Which of the following are suitable explanations of “observation” activities in EVS ?
A. To enable children to see similarities to extend children’s learning.
B. To enable children to see differences to extend children’s learning.
C. To enable children to seek information to extend children’s learning.
D. To enable children to nurture natural curiosity to extend children’s learning.

Correct option is C

The correct answer is C and D.
• The purpose of conducting ‘observation’ activities in EVS is usually not to collect random similarities or differences, but to seek information from the object to extend children’s ideas and understanding.
• For instance, to look specifically at the shapes of leaves, the edges, the patterns of lines in it, etc. to know more about them.
• Thus, specific purposes will need to be spelt out when activities are designed. Similarly, young children ask many questions which help in their development, but which are not all deep, and which do not allow them to understand things at that stage.
• However, EVS classrooms will need to provide opportunities to children to be able to progressively ask higher order questions that require different levels of reasoning and investigation, by planned activities and exercises to get them to phrase their questions, to answer, discuss and investigate them.
• This all enable children to nurture natural curiosity to extend children's learning.