Weather

 

Blog 3

Topic: Weather

Subject: English

Class: Three

When ICT is integrating in the classroom teaching learning, it improves engagement and acknowledges retention. When it integrated into lessons, students become more engaged in their work because technology provides different opportunities to make it more fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching the same things in different ways. Moreover, it helps teachers to interact with students which help in improving teaching skills and innovative teaching. So, it is the teacher’s innovativeness that makes lesson delivery meaningful. So, it is important for the educators to integrate technology in the classroom teaching learning.  

In this blog, I have chosen weather from class three textbook and I will be teaching on types of weather. I found that teaching about the weather is very important for the younger children because with the change of time, climate also goes on changing where it happens due to global warming. It changes all the conditions of the climate of a region. So it’s important for children to know the overall change of climate in a region causes the average temperature to go up during summer and reduce to the coldest point during winter. Moreover, it’s important for the children to know why it happens and what the things that we should do according to the weather.

Creation of teaching learning materials

For this blog, I have created a voiceover PowerPoint presentation on teaching Weather for class three students. Before I prepared the PowerPoint, firstly, I have downloaded different related pictures of weather such as rainy, windy, sunny, snowy and cloudy images from the Google and I separate all the pictures according to the weather by creating different folders and inserted in the folders. In next, I have collected all the information and I kept all the information ready for preparing presentation. After that, I opened the Microsoft PowerPoint and started creating the PowerPoint. While creating PowerPoint, I used all the features and tools available in PowerPoint.

I have seven slides in my PowerPoint. In the first slide, I inserted the pictures related to the topic and then I inserted the text box to write text. On the pictures, I inserted the text box so that I can describe write about the pictures.

Then I changed the colour of the text from the font color to create the presentation more attractive. After that I inserted the related pictures and followed by inserting the text box. I have even looked at the colour combination of the pictures and the text. Then I inserted different colours of text in different slides. For the other slides, I did the same step/ procedures as mentioned above. In my last PowerPoint slide, I have given few questions related to the topics to check the understanding of their learning.  

After that I applied the animation on it. While applying the animation, I have selected each pictures and text one by one which takes a lot of time. I opened the ‘animation pane’ to make the duration and time. I used different animation to captures the attention of the learners and to understand it in a better way. At the end, I did my voiceover in each slide using ‘Record slideshow’ option under record ‘SLIDESHOW’ tool bar. Then I converted this PowerPoint into the video from the FILE and then I created in video form. After that, I used the Camtasia apps to edit my video and I inserted some transition in my video. Finally I produced my final video.  My PowerPoint consists of different types of weather that the students are already familiar with it.

Instructions for the use of content- based materials

I will use this PowerPoint slides during my lesson development. In my lesson introduction, I will ask few students to look outside and share us how do they feel today by providing some clues to them such as feeling warm, cold, hot and all.  Then I will write all their points on the board and by asking the questions, I will introduce the topic “WEATHER”. I will give chance for them to share what they know about the weather. For the more information, I will let them to look at my PowerPoint slide and listen to my voiceover that converted into video format. Using this technology will help them to improve their listening skills, memory retention and definitely it captures the attention of the learners. Moreover, it helps them in engaging themselves in the learning.

I have also provided few questions on the PowerPoint slides. You must do the learning activity after listening to the voiceover. Learning activity must be carry out in group. There are four sets of questions in the slide. After that from each group, you will share your answers to the whole class to check your understanding of the today’s lesson and that will be the follow up of the lesson. Finally, we will wrap up our session.