Learning Activities

 

Fetal conception cards:

 

Fetal development cards are provided to match up the cards from the timeline and determine how the fetus develops.

A box will be provided and will be centered in the class, clearly showing the various stages of growth after the conception process.

 

Students are to demonstrate that they can place these in the correct order.

 

1. Sperm enters vagina

2. Sperm travels up the vaginal canal

3. Sperm meets egg in the outer portion of the fallopian tube (fertilization)

4. Fertilized egg travels down the fallopian tube into the uterus

5. Fertilized egg attaches itself to the lining of the uterus

6. Fertilized egg uses lining of the uterus for nourishment. Fertilized egg takes nine months to grow completely into a full-term baby

 

 

Expert groups on contraceptive devices:

 

Expert groups allow the students to work co-operatively to research their topics. As an end goal, the expert groups will break off and teach their original group about their given topic. This teaches students about why it’s important to take leadership in their role so that they can benefit their own students as much as possible. Everyone has a responsibility, everyone has to be engaged which a good example of positive interdependence.

 

 

 

Construct Pro and con resource tables in your groups:

Cost effective?

Effectiveness of the contraceptive in percentage?

Where can we access this?

 

 

Kahoots

(https://create.kahoot.it/#user/8c7ef619-58de-4f7a-a5a5-a8ef0e47ad6f/kahoots/created)

 

Kahoots is a formative assessment tool that can be used at the beginning of the lesson or at the end. This is dependent on how you’ve designed/structured the lesson and is an effective way to indicate various levels of learning.The colours, upbeat and positive music in addition to the element of competition; yields great participation and interest, drawing out knowledge in a non-conventional way. Kahoots can be designed specifically so that it is relevant to the learning of your subject area. (images here, of downloads etc)

 

Padlet

(https://padlet.com/my/dashboard)

 

Padlets is another formative assessment tool that requires more than just recall. This website was used during my practicum to provide a platform for the students to transcribe their ideas. The ability to see what other participants have written enables the class to feed different points of knowledge off of each other consequently extending their ideas. The class can be anonymous benefiting those who don’t feel confident in contributing.

Mix and match definitions

Mix and match definitions is a quick formative assessment tool that can be used in groups or as individuals. A perfect way to do a warmup activity for the class so that they are able to refresh their memory with definitions and concepts learnt in previous lessons, this can also be used as a way to notify the teacher how much the students know.

 

KWL

 

What I know, What I want to learn, learnt. KWL worksheets can be used at the end of beginning of a lesson. This type of formative assessment helps to distinguish various levels of understanding  covering what they know and what they need to know weaknesses and strengths, this is beneficial as it helps  to inform our future steps in terms of lesson design.

 

 

Pictionary

 

Pictionary is a fun task that I used in my practicum that yielded great results. The whole class thoroughly enjoyed this activity, elements of competition, teamwork and content knowledge are incorporated as well as required to complete the task.  

How to play: Within the game of Pictionary a member of a group is given a word, the word must be drawn into a picture that helps to describe what they have been told. Team members are to guess by means of interpretation and derivation of the drawing. Once this is achieved they must claim a new word from the teacher and eventually get down the list.

 

 

Continuum

 

Continuum’s is an easy formative assessment tool that can be manipulated in a variety of ways to help bring out knowledge, ideas, opinions and discussions from the participants. This can easily be set out in any class situation. It enables the participant to reflect on what they think is right and situate themselves accordingly.

 

 

Group Brainstorm activity

 

Students work in a group building on from each others ideas and writing down as much as they know. This an effective recap strategy that helps students feed information off each other to expand their answers.

 

 

Plickers

 

Students are given specific cards that are associated with their name. When students hold up these plickers card this will add points to a database distinguishing if they got the answer correct or wrong. This will later come up and show the weaknesses and strengths of the classroom as it totals their scores. This an effective formative assessment tool that can be used to help distinguish which students are struggling and those who know the content.

 

Spinning wheel/Game Show

 

In groups students are to come up with a team name and give it to the teacher. This will be placed on the spinning wheel. A question will be asked and from here each group must research potential answers. The wheel is spun and whoever it lands on has to answer the question. A point system is in place and thus those who answer correctly gain 10 points, if they cannot answer they can pass but the team who buzzes in a gets the correct answer only get 5 points. 5 deducted if there is cheating or answers are incorrect, an additional 5 points is deducted if they are not paying attention or going against rules. This concludes once a team has achieved 100 points (can be modified).