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Can Life-skills be a Part of the Curriculum?

Rupa tells us how life-skills can become a part of the school curriculum, where ecological awareness can be made enjoyable. An exclusive for Different Truths.

Schooling of over 13 years teach various subjects to meet children’s curriculum requisites under 3R’s. They go to school to learn numbers, letters, science, social studies, history, physics, chemistry, etc.

Those who pick specific lines of specialisation use some of the aforementioned subjects. Others have generic knowledge and fewer seem to have natural interest in learning everything.

What if fun activities and certain subjects could assimilate life-skills that will teach kids to be more aware self-reliant adults?

Most of learning is not used later in life. What if fun activities and certain subjects could assimilate life-skills that will teach kids to be more aware self-reliant adults?

What if the kids have the opportunity to weave in fun-learning projects that will serve them later to be productive citizens with civic sense? Depending on age, relevant concept and activities can be part of the curriculum other than 3 R’s. It could be as basic and simple.

What if the kids have the opportunity to weave in fun-learning projects that will serve them later to be productive citizens with civic sense?

Use Water Resource Judiciously    

  •   Ways water is being wasted, and tips to stem it
  •   Stop People who fill glasses or bottles and throw
  •   Sink water are running when brushing teeth, shaving, doing dishes, laundry
  •   Showers run water into drain waiting for it to warm up
  •   Divert used water to gardens

Be Green on a day-to-day basis

How to be Green on Day-to-day Basis

  •   How not to waste lunch or snack
  •   Where doable- donate leftovers
  •   Gardening to grow own produce
  •   Poultry; Dairy exposure and learn basic skills
  •   Recycle paper by using backside for scribbles and creativity
  •   Fix broken chair ; stool leg
  •   Create carpentry items from discarded furniture
  •   Fix a leak in faucet
  •   Divert water to gardens; lawns
  •   Paint a dirty wall
  •   Straighten warps in carpet
  •   Sew a button
  •   Fix a tear in Jeans
  •   Darn a hole in favorite shirt
  •   Sort garbage for recycling (Sweden is trash free and everything is color coded to go to right point for reuse)
  •   Reduce and eliminate disposable items, try green options
  • Cook age relevant items
  • Nutritious ways to eat
  • Taxes that will serve each person
  • Simple ways to be economically wise and save
  • See savings grow
  • Learn about investing
  • Resume building
  • Networking for future
  • Charitable causes and charity
  • Volunteering
  • Cleaning (Japanese students clean up their class rooms and bathrooms)
  • Addressing people, the right way in letter writing
  • Languages that serve to enhance employability

 A whole bunch of dependent young adults coming out of high school are confused as to what they seek to do next. While they sort through the myriad mazes of this puzzle, life-skills will come in handy.

A whole bunch of dependent young adults coming out of high school are confused as to what they seek to do next. While they sort through the myriad mazes of this puzzle, life-skills will come in handy. They will not be thrown off to be caught unprepared at life. Society’s gift to the young adults is to be self-reliant youth adept at life coping skills they can be proud of.

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Rupa Rao
Rupa is an army child who schooled in 9 towns in 12 years. She graduated from Jabalpur; did MBA, and Law from Mumbai. Travelling, learning about cultures, imbibing differences, dialects are a blessing of a nomadic life. She has been to Japan; Hawaii; Crete; Greek Islands; Amsterdam; Bermuda; the Bahamas and some exotic places within India. She has dabbled in poetry, interviews, articles, painting, Deejaying, etc. She seeks to explore places, people, adventures, experiences, colours, textures, stories waiting to be tapped.

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