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Teachers and Students Preparing Bamboo Products

Bamboo Plough

standing of how toys work. this water filter, bamboo
The teachers, too, honed charcoal, a highly porous
their artisanal skills. The toys material covered in numer-
produced include wheeled ous minuscule holes, is used
toys, bamboo pop-guns, instead of regular charcoal.
flutes, kiddy banks, pen It increases its absorption
stands, models of animals, capacity, quickening the
bullet bikes, cars, wheel cuts, process of absorption.
airplanes, well, plough, Bamboo Gillidanda: The
house, etc. traditional method to meas-
Teachers use the bamboo ure length is by using a
TLMs as aids to help stu- bamboo Chirragona stick,
dents visualise their text- also called Gillidanda in
book learning. Some of the Telangana. Students are
models developed are ex- taught to use this danda as
plained here: a standard tool for measur-
Bamboo Pinhole Camera: ing length.
This shows how light trav- Bamboo Triangle: Bamboo
els in a straight line. sticks, fashioned in the
Bamboo Cycle Pump: shape of a triangle (or any
Demonstrates how air occu- other figure such as rectan-
pies space and the concepts gle, square, rhombus, or
of pressure and force. circle), are used to explain Bamboo Wheel Cart
Five-pot water purifier: In various geometric shapes.

P Murali Krishna, a secondary school teacher at MPUPS Ramakrishnapuram, Kothakota
Mandal, Wanaparthy district, demonstrated the making of toys for playful learning at the
International Conference organised by NCERT Bamboo Triangle
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