PSEB Class 11 Environment Education Syllabus 2024-2025: Download in PDF

PSEB Class 11 Environment Education Syllabus: This article provides the Punjab School Education Board’s recently released syllabus for class 11 Environment Education. The syllabus has been published for the ongoing academic session 2024-2025. Students must know the complete syllabus to read the relevant topics and prepare effectively for their mid-term and annual examinations. The PSEB Class 11 Environment Education syllabus covers a wide range of topics related to the environment, its impact, and how society can play a role in protecting it.

A brief overview of the PSEB Class 11 Environment Education syllabus is given below:

• Unit 1: Man and Environment - This unit focuses on the concept of the environment, human impact on it, and traditional Indian practices related to the environment.
• Unit 2: Environment and Development - This unit discusses the relationship between economic and social development, environmental considerations, and the impact of globalization.
• Unit 3: Environmental Pollution and Global Issues - This unit explains different types of pollution impacting the environment, their sources and effects.
• Unit 4: Energy - This unit helps understand energy consumption patterns, conventional and non-conventional energy sources, their advantages and disadvantages, and the importance of energy conservation.
• Unit 5: Safe Work Environment and Occupational Hazards - This unit highlights the importance of a safe work environment, occupational hazards, and safety measures to prevent accidents and illnesses. It also discusses the issue of drug abuse and its negative consequences.

Thus, the PSEB Class 11 Environment Education syllabus majorly focuses on creating environmentally conscious citizens who understand the impact of human actions and the importance of sustainable practices.

To explore more details on the course content and examination pattern, check and download the PSEB Class 11 Environment Education Syllabus 2024-25 in PDF below.

PSEB Class 11 Environment Education Syllabus 2024-25

Check the topics-wise details mentioned in PSEB Class 11 Environment Education syllabus below:

Unit-I Man and Environment

1.Environment

• Dimensions of Environment physical biological and social.
• Human being as rational and social partner in environmental actions.
• Society and environment in India Indian traditions, customs and culture in

past and present.

2.Population and Environment

• Demography, Causes of increase in population and its ill effects onenvironment, urbanization.

3.Impact of human activities on Environment

• Environmental problems of urban and rural areas.
• Natural resources and their depletion.
• Stress on civic amenities, supply of water and electricity, waste disposal, transport, health services.
• Vehicular emissions.
• Urbanization land use, housing migrating and floating population.

Unit-II Environment and Development

4.Economic and Social Development

• Economic and social needs as basic considerations for development.
• Agriculture and industry at major sector of development.
• Social factors affecting development-poverty, affluence, education,employment, child marriage and child labour, human health HIV/AIDS,social culture and ethical values.

5.Impact of Liberalization and Globalization

• Impact of liberalization and globalization-agriculture and industries, dislocation of manpower and unemployment implications for social harmony.

6.Role of Society in Development and Environment

• Rule of society in development and environment public awareness through education, eco clubs, population education programmes and campaigns, public participation in decision making.

Unit-III Environmental Pollution and Global Issues

7.Environmental Pollution

• Air water (Fresh and marine), soil pollution-sources and consequences.
• Noise and radiation pollution sources and consequences.
• Solid, liquid and gaseous pollution.

8.Pollution and Diseases

• Handling of hazardous material, process and management of hazardous wastes.
• Pollution related diseases.
• Strategies for reducing pollution and improving the environment

9.Global Issues and Improvement of Environment

• Ozone Layer depletion and its effects.
• Greenhouse effect, global warming, climate changes and their effects on human society, agriculture plants and animals

10.Disaster

• Disaster natural (earthquakes, droughts, floods, cyclones, landslides) and man made (technological and industrial), their impact on the environment, prevention, control and mitigation

Unit-IV Energy

11.Energy Consumption

• Changing global pattern of energy consumption from ancient to modern times.
• Energy consumption as a measure of quality of life.
• Rising demand for energy gap between demand and supply (Indian context.)

12.Conventional Sources of Energy

• Conventional energy sources fossil and firewood, potential (India context)and limitations of each source, methods of harnessing energy and environment consequences of their use.

13.Non-conventional Source of Energy

• Non Conventional energy sources-type of non conventional sources(biomass, solar, wind, ocean, hydel, geothermal, nuclear), potential (Indian context) and limitations of each source, methods of harnessing and their environmental consequences, need to promote non-conventional energy sources.

14.Conservation of Energy

• Conservation of energy sources efficiency in production, transportation and utilisation of energy.
• Future sources of energy-hydrogen, alcohol, fuel cells.

Unit V Safe work Environment and Occupational Hazards

15.Safe Work Environment

• Safe work environment adequate light, ventilation, cleanliness, good housekeeping.

16.Safety Laws, Accidents and First- Aid

• Safety awareness management- safety precautions- home and work(laboratory, workshop, worksite), safe handling of equipment and material.
• Occupational hazards physical, chemical, mechanical, electrical, biological,radiational and psychological.
• Accidents and major hazards in industries and occupations- fire, explosion,toxic release.
• First aid measures.
• Laws and regulations related to occupational health and safety.

17.Drugs-Ill Effects Part-l

• Importance of health, Drug addiction, symptoms (Material uploaded on website)
• Drugs of abuse and their health consequences, academic and occupational consequences, consequences for family, social, legal and criminal consequences.
• Prevention of Drug, Government initiatives, the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances act-1985, offences and penalties.

Chapter 17 is added in the syllabus as a compulsory topic, Matter is available on the Board's website www.pseb.ac.in

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Also Check: PSEB Class 11 Syllabus 2024-2025 (All Subjects)