Class 3-5

Class 1 and 2 - Jayashree Ramadas, Aisha Kawalkar & Sindhu Mathai

Class 3 and 4 -Jayashree Ramdas

Class 5 - Jyotsna Vijapurkar

Published by :

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Umashankar Periodi

One could hardly recognize the school on D-Day! With more than 2000 people gathered, the school grounds draped in a colorful shamiana, numerous children decked vibrantly, the atmosphere was no less than that during a village jathre (fair), bustling with activity! This was the day of the Science Mela at Sathyampete Higher Primary School, in Shorapur block of Karnataka.

The Background

Neeraja Raghavan

Until the year that I went to Class IX, I was like any other schoolgirl - in that I hadn't the faintest idea as to what I would do in college. One day, it was literature, another, art, and yet another, medicine. Not surprisingly, the future was one big blur, which alternately, took on new forms, depending upon the current trend amongst peers.

Neeraja Raghavan

Vijaya Verma

Experiments with reforms in school education in India, like the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme, have shown that teachers are critical to the enterprise of quality education. Whenever a teacher buys into the idea of reform, the reforms stand a chance of succeeding, but whenever a teacher is hostile or indifferent, the reforms are headed for failure.