EDU 05.9 PEDAGOGIC CONTENT KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS – NATURAL SCIENCE ONLINE ASSIGNMENT TOPIC – ACTIVITY AIDS -LIVING CORNERS&NATURE CALENDARS .
KNOWLEDGEANALYSIS – NATURALSCIENCE
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC –ACTIVITY AIDS -LIVINGCORNERS & NATURECALENDARS
Submitted by
Aneeta Francis
Ist B.Ed Natural Science
St. Jacob's Training College, Menamkulam
INTRODUCTION
Teaching aids play a key role in teaching-learning situations. It works as the support
for the teacher and taught in the pursuit of
knowledge.Teaching aids are the tools
purposefully designed to overcome verbal
deficiencies in communication in a
classroom situation.
CONTENT
ACTIVITY AIDS
There are certain learning situations in which
student participation through direct experiences
can be easily incorporated, these are called activity
aids. The activity teaching aids are really of great
value as they put students in a role of active
seekers of knowledge. There are five important
activity teaching aids, which are listed below:-
1) Field trips
2) Demonstrations
3) Experiments
4) Dramatizations
FIELD TRIPS
Types of field trips: –
Depending on the place of visit and its duration,
field trips are mainly of the following four types,
namely:-
a) Local school trips
b) Community trip
c) Educational trips
d) The natural hunt
Advantages of field trip:
Field trip provides learning experience in the real
life situation by direct contact with objects,
process, and systems and thus has many
advantages which are enumerated as follows:
->It provides accurate information objects,
process, and systems in their real life setting.
->It provides meaningful direct experience and
hence results in lasting Learning
->The students learning can be easily diverted
towards effective learning.
->Field trips are valuable aids to what students are
curious about the natural and man-made process
and objects.
->field trips can effectively supplement the
classroom learning through
Limitations of field trip:
1) A field trip may be occasional activity which at
best supplement some learning segments of the
syllabus.
2) They can be expensive and out of reach for
many disadvantaged and poor students.
3) Field trips require proper and detailed planning
to make them meaningful otherwise the trip leads
to confusion, and fails to fulfill the requirement
and reviewing the experiences of student.
DEMONSTRATIONS:-
Demonstration method is a concrete visual aid,
because of its wide use in the teaching of science.
In nursing education, it is used for this purpose
and also for clinics, conferences, laboratory
classes, symposia, autopsies, and teaching of
health to patients. The demonstration method
teaches by explanation and exhibition. In short, it
is a performance to show a process or activity to
others. When a teacher demonstrates, students
observe and imitate to learn
Advantages of demonstration:-
The following are the advantages of demonstration
method.
1) It activates several senses. This increases
learning, because it gives a better opportunity for
observational learning.
2) It clarifies the underlying principles by
demonstrating the ‘why’ or ‘how’ of the procedure.
3) It provokes interest by use of concrete
illustrations.
4) It correlates theory with practice engages
student’s attention and concentration.
5) It encourages student’s participation in learning
through questions and answers as the teacher
performs.
EXPERIMENT
An experiment is a learning activity in which
students collect and interpret observations using
measuring instruments to reach some conclusions.
In science subjects experiments are used
invariably used as instructional aid as they
encourage learning by doing. While giving a lesson
on an experiment, the teacher should organize the
instruction so as to make the students aware of
the following steps of the experiments:
1) Objectives of the experiments
2) Apparatus required
3) Procedure or methodology
4) Observations of data
5) Computation (totaling) of the observations
made.
6) Results or conclusion
7) Precautions
8) Ideas for future work
The student performs the experiment and writes a
report on it. Showing the cause and effect
relationship.
DRAMATIZATION
Dramatization is a very potent method of keeping
the class room instruction lively and interesting.
When a teacher dramatizes a lesson, the students
become both the spectators and participants. This
makes learning easy and permanents.
Types of dramatizations suitable for class
room instruction:-
1) Role-play
2) Play lets
3) Pageant
4) Pantomime
5) Tableaux
Advantages of dramatization:
1)Dramatization gives an added advantage of
students working as both observers (spectators)
and doers (participants) unlike in experiment
where there are just doers and in demonstration
where there are just observers.
2) Dramatization makes learning a pleasure
children love to act and show off.
