There Is A World Outside To Explore…Learning Actually Happens Outside The Text Book: Darshana Dabke

I strongly believe that environment education should begin at a young age. Children watch and imitate the attitudes and actions of the adults around them towards living things. Whether it’s a jar of wriggly worms, butterflies, tadpoles or beetles the little eyes light up with excitement and curiosity whenever you bring these living things in your classroom. They explore and learn more about nature through these real time interactions and surely not by filling in stacks of worksheets.

When children have opportunities to explore and to investigate what a teacher brings in to the classroom, the children are motivated to ask questions, to look for their ideas further and share their learnings.

I truly believe in the four L’s of learning:
Let them look
Let them learn
Let them explore
Leave them alone

We need to teach children to have empathy for living creatures big or small. Having a role play asking the children questions how would they feel if, someone would put you in a jar and shook? What if someone picked up your happy place and threw it? Let them think…

There is a room outside the classroom that has no walls…when children get opportunity to explore outside and inquire.

Ask questions…

Do sow bugs like it in moist or dry place?

Where do little ground worms go when it rains?

What lies underneath the grass?

There is a world outside to explore…learning actually happens outside the text book.

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Darshana Dabke
Principal
Sarvankash Vidya Mandir