class activities
Heat
Activity 1 Take a rod or flat strip of a metal, say of aluminium or iron. Fix a few small wax pieces on the rod. These pieces should be at nearly equal distances. Clamp the rod to a stand. If you do not find a stand, you can put one end of the rod in between bricks....
Nutrition in Plants
Activity 1.1 Activity 1.1 asks us to put a plant in the dark for 72 hours, test its leaf for the presence of the starch with iodine and compare the result with a plant kept in sunlight. How do we do a test for the starch We first put the leaf in a boiling solution of...
Number Sense and Place value of Ones, tens and Hundreds
You can check the link below for numerous place value activities that you can play in class. https://www.weareteachers.com/place-value-activities/
Introduction to Nouns
You can play the game of identify : Name Place Animal Thing Ask children to write 5 such words which fall under these 4 categories.
Concept of Subtraction- some strategies
Strategy 1: Using Manipulatives or objects Step 1: Take some colored buttons ( 20 buttons) on a check board. Step 2: Speak aloud that you are taking away 5 buttons from the 20 kept on the check board. Step 3: Ask children to do back ward counting starting from 20 and...
Word problems Addition and subtractions, operations and algebraic thinking
Only HOTS questions: 1. Look at the addition sentences. 6 + ___= 11 ___ + 6 = 11 Which number should go where the __ is in each addition sentence? 2. Which is the related addition fact for 5+4=9? a) 1+8=9 ; 1+8=9...
Types Of Accounts
Types of Accounts Step 1: Begin the class by choosing three volunteers in the class. Step 2: Name the first volunteer “Names” Step 3: Name the second volunteer “Tangible”: this includes things around you that you can see Step 4: Name the third volunteer “Intangible”:...
Past perfect tense
Step 1. Write down three sentences in three different tenses denoting the same action and ask the students to observe the difference . a. He reached station . b. He has reached station . c. He had reached station before the train arrived . Step 2. Ask questions on...
Past Continuous Tense
Step 1. Ask a few simple questions using past continuous tense related to day to day activities done in past such as yesterday , last night , last evening etc . Such as : What were you doing at eight o'clock last night ? I saw you in the market yesterday . What were...
Present Continuous Tense
Step 1. Write a few sentences using present continuous tense on board . Step 2. Ask a student to read them . Step 3. Ask another student to enact the action before the class and then repeat the sentence using action . Step 4. Ask children to frame a few sentences in...
Present Perfect Tense
Step 1. Ask the students to name a few actions and write them on the black board . Step 2. Choose an action and ask a student to use it in a sentence . Step 3. Ask on other student whether the sentence is correct . Step 4 . Ask another child about the tense of the...
Single Use vs. standing Plans
Step 1: Begin the class by sharing the following incidents: School has arranged for a fest in the playground. A day before the fest, it rained heavily so the school authorities decided to shift the venue of the fest from open playground to Multi Purpose Hall. The...