Organised an informal sharing among my GE/SS batchmates - it was fun gleaning new ideas on how to make lessons more engaging and effective for our students! 🤓🥳
Some notes from this session:
1. Pyramid Game to Promote Engagement of Low-Readiness Learners
Notes/Thoughts:
**This is technically not a pyramid game - more of a flashcard deck engineered on PPT that aims to help students with content retention!
Possibility: I could create an actual pyramid game, where students will get their peers to guess the given concept without using the said concept in the description; concepts can be arranged in an ascending order of difficulty. [Maybe for Sec 2 GE - Housing (new syllabus)]
I will probably also experiment with this End of Course Jeopardy slide template when creating this revision resource (especially since it is compatible with Google Slides)
2. Teach Less, Learn More? Leveraging on Padlet for Inquiry-based Learning
Lesson flow: https://padlet.com/kohyifan96/ewcb9ljuxl915lan
Student artefacts: (Students' work are in the comment section)
Notes/Thoughts:
Inquiry LE? Where students learn by exploring, clarifying and analysing information sources and data. They then formulate an explanation based on evidence, and evaluate and reflect on their findings and new learning.
Situating this lesson on Padlet VS SLS - pros and cons:
Pros of Padlet - Aesthetically appealing; less restrictive in terms of word/text placement
Cons - May be less accessible when students want to refer to this resource for revision in the future? (To circumvent: plonk QR code of padlet on printed notes/ download padlet as PDF)
3. Use of Visual Tools to Enhance Concept Acquisition
Notes/Thoughts:
Very inspired! Use of household (?) items to help students better grasp geographical concepts; we can consider doing something similar and parking them on our department Google site! 🤓
Concepts
1. Viscosity
Viscous lava = honey
Less viscous lava = water
2. Lava solidifying
Lava = candle wax
3. Factor affecting extent of earthquake: type of soil
Blocks = building
Liquefied soil = slime
4. Factor affecting extent of earthquake: distance from epicentre
Other visuals:
Build up of pressure prior to a volcanic eruption: shaking a bottle of Coca-Cola
Importance of vegetation in preventing soil erosion: overturning a potted plant vs pot of soil
4. Use of NatGeo MapMaker for Visualisation
Tool: NatGeo MapMaker
Notes/Thoughts:
Seems more user-friendly compared to MOE EduGIS; ruler tool would be especially useful in helping students understand idea of scale (i.e. locations that appear to be 1cm apart on the map are actually much further away in reality)
5. Incorporating Inductive Learning to Promote Student Engagement
Encourage students to go beyond theoretical acquisition of knowledge and understand knowledge contextually (especially for content such as the ideas of governance which they can easily memorise without a fuller appreciation of what it means in reality)
Students induce the meaning of and build their understanding of the ideas of governance through their observations of its application in our society (case studies)
Notes/Thoughts:
Possible 'fun' approach to AfL: getting students to film a political campaign video of sorts; imagine the group is a political party, and use 2 of the 4 ideas of governance they have learnt to convince voters to vote for them
Students cannot use terms e.g. anticipating change and stay relevant (i.e. the 'title' of the 4 ideas of governance) → forces students to explain in what they have learnt in layman terms
Students can also be guided to use examples to explain how they are good leaders (e.g. how they are good leaders in the context of circuit breaker)
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