Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar
Here is an activity- based article that will prove helpful for teachers who are teaching photosynthesis to their class children.
Category: Classroom Update
Poetry between the lines
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Teaching poetry is always a challenging task. How do you get students to read and analyze poems? Here are a few suggestions.
Money: power at its most liquid
Sini Santosh Nair and Chintan Girish Modi
The world runs on money they say. Understanding the workings of money is a very important chapter in high school. This article gives you the basics on the concept of money along with lots of activities and project ideas to help students learn about this topic better.
Re-orienting Geography teaching
Simran Luthra
Why is it that Geography generates less interest than most other subjects? Is it because the subject is too dry? Or can teachers of Geography reorient their teaching to make the subject more fascinating? Read this article to understand how you can become a more expressive teacher of geography.
Beyond words!
Ratna Rao
Writing is one of the important skills that teachers have to impart to students. And despite the plathora of material available to aid the teacher in this area there is never enough of it. Here are some more ideas of how you can get even the most diffident of the children to write.
Pictures that teach
Nivedita Vijay Bedadur
Newspapers are a rich resource in that one can find pictures, articles, advertisements which help us learn in different ways. Read how this resource can be used as textual material.
Micro gravity: On a flight of fancy
Subha Das Mollick and Partha Bandyopadhyay
When hands-on activities are not possible: Atoms
Neeraja Raghavan
How does one teach the concept of atoms? For a topic like this where hands-on activities are not possible, it is crucial that the teacher catches the attention of the students. This article highlights how the atomic model can be explained to students.
Building a sense of community
Sheel
As everyday passes by we can see around us how violence is becoming more and more ingrained in human beings. Is it not time now for us to start building a sense of community in our students so that they learn to live peacefully with each other? Here’s how you can use your social studies classes across levels to nurture a peaceful citizenry.
What’s up with the weather?
Malasree Dasgupta
So what’s the weather like today? The weather plays such an important role in our lives that we simply cannot ignore it. What we do, how we do and why we do something all depends on the weather. So bring some sun, rain, clouds and wind into your classrooms using ideas from this article.