Nina Subramani
What role do sand dunes play along the coast? How do they act as a natural barrier and protect the coast from strong winds? How are they formed and are there different types of sand dunes? This edition of Classroom Update takes us on a reading journey about sand dunes and their importance in our natural environments.
Chintan Girish Modi
This month’s focus on people making a difference in education is on Ravi Gulati who runs an NGO called Manzil. Manzil serves the children of housemaids, electricians, drivers and servants. Read all about this inspiring effort.
Reverse engineering is the thorough examination of a device or a product to understand its mechanism and the way it functions. It can be used in different fields. By using this principle in the classroom, children’s curiosity is increased and they learn to grow holistically. An important point to keep in mind is to ensure that teachers create working models of the curriculum and relate them to real life applications.
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur
Here are five different values that one needs to inculcate in a child. These are apart from the traditional values like honesty, humility, loyalty, respect etc.
Aravinda Pillalamarri
How is history experienced in school? Are teachers and students encouraged to criticize and enquire? It is this spirit of enquiry that nurtures an interest in history which has all the answers to Why, How or What? Here is an article that explains why the methods of teaching history needs to be changed.
Manaswini Sridhar
Children can be shy, diffident or even chatterboxes. But children can also be clownish with a taste for constantly indulging in jokes, repartees and wisecracks. While this may lighten the mood occasionally in a classroom, too much of it can make the other children lose focus and may also prove to be an irritant for the teacher. So how can the teacher tame these class clowns ? This article gives you an insight into how this kind of behaviour can be changed.
Anjali Noronha
Vinod Raina who passed away recently was an educationist with a heart. Well known in education circles, Dr.Raina will be remembered for his contribution to the formulation of the Right to Education Act and for his association with the Hoshanagabad Science teaching programme. A personal tribute.
Jaya Rangarajan
Are we making the world a safe place for our children? As concerned parents, teachers and citizens, it is the responsibility of adults to ensure that children can nurture their dreams, and for this, it is important that adults change the world into a place that respects the dignity of children.
Manognya Reddy
Read up about this simple idea to bring your geography classes alive. The models that are described in the article can be easily made with readily available materials and resources.
Geetha Iyer
Are spiders to be feared and disliked? Do we stop to think of the service that they perform quietly for us? Why is the spider painted as being villainous? Read up this interesting article to find out how spiders can be the best of pest management experts as well as other facts about this often invisible creature.
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