" LABORATORY PROJECT OF RURAL SCHOOLS IN INDIA ".

LABORATORY PROJECT IN FIVE HIGH SCHOOLS & FIVE HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN REMOTE RURAL & TRIBAL VILLAGES 

Name of the project

“A project to fulfill the essential laboratory needs of 5 high schools and 5 higher secondary schools in remote rural & tribal villages to make teaching and learning easy both for the teachers, as well as for the students”.

Project location

The 10 project schools are situated in remote rural villages in Chengam Block of Thiruvannamalai district, Tamilnadu State, India.

Aim of the project

“The project high schools and higher secondary schools have the best-designed, spacious, sophisticated and safe laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology”.

Objectives

-          To make essential additions to the laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology so that the students are helped to get a first-hand learning experience by performing various experiments on their own; (list of equipments appended to this project application )

-          To allow students to interact directly with the data that is gathered and to get a first-hand learning experience by performing different experiments on their own.

-          To get students make use of the models and then understand the different scientific concepts and theories.

Activities

-          Purchase of all proposed equipments & materials

-          Keep the equipments & materials in place in the practical classrooms

-          Alterations of classrooms to suit the organization of the laboratory

-          Dedication of the laboratories for the benefit of students.

Outcomes of the project

• Increased ability of the teachers in giving students first-hand experiences.
• Improved motivation of the teachers to involve students making use of laboratory equipments and make of their teaching interesting for the students;
• Children’s learning becomes based on concrete, direct, first-hand experience and not based on abstract thinking.
• Involvement of the Parents & Teachers Association in project activities & create a Maintenance Fund to make replacements to laboratory materials.

Sustainability  of the project:

• Due to this project the target students will pass through 12^th grade public examinations and get qualified for job or to get financial assistance to become self employed.
• They will not drop out of the schools and child marriage will be reduced.
• As the students are educated the children born to them will get good education.
• There is increased employment of videos, models, educational television programs and internet will create and sustain the interest and motivation of the students and these in turn will facilitate easy learning.
• Active involvement of the poor Parents & Teachers Association in project activities.