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2016 Review – Bala, Sundar

2016 has been a challenging year for me both mentally and physically. I am able to see the difference in myself as compared to the previous year where I was literally a novice both at work and as a person. My biggest...

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Determining (a + b + c)2

Ajay a 9th std student from Udavi school had chose to learn Algebraic identities as a goal for his weekly plan . He wanted to prove: (a + b + c)2 = a2 + ab + ac + ba + b2 + bc...

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Taj Mahal Project with Isaiambalam Students

The children at Isaimbalam school had been given a task to construct  a model of the Taj Mahal. They had split into two groups of 4 (boys and girls mixed). The students started by gathering information on how, where, when, whom,.. the...

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Projects to demonstrate the Mathematical concepts

In the first term, I asked the children to build Mathematical projects based on their curriculum. That was the first time they were forced to think beyond their limits and not just solve them in their notebooks. Most of the children made...

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Scratch Project 9th grade

This project is on ‘Set Theory’ where Ajay shows the different formations in sets. i.e, AUB, A∩B Following is a project where Preethika draws a van using the co ordinate system. Below is a project on Set Theory where Yuvraj shows us...

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Triad @ School

I had triad with 3 groups today. I was really inspired and happy to hear them share their practices. They had noticed when they were in fear and how they overcame it. They were also able to notice when people talked about...

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Installing Scratch on a 64x machine & creating desktop icon. (Ubuntu)

The following instruction can be used to install scratch in a 64x machine.   Download the Adobe Air and Scratch files from: https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/ The following libraries are needed: sudo apt-get install libxt6:i386 libnspr4-0d:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libnss3-1d:i386 lib32nss-mdns libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 Now...

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Sleep Over at Isaiambalam School

The Team had a wonderful evening filled with strategy games and puzzles at isaimbalam school. The 5th graders had a sleep over which ended with a English movies (cartoon). The evening started with a bonfire, then came the puzzles and games. The...

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Deepanam Children assembling their LED torchlight’s.

The children from Deepanam, on their last day in term 1 built bamboo torchlight’s using high wattage LEDS, resistors and a DPDT switch and a 9V battery. They designed the circuit and chose the required resistors and assembled them by soldering the...

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Science with the 6th Graders

We had studied the human body, with the 6th grade students of Udavi school. The children had made the Skeletal structure in groups of two, they also did projects on the Digestive system on how food is processed by our body. .

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