new delhi from using the game of stapoo and using spaghetti sticks and marshmallows to form 3d shapes to teaching about different angles through yoga postures innovation marks the classroom approach of these three teachers they will represent delhi at the national level vidya amrit mahotsav a festival of innovative pedagogyshilpa raghuvanshi chauhan postgraduate biology teacher at salwan public school rajinder nagar uses stapoo akin to hopscotch to help children learn about the structure and functioning of the heart the 39yearold chauhan has been a teacher now for a decade after gaining a phd degree from jawaharlal nehru university she said the objective of the project was to help students enjoy learning and retaining information about long biological processes through affordable games games can be easily designed so that students from all sections of society can benefit when they are learning through stapoo they are in groups and jointly learn the lessons which they can revise easily too one good thing about this is that even students who are introverted in classrooms have been coming forward to play and learnchauhan said students of classes ix to xii have been learning in this fashion some children from nearby schools have also come to play the gameat nk bagrodia global school dwarka komal a mathematics teacher has been using spaghetti sticks and marshmallows to concretise lessons on cubes and cuboids for class viii students a teacher now for four years 31yearold komal studied at a delhi government school and completed her postgraduate course from delhi university i was teaching them eulers formula but did not want to do it in the normal manner i asked the students to get 20 spaghetti sticks and 10 marshmallows i divided them into groups and gave them 30 minutes to form geometric structures revealed komal only two groups were able to use all the 20 sticks i wanted to bring in design thinking and help them learn about vertices edges and facesshalini malhani of nk bagrodia public school in sector 4 dwarka has been teaching angles to students of class v by making different shapes using gestures pencils notebooks and through yoga because of the interactive method adopted by malhani some students were even inspired to write poems on anglesthe methods adopted by these three teachers were selected from among the best 15 projects on innovative pedagogy from delhi their innovative approach meets the criteria of the national council for educational research and training and these practices have now been uploaded on the diksha app of the union ministry of education