i) Stories and Play

- Forming a mindset where joy and agency can be experienced and making it contextually relevant
- Helping in scaffolding aSer story-telling and puppetry
- Nurture team building, collabora;on and strategy skills

ii) Tinkering and Making

- Cross-disciplinary in which multiple dispositions are intersecting
- Social constructionist approach: move towards grass-root innovations for social change
- Nurture socio-scientific temper through an integrated approach


In the year 2022-23, 5 puppet shows were done based on stories from bestseller books. We linked a theme and concept based on a particular learning objective for each puppet show. Each puppet show is followed by a session on Toys, Games, Puzzles, and Making based on concepts and themes.

Khoj Yaan (earlier Khoj Dabba) program is an arts-based tinkering program built on the foundations of maker educa;on principles. The program, on one hand, is extremely experien;al and, on the other hand, is quite reflec;ve. In this the focus is to bring out the voice and choice of the students experiencing their power to express and articulate things around them. It is based on the construc;onism principles of Seymour Papert in which the learners create mental models to understand the world around them. Further, constructionism holds that learning can happen most effec;vely when people are ac;ve in making tangible objects in the real world. In this sense, constructionism is connected with experien;al learning and builds on Jean Piaget's epistemological theory of constructivism.

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