“TO SOW IDEA IS THE SAME THAT TO PLANT TREE” HANDBOOK PUBLISHED FOR NATURAL SCIENCES TEACHERS OF COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 30 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The “Armenia’s Tree Planting
Program” published “To sow idea is the same that to plant a tree”
nature protectional handbook for teachers of natural sciences of
comprehensive schools. As author Carla Wesley informed during the
presentation of the handbook on March 30, the book published with
1500 copies print run will be given freely to schools of Armenia. She
also informed that re-training courses for natural sciences teachers
will be organized soon. According C.Wesley, principles of the nature
protectional education, methodics of teaching problems of nature
protection are presented in a comprehensive way in the handbook. The
author mentioned that the handbook envisaged for the 4-9th grades
may have a great role in the ecological education of children. Both
issues concerning nature protection and Martiros Sarian’s canvases,
Hovhannes Toumanian’s poems, in which the nature of Armenia is brighly
pictured are presented in the book. It was also mentioned that the
“Armenia’s Tree Planting Program” founded in 1994 planted about 750
thousand trees in about 600 settlements of Armenia in 2005, and about
170 thousand trees are envisaged to plant this year.