Project Work using ICT Knowledge

Till date the school asked students to submit the project work in hand written. There are rationale behind of such intention, For instance, if students are asked to do the project work in hand writing, first, children will improve their hand writing, and they will learn how to manage the page and also able to put there hard work. Second, the hand writing project work will enhance their writing skill endurance  which will help in their examination paper writing. However, there are some disadvantages of hand written project. Some of the problems the students encountered are
1. It take more time to complete their project work.
2. Waste more papers as they need to get new paper if they make mistake.
3. The information is not sufficient as they will refer less books.
So, keeping all those points in my mind, this year I asked students to submit their project work integrating ICT skill and knowledge. Well, when i collect and go through their project work, it is amazing that students could do much better in terms of cleanliness and even quality. They explored internet and inserted lots of meaningful information and even inserted images which are relevant to topic. Very importantly, i could check their project within short span of time and we haven't used the papers.
Therefore, I am happy that using ICT skills and knowledge it really help students to develop the ICT knowledge and even learn more. They also love to work interestingly using ICT which actually help them to concentrate and give due important to assigned task.  

This is video tutorial that talk how to do addition using 10 base block. Using this video tutorial, students can solve four operations very easily and their interest in learning get maximize. With help of this video tutorial, teacher no need to shout in the class as students watch carefully into ways the addition problem is solved. Moreover, there is explanation with demonstration. Therefore, I would say that video tutorial is effective tool to make teaching learning more efficient and meaningful. 

Lesson Plan

Class: VI                               Period:    III                                 Day/ Date: 9/9/2017

Subject: Social Studies          Time: 50 minutes

Topic: Rotation and Revolution

Teaching strategy:

Ø  Demonstration and explanation

Ø  Group work and presentation

Ø  Popcorn

Ø  Questions and answers session

Ø  Video clip

                                   

Teaching Learning Materials:

Ø  Short Video clip on Rotation and Revolution (downloaded from YouTube)

Ø  Question written on paper

Previous Knowledge: Students have learnt that there are four seasons and about day and night

Objective(s): By the end of the lesson, the child will be able to:

-tell the causes of rotation and revolution

-draw the diagram that clearly shows four seasons

-draw diagram that shows day and night

GNH Values:Education

Lifeskills:Self awareness

Teaching Learning Materials:

• Short Video clip on Rotation and Revolution(downloaded from Youtube)
• Question Sheet

Time	Teacher’s activity	Students’ activity
10 mins Introduction	Tell students that we experience four seasons, day and night due to revolution and rotation of the earth around the sun. In order to understand thoroughly why we experience four seasons and causes day and night, we are going to watch the short clip on rotation and revolution. Inform the students that we will be doing three activities. In first activity we will watch vedio clip on rotation and revolution. In second activity, we will do group work. Finally, we will draw a diagram that shows day and night and four seasons.	Students will listen to teacher carefully.

Time	Teacher’s activity	Students’ activity
10 mins Lesson development	Activity No. 1 Instructions for the activity Watch the video on rotation and revolution Observe and listen how four seasons are caused Observe and listen how day and night are caused After finished watching short clip, you need to solve the question in group within 5 minutes. Group captain will present to whole class in turn wise Checking the understanding of instructions Gain students’ attention and put following questions to students in order to check their instructions What we are going to do? After watching clip what you are going to do?	Students are listening passively to teacher’s instructions. Watch short video clip on rotation and revolution Solve the questions in group and need to present to whole class.
5 mins	Teacher will show the video clip and ask them to watch carefully.	Students watch carefully.
10 mins	After finish watching video clip, distribute the questions in group. Ask them to discuss and answer the questions. After finished writing answer to questions they will take turn and share their group points to whole class. Teacher will supplement if required. Sample questions Explain how day and night are caused. Explain how four seasons are caused.	Students start to discuss in group and answer the questions. Group captain in turn present their group works to whole class.
10 mins	Activity No. 2 Instructions Get your textbook Turn on page No. 16 and copy diagram that show four seasons. You need to do it individually You will get 10 minutes to copy it.	Students start to copy the diagram from text that shows clearly the four seasons.
5 mins	Activity No 3 INSTRUCTIONS Get your textbook Turn to page No. 14 and copy the diagram that shows day and night You will do it individually You will get 5 minutes to copy it.	Students will take their textbook and draw the diagram as per teachers instruction

Closure: (5 mins)

Ask the following questions to an individual student.

1. Why we have day and night?
2. How four seasons are caused?
3. Tell when will Bhutan have summer season?
4. Tell when will Bhutan have winter season?

Note: downloaded short clip and saved in the computer. The class will conduct in ICT room or

in dark room.

tutorial 

video clip on rotation and revolution 

Watching video clip very seriously 

group discussion after watching video clip

presenting group work to class

Analysis Report

I planned a lesson on a topic Rotation and Revolution for class VI. The objective of my lesson is that by the end of the lesson the child will be able to give reason why there is day and night.  In the similarly manner, the child will also able to explain with diagram the causes of four seasons after watching a video.

In order to make lesson effective and interesting, I used short video clip. Later the students were provided set of questions to be answered in group based on short video clip. The lesson is for 50 minutes. Well, to get concrete feedback on delivery of my lesson, I asked Mr. Jigme Kuenzang, academic coordinator to observe my lesson. As usual, we had pre-conference and also did post conference too. The some of the good things of my lesson and points to be noted for future improvement are as discussed below.

