Content Based Materials.

Kuzu Zangpo everyone, today I have designed the content based materials specially for grade three on the topic “ Estimating Quantity”,  from mathematics. The main intentional behind the creation of this materials/ by the end of the lesson each child we be; able to define estimates correctly after the teacher's explanation. Count numbers from 30 to 100 correctly after the explanation and Estimate the number of quantities in “ten numbers” in the correct sequence after the activity. Here I have used Camtasia Studio 2008 as one of the ICT tools that I have integrated into my lesson, thinking that students can revisit whenever they need to learn. Moreover, Camtasia Studio plays pivotal roles in delivering our lesson since; it is prevailing video editing software, an easy to use demonstration and education video platform. Therefore this time I have emphasized on Camtasia for mode of delivering my lesson, thinking that children can rewind the lesson at any time.

How did I create the materials? 

After knowing the importance of creation materials I have solely invested myself in preparing a PowerPoint presentation about estimating quantity, after that I engaged in screen recording with the use of Camtasia Studio. I have designed Camtasia video lessons with the incorporation steps of PowerPoint presentation and ways of creating video lessons using Camtasia Studio.

First of all I have change the style into Times New Roman, then I have change the background of my presentation into white since it looks okay, then, I focused on adding images; in this case I have looked at following areas like; clicking the import media, insert cubes from the folder, select the image and click open and drag the images to my slides, so I have inserted pictures downloaded from internet to hold up the concept and easy to comprehend the lesson. And I have used different animation throughout the slides, in-case of introducing the topic, displaying the lesson objectives and highlighting the key words I have used for entrance animation, whereas in pictures I have used (wipe) and followed by fade animation and all. The reasons behind using this animation are to make my presentation more memorable and dynamic for the students. 

I have used Camtasia Studio 2008 to record the screen option and started recording. In fact it is hard for me to face the camera in the first place. I somehow managed to come up with a video tutorial. I am glad that through these tools I have meaningfully imparted the concepts as if I were teaching face to face in the classroom (Contact Teaching). Then I saved my recording. After that, I started exploring Camtasia video editing features like cut, split, transition, zoom-n-pan options. Right after that I saved the video from produce and share option by selecting the MP4 with the video player (up to 720p) because it will give the best version of graphics compared to other options.

When should the materials be used?

I have created the materials to use during lesson development and conclusion. Because main intention is to impart some content knowledge to the students,  thorough this video lesson teachers and students will feel the real charm of teaching and learning as if having the normal classes, therefore it will comes under information input/lesson development further to make my video lesson more meaningful I have explored different Camtasia features to come up with presentable video tutorial besides that I have used simple language while teaching, so that children can understand the concepts easily. The sole purpose of using this video tutorial in the lesson development is that students can revisit whenever they have doubts, they can pause the video if he/she is facing some difficulties in understanding the concepts. In addition teachers can also pause the video and re-teach to the students etc and finally to carry out the activity.

 

                       Activity instructions:

1.                          The activity will be done individually.

2.                          Copy the table below in your notebook.

3.                         Pick some amount of the given quantities as you wish (without counting)

3.                         Fill in the blanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hm-k8U0LOX0NmedxLImDiUs1tA28C6k6/view?usp=sharing 

4.                         For this activity, ten minutes will be given. 

 

 Content- Based Materials

This time I have created my new content- based material for grade IV. The subject I have chosen is Social Studies and the topic is “Types of Transportation”. The main objective is to let the students identify and tell the name of the transportation correctly after the explanation.  I have planned a lesson in such a way that students can feel the real charm of learning and it is more of practice- based learning. I have used Camtasia video lesson as a mode of delivering my lesson and the main reason behind using this is to plead to all levels of learners and the learning style. I feel this video lesson will surely be of help to comprehend and learn better  because students can pause the video/ revisit the lesson whenever they feel like to learn whereas in PowerPoint presentation  there is no option for pause because it goes on and on. Thus, video lesson helps them to comprehend the content better and it makes effective teaching and learning.

Moreover, I have downloaded appropriate pictures from the internet in order to give a better concept if I am not mistaken children loved to learn through animated pictures, graphics and simulation at the same time as they can retain the information for longer period of time.  I have inserted some background music, sounds made by transportation in some slides because it will helps students to understand the contents better and able to tell the names of different transportation. I have even used simple and different animations to grab their attention toward learning and avoid distractions.

How did I create materials?

The entire slide, I have inserted animated pictures of different transportation and added emphasis animation (grow/shrink) in each picture. Here, I have also inserted the sounds accordingly and I hope they will learn better. To check their level of understanding I gave those couple of questions to be done.   Then, I saved the ppt file and converted into video.

When should the materials be used?

The materials can be used in lesson development, and learning activity. In lesson development, I will take students through types of transportation via video lesson moreover they can revisit the lesson whenever they feel like to learn/encounter with doubts and I  have given the clear instruction about the activity thinking that child can easily understand what they are supposed to do. So please kindly go through the video lesson la.

 

 

 Activity

After going through and listen to the power point presentation, students need to write answers for the following questions for 10 minutes.

Questions:

1. Name the different types of transportation?                                                                                 

2. How many types of Transportation are there?

3. Ship and Boat travels __________? 

4. Is there Train transportation in our country?