Blog 3

 

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Today I am going to blog on how to use ICT tools to introduce about ‘Domestic animals’ to grade 1 students. Domestic animals are those animals which lives in and around our house. In this topic I am going to introduce different types of domestic animals with the name and short description about the animal. I am not only going to teach them about domestic animals but also the importance of keeping domestic animals in everyday life. Learning about domestic animals  not only help children identify and name the animal, it also helps them learn the importance and benefits of keeping those animals.

My lesson today focuses on the different types of domestic animals and the benefits. To introduce grade 1 students about domestic animals and different types of domestic 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 domestic animals correctly after watching the video.

·         Tell and know the benefits of domestic animal after watching the video.    

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 domestic 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  8 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 domestic animals, defining domestic animals and telling them about the benefits. In lesson development we can name and describe each animal with it’s benefits. 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

Match the following names of the animal correctly by looking at their benefits.

(so in this activity, names of the animals are given in one column and benefits of the animals are give in the next column. They have to read the names of animals and match it with their benefits in next column.)

If the activity instruction are not clear I have explained thoroughly in the video.