Benefits of ICT Integrated Lesson Plan

ICT Integrated Lesson Plan

Topic: Distillation

Subject: Science

Class:VI

Date: 9-12/9/17

Teaching Strategy: Integration of ICT

GNH values: Culture

Teaching Learning Materials: PowerPoint animation, website materials, video, images,

Lesson Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, each student will be able to;

1.      define distillation in their own words correctly after teacher’s demonstration.

2.      describe the process of distillation correctly after teacher’s presentation.

Lesson Introduction

Attention Grabber: Heart to Heart… ready to Start.

Lesson will begin with a video clip about preparation of alcohol.

Video

After watching the video, teacher will ask students to tell some of the take away from the video.

They will be specially asked to tell about some of the processes involved in clip.

Expected answer: evaporation and condensation. Teacher will then explain that the main process involved in preparation is called distillation. Thus the topic will be introduced.

Lesson Development

Attention Grabber: Ready to Rock……..Ready to Roll

Teacher will provide the definition of distillation.

Distillation is a process of separating two liquids. It is applicable only if two liquids change its state to a gas at different temperature.

For better understanding of the concept the teacher will show a power point animation on preparation of alcohol in our own context which involves process of distillation.

After showing the power point animation teacher will explain how the process works.

Preparation of alcohol through distillation process

Distillation.ppsx

Power point presentation

1.      Firstly, the grain is cooked and made to cool down.

2.      On that yeast is added. Yeast causes the grain to ferment.

3.      Then it should be covered with one cloth very tightly so that no air can get inside. After 1-2 days a pleasant smell will arise from the fermented grain. Then put it in a container and keep it for a month or more. The strength will be determined by the duration of grain stored in the container.

4.      Alcohol is separated from grain by distillation method. To do that fermented grains should be mixed with water and set up as shown in figure 1.

5.      Then it should be heated gently (the heat should be limited because if the mixture is overheated, it will overflow and water will get out from the container which will result in the burning of the grain) since alcohol has low boiling point as compared to water it will evaporate fast.

6.      Then the water in the bowl will condense the vapour. The bowl should be filled with cold water so it will help the vapour to condense fast. When water in bowl gets warm, it should be changed.

7.      Finally, the vapour is cooled and collected in a container as alcohol.

Activity

Following are the instruction for the group activity;

1.      Students will form a group with 5 members each.

2.      In group students will answer to the following questions.

3.      All the questions should be put on power point slide and make a presentation.

4.      The total time allocated for this activity will be 15 minutes.

5.      After completing the work one person from each group will be asked to present the group's answers.

       The teacher will provide the website link as a reference to answer the following questions.

Questions

1.      Why do you think yeast is added on cooked grains?         

Expected Answer: The water in the bowl should be cold so that it will help the vapour to condense fast.

     2. Why water in the bowl should be cold?

    Expected Answer: When water in the bowl gets warm it should be changed.

     3. What will happen if the fire gets too big and hot?

Expected Answer: If the fire is too big and hot, mixture will over flow and water will get out from       the container which will result in burning of the grains.

Monitoring of Activity

Teacher will visit each group to verify all members are actively participating or not and help the group if necessary.

Follow up

Teacher will ask the students to number themselves and then teacher will call out the number randomly to select the presenter. The presenter should be done with good explanation and teacher will supplement in missed out points.

If the groups have done good presentation they will be given a cheer and feedbacks will be given to those who fail to do good presentation.

Values

The topic is related to alcohol, so it is quite sensitive for children that school curriculum is encouraging it. In this case teacher will teach the values about problem lead by consumption of alcohol. The following images will be shown on screen to sensitize the children on risk involved with alcohol.

Lesson closure

Attention Grabber

Teacher will ask student to write the summary of the lesson using STOP strategy in a Microsoft word and share to their friends and teacher through mail.

S We started the lesson … With video clip on processes involved in making alcohol.

T The topic was … How can we prepare alcohol?

O Our opportunity for the practice was… Hand on experience of the distillation process,  (Mindful during the experiment)

P The purpose of learning was that … To acquire knowledge about distillation process.

