Week 5-Teaching Aids

In this week’s class, we need to collect as many as possible non-technological and technological teaching aids for the topic given. We need to find as many as possible teaching aids for different stages and stated the reason why the material is suitable for that particular stage. This task was done in pair and the pair must be mixed gender. My pair and I got the topic for year 2 and year 3, which is "Making a robot” and “Once Upon A Time”.

This is one of the examples of what we have created for the task;

Year 2, Topic 5 Making A Robot

Set Induction

Teaching aids

Picture 1: This picture contains different shapes with different colours.

Rationale

-This picture introduces students to the shapes that they are going to learn.

-It can attract their attention because it has different colours and shapes.

Pre-Stage

Teaching aids

Video 1 (song):

This video is a song that explains about shapes to the viewer; square, rectangle, triangle and circle. The songs used a squirrel as a singer in the video and it introduces the shapes to the viewer. It also explains the differences between the shapes.

Rationale

-The video clearly shows the shapes and their explanations.
- The song is quite catchy. It also has a squirrel as the singer in the video, thus it can attract students attention while enjoying the song.
-The song helps the teacher to lead students to the topic that he/she going to teach (shape).


While-Stage

Teaching Aids

Video:

The video contains the introduction of the shapes and what they can make.

PowerPoint: This PowerPoint shows a picture of a robot with its different shapes of parts.

Picture:

This picture shows the different shapes of parts of a robot.

Rationale

-The video shows the shapes and what can be created using these shapes. It allows the students to get ready to create something using these shapes.

-The PowerPoint helps the students to see that the shapes they have learned can be used to draw a robot.

-The picture helps the students to be more creative in drawing their robot because there are many possibilities that can be made from the shapes. Students can change the shapes of the parts as they like as long as it is the shapes that they have learn in the previous stage.

Post-Stage

Teaching Aids

PowerPoint:

The PowerPoint shows a picture of a robot but without its colour and with only dotted lines.

Power Point :

This PowerPoint shows how the task should be done.

Rationale

-The students will be given a picture of a robot without its colours. They need to connect the lines and colour the shapes. This is done to help the students to practice before they draw their own robot using the shapes.

- The second PowerPoint is used as the guidance for the students to do the task given. Teacher can show this slide to the pupils before, while or after doing the task given.

Follow Up-Stage

Teaching Aids

Microsoft office: word puzzle (question)

This is a word puzzle that contains the shapes that the students need to find out.

Microsoft office: Word Puzzle (answer)

Rationale

- Games can help the students to learn while enjoying the process of learning itself. The word puzzle can help the students to recall what they have learned while enjoying the lesson. This word puzzle can help them to learn in a fun but knowledgeable condition.

-The second Word Puzzle with answers can help students to see and check the correct answers. They may not be able to find the answer; a word puzzle with the answers can help students to check whether they are correct or not.

After I have done this tasks, I gave realized the importance of selecting my materials correctly. Materials are important as they are the core of the activity. Without the materials, teachers cannot deliver the activity and with wrong materials, students may even be confused. Teaching aids could help teachers to save time in teaching and focused more on the students. Nowadays, teaching and learning process are more to student-centered learning, so that students can learn more. But if the teacher takes too much time teaching, students would not be able to practice and apply the knowledge themselves. So the right materials would be a lot of help for students to learn.

All and all, I have gained new knowledge today. I hope that I can apply this knowledge in my future classroom. Thanks to Puan Foziah for the precious knowledge.