3) Dramatization involves students totally and they
appreciate the lessons remember it better
4) Dramatization develops the social skills required
for them such as cooperation, co-ordination,
punctuality, and human relations etc.
5) Dramatization makes students creative,
sensitive, and alert.
LIVING CORNERS
A Living corner is a valuable part of a science
department in school. Through the ideal way to
gain knowledge is to observe objects and
phenomenon in their natural setting but in the
present educational set up there is only a little
opportunity for this. A living corner can help in this
aspect by way to providing many examples of
things which may be kept in such a living corner.
Living corners not only provides necessary helps in
teaching but also helps in creating the eight type
of scientific atmosphere in the school.
A good living corner should have exhibits
which are natural. A living corner is a biological
laboratory specimen held by a biorepository for
research . Such a specimen would be taken by
sampling so as to be representative. Of any other
specimen. when biological specimens are stored ,
ideally they remain equivalent to freshly collected
specimens for the purpose of research .
Collecting plants and animals is essential for
scientific studies and conversation and does not
some critics of the practices have suggested play a
significant role in species extinction.
OBJECTIVES OF LIVING CORNER
To focus attention on science experience in school
To stimulate interest in science by all pupil
To arose curiosity in scientific investigation over
and above the routine class work
To provide stimulation for scientific hobby pursuits
To develop the habit of extra study and provide a
useful means of occupying their leisure time.
VIVARIUM
A vivarium is an area usually enclosed for
keeping and rearing animals or plants for
observation and research. Often, a portion of
ecosystem for a particular species is stimulated on
a small scale, with controls on environmental
conditions.
A vivarium may be
small enough to s it on a desk or table, such as an
aquarium or terrarium or maybe a very large
structure, possibly outdoors. Large vivaria,
particularly those holding organisms capable of
light, typically include some sort of dual door
mechanism such as sally port for entry and exit, so
that the outdoor can be closed to prevent escape
before the inner door is opened.
There are various forms of vivaria including
Aquarium
Simulating water habit for instance a river, lake or
sea; but only the submerged area of these natural
habitats. Plants in the water will use some nitrogen
within the system and will provide areas
fororganisms to hide and forage .
Insectarium:
Containing insects and arachoids
formicaries
With species of ants
Terrarium
Simulating a dry habitat for instance desert or
savannah. A terrarium can also be formed to
create a temperate wood land habitat and even
jungle like habitat. This can be created with
pebbles leaf litter and soil.
Avi culture
The world wide hobby of keeping and breeding
birds in captivity to maintain their numerical status
in nature with a view of forestalling their extinction
by supplying aviary raised stock
NATURE CALENDARS
The nature calendars are a beautiful art and Math
project that lets you follow the changes of the
year, learning about the seasonal observing the
natural world. We can make nature study simple
using a nature calendar. All of the calenders have
to be updated according to year and month.
Usually a nature calendar consists of the
following.
• A printable regular calender
• Blank spaces in calendar to explore some
nature ideas.
Nature calendars are useful in making the
students creativity and ideas in check.children
are learning about nature. New fascinating
ideas about nature can incorporated in making
this calendar. This will also be helpful as it is a
group work and children can enjoy doning this
together and thus they can learn to cooperate
with their friends on doing a task.
HOW TO MAKE A NATURE
CALENDARS
• Create or print a calendar by using your
creativity. You can either print it from internet
sources and then stick it on a chartpaper or
we can draw a calendar.
• Use the prompts boths on the calender and
below to explore some elements of nature in
September.
• Draw or write your observation in the blank
calendar squares. That’s why there are so
many blank space. So you don’t feel pressured
to do a million things and so that you have
room to to doodle it up right on the calender.
• Put them together in a notebook or handmade
book and wait for next month and new
calendar.
We can incorporated other ideas, both
craft and also by using computer technology
resources to make the work more attractive.
CONCLUSION
We are now well aware of the
importance of teaching aids is instruction of
science. Teaching aids provide a new visual
teaching method is which students can handle and
interact with what they are learning rather than
merely byhearting from textbooks. This method
will be very interesting to students and also is so
effective in the teaching -learning process.
REFERENCE
• Activity Aids in Teaching -Learning Process
/tetsuccesskey.com
• Teaching materials and teaching aids -P.G Pathshda
• Www.sciencedirect.com
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