Category: A. K. Joshi School, Mumbai

Flying Seeds 18-11-2008 I hurried to class IV  today anxious to see what kinds of seeds( (see activity on ‘flying seeds’ in class IV book, Unit: II, Air) the students might have made…but I...

Some Metaquestions .. 18-9-2008 The questions posted in the previous post (see ‘small science and asking questions’) got me pondering about what the nature of questions in Science are. Two of the categories in...

Big questions from Small Science !! 17-9-2008  Besides opportunities given through activities, the final exercise in each chapter of Small Science is, “Ask a Question”.  Curious to see what kind of questions the children...

Exploring the Senses…  September 9, 2008- Part I In class III today, the teacher continued with the unit ‘Our body’. Today, she brought a teaching aid with her. It was a big illustrated chart...

Narratives in the Classroom September 2, 2008-part II In Class III, The students and teacher were engrossed in finding about ‘Our body’. The lesson begins with a story called Mini’s fall. In fact, all...

Science in Festival Time… September 2, 2008 -part I   Today was the day prior to Ganesh Chaturthi holidays that the children were to have for a week. The children were engrossed in making pictures...

Categories and Kinds August 12, 2008 I walked into class III today to see the teacher engaged in getting her students to think of similarities and differences between various pairs of living things. I...

Little Scientists at Work… June 26, 2008      We arrived at AK Joshi School located in a busy locality of Thane on a wet afternoon just in time to observe class IV students engrossed...