5th ICT integration

On date 3rd October,  I taught class PP, English and the topic was parts of plant ( integrated from EVS). Since it was a block period of 50 minutes each, I designed varieties of activities to make my class lively. The first was a field trip, a short field trip, around the flower garden in the school campus. I asked them to observe the plants in the garden. After reaching in the class, I asked them to tell what ever they saw during their field trip.

Then I took them to the IT room. Since the students of class PP were visiting the IT lab, I found very difficult to control them. But with the help of the IT in charge, I could manage to settle them down. There they are taught how to brows Google to search for information. Since our topic was on Parts of plant, I wrote the title on the white board and made them to type in the Google search. Unfortunately, due to some problem, internet didn't work well. Still I didnt gave up. With the help of some colleagues,  I borrowed smart phones from the staff and made them to do Google search. 

The activities that were done after this were amazing. Of course, I had a tough time teaching the students how to handle the gadgets and even I was trying to teach them how to browse Google, but the out come of the lesson was great. Children were able to draw the parts of plant levelling them correctly. 

Integration of ICT in our lesson can create conducive environment and at the same time it's quite hectic for us, especially with class PP children. I thought it's their first time experiencing this type of activity and its obvious  because small children are by nature restless, but I am positive that next time if I plan any activity on ICT integration and take them to IT lab they would behave much better.