Fourth Week of Teaching Practice

Hi all, 

       This blog post will be about my past week teaching experience.  So far my teaching practice experience is effective. Students are fascinating. Their co-operation with me motivates me to prepare for classes in a better way. I was able to teach Physics in Class Nine and Chemistry in Class Eight. In this week I started my project work.
Topics covered in this week:

• Power,
• Growing Crystal,
• Reaction of Metals with water,
• Balanced Chemical Equation.

     Power

• Students were given an introduction on Power by asking about different types of motors used in electrical devices and arrived at the concept of Power.

• The above table is shown to the students which contains information regarding the working of pumps in three neighboring houses and were asked to complete the table 
• (g=10 ms²)
• Students found out whether the amount of work done by the pump to fill water in three tanks the same.

• From the above problems and table, students understood the meaning of 1/2 HP and 1 HP. Students understood several facts regarding work, energy, and power. 

Growing Crystal

• Class began with the previous knowledge of super-saturated solution and arrived at the concept of growing crystals.
• The below-shown video on growing crystal is shown. 

• Students were given discussion points and slides were shown related to preparation of Copper sulphate solution.

Reaction of Metals with water

• Class began with the discussion about the reaction of potassium with water and arrived at the concept of Reaction of Metals with water.
• Th below shown video on reaction of sodium and copper with the water.

• Discussion done on the video by posing below questions
• Which of these metals reacted with water?
• Which gas was formed during the reaction?

• The above-shown slides are shown and students understood the chemical equation behind the reaction.

Balanced Chemical Equation

• Class began with discussion of students' previous knowledge on chemical equation.
• This class was taught by Jigsaw method.
• Students were divided into four groups and four cards each containing different chemical equation were given and were asked them to balance the equation. 
• Again students divides the student based on the topic. Students who got the same topic forms the temporary expert group and asks them to discuss about the chemical equation which was on the card.
• Students reform the first-formed group to explain the answers discussed in each expert group.
• Students present their answers before the class and I added extra point to the answer.

This is all for the week. I'll be posting my further teaching practice after a break. The exams are going to start next week. After the exams again I'll start teaching and update in the blog hopefully in January. Bye...