ONLINE ASSIGNMENT

1. ONLINE
ASSIGNMENT
SUBMITTED BY
Swaraj T
OPTIONAL SUBJECT : SOCIAL SCIENCE

2. Topic
Featuresand significance of ‘museum’
INDEX
No Page No
1 Introduction 2
2 Content 3-4
3 Conclusion 5
4 Reference 6

3. INTRODUCTION
On the role of school museum the Secondary Education Commission has
observed. “ Museum play a great part in the education of school
children as they bring home to them much more vividly than any prosaic
lectures , discoveries of the past and various developments that have
taken place in many fields of science technology. Again the commission
observes , “we believe it is necessary from the educational point of view
to establish such museums in important centers at least where in both
ancient and modern collection will be exhibited and in some cases even
demonstration given of the actual process of development of various
scientific discovers.Nothing canimpress students in the formative age so
much as the actual visualizing of these experiments in a graphic
manner”.
Social study museums are made up or material used in class room
teaching , which are collected, classified and exhibited by students, with
or without the help of the teachers. The museum activities may be an
extracurricular function of the class or the school or they may be
incorporated into a scientific – experimental method of teaching.

4. CONTENT
Advantage of Museum
1. Instruments of education
Importance through visits to museums is becoming increasingly
popular in all progressive countries because museums, especially those
that Preserve historical and cultural objects, impart wholesome
education at all levels. They are instruments of public education with
vast potentialities .In Canada, a well – organized modern museum is
considered essential to the educational system of the community. In
Sweden, visits to museum are connected with the curriculum. Museums
are connected with in the curriculum museum collections are a valuable
aid to teaches in giving life and reality to school course, at every stage of
formal education.Visit to the museum have been the accepted practice in
most countries of Europe and America for Several years. Guided tours,
walk talk and illustrated lectures at the museum supplement book-
bound curriculum of school.
2. Teaching History
Every school should have a museum with a separate section for
each subject. The social studies museum can be gradually built. Efforts
should be made to find real objects authentic but not be valuable. There
should be a social studies museum in each school to invest this area of
school curriculum with a sense of reality. History will come to life when
the children see the relics of the past. The pictures of old monuments,
ruins, sculpture, etc… will impress upon them that history deals with real
people, real places and real things.
3.Teaching Geography
The specimens of the rocks, seeds, soil etc.. are very use full.
Similarly, various types of maps, models, etc.. will create interest in the
subject.

5. 4. Teaching Civics
The preamble to our constitution Bill of rights, Declaration of
American Independence, etc.. will enable the pupils to know something
about the efforts of man for independence and a better way of life
Section of Museums
The material in a museum should be well classified so that the
pupils could get affair idea of deferent events and developments. There
can be three sections in the museum – local, national and international.
Local Section
It may be built with local relics , local specimens , models, charts,
etc. image of gods and goddesses, carvings in bricks or stones, pottery
pieces, ancient books, ancient coins, costumes, etc.., stimulate the
interest of the pupils in the local history and geography and invest the
study with a sense of reality.
2. National Section
It can be built up with the help of models as it may not be possible
for each school to get original relics. Some commercial agencies in the
country also supply educational models. Models may be prepared by the
pupil with the help of social studies teacher and art masters on
civilization of India during the New stone Age, Indus valley civilization,
sculptors of Gupta Age, Dams and project, etc..
3. International section
In it can be kept curious from different countries, stamps, coins,
flags, dolls etc..
Organization of the museum
In a museum an elaborate account of each exhibit – names of
teacher and pupils responsible for the collection of the, date, purpose,
utilization, expense and any other necessary information about it should
be kept in a record book or in Chronological order with proper titles and
annotations. The exhibition on appropriate occasion. A good social
studies museum should be a collection of use full items.

6. CONCLUSION
Along with other things, air and lighting arrangements needed, for an
ideal classroom the social study room should be painted in two-tone
bright and cheerful color. Each such room should be sound proof to
avoid disturbance to others while the pupils are engaged in various
activities inside the classroom walls should be decorated with large
picture, Photos sketches, Cartoons, diagrams, graphs, timelines and,
maps etc.. which may speak well of the pupil creative art activities. As
soon as a person enters. The laboratory should have a feeling that he has
entered an attractive and well – equipped social study laboratory. Such a
learning laboratory make interesting and pleasant to the pupils. All these
things can be arranged in an effective way if the teachers of social study
is pain staking and imaginative.
The museum is an important part of the school in India to improve
the skill & learning attitude of the pupils for this I will take to give some
suggestions in the form of conclusion to improve the skill of social
teachers also.

7. REFERENCE
1. Dr. Y.K.Singh – Teaching of Social Studies
APH Publishing Corporation (2004)
2. M.A Khan – Teaching of Social Studies
Ajay Varma for Common Wealth Publishers (2004)
3. B.Veena Kumari Digumarti Bhaskara Rao -
Methods of Teaching Social Studies –
Discovery Publishing House(2004)