Blog 4

 

Hello again!

Today in continuation with my previous blog  I am going to blog on how to use ICT tools to introduce about ‘wild animals’ to grade 1 students. Wild animals are those animals which lives in the forest or away from human. In this topic I am going to introduce different types of wild animals with the name and short description about the animal. I am not only going to teach them about wild animals but also the description about how they look and what food they eat. Learning about wild animals  not only help children identify and name the animal, it also helps them learn about the forest and live of those animals in the forest. In addition to that it can also help students to differentiate between wild and domestic animals.

My lesson today focuses on the different types of wild animals. To introduce grade 1 students about wild animals and different types of wild animals I have created simple but effective teaching learning materials (TLM) or you can call content based material, made in Power Point Presentation (ppt) with some animation and converted into video so that they can learn better by watching the video. Learning about animal is very important and it is much more beneficial.

Lesson objectives

By the end of the lesson each child will be able to:

·         name and identify the wild animals correctly after watching the video.

·         describe wild animal after watching the video.

·         Differentiate between wild and domestic animals.   

The instructions for creating content based materials/TLM  are as follow

·         First of all, I have chosen Power Point out of many other ICT tools to create TLM

·         Then I have downloaded attractive pictures of wild animals and inserted microsof Power Point.

·         Next I have inserted the sound of each animals along with the picture to make it interesting.

·         I have also written the name of the animals along with short description about the particular animal.

·         And also I have added some animation to look more attractive to children

·         And I have recorded the voice explaining them each slides.

·         I have around  9 slides, where last side is for activity to check whether students have understood the lesson or not.

·         Lastly I have converted ppt into video using camteasia studio.

When should the materials be used?                

The material can be used in lesson introduction, development and learning activity.

We can introduce the lesson by introducing about wild animals, defining wild animals. In lesson development we can name and describe each animal with how they look like and what they eat for survival. Lastly, I have designed the activity to check whether each of them understood the lesson clearly or not. And the activity questions are framed based on the previous slides presented.

Activity instruction

This activity is mainly focused on connecting previous lesson about domestic animals with today’s lesson about wild animals.

Activity question

Write at least three differences between wild and domestic animals with the examples in the table given.

(If activity instruction is not clear, I have explained it in the
video.)