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FUN FACTS
India

Terry OBrien is an academician by vocation and a passionate quiz enthusiast by avocation. His leitmotif is the igniting of the quizzing instinct and an aptitude to develop the 3Rs of learning: Read. Record. Recall. He is a trainers trainer and a motivational speaker who has written several books. His flair for writing and speaking comes naturally to him.

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Introduction

Learning can be fun! Children can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through fun facts, children can develop social and cognitive skills and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments:

• Fun Facts must be pleasurable and enjoyable.
• Fun Facts must have no extrinsic goals; there is no prescribed learning that must occur.
• Fun Facts is spontaneous and voluntary.
• Fun Facts involves active engagement on the part of the reader.
• Fun Facts involve an element of make-believe.

Edutainment is a new approach for all to enjoy information that is around us but is often missed by most. This involves both play and work. There are differences between play and work. Play is mostly a self-chosen activity by the child, rather than prescribed by a parent or teacher; it is a process, rather than a predicted outcome or product. Work, on the other hand, has a definite intent and a prescribed outcome.

The Fun Facts series is compiled on a strong internally based motivation for playing. If parents and educators try to label experiences as play, but in reality have specific requirements for the activity, then it becomes work not play. Play is not wasted time, but rather time spent building new knowledge from previous experience.

There is a strong link between play and learning for young children, especially in the areas of problem solving, language skills, literacy, social, physical, and emotional skills. Young children actively explore their environment and the world around them through learning-based play. Play is a vital part of a childs optimal social, cognitive, physical and emotional development. Indeed Fun Facts provides a strong foundation for creativity, problem-solving and basic quest for knowledge. Through Fun Facts, children learn a set of skills.

There is indeed a positive co-relation between play and childrens learning. Thus, we have edutainment! The true value of edutainment is not that it can teach children facts, but that it can help them acquire important procedural knowledge, which is beneficial in acquiring declarative knowledge.

Today is a world of information boom. So we are ready for Infotainment, combining information with entertainment.

Happy reading!

FUN FACTS: INDIA

INDIA

T he official name of India is the Republic of India. The name India derives from the River Indus, which most likely is derived from the Sanskrit sindhu, meaning river. The official Sanskrit name of India is Bharat, after the legendary king in the epic Mahabharata.

POTPOURRI

I ndia is the seventh largest country in the world, at 2973190.0 (sq. km).

T he Kumbh Mela (or Grand Pitcher Festival) is a huge Hindu religious festival that takes place in India every twelve years. In 2001, over sixty million people attended, breaking the record for the worlds biggest gathering.

I ndia has one of the worlds highest rates of abortion.

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