Content- based materials (voice over Power presentation).

In this blog, I will be writing on how to teach on the “Thermometer”. From grade five social studies. I have chosen this topic because it appealed me the most because we can easily teach the concepts to the students through using ICT features like, Camtasia, PowerPoint presentation, and simulation, here I had mainly focused on PowerPoint presentation and simulation to teach the contents/topic thinking that child won’t feel bored and further to comprehend the text, therefore I had planned the lesson in such a way to capture the needs of multiple learners in the class.

Creation of the teaching learning materials.

I have created a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint. I made sure to use tools present in Microsoft PowerPoint. Moreover, to make my teaching and learning more meaningful, I made sure to use graphics and photographs that are relevant to my topic. I also did an exclusion brainstorming/mind mapping on how I should proceed on with the presentation. Before I dive into the creation of the presentation, I downloaded some necessary materials like images of thermometer, snow, and places etc. from the internet. Then I have created the my Power point presentation on the blank slides, and I wrote the title of my lesson “ Thermometer”, I kept the white background for the slides and I used Time New Roman throughout my slide/presentation.  I wrote some of the definition, units, and conversion of Celsius to Fahrenheit with the help of textbox. Further to minimize the complication, I have used simple and understandable sentences throughout my slides. Moreover, I also emphasized on visual presentation, through adding animations in every slides thinking that learners will enjoy my teaching, after completion of creating presentation, I put voice over the entire slides using slide show pane. Then I saved the narration, after that I converted the presentation into video. While doing this we need to go to the file and selected export and clicked on creates a Video, after that we need to name our file and then cluck save.

 When the material should be used.

This content-based material is going to use the content based material (simulation and voice over PowerPoint presentation), during the lesson development because through voice over presentation we are going to see and listen carefully. The merits of voice over presentation are students will be able see the picture of the thermometer, formula of conversion along with its description. Moreover I as I had emphasized more on combination of the texts and pictures in my voice over presentation will surely help them to comprehend the concepts/understand the explanation so through voice over presentation, I want to ensure the students to;

⮚      Define the thermometer after the presentation.

⮚      Draw and level the thermometer after the lesson.

⮚      Convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit and vice versa.

So therefore to make use of this content based materials, teachers must integrate those ICT tools in our daily lesson, moreover the classroom must be well equipped with a projector, laptop, and smart-phone as well. Without this teaching and learning won’t take place in fruitful manners.

 How to do an Activity

I have mainly designed this activity to cater to the diverse learners in the class as well as to check students' understanding on the topic. And let children do everything kindheartedly, if they have any queries I won’t mind giving my helping hands to them.

Activity Instruction.

Learning Activity recording temperature

1. I will divide it into 4 groups.

2. Each group will take a thermometer from me.

3. Record the temperature of different places.

4. Copy Table and record the temperature in Table.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2Sz_qRZ082-SJMr_yWFvi6wos4wvCXr/view?usp=sharing

Follow-up Questions:

1. What is the use of a weather thermometer?

2. Calculate the average temperature of places that you have recorded?

3. List at least three things that you have learnt from the activity.