Creative Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans and Activities

Topic: Biography Writing  Subject: English Skills: Writing and creative thinking   Objectives:  To develop writing skills through the creation of a narrative that is comprehensive and engaging. To teach the importance of research in capturing the life and experiences of a person. To explore the complexities of a person's life story and to gain an understanding of the person's accomplishments and impact on the world.  To practice critical thinking and analysis of primary and secondary sources. To gain an appreciation of the life of the subject and reflect on the legacy left behind .                            Biography writing is a great activity for kids to learn about the lives of important figures in history. It can help them to think critically about the people and events that have shaped the world. It can also be a fun way to learn about the lives of people in their own lives, like family members or celebrities.                       This blog post is about a biography writ

Topic: WH- Questions Subject: English Skills: Speaking, Writing, and grammar.                         Creative writing activities help students to express themselves in a more creative and imaginative way. They also help to develop student's writing skills and fluency. When we design such activities, it may lead to integrating other language skills as well as critical thinking skills. You can also find the WH questions - Lesson Plan  here.                    When students are able to both speak and write about a topic, they are more likely to develop a stronger understanding of the material, which also leads to d eveloping a stronger understanding of the material. Here my students have been given a task after completing the topic "WH - Questions."                  Once I have explained the usage of the 'Question words', gave the below worksheet and told them to prepare a puppet like shown in the picture.  Writing Activity: I paired my students into groups of two

Topic: Adjectives Subject: English Skills: Grammar, writing, and creative thinking Objectives: Students should be able to identify adjectives in the story. write simple sentences containing adjectives. make sentences with comparatives and superlatives. Presentation: Task 1: Distribute the below story card 'The Little Fish and the Big Fat Bean.' Tell students to read the story carefully. Tell them to identify the describing words. Give some examples Download the task sheet.    Get pupils to underline the describing words found in the story. Task 2: After a small interaction, list out the describing words in the story on the board. Explain the contextual meaning and the use of the words in a sentence. Tell them the describing words are called "adjectives." Explain the usage of adjectives. Tell them adjectives have different forms. They are Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Explains the comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives. Examples: (big, bigger, bi

Topic: Global Warming Subject: Social science Grade: Primary Skills: Speaking, writing, and creative thinking Objectives: Students are able to   understand the concept of global warming and the greenhouse effect. describe the reasons for the greenhouse effect and its effects. give examples of potential problems and negative consequences of global warming and the greenhouse effect. project the concept through a poster. suggest actions to reduce the greenhouse effect in order to save our planet . Preparatory: Task 1: Display the below picture to the class. Let the students respond. Suggested questions: What is happening in the images? Have you ever seen are experienced such situations? What are the reasons for happening such situations? What do we call these actions?    You can add your own questions according to your students.               Explain that these are all happening due to climate change.  “Climate change” refers to the increasing changes in the measures of climate over a lon

Lesson: The Best Christmas Present in the World Subject: English Grade: Upper primary Skills: Writing, grammar, and creative thinking Objectives: Able to  understand the events and think about their destruction and endeavour. talk about the 'Wars are the only answer to problems.' use past perfect in writing the past events. know about the noun phrase.  Preparatory:         Before going to start the session, ask students to note down whether the event was defeat and destruction or endeavour and success.  Display the below dialog cards and make students guess the event. Drag their attention to the date and make sense of the historic event. Make some discussion after revealing the answer and fill out the checklist.  Let the students express their views.          After completing the task, make students talk about the events which led to defeat and destruction. Presentation: Task 1: Start the session from the discussion of the previous session. Display the below picture and let t

Topic: Techniques for writing tasks, Skill Focused: Writing, Grade: Primary and Lower Secondary.                                                       Writing is one of the biggest challenges for teachers. Because children do not want to write. Especially in second language classrooms, teachers are facing big trouble in giving writing tasks.  When we ask students to write, often we are just testing their skills rather than teaching them how to write or how to improve their writing. So teachers need to encourage their learners by assigning interesting writing activities.                             So, here are my techniques to help learners dig deeper when they write. These six c reative writing tasks help learners for better, understandable, and effective writing.   1. Picture/ Scene Writing:                   We know that students draw on their experience of reading when shaping their own writing. Usually, stories have different connected scenes. Some stories are illustrated and narr

Theme: World of self - Home alone and Lost Topic: Personal Safety Objectives: Students will be able to listen and respond to the given stimulus on personal safety by using appropriate words, phrases, and expressions with the correct stress and intonation. able to speak on personal safety with guidance.  Teaching Material:  Video, audio recording, task sheets, and picture cards Presentation: Task 1: Tell students to watch a video on personal safety. Lead students to talk about the video clip Suggested questions:  What is the video about? What should you do if you are the child in the video? Have you ever gone through such incidents? How do you behave with strangers? What personal details should you know? What should you do when a stranger touches you? (Video Credit:  Fight Child Abuse ) Task 2 A: Students listen to the teacher's explanation. Observe the flashcards and talk about personal safety. Practice the expressions that would say in the situation.            We see people we do

                     Technology has the ability to enhance relationships between teachers and students. When teachers effectively integrate technology into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach. Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun. Students also develop positive feelings of exploitation by mastering new knowledge and skills using digitized learning tools. Here I am presenting some of the most popular free educational tools. 1. CurrikiStudio: CurrikiStudio  brings you the tools to create interactive learning content like never before. Free authoring software with mobile-first activities including interactive multimedia, images, games, virtual tours, and simulations.  This is the very best tool to make interactive content like different image-based, video-based learning content, and comprehensive activities. You can also create listening comprehension activities by uploading audio. The audio-based tool is very useful

Topic: Techniques for writing tasks, Skill Focused: Writing, Grade: Primary and Lower Secondary.                          Supporting students to tune into the creativity needed for writing through a range of experiences is key to developing imagination and ideas for writing in all forms. Actually, writing is intricately linked to critical thinking. It also has implications for performance across all areas of the language. Writing is how a child shows what he or she knows and what has been learned. When we ask students to write, often we are just testing their skills rather than teaching them how to write or how to improve their writing.                     Sometimes, stating clear rules and expectations is just not enough. It may not work for all your students. That’s why you should also take a “lighter” path. What does that mean? It means that you can use non-intrusive motivation techniques that will inspire your students instead of scaring them. As a teacher, your role is to help eac

Lesson: Our needs- Water Grade: Primary and Upper primary Subject: Environmental Science                   All living things need water to live. Water is also used for different daily activities, which happen at home, schools, offices, shops, factories, and many places around us. This is a cool lesson plan having great activities. In this lesson plan, we are going to discuss the sources of water, the water cycle, the importance of saving water, and keeping the water resources clean and safe.   Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:   learn what are the different sources of water. know the uses of the water. learn what is the water cycle. know about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. ask questions during the discussion. understand the importance of saving water. come up with ways to reuse water. understand the importance of keeping the lakes and ponds clean. Material: flashcards, worksheets, smartphone, and TLM Task 1: Warmup activity: Show the belo