A video-based module through which the students are shown a few short films or videos for guided rounds of discussions, analysis and interpretation as learning.
Items Required:
- Screens (laptops/ TVs/ Monitors)
- Projector / HDMIs cable
- Notebooks and Stationary for the children.
- A marker board for the facilitator
- Downloaded materials on a hard drive/ laptop or a portable storage device.
The videos to be presented/ shown:
Deer’s Fear
JUNGLE BABBLERS, THE NOT SO ANGRY BIRDS
RED BERRIES AND THE BLUE MAGPIES
The Paradise Flycatcher’s parenting story clip
28:45- 30:00
Afterdark: THe nightlife of the nocturnal nightjar
Note to the facilitators:
- The children are shown the videos and guided towards a round of discussion. The discussions bring a basic understanding of communication among animals and birds through sounds or body language.
- Facilitators must establish the regularity of witnessing such communications around us, if such communications are audible enough to us, or how feeble is it? The probable factors causing a disturbance in these communications should also be encouraged as part of the discussion.
- There should be guidance and nudging by the facilitator during the discussions rather than giving away straight points or answers. Each video will direct to one of the pointers below. It highlights the reasons for the communication occurring among the birds and animals.
- Facilitators must also connect intersectional topics, and current-day crises as part of discussions with the below points and the videos.
Takeaway notes for the students
Reasons for the communications that take place among birds and animals. One or more of the following points will come clear with each video or clip viewed.
- Defending Territory.
- Group Coordinating behaviour.
- Caring Nurturing attending to the Young.
- Communicating a threat.
- Attracting a mate.