Chapter 9: Teaching Nouns to primary students creatively using Tangrams and Puzzles Date/Time: 1st May 2024 Wednesday 4:42 am / 1st May 2024 Wednesday 7:28 pm This is yet another very interesting post about enhancing teaching and learning using technology creatively. This post is based on my experience of working voluntarily with the amazing learners at the Ranaa Child Welfare Foundation in Peshawar, a school for street children. The lesson was about teaching nouns and I had to think about teaching nouns in a not so traditional way. I came across the idea of using tangrams (chinese puzzles - a set of 7 shapes ) that could be used to teach nouns. This was something very different and I don’t remember being taught in this way. The lesson started with the discussion about different objects in the classroom. The learners came with different objects they see in class. These were sorted into different categories like person, place, animal or thing. As a whole class we came up with a defini