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 ac...

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 mot...

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...

Topic: Talk about your house Lesson: My house and my family Grade: Primary Skills: Speaking and vocabulary                      When teachers use activities that make learning engaging and fun, students are more willing to participate and take risks. Having fun while learning also helps students retain information better because the process is enjoyable and memorable. So planning such activities help students to participate actively in the learning process.  Here is a simple and creative house model to make students talk about their house. And also a very effective model to teach and learn the vocabulary related to a house. I have seen this in the PINTEREST and made this for my class. (You can also see the full lesson plan to teach about "My house and my family" in the below link.) MY HOUSE AND MY FAMILY- LESSON AND ACTIVITIES As we all know, learning materials can significantly increase lear...

Topic: Poem Poem: Kind Words Subject: English Grade: Primary and upper primary Objectives: Able to know the meaning of the words "kind, helpful, nice, and generous" understand the meaning of the phrases "Kind hearts, kind words, kind deeds, and kind thoughts." sing the poem. know the importance of the trees.             Here is a simple lesson plan and activities of the poem Kind words written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And also I am attaching the video of my student's creative presentation . Presentation:   Task 1: Show the below flashcards to the students. Ask some questions pertaining to the pictures. Ex: What do you observe? What are they doing? Have you seen such people? Have you ever helped anyone? ...etc. By asking these questions try to focus to get the words 'kind, helpful, nice, and generous.' Facilitate them to understand the words by explaining their meanings. Focus on the main word "KIND" Task 2: Tell the students to we are goi...

Lesson: Animals around us Topic: Oviparous, viviparous, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. Subject: Science Grade: Primary and upper primary Material: flashcards, interactive videos, and worksheets. Learning outcomes:  Identify different features  of birds and animals. classify carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. know about the group behaviour of animals and birds. show concern towards animals and birds.            Here is a simple lesson plan and interesting activities to teach about 'how animals birth?' and what they eat?  Task 1: Show some animals and birds flashcards and have a discussion. Ask students, where do they live? how are their body and shape? ..etc Now tell your students to classify those animals into two types and write them in the below table.  Task 2:               Now tell your students that animals are two types based on their birth. Use the below picture to explain the concept....

  Topic: "Simple past and Present perfect." and "Could you and Would you mind." Here is an interactive quiz to practice the "Simple past and Present perfect." And also have some bits of "Could you and Would you mind." You can download the PPT from the below link.  This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office . Download the PPT