Benefits of ICT Integrated Lesson Plan 

The lesson I taught was on “Distillation” in class VI and it was taught as a extended lesson on the same topic. On 11th September I taught the topic without integrating ICT however the same topic with ICT integration was unexpectedly different in terms of participation and learning on 12 September 2017.  It was one of the most exciting lesson ever attended by the students of class VI. This is because the lesson was full of ICT integrated. Mostly our teachers go to class with lesson plan and teaching learning materials prepared out of hard papers and occasionally live materials. I will not write on how my lesson was so successful in achieving lesson goals but rather analyze how students were engaged  in my lesson.

Students were found very active and energetic throughout my lesson. They are overwhelmed when they see the power point on how we prepare alcohol using distillation process. The classroom was lively as students see the process of distillation via video and it is a rare event for them to see video to teach concept. Hence at the end of the lesson when I ask questions students were able to remember better. As such I started to believe that ICT really plays a role in making our lesson better and achievable.

  

Classroom Teaching with Integrated ICT.

Use of Camtesia in teaching science

Use of camtesia in teaching science is very effective. In fact it is very useful in all the subjects. This strategy helps to reach to the students with visual learning styles. I personally felt that this strategy works more effective in introduction part of the lesson. it gives clear picture on what to do in the experimental part of the lesson.     

Advantages of Power Point in Teaching

Advantages of Power Point in Teaching

PowerPoint is a presentation program created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin in 1987. It was initially designed to provide visuals for group presentations within business organizations but has come to be very widely used in many other fields among which the education found it a blessing.

Within a nutshell, PowerPoint is an application program of presentation that is found in Microsoft Office. It is a well known, versatile and easy tool to use. In is now very much common in schools, colleges and universities…

It captures the learner’s attentions and helps keep students in and with the lesson.

PowerPoint encourages and supports teaching learning process by facilitating the material presentation.

It performs varieties of manipulations, such as editing text before printing it out, and the teacher can add new slides for adding new materials.

This program is also advantages in the sense that the icons used are very simple because they are similar with those in the Microsoft Word. In this way, the users can create an instruction of language without studying this program previously.

PowerPoint is also fun to be applied and fun to watch. It is not hard to learn in. PowerPoint allows the teacher to reflect on a lesson and make any changes, and which can create the good lessons and are being able to print them out. Our students love watching power point presentation in class. moreover they learn better with this tool. Now a days its not necessary to get real experiment with lots of materials in small classroom rather a power point can do all these in one show.

As a result using PowerPoint improve the students’ learning motivation, increasing authentic materials for study, encouraging interaction between the teacher and the student.

Teacher can create interactive presentations containing text, art, animation, and audio and video elements through PowerPoint.  It is probably the best known presentation graphics program available.

Old-school visual aids such as chalkboards and hand drawn illustrations would be time consuming while PowerPoint presentation can be used with ease and faster. Therefore, change for better and effective gadgets. 

Date: 13/9/17  

Use of mobiles in schools in remote schools

 Use of mobiles in schools in remote settings

The mobile as a gadget has come far and beyond. The liability of use of mobiles in schools has come as debatable issue over the year. The fast growing trend of owing a cell phone by an individual is no more a new issue.The education trend in Bhutan has rapidly moved from blackboard teaching to media teaching where in the use of gadget has come as a rapid progress over a year. The meetings the officials attend to are all in the favor of using the cell phones for any kind of information recording and fast track keeping of information with just a click of a picture.The schools though are subtle with the idea of allowing cell phones into school given to the distracting aspect it consist, the use of mobile in school has better advantages in the learning aspect. But it comes with a cost.

The policy of the school:

The school policy is an important factor that contributes to restricted use of mobile in school. The policy given with guide line in the proper management and use of cell phones can make a difference in learning in student’s life. The guide line that is properly channeled and is oriented to students gives students a regulated genre that would not just boost learning but have an intimidating impact.

Child centered learning:

The schools across Bhutan cater to child centered learning which require students finding information and presenting the thought on the given topic. This calls for grasping information from different sources and this said, the need to use cell phones for browsing purposes takes care of the problem. Though the school library consists of books but the required materials for the particular subject ends up to zilch result due to lack of availability of resources on the particular topic thus the result in learning falls to no commendable measure.

Attitude change:

The means of cell phone use in today’s generation is adapted to the notion of sending messages and calling to a friend or family. This is the attitude the children at present have. This can be changed through orientation and strict policy guide line. The use of mobile limited to talk and messaging can be bifurcated to higher order use for academic purposes that would link the use of cell phones for information browsing thus bring about changes in the how people see cell phone as. 

Photo: Logchina LSS students(Cl VIII)