The project focuses on improving teaching methods for pre-primary students in rural municipal schools, addressing challenges such as resource scarcity, low attendance, and ineffective learning materials. It aims to design engaging, low-cost teaching aids that enhance storytelling and interactive learning, thereby fostering curiosity and socio-emotional development among young children. By mapping the educational system and collaborating with subject matter experts, the project seeks to provide tailored solutions for the unique problems faced in these educational settings.

3. Acknowledgments
1. Abstract
2. Scope of project
3. Project Objective
4. Understanding the System
4.1 Organisation structure of municipal schools
4.2 Departments
5. Research
5.1 Selection of sub - system
5.2 Introduction - Anganwadi
5.3 Activities and teaching pattern
6. User study
7. Parallel system - Kinder garten
8. Synopsis- Problem identification
9. Design opportunities
10.Design parameters
11.Design brief
12.Idea sketching
13.Desin direction (redefined design brief)
14.Concept selection
15.Detailing
15.1 - Dimensions
15.2 - Colour pallet
15.2 - Functions
15.4 - Graphics
16. Concept (in details)
17. Technology availability
18. Final prototype

4. I would like to express my gratitude to my guide, Mrs. Shetall
Natuu and Mr. Vikram Mitra for all their guidance in this learning
experience with the project. I would also thank Mr. Kiran Sabnis and
Pramod Sadolikar sir for their help to understand the scope of the
project.
Furthermore, I wish to express my gratitude to thank teachers of
the school and special thanks to all the pre- primary children
Most sincere thanks to the workshop staff for their co-operation and
guidance in the model making stage.
I would like to thank my friends, especially Devina, Malvika,
Bageshree, Nikhil and Gaurav for their understanding, patience and
motivation at every stage through the project

5. The project aims at studying a system of Municipal schools which
are situated at rural sector. We came across the news of teaching
methods in rural areas and the availability of resources for them.
This actually triggered the project idea.
After this we started to acquire some more information and
problems faced by rural school children. This topic is very vast in
nature as it is been handled by many people, NGOs and social
activists for betterment of rural school education. There are many
directions within this system.
There are scarcity of resources, teachers in core villages, teaching
learning materials, and students' attendance and retention level in
class because lack of interest, time, and awareness as well as
poverty.
This is our major challenge n a group to understand problems and
provide solutions on different directions.

6. The scope of this design project covers the improvement for
teaching methods of pre - primary students
This would involve studying organizational structure, existing
teaching methods, studying the context, contextual enquiry and user
behavior .Which will help to provide better solution to the existing
flaws in the subsystem.
The main objective of this project is to study the system of rural
municipal schools as well as the hierarchy in the educational system,
entities, then the selecting sub-system and understanding it in detail
to provide solutions to the observed problem areas.

9. To understand the overall scenario of the education system we
mapped out entities and activities involved in a whole system for this
we met few subject matter experts. who gave us and idea and
details about exact working of the system.
Then we have included systemic representations of the system which
specifically deals with
- Information flow
- Money flow
- Rural education system

17. Pre primary class is the very beginning of the school and formal
educational training. I think the fundamental understanding happens
from this stage. Students' age group starts from 3 - 6 and then they
are ready for their primary classes. So before primary its very
important and vital beginning portion in all students life.
During this study I came across many people who say that they still
remember their nursery teacher. So we can imagine the kind of
enjoyment, learning and bonding was there. Children's' mind in this
stage is very fragile and they are very much observant about things
around them. They try to build vocabulary of words, images etc.
which helps them building up fantasy. Fantasy and stories are big
parts of this stage of learning.
So I found this sub system of Anganwadi (courtyard play center)
interesting to build some basic learning aids and adding some more
fun element.

25. Children come half an hour before the
school starts. These younger kids like
playing with their peers as well as elder
siblings. Parents drop them and pick
them after school.

26. According to circle painted on the floor of
the classroom teacher arranges some
games.
This includes following oral orders,
imitations, creating different sounds etc.

27. Daily they clean their classroom and
ground area. this forms habit for
cleanliness in them.

28. Everyday as per decided menu SHG (self
help group prepares food for anganwadi
school children; generally they cook
sprouts, khichadi, etc.
Children sit around the painted circle
and co-coordinator and teacher serves in
their Tiffin.

