

CONTENTPAGE NO

1 INTRODUCTION 4

2 DEFINITIONS 5

3IMPORTANCE OF MAN MADE RESOURCES

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4 CONCLUSION 8

5 REFERENCES 9

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INTRODUCTION

Resource are the sources of supply or support, generally

held in deserve. They include useful informations,

materials or services. Resources are of two main groups.

Human resources and natural resources. Human

resources include the wisdom knowledge, experience,

expertise, labor etc of mankind.

Manmade resources are any resources that do not

occur naturally in nature man made resources are too

naturally in nature. Manmade resources are too essential

for the now days lite. Important manmade resources are

zoos, museums and botanical gardens. The Bronx zoo is

one of the most popular zoo in the world. The hermitage

museum in Saint Peters Burg, Russia is the largest

museum in the world. Kew Garden (Royal Botanic

Garden- Landon) is the world largest botanical garden.

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DEFINITIONS

Zoo:

A Zoo is a facility in which animals are contained

within enclosures, displayed to the public and in which

they may also be breed. The term zoological garden

refers tozoology the study of animals, a term deriving

from Greek ‘Zoon’ (means animal) and ‘logos’ (Study).

The abbreviation ‘zoo’ first used on the London

zoological garden.

Museum:

A museum is an institution that cares for a

collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific,

artistic, cultural or historical importance and makes them

available for public viewing through exhibits that may be

permanent or temporary. Museum is originally from the

ancient Greek ‘Mouseion’, which denotes a place or

temple. The first museum is considered to be the one of

Plato in Athens.

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Botanical Garden:

A botanical garden is a garden dedicated to the

collection, cultivation and display of a wide range of

plants labelled with their botanical names. It may contain

specialist plant collections such as cacti and succulent

plants, herb gardens etc.

IMPORTANCE OF MAN MAID RESOURCES

Zoo:

Zoosare important for several reasons. They

contribute to conservation, science and veterinary

research. They provide an educational, rewarding

experience for visitors. They also provide shelters for

animals. Zoo is a park or institution where a collection of

animals live and are viewed by the public. Zoos provide

breeding sanctuaries for animals that are endangered

because of habitat destruction, especially in tropical

environments.

Museum:

Museums are helpful in satisfying the curiosity of

students concerning numerous scientific problems. They

provide non-formal educational environment where

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students learn themselves. Students learn about the fart

historical facts and their relationship with the

environment from museums. Museums provide insight

about the important concept of biological sciences.

Museum is a collection of things connected with science

teaching. This collection is made with a view to enables

the students to observe the collections and have a

realistic experience about them. In a museum insects,

fishes, snakes, birds, mammals working models, dry

exhibits, flowers, improvised apparatus, charts, pictures

etc. can be collected and arranged. It is very much

desirable that every school should have a science

museum of its own. The teachers should encourage the

students to collect materials of scientific interest and

improvise some apparatus.

Botanical garden:

Botanical garden makes nature study effective

which is an important aspect of science teaching. A

botanical garden provides materials for classroom

teaching and the laboratory work. At the same time, it

inculcates in the student interest and love for nature.

Study of science will be incomplete without a botanical

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garden where botany is studied in its real perspective.

Botanical garden provide an opportunity to the student to

know about the different varieties of plants. By seeing

the nature and beauty of the garden students are induced

to take interest in nature and taking care of the plants. In

a botanical garden it is also possible to study the effects

of shade light, moisture, manure etc. on the life and

development of the plants. It is also possible to study the

history of several insects and creatures such as butterflies

garden, hopper, locosts etc.

CONCLUSION

Zoos, museums, botanical garden exit for the same

purposes to educate, inspire actions and to study, develop

and manage collections. Zoos and botanical gardens

included in in-situ conservation. Both are conservator

endangered species. Museums, Zoos and botanical

gardens should encourage the students to better science

teaching and learning.

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REFERENCES

1) Narendravaidhya (2006) “Science teaching in

school for 21st century, deep and deep publications.

2) http://www.archaeology.org

3) Sharma, RC and Shukla, SC (2002), Mordern

science teaching (4th edition). Delhi: DhanpatRai

publishing company private limited.

CHECKED BY

JYOTHI K S

LECTURER