The teacher plays an important role in shaping and molding the habits, manners and good character of the children. Therefore, to gear up environmental awareness programme, It is essential that teacher should have sufficient knowledge of Environmental Science. It is the responsibility of teachers training college and universities to groom teachers for this task also. The existing teachers training course should be suitably amended to incorporate Environmental Science content emphasizing methods to deal with Environmental Science content at school and college and to develop skills in organizing Environmental Science programmes with co-curricular activities like NCC, NSS etc. Environmental Science is the process of recognizing values and clarifying concepts related to environment and its problems in order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand the environment. It also entails practice in decision making and self formulating a code of behavior about issues concerning environmental quality. The Educational Institutions and universities have a crucial role to play by educating people at all levels, conducting research, making objective assessments and advising on policy matters. To make this movement an observable reality in India, universities and colleges should come forward and give Environment Education it is to be a proper place in teaching, research as well as extension activities in all courses of environmental science study. This research paper is to be critically Teaching of Environmental Science – A Study on Contemporary Relevance.