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Create memories with your children during this lock-down

Commotion at home: As the COVID19 crisis continues, the most common theme of discussion today is how to manage children at home? While some have figured it out, others are taking all the help they can get, some others are frustrated by the situation. Now that everyone is a home-schooler,…

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My journey with Astronomy – Part 3

Sriraghavan S M 3 April 2020 No Comments Activity Based Critical Thinking Experience Goals

I continue here from my previous articles. If you haven’t read them yet, please do so here in Part 1 and Part 2. The power of periodicity: There is a day every month that the Indians offer their prayers to their ancestors or the departed which is on the New…

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My journey with Astronomy – Part 2

Sriraghavan S M 27 March 2020 No Comments Activity Based Critical Thinking Experience Goals

I continue here from my previous article. If you haven’t read that yet, please do. The science behind ಮಕರ ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ (Makara Sankranti): Indian traditions follow two approaches to the calendar – the sun-based ಸೌರಮಾನ (sauramaana) approach and the moon-based ಚಾಂದ್ರಮಾನ (chaandramaana) approach. The time measured using each approach is based…

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My journey with Astronomy – Part 1

Sriraghavan S M 20 March 2020 No Comments Activity Based Critical Thinking Experience Goals

The fascination: Have you ever wondered that every time you step on the earth, there is a history of 5 billion years under your feet? The environment in which we live has been on earth in different conditions over the last 5 billion years. These were the exact thoughts I…

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NumberNagar® Dialogue Series – On Bringing Fluency in Spoken English in Children

Nishant Krishna 17 January 2020 No Comments Activity Based Adaptive Learning Creativity Critical Thinking English

Introduction English is as good as my native language and I’m fluent in it. However, I was not always like this. My “mother-tongue” is Hindi. So, when I started getting into debates, elocution, and speeches during my school days, I had to translate the sentences from Hindi to English, many…

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NumberNagar Dialogue Series – On Creativity in Children

Nishant Krishna 10 January 2020 2 Comments Activity Based Creativity Parenting Productivity

Introduction Creativity is a frequently discussed topic. We see a lot of creative people around us, musicians, writers, artists, poets, designers, photographers, journalists, and many such people, we generally associate creativity with. What if, the purview of creativity is much wider than these personas? What if creativity plays a major…

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NumberNagar Dialogue Series – On Reducing Stress and Increasing Energy Level in Children

Nishant Krishna 3 January 2020 2 Comments Activity Based Parenting Productivity Stress Reduction

Introduction As parents / teachers / facilitators, we are observing that the stress level in children is on the rise. At the same, time, we also observe that the energy level in children is going down. In the first part of the NumberNagar Dialogue Series, I talk to Sushma, who…