The theme behind every experiment: Engage · Observe · Explore
Every Jigyasu experiment is designed around Engage · Observe · Explore. Students Engage with divergent phenomena through “magic trick” type activities, Observe textbook concepts live with demonstration models, and Explore by discussing and assimilating what they see, confirming or challenging explanations through hands-on experiments. In the classroom, we teach through Active Learning methodology.
What experiential means at Jigyasu
Students learn science from the real thing: real experiments and real phenomena, live in the room. Not by listening to lectures and taking notes, and not from videos and diagrams alone.
Not a video or a diagram
The real thing, live
Real experiments and a real phenomenon happening in the room, mapped to the chapter students are on.
Not a demo to watch and forget
Students in the middle of it
They try it, talk it through in groups of four to six, and write down what they think is happening.
Not notes to memorise
Understanding they can explain
Every session ends with students explaining the idea back in their own words.
Engage, Observe, Explore
Engage
Spark curiosity
Students engage with divergent phenomena through “magic trick” type activities: something happens that they didn't expect, and they want to know why.
Observe
See the concept live
Students observe textbook concepts live with demonstration models, seeing the idea work instead of only reading about it.
Explore
Test it yourself
Students explore by discussing and assimilating what they see, confirming or challenging explanations through hands-on experiments.
"The Earth is a giant magnet"
How the experiments and the teaching come together in a real Grade 6 period, mapped to the chapter students are already studying.
Grade 6 · Curiosity, Chapter 4 "Exploring magnets" · sections 4.3–4.4
Students believe a compass simply "points north".
- EngageThe teacher hangs a bar magnet on a string. However it's turned, it swings back to north–south on its own, just like the compass.
- ObserveStudents magnetise a plain needle themselves with about 30 strokes, float it on a cork in water, and watch it turn north. In groups, they work out what changed inside the needle.
- ExploreThen the real question: if the Earth is a giant magnet, why isn't every iron rod a magnet? Groups research it and explain their answer to the class.
Active Learning, in a school period or after school
In a school period
Science Studio and Lab-in-a-Class, run by your teachers
Demonstration and explanation, then group questions, then advanced questions, then each group explains one answer back.
In the Foundation Program
After school, run by Jigyasu instructors
Three or four experiments on one concept, with written reflection, about 20 minutes of discussion, an advanced experiment, and a question to research at home.
Every activity is mapped to the chapters students already study, across CBSE, ICSE, IB & state boards.
How we teach: Active Learning methodology
Active Learning is the method we use to teach in every classroom. Students don't passively absorb: they think, discuss, write and explain, and about three-quarters of every session is students doing the work, not listening. Active Learning is one of the most studied teaching approaches at leading universities, and we have refined it over two decades in Indian classrooms.
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