Teaching Using Virtual Manipulative

Teacher using virtual manipulative On the 5th of August, me and my colleague Shahriah visited our former school Sekolah Rendah Rimba II. The reason for our visit was to use virtual manipulative in teaching. The class we had chosen for the morning lesson was Year 4A consisting of 31 pupils. The subject that we thought was Mathematics under the topic `Time’. We were very lucky that we were helped by two teachers; the class teacher and the ICT teacher to set up the IWB, Projector and Wireless connection. We took some pictures of the computer lab and pupils during the lesson. Below is one of the computer room that we used to teach virtual mani[pulatives. There are only 15 computers that can be used, one IWB, one printer and a working wireless connection.

Computer Lab 1

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Class teacher managing the pupils Step 1 We started the lesson by showing pupils the real clocks; analogue and digital clocks.

Analogue clock

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Digital clock Step 2 After the introduction, pupils were shown various pictures of different types of clocks using powerpoint. Here the teacher and the pupils discussed about digital and analogue clocks.

Topic ‘Time’

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Hour glass

Water clock

clock

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Digital clock

Clock

Step 3 Next, pupils were called out individually to play the matching activity on the IWB. www.primarygames.com

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Step 4 Firstly, pupils and teacher answer the activity worksheets together. Secondly, pupils do the questions individually. After they have done their work, pupils submitted their papers and we marked the papers after lesson and return them to the pupils on the same day.

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Step 5 (activity for reviewing lesson) Pupils were divided into two groups, one group for boys and another group for girls .They played a game on time. Which ever group can answer the most questions than the other, the group wins. In this activity pupils were very excited and eager to answer the questions.

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Closure We reviewed back the lesson on “Time’.

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