Human Values

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Human Values

• Students have to learn
• To serve society
• To love one another
• To learn to be co-operative
• To learn to bind , to respect, to preserve, to
  nurture life
• These are the values we need to understand about
  water

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A Teachers Life

• Chapter 3, Page 4
• The Human Values integrated Instructional Model
• Experiences in school

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Academic life

• Teacher
• Why are you late to school?
• Student answers
• My parents meet with an accident
• Teacher replies
• My parents met with an accident

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Integration in the sciences

• Primary, and secondary levels

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Interconnectedness in nature
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Values of water in riversPrimary level- arts,
music, humanities, role play, significanceof the
values of water
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Human Values

• River flows continuously
• They have an aim in life
• Water does its duty without an end
• Value of continuity
• Water is selfless
• After school students - E.H.V
• - Students informed me that they feel happy,
  joyful and relaxed

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Values and Scientific enquiry How do students
conduct their enquiry in a scientific way?How
does scientific enquiry develop into new ideas
supported by empirical evidence?Relative values
Values in academic contents Absolute values-
Values inherent in the Environment and in us.
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Secondary schools

• Cause and Effect through Pollution
• Importance of diversity value of unity in
  nature
• Traditional values, cultural values
• Focal point interconnectedness
• This will develop social equity, ethical
  behaviour and behavioural changes in students.
• Evaluations can be done using questionnaires,
  checklist and observation

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• Teacher Focus
• Understand the local environment.
• Understand the relationship between the
  environment and all living things.
• Understand the relationship between all living
  things within the ecosystem.
• The process of searching for knowledge.

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Academic curriculum

• 40 mts class- We need to emphasize preciousness
  of water
• In science we quantify data.
• Human Values
• We value diamond for its price- but do we value
  our mother and father for their love?
• Can we measure the respect for our teachers?
• Can that be measured? Can we forget that love
  that we experience with our friends?
• Can we forget the love we had for our pets?

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Value integration of in water

• We subconsciously de-value the value of water and
  the gifts that the environment has given us. It
  is difficult to measure the richness the
  environment gives us. Water is part of us and the
  environment. If water is destroyed we are
  destroyed
• Myth of quantification- Most valuable things are
  measurable.

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Values in water
Patience, giving nature, make us happy, it does
not harm anyone, it does its duty by serving
human beings and animals without stop. Ethical
conduct- daily habits- check list save water
when we drink Bathe, clean ,wash, play
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Values in the contents

• Rivers are
• Homes to many organisms
• They clean the dirt put in by insects,
• birds, human and other organisms
• Preserve life
• Sustain life
• Nurture life

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Grades 10,11,12

• Form co-operative groups
• Personal involvement between teachers and
  students
• -observe student behaviour and attitudes
• Group discussion
• Where does water go from puddles after we wash
  clothes?
• Where does water go from clothes after we put
  them in the washing machine?
• pH of water what happens when we pour chemicals
  into water?
• Ask students to produce answers- this will
  increase awareness

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Value of water

• Let us learn to love and understand ourselves
  and everyone around us before we understand the
  nature of water.