Unplugged & Plugged

CT Activities for Every Classroom

80+ hands-on CT activities using everyday Indian objects. No device required for most activities. Culturally rooted, grade-appropriate, and ready to use tomorrow.

80+Activities
5Grade bands
90%Unplugged
Preschool / Grade 1 🦁
UNPLUGGED · CLASSIFICATION

Jungle Classification Game — Panchtantra Animals

Using animal cards from Panchtantra stories, children sort them by multiple overlapping attributes — discovering that classification depends on what question you're asking.

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Preschool · Ages 4–5 🎀
UNPLUGGED · SEQUENCING

Dress the Doll — Sequencing Morning Routines

Children sequence the steps of getting dressed using picture cards — discovering that order matters and that putting socks before shoes follows a rule.

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Grade 3–4 · Primary 🤖
UNPLUGGED · ALGORITHMS

Robot Teacher — Write Instructions for a Human Robot

One student is the "robot" who can only follow exact instructions. Another student must guide them from one end of the classroom to a target using only precise commands (forward 3 steps, turn right 90°…).

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Grade 4–5 · Primary 📮
UNPLUGGED · SORTING

Postman's PIN Code Machine

Students act as postmen sorting mail by PIN code for 5 districts. They discover that sorting all 50 letters one by one is slow — and design a faster two-step algorithm. Bubble vs. bucket sort!

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Grade 5 · Primary 🌅
UNPLUGGED · ABSTRACTION

Draw Your Mohalla Map — Geographic Abstraction

Students draw a map of their mohalla (neighbourhood) from memory — then compare it with a classmate's. They discover that each person's map contains different abstractions reflecting what matters to them.

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Grade 6–7 · Middle 🌾
UNPLUGGED · DATA STRUCTURES

Village Census Sorter

Students receive 30 "census cards" (name, age, occupation, village, income) and must answer 5 questions as quickly as possible — discovering that how you organise data changes how fast you find answers.

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Grade 7–8 · Middle 🗣️
UNPLUGGED · BOOLEAN LOGIC

Panchayat Decision Machine

A village Panchayat must decide who gets a scholarship. Students are given 5 rules (AND, OR, NOT conditions) and 15 applicant profiles — discovering Boolean logic in real decision-making.

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Grade 9–10 · Secondary 🚗
UNPLUGGED · GRAPH THEORY

Delivery Boy's Dilemma — Shortest Path

A Swiggy delivery partner must deliver to 6 houses in Pune. Students draw the city as a graph and find the fastest route — independently discovering Dijkstra's algorithm through structured questioning.

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Grade 10 · Secondary 🏙️
UNPLUGGED · SYSTEMS THINKING

Mumbai Local Train — Network Resilience

Students are given a simplified Mumbai local train network and must answer: "If Central Line shuts at Dadar, how does this cascade?" They discover single points of failure, redundancy, and resilience.

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Grade 11–12 · Sr. Secondary 🏥
PLUGGED · OPTIMISATION

PHC Bed Allocation — Linear Programming

Students model a Primary Health Centre allocating beds among maternity, fever, and emergency cases — setting up constraints as inequalities and finding the allocation that maximises patient outcomes.

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Grade 11–12 · Sr. Secondary 🤖
UNPLUGGED · AI ETHICS

Facial Recognition — Algorithmic Bias Debate

Students study a real case of facial recognition misidentification in an Indian city, identify what training data caused the bias, and debate the ethics of deploying such systems in public spaces.

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Grade 11–12 · Sr. Secondary 📡
PLUGGED · SIMULATION

COVID Spread Simulator — SIR Model

Students build a simple SIR model in a spreadsheet for a fictional city of 1 lakh people, varying transmission rate, recovery rate, and vaccination — discovering how small parameter changes lead to dramatically different outcomes.

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