On 3rd December, 2013 someone from
America who is an expert on animal rights came for the guest lecture. Our issue
for the PYP exhibition is about “Rights” and one of the sub topics is “Animal
Rights”. About 30, 5th grader students are working under the issue
“Animal Rights” and they are working really hard towards their inquiry. I as
their mentor thought it would be perfect for me to invite somebody who knows
tons of information on the issue.
One of our staff, Ms Nivedita helped me get in
touch with Jennie. Jennie is a student in America and works tremendously for
Animal Rights and has come to India to do research on the same. She gladly
accepted my invitation for guest lecture.
She brought amazing videos and pictures to
enhance her presentation. Kids loved them and they got to know a lot about
animal extinction due to human activities. They learned about palm oil
cultivation being a threat to “orangutans” a monkey species, or forest cover
being cut down due to other agricultural activities, rivers and ponds and lakes
being polluted and thus aquatic animals dying due to water contamination. She
went on further to show the kids, videos of how cows in India eat a lot
plastics unknowingly. She said, “This was the first time in my life that I saw
cows eating garbage. It happens only in India”.
There were many such case studies that she had
done and she presented them to the students. They on the other hand took full
advantage of the opportunity and asked her many questions and cleared their
doubts. In this interactive session, a lot of help was put through towards
their inquiry for the PYP exhibition. The event ended with card and gift giving
to the guest by the students. Jennie in fact also gave her reflection about the
session. (see below).
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