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Received: 7 February 2025

Accepted: 22 September 2025

First Online: 9 January 2026

Declarations

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: Full name of the committee that approved the research: No distinct/study-specific ethical committee approval taken. Below is the supporting explanation. The research involved curriculum-integrated educational projects/action research taken up by the author in a school where she works. Several such curriculum-integrated practices/projects are coordinated by the author periodically, during her service of past 16 years. This paper uses the reflections on those and illustrates them pictorially. The method involved student participants in general, as a class-group and not individually. This did not mandate the individual informed consent from participants. In this paper, for the purpose of maintaining confidentiality, name of the school is replaced with pseudonyms and faces are blurred in pictures. However, school has permitted to publish/use these. Confirmation that all research was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations applicable when human participants are involved: Confirmed and details mentioned above: If a study has been granted exemption from requiring ethics approval, the reason for this be explained in sufficient detail: The research-activities are taken as a part of school curriculum. Enrichment materials in the form of videos, PPTs, evaluation materials (Quiz) interactive math manipulatives were all prepared by the researchers. The interdisciplinary lesson plan, Teacher-notes, tools etc.were also planned, prepared by researchers and validated by group of expert educationalists. The research design did not involve individual interviews, biological samples, or collection of sensitive personal data. All data were gathered anonymously through standardized assessments conducted as part of classroom activities. Institutional written consent was obtained from the heads which is considered valid and sufficient for curriculum-integrated educational studies involving children under 18 years of age, as per local regulatory practices. No child was singled out or subjected to any experimental condition outside of the standard teaching framework.

: The head of the school permitted and encouraged the integration of this research. The ethical approval letter is available in the drive link shown below.

: The records, evidences in the form of pictures, students’ work, responses, evaluation sheets, tools are with authors exclusively and not shared anywhere. Note: Already human face is blurred in the pictures used; if in case any missed out, we hereby provide consent to publish.

: The authors declare no competing interests.