Yogesh GR, in Learning Curve magazine, illustrates how anganwadi teachers can create opportunities through which children are able to observe and explore local habitats and a foundation for greater environmental awareness is laid.

Vikas Kumar, faculty, Azim Premji University, in ThePrint, highlights how family planning was a major philatelic theme for more than three decades between 1966 and 1999 in India.

Arvind Kumar, in i wonder magazine, discusses the rationale for introducing Nature of Science in school science curricula, its evolving perspectives, and the approaches we may adopt to enable the learning of this topic.

We must seize this decade if we are to have any hope of wrestling back a liveable future for ourselves, our children and grandchildren. We must get emissions under control in the next 3 – 5 years, writes Harini Nagendra, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.

Given the widespread and deep effects of school closure on learning levels of students, the study recommends a more sustained long-term effort by the entire public school system to focus on the recovery of learning loss.

Studying light is an opportunity for teachers to enthuse students about science, by relating it to observations that they can themselves make and think about, writes Rajaram Nityananda, in i wonder magazine.

V Santhakumar, in Learning Curve magazine, explains how individual desire to achieve social or economic mobility, or society’s concern about growing inequality may make certain experiments in this regard ineffective.

Reading books other than their textbooks helps students to understand that they can use this skill whenever they want to understand the world around them, writes Shehnaz DK in Learning Curve magazine. 

Kamala V Mukunda, in Learning Curve magazine, writes that children are designed to learn from real-world environments. This structures children’s interactions with both nature and other people and helps go beyond their spontaneous, playful interactions.

Long-term success hinges on a wider range of abilities than quick and short-term accomplishments. Highly talented youngsters often fail to reach their full potential. Sudheesh Venkatesh, in YourStory, suggests ways to help them stay on course.

R Ramanujam in At Right Angles (AtRiA) highlights that the coupling of mathematical and computational thinking, as per NEP 2020, is significant since this suggests completely doing away with the current model of ​“computer classes” and moving over to teaching the science underlying computing, the emphasis being on thinking.

Terms like ​‘global warming’ or ​‘climate change’ hardly reverberate in the sound-proof halls of Parliament. While there is a global crisis unfolding that is set to permanently shift the course of human history, most parliamentarians seem blissfully ignorant of it, writes Shashwat D C in Moneycontrol.

Sunil Kumar, in Learning Curve magazine, shares that the biggest challenge he encountered while teaching the chapter ​‘Society and Role of Women’ to students of class VII was to acquaint them with gender-based discriminatory behaviour in their own families.