News & Blogs
Remembering Danish Siddiqui
Danish Siddiqui, father of one of the children at Prakriti and a world-acclaimed photo-journalist is no more today. However, his relentless quest for exposing the truth to raise consciousness of the society will keep him alive with us eternally....
Project-based Learning: Turning Personal Passions into Projects
In the age of the internet and fourth industrial revolution when all information is on open sources, communities and automated platforms, deep learning requires more hands-on work than ever before. It is the time for the schools to up the game...
Homeschooling in India
“The home is mankind’s first and most basic school. Home-centred education is as old as civilization itself, commencing long before public schools were organized or even conceived.”...
Filmoscope: Prakriti Film Making Workshop’21
This summer we conducted a Film-making workshop Filmoscope where 12 learners from Prakriti and outside participated with Boishali Sinha, Prakriti Film Studies Mentor. The four basic steps of making a movie were introduced to the children one...
Films that ‘Tweens’ Should Watch: Prakriti Film Appreciation Club
We conducted The Creative Film Appreciation workshop over the last 8 weeks and it was an enriching experience for us the facilitators. There were 9 very inquisitive and curious kids in the age range 12-15 years from various parts of the country...
I, My family and My home
An inter-disciplinary project undertaken by Grade 1 & Grade 2 in the first termMerry Group began its journey with the Project “Me, my family and my home”. The main objectives of this theme were to familiarize learners with their body parts...
Ten Years of a Collective Aspiration
This week the spirit of freedom in expression and creation was visible across all the classrooms at Prakriti. While the younger learners chose to celebrate the day with what they enjoyed the most with activities ranging from making the inkblot...
Virtual Science Fair
Our learners of Grade 6-8 presented their observations in Science through their experiments and creative ideas in a virtual science fair. They performed these experiments live and discussed the results against the hypotheses. See our young...
Presentation of Learning in Music by Grades 1-3
Our Grades 1,2,3 spent last four months learning Indian classical vocals and flute guided by Arupa Roy, a renowned music and dance artist. The children from the grades: Joy (Grade 1), Rainbow (2) and Sunrise (3) took part in Music POL with great...
Soft Robotics Workshop (Feb 2021)
Prakriti conducted the Soft Robotics Workshop this month in association with education researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University (Biodesign Lab) for our Grade Seven - Unity Group learners. The goal of the...
