Saranya Palanisamy

India

Co-teacher: Ms Amalarani Sivashankar

Hi, I am Saranya Palanisami, from Tamilnadu, India working as an IB-PYP Homeroom Teacher for 4 years and Early years facilitator for 10 years. As a PYP teacher, I would like to take part in SDG to explore and enrich my skill and knowledge.

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School: Manchester International School 20 students are involved The average age of the students: 5 - 6 Year

Projects 2022

Causes of climate change

Students were given various situations to get their perspectives. For example,

What will you do if the whole year it was sunny and hot
What will be if it rains all the day
What will you do if you see a sudden snow fall (hence there is no snow fall in South India)

Effects of Climate change

The students of Manchester experienced only heavy rain with muddy puddle. Here they gained a knowledge about different natural disasters like

Blizzard
Drought
Flood
Volcanic eruption
Glacier melting
Tsunami
Earthquake

Local and Global effects of Climate change

Students were separated in to groups and they are presented their understandings through

Model Making
Posters
Drawings
Flashcards

Here they discussed about recent Local diasters like Chennai flood, Delhi Air pollution and also Global effects like Australian Forest fire etc...

Potential solutions for climate change

Here students comes up with the change which cannot be done in a day. So they have started to make small changes in school campus

Impressions

Images by Saranya Palanisamy 2022-10-17Palanisamy

Images by Saranya Palanisamy 2022-11-20Palanisamy