First week of Teaching Practice

Hi all,

     This blog will be about my Teaching Practice experience for the past one week. I had a great experience last week. Students were co-operative, well-mannered and hard-working. I was able to communicate the subject to the Students. 

Topics Covered this week: 

• Solutions, 
• Concentration of Solutions, 
• Salt Solutions, 
• Solubility, 
• Energy,
• Force of displacement,
• Factors influencing work.

    Solutions

• Definitions and Practical examples were taught on Solute and Solvent.
• Students were taught about the different types of Solutions and the instances where the solutions were made use of. 
• Explanations given about the Concentration of Solution.
• Students were able to differentiate the Concentrated solution and Dilute solution.
• Practical Examples for Saturated solutions and Unsaturated Solutions were made with the example of common salt (Sodium Chloride).
• Students themselves experimented in preparation for the Salt solution.
• Students were able to understand the concept of Solubility, that "The amount of a solute in grams required to convert 100 g of a solvent into a saturated solution at a given temperature is known as the Solubility of the solute in that solvent."

Energy

• Students were explained that "Energy is the capacity to do work"
• Students were asked about different forms of energy that are used in various activities. Students answered their familiar types of energy like Mechanical, Heat and Electrical Energy.
• When the topic of mechanical energy was discussed, types of Mechanical Energy i.e., Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy were differentiated. 

Force of displacement

• The above-shown image is shown and students were asked them to write down the activities shown.

• Students did the above shown activity and understood that, "Objects undergo displacement only when force is applied to them."
• Students were given another activity, to list out the activities related to 
• Displacement takes place in the direction of force applied
• No displacement for the body in the direction of force applied.
• Students were given discussion points on whether displacement takes place always when force is applied on bodies.

Factors influencing work

• Class began with a discussion on a person climbing up on a stop with a load and arrived at the concept of factors influencing the work.
• Two groups of students were divided and activity sheet were given and a similar activity was shown slide as seen below

• By doing the activity and with discussion done by questions asked, students understood that the second boy pushed the object to greater distance. Same force applied by both and the second boy did the greater work because he pushed through greater distance.

This is all for the past week. Next week's lesson will be uploaded on 22.11.2019. Good Bye.