I have chosen the topic "Weather" for grade two students which is very interesting to teach and will engage the children learning about it in the class.
The objectives of the learning material are:
ü children can identify and describe the factors of various types of weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, windy, etc.) using the names of the weather.
ü children can compare the factors of different types of weather and identify similarities and differences.
ü describe the weather in their own words.
ü draw the different kinds o weather.
Process of designing the learning material:
For this lesson, I have used shapes, colors, word formats, pictures from Google for my learning materials. I drew the sun, clouds, trees, houses, mountains, sky, rainfall, etc. with the shapes that are in the features of the power-point. Different kinds of shapes and clip-arts were inserted and designed using needed colours according to the required features of the weathers.
I made animations of different kinds of weather using different animation panes, effects, creating timing, editing the paths of the movements of each objects in the slides. Having done with the creation of animations in each weather’s features, I downloaded the sounds of the different weathers i.e., sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy and snowy from the music juice link and inserted the sounds required for the weather or day (birds chirping/singing during the sunny day/weather, cloudy day’s sounds for cloudy weather, trees swaying sound for windy day/weather, sounds of rainfall during the rainy day/weather, and snow-falling sounds effect for snowy day/weather).
Completing with those processes, I recorded my voice using Camtasia Studio app in the power-point to make voice over presentation to explain the weather to my students. I uploaded the video that I had made by recording the voice in the power-point in the Camtasia Studio and edited the video in it. Then, the video was exported to local file and uploaded to the blog.
They will watch the video lesson (learning material) carefully and listen to talks about the weather in the video to be able to complete the learning activity that they are given.
How to carry out the activity?
The children after watching the video lesson (learning material), they will be asked to draw different kinds of weather in their own in a similar way. To carry out their task, they will be required to think or remember of the days/ that they have experience or the different weathers that they have experienced in their life (of snowy, windy, cloudy, sunny, rainy, etc.)
