Environmental Studies · M.Sc. Env. Science · 12 years
Raising kids who notice the planet.
12 years teaching Environmental Studies across Grades 3–10 — school gardens, waste audits, river walks and rooftop weather stations. I don't teach children to fear the climate crisis; I teach them to be too curious and too capable to ignore it.
Leave it better than you found itMud is a textbookFollow the wasteEvery child, one treeData in notebooks, soil on handsHope is a skillLeave it better than you found itMud is a textbookFollow the wasteEvery child, one treeData in notebooks, soil on handsHope is a skill
01 · The soil
Wonder first. Worry later.
I became an environment teacher the day a nine-year-old asked me where the school's garbage truck goes — and I realised I didn't know either. We followed it (with permission, mostly). That one afternoon taught the class more about consumption, dignity and systems than a term of textbook chapters ever had.
Since then my classroom has been wherever the question leads: the school terrace for weather data, the storm drain for water studies, the market for food-mile maps. My students have built fourteen school gardens, cut their campus's landfill waste by more than half, and presented findings to actual municipal officers who actually listened.
If your school wants environmental studies to be a living subject — mud under fingernails, data in notebooks, changes you can point to — I'd love to talk. Give me one patch of unused ground and one term.
You can't get a child to protect something they've never touched. So before the ozone diagrams and the carbon numbers, my students hold soil, count birds, and follow their lunch waste to where it actually goes. First they fall in love with the world. Then the science makes sense. Then the responsibility comes on its own.
NoticeEvery unit starts outside — a tree, a drain, a bird, a bill. Real things first, definitions later.
AskStudents frame their own question and design a small, honest investigation around it.
MeasureRain gauges, waste logs, species counts — real data collected by real hands.
ActEach unit ends with one visible change: a compost pit, an audit report, a letter to the ward office.
04 · Growth rings
Twelve seasons of growing
2019 — PRESENT
Head of Environmental Studies & Eco-Club
Prakriti International School, Bengaluru
Built the EVS program for Grades 3–10 from scratch — rooftop weather station, five-bin waste system that cut landfill waste 58%, and an eco-club of 140 students that runs the campus audits. Our biodiversity register logs 67 species and counting.
2014 — 2019
EVS & Science Teacher
Green Valley School, Bengaluru
Grades 4–8 EVS and general science; started the first school garden (now six), the annual river-walk unit on the Vrishabhavathi, and a compost program that still feeds the kitchen garden.
2012 — 2014
Education Officer
Paryavaran Trust (NGO)
Designed and ran nature-education workshops for 40+ government schools; wrote the trust's field-activity handbook used by 300 teachers across Karnataka.
05 · Roots
Education
2010 — 2012
M.Sc. Environmental Science
Bangalore University First class · thesis on urban lake ecology
2012 — 2013
B.Ed. (Science)
Christ University, Bengaluru Distinction
2007 — 2010
B.Sc. Botany & Zoology
Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru First class · 81%
06 · Badges
Certifications
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Green Schools Programme certifierCentre for Science & Environment · 2018
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Citizen-science educatorBird Count India / eBird · 2020
Water auditing for institutionsBiome Environmental Trust · 2019
07 · The harvest
What the work grew into
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Green Teacher of the Year — KarnatakaCSE Green Schools awards
2023
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58% landfill-waste reduction on campusPrakriti five-bin audit system, student-run
2021–
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14 school gardens establishedAcross three schools & NGO partner campuses
2014–
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Published — 'The Garbage Truck Curriculum'Teacher Plus magazine, on field-first EVS
2022
08 · Field notes
Where the learning lives
Swap these for real garden, lab & field-trip photos in the admin panel.
Rooftop weather station, Gr 6Pollinator patch in bloomRiver walk, VrishabhavathiWaste audit dayCompost pit, before & afterBird count, eco-club dawn walk
09 · Nature journal
Notes from the field
MAY 2026
Teach hope, not doom
Climate anxiety is real in ten-year-olds. Here's how I teach the crisis honestly without leaving kids paralysed.
Read entry →JAN 2026
The garbage truck curriculum
The best EVS unit I ever taught started with one question I couldn't answer. Follow the waste.
Read entry →SEP 2025
A garden is a syllabus
Soil pH, food chains, seasons, patience, failure — one 10×10 ft plot covers half the EVS textbook, better.
Read entry →
10 · The grove says
Word of mouth
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My daughter now audits our kitchen bin and lectures us about food miles at dinner. I have never been happier to be told off.
Ananya's motherParent, Grade 5
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Meera turned EVS from a rote subject into the reason kids come early on Saturdays. The waste numbers went down; the science scores went up.
PrincipalPrakriti International School
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She made us present our lake data to real municipal officers. I was terrified. They used our numbers. I'm studying environmental engineering now.
RohanAlumnus, batch of 2022
11 · For schools
Plant me in your school
🌱 NEW ACADEMIC YEAR JUNE 2027 · GIVE ME ONE UNUSED PATCH OF GROUND FOR A DEMO UNIT
Current employerPrakriti International School, Bengaluru
Current roleHead of Environmental Studies
Open toEVS/Science lead · Sustainability coordinator · Green-campus consultant
Expected salary₹9–13 LPA
Notice period60 days
Willing to relocateYes — Bengaluru, Mysuru, Pune · CBSE / ICSE / IB · schools with outdoor space preferred
Principal, Prakriti International SchoolCurrent employer · shared on request
Director, Paryavaran Trust2012–14 · shared on request
12 · Say hello
Leave a trail marker
Based in44, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru 560003, Karnataka
