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1. Assignment
Topic: Workbook
Submitted by:
ANJU.V NAIR
Physical Science
Reg.No.18214303004
Mount Tabor Training College
Pathanapuram

2. Workbook
Workbook is a practice material for pupils. The content of the workbook is arranged
according to the order of the text book on which it is based. It contains summaries of
each chapter of the context in the text book, exercises of different kinds, keys to
exercises, suggestions for practical work, suggestions for improvements and
assignments and evaluation tools. The learner workbook provides an overview of the
module and the learning outcomes which will help you to plan and guide your
learning. The learner workbook is a comprehensive, workbook style document. It
can be used for distance and work based learning outcomes which will help you to
plan and guide your learning.
Types of workbook
Workbooks vary greatly in context and organization. At one extreme are workbooks
that reprint pages of associated textbooks, replacing key words with blanks that are
to be filled on by after reading their text. At the other extreme are workbooks that
make provisions for many different type of activities, forms for reporting data,
diagrams to be labeled, blanks spaces for sketches and dipping, suggestions for
supplementary work, study guides for reading assignments and self testing devices.
Sometimes an addition, the teacher is provided with pads of test, one per pupil, to be
used an evaluating achievement. Workbooks of the later type serve as a combined
causes of study, a study guide and a record book.
Advantages
 Heavily burdened teachers find the better workbooks useful on saving time
and energy.
 Help pupils who are working under self-direction to study more effectively
 Pupils who have missed time because of illness or from having left school
prematurely can make up work without close supervision
 The beginning teacher and the inadequately prepared teacher also find
workbooks of value

3.  It fosters scientific thinking
Disadvantages
 Workbooks are relatively inflexible
 The content highly organized and cannot be altered easily
 There is little provision for the inclusion of new materials
 Workbooks are directed toward uniform outcomes; if they dominate the
program, pupils have little opportunity to develop special interests and talents
 Workbooks deny pupils any participation in the planning process, any
incentive to do independent work, any practice in formulating their own
problems and my encouragement to do their own thinking.
Conclusion
Workbooks serve as a combined course of study, s study guide, and a record
book. As a course of study it shows the pupil where he has been and where he is
going; as a study guide it gives him detailed instructions for his work; as a record
book it gives him a convenient depository for his findings. Workbooks help pupils
who are working under self direction to study more effectively. Pupils who have
missed time because of illness or from having left school prematurely can make
up work without close supervision.
There are situations on which the use of workbooks is justified, but they should
always be used with care. If they come to dominate the programme key operate
contrary to the major objectives of science education. Well balanced utilization
of all the tools of science teaching gives pupils the advantages of each.
References
1. Dr. M.P. Bhasin, Teaching of Science (1985), Prakash Brothers Publishers.
2. Dr. S.R. Joshi, Teaching Science, APH Publishing Corporation.