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‘Zero Hunger’ and ‘Good Health and Well – Beong’ are globally accepted as the crucial goals of sustainable development to be achieved by 2030. These goals are directly related with the nutritional needs ofthe humanity. The good health and well – being of people of any country can be assured by assuring the quality nutritional and health care provided to the children. In India achieved by ensuring the good the by the goal ill demand a change in the society. We know that it’s tough to change an adult hence the change must begin from a young age. To realize a society with gender equality in the future, we must sensitize the elementary students today. Attaining the gender equity through gender sensitization is also accepted as one of the affective goals of science education. This paper describes such an experiment of gender sensitization of students of class 8 using multimedia in a science classroom. The experiment asserted multimedia as an effective tool for gender sensitization.
Gender equality, Gender sensitization, Affective Goals, Science Education, Elementary Education, Multimedia Package
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