My Second ICT integration Lesson Reflection

 

 

My Second ICT integration Lesson Reflection

Lesson Plan No. 78

Name of teacher: Tobgay                                 Name of Observer: Mr. Rinzin Nima

Date: 6th September 2021                               Period: 4th Duration: 50 minutes

Class: V                                                           Subject: Science

Topic: Food Chains and Food Webs

Teaching Learning Materials: Laptop and Projector

New words: food chain-producer, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary consumer

Lesson Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, a child will be able to

i.                    explain a food chain based on feeding relationships correctly.

ii.                   build food chain based on the feeding relationship observed in the link provided  and represent it in game.

 

I introduced my lesson by a brainstorming session by asking questions on how plants and animals are interdependent, what sort of foods are eaten by human beings, and what do plants need for growth and development to conceptualize the feeding relationship among the organisms in nature. Then I projected the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFloV2J-eKI and delivered the lesson to explore the food chain and food web. My learners identified as many food chains from the food web using the information from the link provided. The learner indicated the producer and consumers (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary) in the food chain through discussion.

In the lesson development part, the learners shared their reflection on the consequences of removing one of the organisms from the food web, on the ecosystem from the food web picture

shared on screen. Since we don’t have laptops for students, learners copied a smart draw diagram from the screen and drew it in their book in pairs.

 

Learners constructed their food chain with the feeding relationship in pairs. I took the photo of their finished work and shared it on screen for discussion. They reflected on the consequences of removing one of the organisms from the food web, on the ecosystem. The learner indicates the producer and consumers (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary) in the food chain identified.

In the second activity, using the link https://www.cserc.org/sierra-fun/games/build-food-chain/  to build a food chain in groups of four turn wise. Before the game, I gave clear instructions on how to build a food chain using the link. 

Also, I have identified low achievers to begin the game first as there are 4 food chains and as each group completes each food chain, the next group gets a more challenging food chain to build.

For assessment, again students in the same group were given the link https://toybox.tools.bbc.co.uk/activities/id/gm2zlfh9hq/exitGameUrl/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Ftopics%2Fzbnnb9q%2Farticles%2Fz93vdxs/palette/colour-palette-7/language/en-GB/project/blocks-bitesize to play food chain challenge game. It was fun for students and seen students discuss more, some argue to pick the items for chain of food.

My lesson went well, however, with the non-availability computer lab and poor network connection; it always remains a challenge for me to integrate ICT in my lesson. With the only laptop, my students need to take turns to complete each task, and observed that some students were very excited to explore the game without a time limit. For the next lesson, am encouraged to borrow at least a laptop for each group of four in my lesson, to let my learners explore more on ICT. I also observed that it’s very difficult for my students to balance the cursor as they didn’t get to fiddle computers. I realize in the lesson development part that facilitating food chain and food wed together was quite lengthy and difficult to achieve my objective, so I emphasis more on the food chain and decided to take another lesson for the food web. So, in my next lesson, I will take account of time distribution and plan properly.

 

Thank You.