Grade - 5 is heading towards an Authentic Experience of putting up a juice lari on the street of Ahmedabad along with a street play.
Our understanding goal for this Authentic Experience is :
(1) ' Students will understand how power of words help us to visualize and create mental image.'
(2) Students will understand how power of words help us to convey / translate our thoughts to others. '
Students did a Survey of 276 people to find out the preference of people between natural drink v/s artificial drinks. Through their survey they realized that most of the people prefer drinking natural juices, but are unaware of the ingredients of cold drinks. They collected data, which helped them to create the story line for the street play. They were empowered and wanted to increase their circle of influence.
They worked on the script of the street play and then tightened up their play with help of Deepa. ( Thanks a lot )
Today we went to the market to get an experience of buying fruits. Students were in total control while shopping. They checked for the prices at 2 different places and then decided where to buy fruits from. They inquired about the prices and then estimated how much fruit will be required to make juice for all students. They bargained with the shopkeeper and got the prices low. Then they checked the fruits and made informed choices. It was great to see them, when they asked the shopkeeper to cut the watermelon and allow them to taste it. After tasting they bought 3 watermelons.
They got different experiences of real world too. The lady fruit vendor was very impatient to see kids at her stall, but her husband was very polite and allowed them to get this experience. Students were calculating the prices per kilograms of fruits and got to know that sweet limes are sold according to the rate per dozen.
It was amazing to see how every body was working as a team. Some were talking to the fruit vendor, some were busy selecting fruits, some were noting down the prices and some were bargaining for the prices. A super team work !!!!! Sulekha and me were just facilitators and they owned up the whole experience.
Then, as Deepa had suggested we did our first Street Play. This was done to get feedback and tightening up our play. We got a good feedback. Students were happy with the experience and we both were thrilled as this was our first experience to be on the street. We will be working on our street play to give the best output.
After lunch, we had teachers and our conductors come in as our tasters for the lemon juices made by students. Half of the class made lemon juice with sugar and other half made it using jaggery. Overall feedback told us that teachers preferred lemon juice with jaggery and ginger as it adds to the nutritional values.
Math skills became our natural fallout along with the use of power of words to convince the shop keeper. Students developed attitudes like patience, respect and confidence. Skills like communication, adaptability, calculation, estimation and logical thinking were developed through this experience. ( Thanks Veena ma'am for suggesting )
Students used Power of Words..... true empowerment !!!!!!!!!!
Sulekha and Nikita
Grade 5
Our understanding goal for this Authentic Experience is :
(1) ' Students will understand how power of words help us to visualize and create mental image.'
(2) Students will understand how power of words help us to convey / translate our thoughts to others. '
Students did a Survey of 276 people to find out the preference of people between natural drink v/s artificial drinks. Through their survey they realized that most of the people prefer drinking natural juices, but are unaware of the ingredients of cold drinks. They collected data, which helped them to create the story line for the street play. They were empowered and wanted to increase their circle of influence.
They worked on the script of the street play and then tightened up their play with help of Deepa. ( Thanks a lot )
Today we went to the market to get an experience of buying fruits. Students were in total control while shopping. They checked for the prices at 2 different places and then decided where to buy fruits from. They inquired about the prices and then estimated how much fruit will be required to make juice for all students. They bargained with the shopkeeper and got the prices low. Then they checked the fruits and made informed choices. It was great to see them, when they asked the shopkeeper to cut the watermelon and allow them to taste it. After tasting they bought 3 watermelons.
They got different experiences of real world too. The lady fruit vendor was very impatient to see kids at her stall, but her husband was very polite and allowed them to get this experience. Students were calculating the prices per kilograms of fruits and got to know that sweet limes are sold according to the rate per dozen.
It was amazing to see how every body was working as a team. Some were talking to the fruit vendor, some were busy selecting fruits, some were noting down the prices and some were bargaining for the prices. A super team work !!!!! Sulekha and me were just facilitators and they owned up the whole experience.
Then, as Deepa had suggested we did our first Street Play. This was done to get feedback and tightening up our play. We got a good feedback. Students were happy with the experience and we both were thrilled as this was our first experience to be on the street. We will be working on our street play to give the best output.
After lunch, we had teachers and our conductors come in as our tasters for the lemon juices made by students. Half of the class made lemon juice with sugar and other half made it using jaggery. Overall feedback told us that teachers preferred lemon juice with jaggery and ginger as it adds to the nutritional values.
Math skills became our natural fallout along with the use of power of words to convince the shop keeper. Students developed attitudes like patience, respect and confidence. Skills like communication, adaptability, calculation, estimation and logical thinking were developed through this experience. ( Thanks Veena ma'am for suggesting )
Students used Power of Words..... true empowerment !!!!!!!!!!
Sulekha and Nikita
Grade 5
we enjoyed it - keep it up - keep this updtd pl. also connect with Grade9, on their own class blog please, so we have a network that serves to encourage lots of written comm driven by the children and teachers. also if you update everything on the blog which is public and online, you could cut down on sending individual emails to parents about such school events and they can write their comments here for the whole world to see
ReplyDeletethnks,
Nabina
Brilliant. Kiran Bir Sethi's video on TED.com made me google Riverside and thus lead to this post. Do agree with Rolling about the Updating part. See very few posts in the year 2009.
ReplyDeleteIf more such activities are shared through this medium thousands/lakhs/crores will be benefitted. A fitting example for the use of technology in Everyday education.
Hoping to see many more this year.