Good points of my lesson

Some of the good points noted by my lesson observer are as discussed below;

1.      Effective  group  work and presentation

According to Mr. Jigme Kuenzang (lesson observer) he states that all groups’ members participated equally active and were able to complete assigned tasks on time. He added it is because I gave clear instructions of an activity and due to use of a video clip. He also added that presentation was very precise and everyone in the class enjoyed thoroughly. 

2.      Use of video clip to teach rotation and revolution

Another good about my lesson is engaging the students to watch video clip before I provide the group activity.  My lesson observer shared that I have shown interesting and relevant video clip to teach the rotation and revolution. He added that the students were fully engaged and watched so passionately. Further, he elaborated that a video clip consist good animation and language used was very simple and to the level of class students. Moreover, students saw practically how rotation and revolution are caused and very importantly, in the video clip there is experiment demonstrated on how day and night are caused.

3.      Closure part

An interesting part of my lesson is closure part. In order to check students’ understanding on taught lesson I used popcorn strategy. Very surprisingly, entire students raised the hands to share on what they have learnt and it was good to learned that students could give correct answer to questions posed.  My lesson observer too enjoyed closure activity and he proudly shared that it was worth attending my lesson.

Weakness of my lesson delivery

Some of the lesson that I need to take note in my next lesson are as discussed below:

1.      Drawing activity (drawing that depicts four seasons due to revolution)

According to my lesson observer, he noticed that drawing part was little difficult and time consuming activity. He shared that couple of students do not know how to start the drawing and even they do not have pencil and eraser which actually disturb their friends. To this aspect, he recommends me to see the readiness of students before I begin any activity. He also added to guide and monitor to those needy students. 

2.      Time management

Again my lesson observer observed that I didn’t used time as allotted in each activity. For instance, I assigned 10 minutes for lesson development but as per his record it evidenced that I took around 15 minutes to introduce and to develop the lesson. Because of poor management of time I need to rush in first and closure activity. Likewise, he also added that I closed my lesson before I complete my closure activity.

Future commitments

Well, to make the lesson effective and précised, first I will carefully look into the difficulty of activity. If activity is challenging I will provide them ample time so that student will get time to try and make it possible. Further providing ample time and support service to those needy students will help me to fulfill my lesson objective and students’ learning would become meaningful too. I will also make sure that I will give clear instructions and check their understanding of instructions before I start any activities so student will be ready.

In the same manner, I will try to reduce the activities so that students who are slower learner will be able to cope with typical students and teacher will also able to provide constructive feedbacks for betterment of learners. The minimizing activity will help me to achieve my lesson objective and will have quality lesson delivery.

General feelings about my lesson

Of course I integrated the ICT during my day to day teaching and learning process. But a usual thing that I used is power point presentation. Well, in today’s lesson I used video clip. It is sort of video tutorial that encompassed animation and explanation by professional trained teacher. She uses simple language and my class VI students understood very well. In overall, my lesson went very well and classroom management was much better compare to previous class.  Very interestingly, there was interactive session during entire session which is positive sign that there are many impacts in learning through integration of ICT.

Acknowledgement

First, I would like to thank Lop Jigme Kuenzang, for observing my lesson and providing concrete feedbacks. I also would like to thank my class VI students for cooperating with me and taking keen interest in teaching and learning. Finally, I would like to thank our ICT tutor for providing constant guidance and showering professional skills in executing the ICT in teaching and learning process.

Tutorial video to teach Rotation and revolution for class VI students.

This is a video clip that i have used to teach my class VI students to teach rotation and revolution. My dear friends it is very relevant learning ICT materials and would like to share to be used in your school too.

Used Video tutorial to teaching students.

On 7/9/2017, I have a class in class VI students. I was teaching rotation and revolution to my students and i found it was difficult task. So, later, i used video tutorial to teach on same topic. It is only 4 minutes video and it is amazing that students could do assigned group work effectively. very importantly, I covered my lesson within stipulated. So, integration of ICT in teaching and learning serve great purposes.  

Learning through Exploration using ICT

With connection of internet in the school. Students learn much better then those days. Students only ask to teacher to visit internet room to explore and learn better. Now a day students become creative and critical in their thinking. Their level of thinking and way of learning is much better then  those days.

student exploring using ICT knowledge 

Well, to share my experience,  I gave home work on three course of river. Some of the students they have read the text and they presented next morning. Well, couple of students they did it wonderful job. I was amazed and wondered listening to their answer. Therefore, I would like to inform my friends that if opportunities were given to students they can do much better. This is actually what we called it  "learning through exploration or learning by doing".
Therefore, if we use ICT for good purposes there are advantages.

 

Used ICT facilities to teach higher class students in learning photosynthesis

The lesson was designed to teach students the process of photosynthesis. I googled the you tube and showed children how photosynthesis is taking place.
Since, students are viewing practically, they were amazed and some of them shared that learning was interesting and fun.
So, my personal understanding is that in this 21st century, teaching using chalk and board doesn't meet the needs and interest of students. Therefore for effective lesson delivery, we need to use ICT for better understanding of teaching.
Well, maximum of my period is afternoon and everyone use to put their heads down but teaching using ICT was different story. They Love to watch more and their level of interest in learning was double compare to teaching using chalk and board. Therefore, they belief and trust in our teaching and their interest in learning is motivating.