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Water Level Indicator

In Isai Ambalm school 4th and 5th grader were building a simple circuit to check the water level in their school tank. Initially we started to do it in a water bottle. We used LED to check the water level. Suddenly student...

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Cubes Rods Plates – 3rd grade

I introduced the Dienes blocks to the 3rd graders to get a sense of ones, tenths and hundreds. Each cube is one, a rod is a ten and plate is a hundred. I asked them the following questions How many cubes can...

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Kapla

Children were supporting each other while building a design in Kapla and were very concentrated in building it. They were creative and encouraged each other while building it. They had lot of perseverance and patience while doing it and at the same time...

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Building a simple motor:

In Isai Ambalam school we showed Arvind gupta video for the  4th and 5th graders. They saw the video and noted down the materials that are needed to build a simple motor. First day they built and it didn’t rotate. They were...

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Software to track students learning plan

Pratap and myself were working on a project to create a software which tracks the students learning plan. We did it in Django. Before students were filling their daily plan and weekly plan in an excel sheet. Typing in it was difficult...

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Activity class in Isai Ambalam school

On Wednesday children had a sleepover in the school. On that day there was a power cut . Children didn’t bring their torch from their home. It was very dark and we had only one torch.  They managed with that torch for...

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Learning division

Children felt very difficult to understand what division is and why we do it. They were been explained with the fraction kit using the test tubes and the colourful beads. Using the fraction kit they learnt to divide things to number of...

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Hot Air Balloon

We made a big hot air balloon. We already completed making the balloon along with the 5th graders. Today for the Saturday’s class we decided to make it fly. We got some old cloth and some kerosene to get hot air from...

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Addition/Subtraction with 3rd graders

The 3rd graders demonstrated their addition and subtraction stories that they written last week using the Dienes Blocks. Initially, the children were confused with the words addition and subtraction. They were doing subtraction instead of addition. After some more practice they were...

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Measurement – 5th graders

Kishor: I learned how to measure the width of tree using thread. We measured the length of the thread using a scale of 15cm. There was team work and we were able to complete the work in time. We measured using creepers...

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