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Fareen Wahid
Jul 6, 20221 min read
Geographical Crime Enquiries
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
#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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
‘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, 20211 min read
'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, 20212 min read
'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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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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