Season Watch

This article demonstrates the process of implementing a citizen science project to simultaneously kindle the love of nature in children and foster learning about the environment.

Aastha Maggu, in her article titled “Learning spaces outside schools,” highlights resources that aid educators in guiding students to explore their environment beyond classrooms. These materials focus on nature education, heritage conservation, and engaging students as citizen scientists.

In ‘Climate Change in the Classroom: A Case for Utilizing Citizen Science in School Education,’ Geetha Ramaswami discusses a citizenship science project that studies seasonal, cyclical changes in trees across India and makes teachers and students an integral part of this process of research and knowledge creation.

The Ground Zero piece focuses on the work of three organizations, whose engagements with ICT is diverse and effective. These range from using learning apps for bridging educational gaps of children from marginalized communities, to data management, and running citizen science initiatives with students and educators.