Kashmiri Alphabet Chart Walk into any bookstore and you’ll find alphabet charts filled with giraffes, penguins, and macaws. But what about all of nature that is right around us? Use this alphabet chart to explore Kashmir’s landscape and language through this fun twist on the regular A to Z chart! It can also be used as an anchor chart to base various other activities on. To find other small fun activities, such as puzzles, flip the chart! Download Kashmiri Alphabet Chart Colouring Sheets Download Alphabet Chart Cut-Outs Download Activity Ideas Download

Seasonal Bingo Seasons bring about remarkable transformations in the natural world, influencing how plants and animals adapt and thrive. The Seasons Bingos are a delightful and engaging way to explore these ever-dynamic changes right in your surroundings. Each bingo sheet guides you to discover the unique ecological responses that define every season. English Rain Bingo KANNADA Spring Bingo English Kannada Winter Bingo English Kannada English Spring Bingo - For Kashmir English Kannada Summer Bingo Note for Educators This activity is a fun way to encourage repeated observation of the same environment throughout the year, helping students notice how plants, animals, and their associations respond to seasonal shifts. Use the below observation sheet to take your observations a step further, and log and monitor seasonal changes in the plants and trees around you. Visit www.seasonwatch.in to explore resources, activities and data on some of the most common and widespread trees around you! Questions to Explore What new things did they notice about the season? Why do you think these changes occur in relation to the season? Why do mushrooms pop up after rain? What causes the 'petrichor' smell? Why is there a large blooming of flowers and new leaves during spring? Why do birds like Black Kites circle overhead during hot days? Why does the sun set early during winter?

Gojri Alphabet Chart The Gojri-English Alphabet Chart is a powerful cultural and ecological bridge designed for the children of the Gujjar and Bakarwal pastoral tribes in the Kashmir Himalayas. Gojri, their mother tongue, is rich with expressions reflecting their nomadic life and deep ecological knowledge. Since Gojri finds little space in formal schooling, this chart was created to affirm the child's identity and make learning relatable. By connecting English and Gojri alphabets to local flora, fauna, and pastoral life—like Bakri (goat) or Jaberd (water pond)—the chart ensures that literacy celebrates and preserves their unique language, culture, and environmental wisdom. It serves as a portable, visible, and culturally relevant teaching aid for mobile schools and homes, empowering the next generation to see their world reflected in their learning. This resource was created in collaboration with the Himalayan Pastoral Trust. Gojri Alphabet Chart Download Gorji Alphabet Booklet Download

Plant Poster Plants are always bustling with life - they entertain bees, provide resting places for various insects and birds, food for caterpillars, and whatnot! It takes just a few extra seconds of observing to find them! Print and use them as Anchor Charts in your classrooms and homes to start conversations about them! English Kannada Giant Milkweed Hindi TAMIL Fishtail Palm English Kannada Singapore Cherry English Kannada TAMIL English Lotus Poster English Kannada Neem Hindi TAMIL Lotus Kashmiri English Note for Educators Here is a sample activity to use this poster with students: Choose a plant near you and dedicate 5-10 minutes to quiet observation. Look closely at its overall form and its individual components- leaves, flowers, bark, and any fruits. Try to find other organisms using, living on, or visiting the plant. What interactions do you notice? Are there tiny insects, larger creatures, or even signs of homes on its branches? Use the relevant poster as a guide to discuss the diverse life forms you observed and their unique relationships with the plant. What unexpected discoveries did you make that aren't on the poster? Could the students collectively make a poster like this for another plant, based on their local observations and research?

This learning module is an invitation to discover, develop and nurture a wonderment and curiosity for water as an ecosystem that is teeming with amazing life forms that use it in various ways! Life in Water ............................................ In our current school textbooks, the topic of water is introduced to teachers and learners with a focus on our 'uses of water.' For example: how and why is water useful and important to humans, what does scarcity of water imply for us, or how should we conserve it? Water, as an ecosystem, however, goes so much beyond our use and interactions with it. As you will discover through this module, water is also home to and as important to a multitude of life on Earth. Divided into three levels Each level has been designed for children belonging to specific grades and age groups. ● With two major topics and relevant sub-topics covered, each level has been designed with an aim to achieve a series of nature learning goals. ● The module is designed using different mediums to engage the learner, including read-aloud stories, observation charts, picture-cards, audio-visual resources, group activities, and discussions. ● The lessons are linked with existing EVS chapters and cover a range of topics that nurture wonderment for water as an ecosystem. Download the Water Module LEARNING MODULE MODULE WITH RESOURCES This learning module is an invitation to discover, develop and nurture a wonderment and curiosity for water as an ecosystem that is teeming with amazing life forms that use it in various ways!

Nature Classrooms has developed a programme that integrates nature learning with social-emotional learning. With this programme our goal is to put together effective practices, resources, and frameworks integrated with social, emotional, and nature–based learning at its core, with a focus on supporting the overall well-being of teachers. Nature-Based Social-Emotional Learning for Teachers & Educators Nature Classrooms, to further its goal of supporting teachers and educators with their endeavours in nature education, has developed a programme that integrates nature learning with social-emotional learning. With this programme our goal is to put together effective practices, resources, and frameworks integrated with social, emotional, and nature–based learning at its core, with a focus on supporting the overall well-being of teachers. The long-term vision is that this social and emotional development within teachers also influences the manner in which they impart nature education within their classrooms. Programme goals: Can nature-based practices and engagements support in promoting social and emotional well-being of teachers? How does supporting teachers’ emotional state influence their connections with nature? How does this process of engaging with nature-based social-emotional learning translate in the long-term into subject lessons and classroom practices? PILOT WORKSHOP With the initial framework and practices developed, we launched an online pilot workshop with a goal to engage with a small focus group of teachers/educators, for trialling out the initially developed practices and taking into consideration their feedback and responses which will influence the future implementation of the programme. Download Report This project was undertaken by Priyanka Prakash as a part of her Master’s internship with Nature Classrooms. Download Connect if you want to collaborate with us for a research project: info@natureclassrooms.in

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Words Live Nature What's happening this week, on our adventure Creatures in Our Schools The school is housed in a small, seemingly nondescript building, offset from the Hesarghatta main road. A lone Singapore Cherry (Muntingia calabura) tree marks one corner of the school. ‘Look, there goes a Haavu Rani!’, one of the teachers casually remarked as she walked into the school. Haavu Rani is Kannada for Skink, it translates to ‘Snake Queen’. More A Bugs Life Is that little piece of paint from the wall moving? Who cleans up the crumbs from my kitchen while I’m asleep at night? Who lives in that little white tent in the corner of the wall? More