Avneesh shukla
The primary aim of science is to instill, in the learner, curiosity and promote the ability to think and arrive at solutions to complex problems. Here are a couple of simple experiments to start young learners on a journey of discovery, exploration and creativity.
Nabanita Deshmukh
Children can experience language in myriad ways by using the surroundings they live in. To make learning more enjoyable and experiential, the outdoors can be frequently used. Encouraging students to explore and observe their surroundings on their own is a great way to teach a second language because children love spending time in nature and thereby learn faster.
Urvashi Nangia
Grammar is important to the study of language. But the unimaginative ways in which we present grammar to children puts them off it, leaving their language learning incomplete. Why should learning grammar be boring? Here is a beautiful account of how this teacher taught her students a grammar concept playing in a park.
Menaka Raman
Teachers can now have access to an ever growing digital library of books. StoryWeaver by Pratham Books have recently launched a delightful set of audio stories for children, called Readalongs. Artfully narrated, and subtitled, these Readalongs bring stories alive in an engaging audio-visual form that will help children fall in love with reading.
Gomathy Ramamoorthy
Here is an interesting lesson plan on how a teacher took the trouble to teach the concept of time to children. With lots of activities using ICT resources, charts as well as sequencing cards, the teacher was able to relate the concept to their experience with time in life.
Yukti Lao
Learning a language has become relatively easy now especially at the pre- school level with the use of technology. Language learning in early childhood forms the basis of a child’s development in later stages. Take a look at some of these interactive language learning programs designed to boost the learning process of pre-school children.
Sandhya Sawant
Technology is fascinating. Technology is all around you. But for first time users it can also be intimidating. Here are a few tips to familiarize primary school children with the computer.
Suma Vivekanandan
Simple yet effective methods to teaching primary math concepts.
Pradita Nambiar
Show and tell is a popular teaching-learning technique in the primary classes for very obvious reasons. But there are several other important reasons, not so obvious, as to why show and tell should be used more often by the primary school teacher.
T M Srikanth
“Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.” This was the definition of acceleration that I had just taught students of class 8. The response was blank looks. So I thought I would make it easier by using word associations. I asked the class what they understood by the word “rate”. Pat came the answers: ‘cost’, ‘money’, ‘price’… No matter how hard I pushed, I never got the answer for this context: time.