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TEACHERS:
Now, you can receive our IDEAS alert by email every
month. Just send us an email at ideas@whatsup.sg,
with your name, school and any other comments you
would like to share.
Joining our email list will ensure that you receive
our activity ideas as soon as they are ready, giving
you more time to plan your lessons.
We will also be sending the
solutions to our worksheets by email instead of posting
them directly on our site - so, sign up today!
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Dear teachers,
With this year being the International Year of Biodiversity, it is heartening to see stepped-up conservation efforts around the world. As a sampler, our September issue of What's Up informs about what is happening in Chagos, Madagascar and the River Huai. It also touches on the need to protect human beings as well from dangerous toxins. At first glance, readers may not see much similarity in what CASE is doing about toxic toys in Singapore, the efforts of the Mayor of Hiroshima to curb nuclear warfare and the conservation efforts in the three biodiversity stories. That's where IDEAS activities can help create conceptual links. Just as we've done with our story on the world's cheapest laptops and what is probably the world's costliest model train set. Kids often make such connections - and take cognitive leaps - more readily than adults do. That's why we applaud 12-year-old writer Adora Svitak for urging
grown-ups to learn from children. Allow us to share her speech (on pages 17 and 18) with you as a Teachers' Day treat, along with briefs about five amazing kids who have contributed to society. Our Teachers' Day wish? May we all - school teachers as well as others who seek to educate - free ourselves from mental shackles so that we are truly receptive to teaching and learning together with children.
Sincerely,
Mary Cherian and Cherian George
Editors - IDEAS
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This page was last updated on August 28,
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