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Why do party balloons rise in air? How high can they go? When do they drift to the ground?
How much water do plants lose? Do they lose it only as water vapour? Can they regulate water-loss?
Which chemical bonds are stronger — covalent or ionic? How can we tell?
Can we grow a dense forest of native species in congested urban spaces or degraded land? How long would this take?
Who were the first people to measure the size of the earth? How did they do it?
Join us in exploring these questions in our new section — Ask a Question.
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When the life-altering COVID-19 first struck, teachers and students alike had to re-organise themselves; teachers in their pedagogical methodologies, students in their learning capabilities. Overnight, everyone went digital – smartphones, computers and TV screens became the printed page and everyone learned as they went along.
This issue of the Learning Curve is devoted to the questions everyone had to face during the period of school closures: what can we do to mitigate the difficulties of adjustment that primary school children will undoubtedly face on their return to school? The most heartening aspect of the articles in the issue is the tremendous resilience and innovativeness displayed by everyone concerned in adapting to school closures.
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At Right Angles, pen, paper and armchair – what more do you need for these rainy days? The November 2021 issue will keep you absorbed for days. Keep reading!
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The articles in this issue are broadly based on the two aspects of play in learning – the innumerable lessons that are learnt from play – teamwork, strategy, inclusion, respect, sharing, handling fights, settling arguments, addressing bullying, and second, how play can be used as pedagogy for circular learning as well as structured activities such as educational videos and unstructured ones like pretend play. The idea behind both is to nurture the free spirit with which child must learn.
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Open Schools, Focus on Recovering Lost Learning: Clear Voice of Teachers
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Perch on the branches of the Tremendous Tree of mathematics and enjoy your read. At Right Angles July 2021 is packed with a variety of articles and the online version has several absorbing additional articles.
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Does the teaching and learning of science change when we give importance to relationships with people, other beings, and the places they inhabit?
How do we use an exploration of water to help children connect basic science concepts with personal experiences and pressing environmental issues?
Can observing, exploring, and working in their natural environment offer children and teachers the opportunity to cultivate an intuitive understanding of the nature and process of science?
What personal choices and simple actions in our everyday lives can help us begin engaging with climate change?
Join us in exploring these questions in the theme section of this issue — Teaching as if the Earth Matters.
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A lot of thought has been applied by individuals, teachers and organisations across the country to give the principles of responsible citizenship and shape in the minds of our children. All the articles in this issue show how dedicated have been the attempts to use the classroom to implant and nurture the ideas consecrated in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.
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School closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to complete disconnect from education for the vast majority of children or inadequate alternatives like community based classes or poor alternatives in the form of online education, including mobile phone-based learning.
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Working Paper Series: Urban Wastewater for Agriculture: Farmers’ Perspectives from Peri-urban Bengaluru
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