Five E Approaches to Constructivist Learning
Ratheesh Kaliyadan, P. Muhammed Musthafa, Josekutty
Topic: States of India
Objectives:
To make aware of various geographical features and cultural differences in States and Union Territories
To create awareness on unity in diversity
To generate a feeling of national integration
Step 1: Engage
Brainstorming session on Kerala-Where do you come from?
Is it belongs to highland, low land or coastal area?
Distributes outline map of India and ask them to mark them the middle state of India and neighboring state of Kerala and the boundary state of India
Step 2 Explore
Explore details on the marked state using Google Map.
Explore further details on these states using Merlot and Wikipedia
Step 3 Explain
Prepare note on geographical and cultural aspects of different states
Circulate the details in Yahoo group and post it in Blog
Step 4 Elaborate
Making a photo album of different states including photographs that highlights geographical and cultural features.
Make collage of these features
Upload photo album and collage works in Piccassa
Step 5 Evaluate
Peer Evaluation: by evaluating others work that posted in blog and circulated in Yahoo group
Teacher Evaluation: by assessing each and every interventions of the learner continuously and evaluating products.
Note: Teacher should scaffold with necessary inputs and suggestions in each steps
(Prepared in NCERT's CIET workshop for Mentor Coordinators at SCERT Kerala)
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