Science Virtual Experiment Report

Last Monday, 19th October 2009, we were asked to teach science subject using ICT. We carried out the lesson at Sekolah Rendah Sengkurong in a group of 3. For the introduction, the teacher asked if they know about ‘magnets and its characteristics’ by asking questions to see how far their prior knowledge about this topic. Then my colleague used the virtual experiments from the website of www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/processes. Teacher interacts with the pupils the about the magnet. She used several examples for the introduction by asking the pupils which of the items will attract to the magnet. The pupils seem to understand and enjoy the lesson. My colleague also asked volunteers to come to the front and show their friends how to do the activity using the virtual experiments. As there are only 10 Mac book available in the ICT room with a pupils of 15, so some of them will share with their peers. Then we asked them to try to explore the activity using the 3 different types of magnet, that is small, big and rotate to see if there are any difference in the 3 results. After the activity, we asked the pupils to try out the quiz that were given in the website itself. Majority of them can answer the quiz and even half of the class score above 8 marks. Only 1 of them scores 3mark in the quiz. While for their assessment, we gave them 8 questions and the pupils answer the questions individually. This is to find out whether our lessons were successful or not. They were given about 5 minutes to answer all the questions without using the help of virtual experiment. After marking the paper, I found out that 5 pupils get full marks, 3 pupils get 7 marks, 4 pupils get 6 marks and 2 pupils get 5 marks, while only 1 of them pupil score below the passing mark which is 3. This shows that our lesson is successful as 93% of the pupils pass in the test given. The pupils find it interesting and easy to understand by using this virtual experiment. Teachers should used this website as an alternative ways in teaching science in order to make the pupils enjoy and love learning ‘science’ without being stress to remember all the scientific names.