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Children dissect the insect world on `Creepy Crawly Day'

Staff Reporter

ENGROSSED: Teachers talk about insect life at Vael's Billabong High International School.

CHENNAI: Classrooms turned into colourful and gaily lit centres of children's activity.

Transformed into ants, grasshoppers, worms and other bugs, teachers explained the life cycle of insects, their food habits and predatory abilities to students of over a dozen schools in south Chennai.

The occasion was `Creepy Crawly Day' organised at Vael's Billbong High International School at Neelangarai on Monday and Tuesday.

Participants learnt the astonishing features of insect life, which forms 95 per cent of animal life on the planet. More than 800 children from other schools visited the school during the two days, says managing trustee Aarti Ganesh.

"The Billabong model endeavours to break away from traditional teaching practices, and lays emphasis on learning by doing and experience. The children use, manipulate and interact with the learning materials, and that's how they reach very high standards of educational achievements," said founder trustee Isari K. Ganesh.

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