29. Teacher
Students

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52. Play and learn
Low cost
Non- electric
Easy to manufacture
Made with local available materials
Simple to assemble
Modifiable

53. Charts -
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GOVT provides / teacher gets Rs.500/- per
year to make teaching learning material
Charts contains
- stories
- animals
- fruits
- sounds
- vehicles
- seasons, etc
Story board -
wooden platform is covered with cloth
which kind of acts as
platform on which pieces of
story are stuck
Magnetic slate -
Magnetic slate contains number of circles drawn with
Different colours and provided with number of magnetic
circles on which there are printed pictures of colors,
birds, animals, vehicles etc.
Abacus rectangle - wooden rectangle wth abacus beads are there.children
like playing it.Wooden colourful beads attract them
a lot.

54. Design a sequential story telling board or device
which can be used by students and teachers both.

56. Puzzles and pics

57. Puzzles and pics
All in one unit

58. Chart scroll

59. Board game
In this board game child acts like peg and with teacher's assistance they can play this game.
There will be visual story which run through the board and children has to follow the story and
punishment or action round will come. In this session they have to act like the specified
subject like frog jumps, old woman. This will add some interest and fun element.

60. Flipping puzzling charts
Board game
Curiosity is very important being a child they are
more curious than us. For maintaining that
curiosity this game has pictures on each side so
one colour and one image can stored and
memorized. Which are placed back to back.

61. Play character - “tingu”

62. Chart - kavad...sequential story telling

63. Design brief -
Design a chart displaying system which also
includes the sequential story telling session.
Making the whole learning activity fun and learn base.

65. The session in the anganwadi
class had taken to understand
the liking about stories in any
form. So this activity was held
during the lateral concept stage
which led the understanding of
children's' emotional stages after
story and the kind of things they
expect form this session.
They like story telling session
the most.
They add few of their
experiences or fantasies in the
story, so here the sense of
capacity comes which boost
their socializing confidence with
their friends
Visuals make a difference since
at a early stage of building visual
stereo types it helps a lot
So rapid images drawing and
telling a story was very
enjoyable activity of that day.
Observations
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66. Slide shows through the curtains rolling and unrolling
1. Slide show- story curtains

67. 2. Rotating drum
This drum has strips on its side and can be changed so it creates interest for all the images.
With musical element added

69. Metaphor Of kavad is included to
create this sequential story
telling. This usually engages kids
in the stroy
3. Chitra - Chakra

70. Diffrent kavads are given to tell
stories from the given seen.
For eg. Fair, city.
3. Chitra - Chakra

71. 800 mm
180mm
240mm
150 mm

72. 800mm

73. Graphics

74. Fruits plate Vegetables plate
Birds plate Animals plate
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75. One image at a time is displayed
this window plate serves the purpose
of visual impact on students mind
here charts are replaced by this multi purpose plates
- visuals are clear - no confusion in student’s head
- visual impact for specific objects
- visuals can be referred from any plate by
matching the plate , each one has one window
1 There are plates given for each topic
e.g. Fruits, birds, animals, vegetables,
daily activities etc.
Each plate has window which helps to
see the back plates images if required
to place some references
Whole activity of teacher or children
rotating the wheels is going to add fun
and it may give visual impact on child's
mind instead of cluster of images while
initial learning.
Colourful images and graphics made it
attractive teaching learning material
Considering the pre-primary level
making the learning act more fun and
learn base ,product has given with this
attachment which has set of 4 cards for
each story as well as random cards are
given for teachers to make new stories
to convey some morals and habits.
Teaching aid which gives more than one
function are appreciated because of
price factor in Anganwadi
Images can be changed through cutting
and pasting other images on top of each
or removing previous stickers or stuck
papers

76. Putting images form bunch which
can be connected and can be used to
come up with new stories
Story telling cards and
window picture can be
connected to make story
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77. Fruits, birds, animals, vegetables, daily activities
etc. plates for different topics.
Each plate has window which helps to see the
back plates images.
After learning basics of the content children can
have games like hide and sick of the images. And
this curiosity now what images will come next
will create an interest.

78. Considering the pre-primary level making the learning
act more fun and learn base ,product has given with this
attachment which has set of 4 cards for each story as
well as random cards are given for teachers to make new
stories to convey some morals and impress them with
good habits.
Back side images on the plates can be
incorporated to generate story with the cards
in the frame.