Diet in everyday life

Aruna Mallya
The importance of a balanced diet cannot be emphasized enough. A healthy lifestyle can be attained by maintaining a balanced diet. But what exactly is a balanced diet? And how can we ensure that the food that we eat has the right amount of nutrients and calories? What is the role of exercise in all this? This article gives some in- depth answers to all these questions.

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An educator’s tryst with health and nutrition

Neha Chheda
Is there any organized method to cook or perhaps even a right way? Which is better—boiling or steaming? What happens when you boil? Does it take away all the nutrients? How can one retain the nutrients while steaming? An educator traces her journey and hopes her experience will help others to follow a healthy path.

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Professionally qualified to run a home!

Anuradha C
Does a degree in home science make a difference to a woman’s ability to handle her home and community affairs? The answer is a big Yes. This may sound patriarchal, but the reality is that home science has been a well- received qualification for decades. This article lists out some colleges where the courses are immensely popular.

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Where everything is aligned

Sandhya Kaura
How can home science teachers make their classes more interesting? Can students be given hands-on projects that will expand their knowledgebase? The author suggests a few examples in this article.

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Building connections

Nita Luthria Row
Did you know that hospitality and guest management is a key driver in the home science course? That it gives a student who wishes to enter the hospitality industry a leg up in a career? Every profession requires commitment, perseverance and motivation and the hospitality industry teaches one to value good relationships. A teacher writes about her experience.

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An ode to home

Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur
The home is a place where you can do anything you like and you can bewhat you are like. It is like discovering yourself and exploring and enjoying yourself. Read up this conversation between a fly and a mosquito inspired by a poem.

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Fitness – the key to a productive and healthy life

Kamal Singh
Can one go through life if one is not fit enough? Fitness is the ability to meet the demands and vicissitudes of daily life with ease and with extra energy for unexpected situations. Doing a little everyday adds to a lot in the long run. Here are a few fitness tips that all could do well to follow.

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Board exams 2021 cancelled — Are we better off with or without them?

Praveen Kumar S
With the pademic continuing to gather steam and showing no signs of slowing down, the Central Board of Secondary Education has decided, for a second year in a row to cancel the class X exams. State Boards are following suit. It is perhaps time that we asked ourselves the purpose of these exams and how better we can assess our students’ learning.

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What I learnt in class

Latha Vydianathan
As teachers we are always in the front of our classrooms, talking, discussing, teaching. For once take time out to walk to the back of a class and observe a fellow teacher teach. You will be amazed to find how much there is to learn from such an exercise.

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Technology in education: What we are missing out on

Loveina Joy
Technology has a lot to offer us in the field of education. In this pandemic, we have relied on technology to be able to continue teaching and learning. Flowing with the tide, everyday we find that technology has something new to offer the teacher or the student. However, with all the benefits that technology offers and all the good it is currently doing are we forgetting the importance of human intervention in education.

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