A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK AND ACTIVITY BASED METHOD IN THE SUBJECT OF SCIENCE AT ELEMENTARY LEVEL

Abstract

Strategies, techniques, approaches and methodologies are essential part of teaching and learning whereas the textbook is a systematical arrangement of content related to subject that helps in teaching at specific academic level. The activity based method is the form of learning where students are actively engaged in a given task with a focus on making the abstract concrete or learning by doing.  This experimental study, lasted for four weeks,  compares the textbook and activity based method of teaching in the subjects of science at elementary level which was conducted on grade VI students to explore the effectiveness of activity and textbook based method of teaching after arranging pre and post test. The mean score of control group on post test was 12.26/20 and the mean score of experimental group on post test was 18.44/20. The results reflect that the performance of experimental group was significantly better than the controlled group. Hence, the study finds by investigating that activity based method of teaching has potential to enhance the academic achievement of the students in the context of the regular science teaching class.