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Bhubaneswar, June 2: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked its affiliated schools to organise various events related to environment conservation and asked the students to take a pledge to protect their environment on World Environment Day, which is to be celebrated June 5.
Students of Class I to V will develop a nursery or herbal garden in the school with seeds or plants brought by the students themselves. The teachers will brief the students about the dos and don’ts that may be practiced to conserve energy.
The students will also identify and list animals such as squirrels that play a crucial role in producing new plants. All the students will also have to write slogans on the theme “Save Your Planet”.
Students of Class VI to VIII will make posters on the theme “Save Energy and Protect Environment”. An elocution competition, with each speaker being given three minutes, on ‘Renewable Sources: The Energy Sources Of The Futur’e will also be held.
The teachers will also organise a group activity to create new things out of waste materials followed by a quiz competition on the names and places of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in India.
Students of Class IX to XII will take part in an essay-writing competition on ‘Role of Wildlife Sanctuaries in Conserving Wildlife’. There will also be a seminar on the subject “Natural Disasters, Their Prevention And Ways To Combat Them”.
Students with the help of their teachers will also install the rainwater harvesting systems in their schools or study their impact and functioning if such systems are already in place.
The activity for the higher classes will conclude with a debate competition on the theme “Organic Farming Is Better Than Conventional Farming For Our Environment”.
CBSE has asked all school heads to take the opportunity to share the message of World Environment Day with their teachers and students, through the conduct of the suggested activities in their schools on June 5 or within a week of their schools reopening.
The schools have also been asked to file a report on how they observed World Environment Day 2015 along with photographs or videographs to the Board office by July 15.