Stop, Look & Wonder : A Curriculum for Context-based Learning
A Handbook for Educators – Vol. 1.0
Author – Ankita Rajasekharan \ Research and Translation – Shikha Nain
No matter where we are, be it a forest, a water-body, a mountain top, a city, we are always in the company of a multitude of species. Some of these are magnificent and easy to behold- a giant tree, a wild mammal, a domesticated cat, a chirping bird. Several others, not so- a buzzing bee, a spider in the corner, a velvet mite in the soil, wild weeds in a garden, a plethora of microorganisms! What might we stand to gain, in paying attention and observing who we share our landscapes with? What might we stand to gain in stepping into the conversation amidst the human and more-than-human world that we find ourselves in?
Inviting you to engage with and take these questions and more to your class-rooms, with our curriculum- Stop, Look and Wonder. Developed in collaboration with the landscape and people of the land in Kanha, this educator’s handbook is a context-based nature education curriculum, easily adaptable to most forest-based communities.
This is a free and open-source handbook for educators, to use in your own class-rooms or as an accompaniment in teacher-training programs in the space of nature education. Please get in touch with us if you have any trouble accessing the resource. We hope that the activities and teaching-learning materials in the handbook will make for deeply engaging and chatter-filled classrooms!
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