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.

The incubation of ideas

Sinny Mole

A math class always has scope for testing new ideas and activities. In this article, the author explains how children have difficulties in understanding the concepts of perimetre and area. Perimetre and area are often taught in isolation which does not encourage children to create connections. Teachers must therefore teach these concepts together and should provide different activities so that the children can construct their own understanding.

Dealing with misconceptions in science

Kavita Krishna
Little minds, always curious, gather a lot of information from their surroundings. Some of which may be right and some wrong. Their prior knowledge often leads to misconceptins forming. Here’s looking at a few common misconceptions in science and how teachers can uncover these misconceptions and work with the students to remove them.

Unlock the writer within!

Sushree Mishra

Getting children to write in class is a task that many teachers have had to encounter. Children usually have many stories to share and teachers must create the space for them to put down their stories in writing. This article gives some tips on how teachers can get their children to write.

A reliable alternative?

Sheela Ramakrishnan
Multi-grade teaching is emerging as a form of schooling in which the teacher teaches children from more than one class at the same time in one classroom. This articles outlines some strategies which will help the teacher give her undivided attention to all the children even if they belong to different grades.

With a roll of the dice

Sushma Rana

Using a little bit of imagination, creativity and a few dice here are some fun educational games for the primary classes.

Planning a topic web

Ambika Parchure
It is important that a teacher creates a lesson plan before she begins to teach any subject. Some of the objectives that a teacher needs to keep in mind are: try to refer the topic across all subjects, keep the students engaged at all times, ask questions that will get the children to think. A cross-curicular topic web helps the child understand the subject more deeply and above all, the child has ownership of his learning.

Seeing is not always believing!

Sinny Mole
Young kids have a lot of misconceptions about angles because they base their understanding of angles on visual representations. This article gives you a few exercises that will help dispel these misconceptions.

Nurturing readers

While some children take to books like fish to water, there are others in whom the reading habit has to be inculcated. This article provides tips to both parents and teachers on how they can do just that.