Author: kumar

Padmini B Patell
The next time you pass by a rock(s), stop to admire it. Rocks play an important role in sustaining life on Earth. Despite this they are being destroyed. Read to learn why rocks should be saved and how you can involve your students.

Naveen Namboothri
There is an entire world under the sea, a lot of it unexplored. Take tiny little steps into the world of marine geography with your students to unravel the treasures of the deep blue.

Christopher Wooldridge and Rupert Perkins
The relationship between man and sea goes a long way back since the beginning of human civilization. The sea is a natural boundary, makes trade possible and travel, it sustains livlihoods. When the sea is so important to mankind studying this relationship in more details is necessary. Find in this article some suggestions on how you can bring the knowledge of the seas to your classrooms.

Manish Chandi
The geography of an island is very different from that of the mainland. Find out how different life is in the Andaman and Nicobar islands from our own. In fact life is significantly different in the two islands itself. Find lots of discussion points and insights in this article.

V V Robin
The western ghats is home to many flora and fauna. Trek up the ghats and visit the different birds, animals and plants that have made the western ghats their home and also see how extensive human intervention is threatning life on these mountains.

Tammy Bravo
Earthquakes destroy lives and livlihoods. But earthquakes are also a powerful medium of learning. Find out in this article how sitting in your classroom you can actually monitor an earthquake happening on the otherside of the world and in the porcess learn a lot from it.

Frank van Steenbergen and Abraham Abhishek
Water is the elixir of life. By now we all know that the world is surviving on 1% freshwater and that will not last us long at the rate we are going. So do we have any backup? Yes and no. Yes we do have backup in terms of underground water but extensive use and misuse of this water is creating a scarcity here too.

Kathleen A Miller
Climate change is a subject that is becoming criticallly important. But apart for regualr platitudes what are we doing to bring home the gravity of this subject to the children? Here are a few suggestions and statistics to help you.

Neeraja Raghavan and Tapasya Saha
A common misconception–the earth’s rotation is the reason for the changes in the seasons. Participate in this dialogue between a senior social studies teacher, Preeti and a junior teacher, Sima to find out the real reason behind the seasons.

R K Ganjoo
The Himalayan glaciers have been in the news ever since the Inter governmental panel for climate change in 2007 predicted their early death. Despite IPCC releasing a report retracking their earlier prediction, the controversy refuses to die down. Read this article to find out what exactly is happeing in the Himalayan regions. Is the news good or bad?