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?