Content based learning materials

ICT Integration in Primary Classroom.

The teacher can use ICT in the classroom as an informative tool. It is an application that provides a large amount of information in various formats such as text, graphic, sound and video. Chen and Hsu (1999), define an informative tool as a passive repository of information. It is considered to be the most significant ICT tools in an e-learning environment because it provides us with vast information. I believe that the internet is like a virtual textbook, reference library and virtual tutor.

How and why I created the Materials.

After knowing the importance of ICT integration, I feel teacher must utilize the platform such as Google classroom, zoom, and Google Docs, for additional means of teaching and learning. Moreover, the teacher will ensure that the parents have access to the teacher's blog and other online platforms, whereby children learn the content without any problems, I can still remember where my previous teachers walked for an hour to visits students house and clarify their doubts, book correction and vice versa but nowadays we can easily clarify our doubts through telecommunication, internet (We Chat, Instagram, Facebook and telegram etc.) it makes work easier for both the teachers and students. Besides, an online class plays pivotal roles during the time of covid-19 pandemic. where we had to immediately switch to the digitalized classroom and had formal classes through Zoom meet and Google classroom etc.  

Today I am going to blog about the content-based materials for class Three, Mathematics and the topic that I have chosen is "3-D Shapes under chapter, five Geometry, I found this topic can easily teach through ICT integration and it will be worth teaching and learning through representation (Simulation, PowerPoint, pictures and video tutoring). Most of the researchers suggest us to teach the lesson through concrete meaning where teacher demonstrates/ giving the clues of concepts, then representation, whereby both teachers and students needs to engage together to complete the task and gradually, switch on to the abstract ideas where children can do the task independently.  

In this blog I also emphasized concrete, representation, and abstract ideas to teach contents by ICT integration like Camtasia, PowerPoint  as a tools to deliver my lesson/contents, my PowerPoint comprises of Quiz on 3D Shapes just to recapitulate or check the students prior knowledge before we dive into the formal session. In lesson input I will disseminate the information about 3-D shape  and their properties,  and in closure I will lets children to complete the worksheet. To come up with that PowerPoint presentation and the video lesson I had to to rely on the internet to get the images of 3 D-Shapes and to have an interesting session I have also used some animation like motion, entrance and so on… my main purpose of making this video lesson is to substitute contact teaching (face to face teaching ) and I feel Google classroom, Zoom Meet, We- Chat, and telegram as additional means to inculcate our daily lesson, this kind of forum will help them to raise their voice at any time by leaving the text in the we-chat or Google classroom etc. The main reason behind of developing this resources is to benefits/caters the diverse learners in the class.  

When should the materials be used..

I have created this resources mainly to impart knowledge about 3- D shape and it is going to be used in lesson introduction, lesson development and closure).  In the lesson introduction  I am going to conduct a short quiz on 3-D shape just to revisit/ check the students prior knowledge and to let students to guest what are going to learn, this materials can be also use in lesson development where I will take children through the definition of 3-D shape, Examples of 3- D shape as well. Moreover I have planned the activity in such a way to capture the students interest and made them engaged in the activity that is completing the worksheet by looking at the 3- D shape and write their faces, edges and vertices and the materials can be also used in lesson closure where I can summarize the session.

Video lesson please kindly go through it la

Activity Instructions: 

I argues you all to watch the video lesson carefully because I have given the clear instruction about the learning activity on "3 D-Shape",  and I had even attached the worksheet below, please complete the task and this task is an individual work, you all can complete the work and sent on our class WeChat . If you have any quires please do let me know..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ysSICi8bUdTAbuX07c5UkibL3GVYUM9S/view?usp=sharing