Sana Syed


Education / Technology

Top Lead India •

Why classroom teaching needs to be the right mix of fun and focus

The education system has been evolving and acclimatizing its role with changing scenarios. Society has come a long way from directly relating academic success and a promising future, to leaving it an open ended enigma. Most of the developed nations are in the process of evolving an education system that relies on fun based learning rather than one propelled by performance as its basis.

There is a greater focus on making the classrooms stress free. In US, for example, students get their summativ
The Hindu •

Date with the stars

Here is a chance to get closer to the celestial beings.

The classes are specially designed for Standard VI –VIII students

Learn the solar walk-planets arranged according to their relative distance from the sun

The famous nursery rhyme, “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are”, can now find an apt answer in unconventional astronomy lessons.

Do you know that 2009 is declared as the International Year of Astronomy?

Thanks to S.P.A.C.E. the Science Popularisation Association of
The Hindu •

Learn a new language

Knowing a new language can take you places.

The International Year of Languages 2008 found foreign language institutes in the city organising a European Language mela, with French Day as part of Festival of Languages. One got to know that there is more to Bon Jour and Merci. This apart the films that were screened offered insight into the culture of these countries. With the world becoming a global village and with student exchange programmes, it is not a bad idea to learn a new language and to
The Hindu •

Destination: Moon

It was a chance of a lifetime for these kids.

Our first deep space Moon Mission took off successfully on October 22 this year and with it opened up new conquerable horizons. Among the hundreds of countries across the globe, India has now become the sixth nation to accomplish the feat after the U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, China and Japan.

While scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) were launching Chandrayaan 1, a few kilometres away, children fromschools in
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Ready to read?

Books are your best bet during the hot summer days.

Once examinations are over and summer settles down on the city, there is nothing more ideal than reading. The stores are filled with books of some of the most popular fiction writers, each having a variant theme and unique storytelling expertise. If you like to plunge into adventures, then Enid Blyton’s “Famous Five” is the choice. Her creative world belongs to children, free from adult intervention and the story is weaved around the elements