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Professions and Sustainability

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Objectives

  • Understanding and describing different professions.
  • Describing and displaying the difficulties faced in the course of these professions, such as while becoming a certain professional, while sustaining a profession, having sufficient income, and securing dignity.
  • Differentiating between having dignity and being sincere.

Lessons covered

Grade 4: Pochampalli

Grade 5: Who will do this work?; No place for us; Whose forests?; On the move again.

Lesson activities

1) Reading texts/ Watching videos and having discussions (design activities based on the resources)

Traditional art and craft

  • Students can be asked to discuss about different handicrafts, such as painting, pottery, weaving, and other handloom activities known to them. Following this, the students can watch a video on handloom products in the North East, and they can further discuss about the things that are familiar to them. Handloom and Handicraft items of North East India - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsT3OEBPsc0.

The students can be introduced to famous handloom techniques, like that of Kanchipuram silk sarees through the videos and readings given below:

After watching the videos and completing the readings, the students can be asked to reflect on their views on the following issues:

Conditions of sanitary workers:

The students can be asked to talk about sanitary works, such as sweeping, rag-picking, toilet-cleaning, etc.

After watching these videos, the students can be asked to reflect about their views on sanitary workers.

Reading news articles about the conditions of sanitary workers at present:

The above news articles can be read and reviewed in order to make the students grasp the concepts of informal employment, safety precautions at work, health assurances, clean and unclean employment, and to make the students be able to discuss what formal employment in sanitation looks like. (Students could also be made to collect related news clippings and facilitate such a session)

About forest rights

A discussion can be started about forests with students expressing their views on forests, life in forests, tribal and people dependent on forests, and the importance of forests using the readings and videos given below:

After reading the texts and watching the videos, the students can discuss what they learnt from the texts and videos. The teacher can also analyze the change in their views on forests, people in forests, and forest rights, if any.

About professions and migration

2) Conducting Exposure Visits or Interviews (guidelines to be prepared)

  • To art centers, traditional art/craft practitioners—Handlooms, Potters.
  • To waste-collection or waste-segregation centers.
  • To a farm; interviewing a farmer/farming family.
  • To a construction site or industry where migrant labourers work—reviewing their working and living conditions.
  • Interviewing a migrant/sanitary worker/farmer.
  • The teachers are to conduct a general classroom pre-discussion about art/craft, specifically focusing on the art/craft that the students are to be exposed to.
  • The teachers should also set guidelines for the students—the students can list down the things that they would like to see, learn, and know about from the exposure visit
    • The students should follow an order while the visiting place, such as walking in a line, maintaining silence, not touching anything without the permission of people there.
    • The students should observe everything in the visited place.
    • The students should ask questions one at a time and understand the processes at work, the use of the different things and tools at the visited place.

The interview questionnaire attached can be used as a guideline

3) Assessment activities/Project Ideas

  • The students can recreate the stories from the textbook discussed in the classroom or write their own stories about professions of their choice and perform it as a drama. (Eg: Payirgalin Pasi short movie from GPS Kottucherrypet, Karaikkal dt—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buMCPNbsHy8).
  • The students can recreate the circumstances of a selected profession in the form of drama or a series of drawings, covering the daily life, challenges, and the future of those professionals.
  • The students can prepare a case study of an artisan/farmer/sanitary worker/migrant worker.

Grade: 
4, 5

Term: Term 3

Subject: 
EVS

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