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How it feels being a tutor in an Experience Karkhana Class.

🇳🇵 · Karkhana · Aavash Baral

Have any of you ever taken a class before. Classes can include a generic Science class, a Mathematics class, an English class, or even any classes related to numerous disciplines. If not, have you ever wondered how a desired information is conveyed to the audience/students? For me, these were the two questions I had no prior thoughts to. However, I was intrigued when I was assigned to share roles in a “ Karkhana Experience Class ” for the first time since being a part of the Karkhana community . Hence, I started to wonder. How do teachers take their classes in reality? How do they prepare beforehand? How do they decide on the route they wish to take to make their audience understand the things they’re trying to convey? And finally, how do they ensure that what they were trying to deliver was conveyed? My questions gave rise to even more ones, but all these internal conflicts ultimately boiled down to two things: What I was trying to convey? and Whom this delivery was intended for? Basically, an Experience Karkhana Class is differen

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Spring into Action

🇳🇵 · Karkhana · Karkhana

It was a busy day at Karkhana. We were trying to figure out some activities that could help students understand energy in action. After researching for a moment, a group of our team members came with a very exciting conclusion, ‘A PRANK BOX’. The basic idea of the activity is that it’s a small box with a cover and something pops out when we open it. We can teach students about how the stored energy in a box is converted into energy in action when we open the cover of the box. We solved one problem but there was another problem again. How can we make something pop out from a box? Sunoj came up with an idea and tried to make a spring out of thin length of rods. It did not really work that well but it gave us idea about how we could solve the problem. We then tried to make spring using different materials like Acrylic sheets, plastic bottles. Plastic bottles finally did the job. It was good enough to solve our problem for the moment. We really found a cool trick to make spring using plastic bottles. We attached a long rod to a drilling machine to help us roll those sheets in a sha

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