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Guidelines for educators and facilitators

These teaching plans have been developed as a part of the project “Water Classrooms” undertaken by the Living Waters Museum at the Centre for Water Research at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune and collaborators such as the Centre for Environment Education (Pune) and Science Activity Centre (IISER Pune). The project was funded through the Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements.

How to use these teaching plans?

• We would encourage the educators/facilitators to inform students about the expected learning outcomes of the class to make them a stakeholder in their learning.
• Each teaching plan can be divided into multiple sessions as seen apt by educator/facilitator.
• ‘Use of time’ given in the teaching plans is suggestive and the educator/facilitator may alter this as per their classrooms.
• We encourage educators/facilitators to go through the provided background content with each teaching plan.
• Images or other media used from the curriculum on slides or otherwise must be accompanied with respective credits, also given in curriculum.
• Slides with only text can become boring for students. We suggest keeping those to a minimum of 2-3 in a one hour session.
• All content and media used should be from a verified source.
• Content/visuals used should preferably be from the public domain educator/facilitator may use sites like Wikicommons Media. One must check the creative commons licenses associated with images and other content before (re)sharing. Always give credit as appropriate.
• You may use the content from the websites of Living Waters Museum or the Global Network of Water Museums by giving due credit
• We recommend that all facilitators/educators refer to terms of use and contact us in case of queries.

If you have queries or suggestions for the teaching plans, please write to us.