One of the challenging issues teachers facing is to allow each student reach his/her highest potentials and enjoy the process. How can learning be done and students have fun. Simple - hands on learning.
Hands-on learning, related to inquiry based learning is not a new technique. In fact, it goes back to the education philosopher, Dewey. Dewey declared in his Pedagogic Creed (1897) that ideas result from action and devolve for the sake of better control of action.
Recently, as part of the ongoing topic-Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body, pre-primary children made a massive food pyramid on the classroom floor. All the food items were brought by the teachers. Children arranged food items to each corresponding compartment of the food pyramid, which is approximately 15 feet in size, quite wonderfully. Later, even the nursery children, the smallest ones of the group, were seen passing remarks about the food pyramid; thus establishing the great possibilities of hands on learning.
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