The instrument, which is used to listen to music or streaming videos, will now be used to understand and know more about reptiles in the Reptile House at Kankaria Zoo.
If you thought ideation and innovation was only the job of adults, then have a rethink. Seven-year-olds of Riverside School have come up with an innovative way of using iPods. The instrument, which is used to listen to music or streaming videos, will now be used to understand and know more about reptiles in the Reptile House at Kankaria Zoo.
The students of Grade 2 came up with this innovative idea during a visit to the zoo as part of their curriculum.
Phoram Desai, faculty for Grade 2, said, "Ideating and innovating something like this is a part of students' curriculum wherein they deal with real life problems and come up with practical solutions for the same. It was a three-month project wherein students had faculty members merely as helping hands."
Desai added that this is the second audio tour which is ideated and designed by students of Grade 2, Riverside School.
The first batch that worked on an audio tour was in 2008-09, for Hriday Kunj, Gandhi Ashram.
"Students, while working on their research for this project, found that it was very uninteresting and boring to read the information on reptiles put up at the zoo. So they came up with the idea wherein visitors can listen to an iPod and know more about animals. There are 13 audio clips, each describing various reptiles in the zoo," Desai said.
Apparently, the students themselves collected money for the four iPods that will be presented to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Thursday.
The audio tour is in three languages, English, Hindi and Gujarati and the research and study for the same was done in association with Kankaria Zoo superintendent, Sahu.
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