Creative Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans and Activities

     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 usef...

Lesson: Public Places Subject: Environmental Studies & English Grade: Primary Objectives: Students can know about neighbourhood. Students are able to know the need for Public Places in a locality. Students are able to know about recreational places. Students are able to know some rules to follow to be safe and hygienic in the nighbourhood. Students are able to know about adjectives.                      Sameera lives with her family in a town. She is in grade 2. Sameera and her parents visit a lot of places around their house for various purposes every day. Let us know about them. Activity: Think                Observe the below picture. Read the Sameera's tasks and drag the corresponding numbers in the picture. Sameera's tasks 1. Sameera's mother wants to buy vegetables and fruits. 2. Sameera's father wants to deposit money. 3. Samera wants to go out for dinner with her family. 4. Sa...

                       Reading skill refers to the ability to understand written text. It is advisable to develop this skill at an early age of schooling.  A child's reading skills are important to their success in school as they will allow them to access the breadth of the curriculum and improve their communication and language skills. In addition, reading can be a fun and imaginative time for children, which opens doors to all kinds of new worlds for them.                             Reading strategies is the broad term used to describe the planned and explicit actions that help readers translate print to meaning. Strategies that improve decoding and reading comprehension skills benefit every student but are essential for beginning readers, struggling readers, and English Language Learners. According to OCED’s report on reading for change, a progr...

          As Stephen Cary, a second language learner specialist and author of Going Graphic: Comics at Work in the Multilingual Classroom, says: “Comics provide authentic language learning opportunities for all student. The dramatically reduced text of many comics makes them manageable and language profitable for even beginning-level readers. Creativity is more important to teach primary students. So I always plan such creative activities in my class.          Comics provide narrative experiences for students just beginning to read and for students acquiring a new language. Students follow story beginnings and endings, plot, characters, time and setting, sequencing without needing sophisticated word decoding skills. Images support the text and give students significant contextual clues to word meaning. Comics act as a scaffold to student understanding.           Writing skills are an important part of commun...

Lesson: Let's Plant. Subject: English Grade: Primary Objectives:  Able to know the parts of a plant. Able to know the different types of plants. Able to know the benefits of the plants. Able to know the importance of planting. Activity: Understanding (Parts of a plant)     Plants are also living things like us. They need food, air, and water to live. Rani has come to her grandfather's farm for a holiday. She takes a walk around the farm with her grandfather. She sees a lot of plants. Most plants are green in colour, but a few are also yellow, red, and even purple. Grandfather tells Rani that plants differ from each other in size, colour, and shape, all of them have similar parts. Activity: Think and Understand           You can see many plants around you. Some are small and some are big. Do plants also have body parts like us?           There are different types of plants around us. Each one of them is unique in their own ...

Lesson: Daily routine Grade: Primary Subject: English                    A daily routine provides structure and a logical sequence in our lives. It provides the framework within which we live our lives and conduct our daily activities. Talking about what happens every day at certain times can help our students find a feeling of security in the daily routines. and in the certainty of knowing that tomorrow will be just like today. This lesson focuses on vocabulary to talk about daily routines and using the present simple. Task 1: Warm-up activity - What's the order?            The task helps the learners to know the logical sequence of the actions in our lives. Tell your students to observe the pictures and put the pictures in order. Task 2: Watch and answer.               Tell your students to listen to a song about the things that we do in the morning. Tell them t...

Lesson: A Trip to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Grade: Upper primary and secondary Subject: English.               Holidays are a very important part of everyone’s life. Everyone deserves to take a break from the monotony to rejuvenate and maintain their health. Here are the lesson plan and activities to teach a holiday theme. The lesson is prepared using the 'Thinglink ' tool. Task 1: Matching - Where does it go?           There are many ways to spend a holiday. And you may also travel the world and discover new places and experiences to get more exposure. Here some different types of holidays. Ask your students to write their names under the pictures. Task 2: Read the story - A trip to Andaman.                  Jai had a holiday trip to Andaman with his parents and sister Amala. They went to Andaman last summer. They went by ship from Chennai to Port Blair, the capital of the Andama...