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The Nature Classrooms Blog is a collection of reflections from the team as well as teachers who we engage with and who use our resources in their spaces. We publish contributions from educators who wish to write about their experience with our resources and nature learning. Write to us with your pitches at info[at]natureclassrooms[dot]in.
The reflections and learnings contributed by teachers and educators in these guest blog posts do not necessarily reflect the approach and views of Nature Classrooms. Please get in touch directly with the individual authors and contributors of these posts for clarifications or collaborations.
Rethinking Assessments in Nature Education: The Journey Behind NEAF
-by Tanaya Rele How do we assess our work as nature educators? Are there tools that can help us do this meaningfully? And perhaps the most unsettling question of all, how do we even know if our interventions are working? Assessments are important! That is what we and almost every nature educator we interacted with believe. At Nature Classrooms, conversations about assessments were always somewhere in the background. Sometimes emerging during formal meetings, sometimes post wo
Tanaya Rele
7 min read
Journeying through the Social-Emotional Dimensions of Nature Learning
An Educator's Diary #8
Priyanka Prakash
6 min read
How Spiders Won Over a Classroom
An Educator's Diary #8
Gousia Taj
2 min read
ಜೇಡಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವ ಮಕ್ಕಳು
An Educator's Diary #8
Gousia Taj
2 min read
Curious minds and Feathered beings: A walk to Vedanthangal
An Educator's Diary #7
Manjupriya Ayyanar & Maria Thomas
3 min read
What’s at the heart of Nature Education?
An Educator's Diary #6
Aswathi Asokan
5 min read
प्रकृति-कला के ज़रिए कलाबोध का विकास
-by Melody Xalxo and Mihir Pathak An Educator's Diary #5 हमारे आसपास बिखरी तमाम खूबसूरत चीज़ों को अनुभव करने, महसूस करने और उनका रस ले पाने के लिए यह ज़रूरी है कि हर बच्चे को सुनियोजित कलाबोध शिक्षा का अवसर मिले । जहाँ मुख्यधारा की शिक्षा बाज़ार द्वारा संचालित हितों को प्राथमिकता देती है और वैश्विक कम्पनियों के लिए कामगार तैयार करने में जुटी रहती है । वहां यह अक्सर बच्चे के व्यक्तित्व के कई और आयामों को नज़रअन्दाज़ कर देती है। इनमें शामिल हैं अपने आसपास की प्राकृतिक दुनिया को
Melody Xalxo and Mihir Pathak
10 min read
Learning about Local Nature through Tamil Alphabet
Nature Learning Resource
P Jeganathan
4 min read
Nature Learning for All: An Ode
An Educator's Diary #4
Vena Kapoor
8 min read
Navigating Herdsmen, Honey Collectors and Lantana Harvesters through their Knowledge of the Forest Land
An Educator's Diary #3
Hussain Ebrahim
4 min read
Connecting Worlds: Sharing My Story as a Nature Education Fellow
An Educator's Diary #2
Aditi Rao
4 min read
A Transformative Journey at Changchub Chöling Monastery
An Educator's Diary #1
K S Devina
6 min read
Birding at Badamwari, Srinagar
Celebrating this Earth Day with WRCF and Early Bird
natureclassrooms
2 min read
What and where is nature for the children of Bengaluru?
Here are some surprising ways of conceptualizing nature that children shared with Aashish Gokhale in the Child-Nature-Ooru project.
natureclassrooms
3 min read
Learning to heal the Earth: Part 4
Building eco-awareness - Aksharnandan - by Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
3 min read
Learning to heal the Earth: Part 3
Working through the contradictions and disconnects - by Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
3 min read
Learning to heal the Earth: Part 2
Trending a different path - by Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
4 min read
Learning to heal the Earth: Part 1
Learning through students' natural and social environment - by Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
Jayashree Ramadas and Dhanya K
3 min read
Nature Moves in Action - Glimpses from Workshops and Classrooms
As a part of our Nature Moves initiative of designing and trialing movement-based nature learning resources, we trialed some activities with educators and children. Here's a few glimpses of our experience. by Nayantara Siruguri and Roshni Ravi Move like Satya! Bringing together stories, movement, and nature Our first formal trial of movement-based resources was in June 2022 with a group of sustainability and nature educators supported by Wipro Earthian. We had a group of 12-1
Nayantara Siruguri and Roshni Ravi
3 min read
Getting to know a Gasagase Mara
Children’s Observations and Teachers’ Reflections from a session at Govt. Lower Primary School, Tarabanahalli By Sarojini Ramachandra Hegde and Gousia Taj | English translation by Jane Sahi In this write-up Sarojini and Gousia (teachers from the Fig Tree Learning Centre) describe two sessions where they used a chart on the Singapore Cherry tree created by the Nature Classrooms team as part of the Suttha Muttha project. They share the flow and content of the class, students’
Sarojini Hegde and Gousia Taj
5 min read
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