USING MULTIMEDIA IN TEACHING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

In the last few decades, there has been an industrial revolution in the entire world due to science and technology. Pure and applied scientific researches appeared as a key to the technological progress consequently the relation between, science and technology has become truly institutionalized as evident by the place occupied by science and technology in national policy. Considering the relevance of science and technology, the National Curriculum Frame work for School Education, brought out by the NCERT in the year 2000, recommends the teaching of science and technology. Science is the subject of experiments. Every aspect of human life is being influenced by the invasion of Science and Technology. Education cannot remain aloof from it. Use of various media like tape, transparency, slides, film strip, multimedia packages, compact disc, self instructional kits are now being tried out in the modern classrooms.