Children and nature
Some notes based on some sharing by Vijetha.



It was a great privilege to have an hour’s live call with the amazing author of this fascinating book The Last Child in the Woods …worth re-reading every once in a way! Just some of the points discussed… Sharing a few moments of awe and wonder during a recent solitary walk… The audience had people…
Ranganthittu in Karnataka is well known for its beautiful bird sanctuary. One not-so-well known place near it is a curious place, a village where one can walk around, and find on the rooftops of a lot of houses, many beautiful birds nesting on them! Most of them are painted storks, and the villagers have over…
Thanks to the supportive teacher esp Ms. Manju in this school, a kuthoohala session was conducted here, summarized in these videos. It started with some nature… And moved on to science…. This session was possible thanks to the science kits for all children kindly sponsored by LeanWisdom – a curated professional course provider for Project…
“We need to find a way to live in harmony with nature and with each other, and AI is a threat to this goal.” ~ J Krishnamurti (1985) More people are seeing this in today’s world… this perspective on the focus of education makes a lot of sense… “AI is an iceberg that is going…
This was an amazing sight… it looked like a snake at first sight, but then it was pretty strange… After a quick search based on a wild guess, it turned out to be larvae migrating, possibly some kind of a gnat larvae. But why are these larvae moving like this? You might guess that it…
Had the opportunity to conduct a Kutoohala (curiosity – with experiential science) workshop at Kalkunte Village… Though these experiments were the same, and a repetition for me… they were new and very special for these children. And that enthusiasm and curiosity brings new life to those very same experiments! There were 60+ children from two…