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...
Al Qamar Academy report that they are going strong with Small Science and children continue to love it. Small Science, it seems, is getting older and now we have students even in college who...
Recap of “Food in our bodies” We are using the 4th grade book for 5th grade because I wanted to finish all the chapters. We didn’t manage to finish last year since we started...
Recap of “Water and Life” (A unit from Class 4 text book) June 15, 2012 Though the kids have formally graduated to Class 5, we hadn’t finished up with the Grade IV curriculum, so...
Classrom experiences with “Water” Al Qamar Academy have a wonderful experience with learning about Water to share with us. The observations and the questions the kids present are amazing, all the more encouraged by...
