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While learning a module on - Geography of Crime, grade 8 Geographers have taken this challenge to develop their enquiries from scratch....
Fareen Wahid
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
Planet Earth: Time Travelling
Grade 6 Geographers entered their time machine, pressed the button, and whoosh! They went back in time to see the places on Earth as they...
Fareen Wahid
- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
River Ganges: A Design Project
Background: The Ganges is the world's most populous river basin at 2,500km. It runs from the western Himalayas across northern India and...
Fareen Wahid
- Jul 1, 2022
- 1 min
An Industrial Revolution Shark Tank
As they recreated the popular television show Shark Tank, Grade 8 History class consumed a flurry of historical knowledge. The students...
Fareen Wahid
- Jul 1, 2022
- 1 min
Kenai Fjord: A Virtual Tour
Kenai Fjords National Park is on the southeast coast of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. It covers 607,805 acres of untouched wilderness, from...
Fareen Wahid
- Jul 1, 2022
- 1 min
#Break the Bias
We embraced International Women's Day 2022 campaign theme - #BreakTheBias. We started with a reading about the campaign message i.e....
Fareen Wahid
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
Urban to Urbanisation - A Scenario - Based Learning
Grade 7 Geographers were introduced to the lesson urbanisation with a 'Scenario-Based Learning Concept.' It was a detailed mapping...
Fareen Wahid
- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
India at Home - An Augmented Reality Experience
Augmented reality superimposes sounds, videos and graphics onto an existing environment. It uses four main components to superimpose...
Fareen Wahid
- Feb 19, 2022
- 1 min
Incredible INDIA: A Recipe
In the modern era, India is one of the most diverse countries. This subcontinent is home to over 100 languages, over 700 distinct tribes,...
Fareen Wahid
- Jan 31, 2022
- 5 min
A Sound Journey Across Australia
According to Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, music is an excellent tool to use in the classroom. Students benefit from the...
Fareen Wahid
- Jan 6, 2022
- 1 min
Snakes & Ladders or Monopoly?
Playing board games is a form of mental exercise. Board games engage the brain areas involved in memory formation and complex mental...
Fareen Wahid
- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
Blab! Blab! Blab!
How well does contemporary education prepare students for work in today's global economy? That was the question I wanted my Grade 8 to...
Fareen Wahid
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
‘Hexagonal Thinking’ for Long-Term Learning
Hexagonal thinking is a strategy for retrieving and connecting information. In this subtopic on the Great Depression in Canada, the goal...
Fareen Wahid
- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
'Cereal Island' - Indicating the Elevation and Shape of Land on a Map
The Earth's surface is anything but flat, as is the case with a map. There are two dimensions to maps and three dimensions to the Earth's...
Fareen Wahid
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
'POTATO MOUNTAINS' - Modeling Contour Lines
Maps are frequently used to depict the Earth's surface. Maps are used for various purposes, including illustrating roads, land use,...
Fareen Wahid
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
An Upgrade to the Compass Rose
Map Skills are currently being taught in the grade 6 Geography class. To make the topic more interesting, I assigned my geographers an...
Fareen Wahid
- Sep 29, 2021
- 1 min
Counterfactual Thinking in History Classroom Supported by Living Graph
Counterfactual thinking is a psychological concept that refers to the human tendency to imagine possible alternatives to life events that...
Fareen Wahid
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
An Enlightened "Salon Party"
The Age of Enlightenment (also known as the “Age of Reason”) was a period in history when intellectuals in late 17th and 18th-century...
Fareen Wahid
- Sep 21, 2021
- 1 min
Alien Abduction
My grade 6 Geographers were tasked with making a world map that would help guide the aliens back to their home on Earth. The problem -...
Fareen Wahid
- Aug 19, 2021
- 1 min
Teaching 'The Spirit of an Age' through Arts
As a History facilitator, one of the goals is to make my students understand the relevance of the past in the present day. As learners,...
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