School Visit - Teaching Science using Virtual Experiment

On the 18th of September,2009, Suzie and me went to Pantai Berakas Primary School to do our asignment on "Teaching Science with Virtual Experiment". We were using site from BBC.Pupils learned about the topic on the previous week. We started the lesson by asking question about the topic. We brought a real flower to the class and asked pupils to name parts of the flower.Using the IWB, teachers and pupils discussed the function of each part of the flower. Pupils were able to identify all parts of the flower except receptacle and nectaries. Pupils have difficulties in explaining the function of the flower using English. They used bilingual in explaining and answering the question.

Pupils were excited and interested to do the virtual experiment tasks. The environment of the class was a bit noisy but manageable. Teachers had a limited time but managed to execute 3 tasks; 2 virtual tasks (random pupils were selected to do the tasks) and 1 individual written task (prepared by teachers earlier)From the individual task, pupils faced difficulties in remembering the spelling of the words. By providing the words (parts of the flower) on the board gave benefits and helped pupils a lot.

About 76% of the pupils were able to answer at least half of the questions correctly, while 24% of the pupils answered less than half of the questions correctly for the individual task. None of the pupils got 8,1 and 0 mark out of 8. The mean marks for the pupils is 4.714 (average).

Lesson Plan for Virtual sci

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Parts of Flower

Using Euclidean Reality in Teaching and Learning Mathematics

Euclidean Reality is a software that can be used by Mathematics teachers to enhance teaching and learning process in some topic in Maths espeacially in teaching topics on Angles, Measurement, Area and Perimeter. There are many activities can be explored by pupils using this program.

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Activity using PC Logo for Year 1 & Year 2

Last Friday, I tried out an activity using PC Logo program on Year 1 and Year 2 pupils. The Year 1 pupil from SR PPSDSB Gadong was Salwanadina Binti Johar. She used the program to make shapes. The pupil was not familiar with the program and she told that she never use PC Logo program before. Next is a Year 2 pupil from the same school named Aidil Syakireen Bin Awg Rosman. He was also not familiar with PC Logo. So I started the activity by explaining the usage of the program and gave examples of instructions on how to draw a square.

The Year 1 pupil was be able to follow the exact instruction given on how to draw a square. Then I asked her to draw another bigger square, but she was not able to create her own instruction. She was only able to follow the instruction given but was not able to create a new instruction. So I stopped there and proceed with the next pupil.

The Year 2 pupil was able to follow the exact instruction given which was to draw the same square. Then I asked him to create an instruction to draw a bigger square and he was able to create the instruction. He just doubled the number from fd 50 to fd 100. Then I asked him if he can draw another shape again. He created an instruction to draw a rectangle but he need a little guide. Finally he was able to produce a rectangle using his own instruction. But he was not yet ready and not able to create other instruction to draw other shapes such as triangle or circle.