Similar and Congruent Triangles.

Description

What is the material about?

Hi! Viewers I hope you are in good health and sound mind. This is my first post in which I have designed content based material for grade level three on the subject mathematics. It is based on the topic ‘similar and congruent Triangles’. The main reason behind choosing this topic is because of the feasibility and comfort of using ICT features to create teaching learning materials. The features provided by ICT are easy to utilize for making learning enjoyable and in depth. The primary purpose is to give a clear picture of what Similar and congruent triangles are using pictures and possible animations. The learners of this 21st century are no longer interested in the traditional style of teaching and learning. The current generation demands maximum use of fancy gadgets and technology in everyday lives, ICT has become an integral part of everyday lives of the current learners. The main reason behind teaching concept in this ICT platform is to engage students meaningfully through the use of ICT tools and features to provide a strong foundation and a passion for learning.

Class: III

Relevancy of topic to class level:

This topic is relevant to the class III level because they have seen, felt and experienced many congruent and similar shapes in their day to day to day lives. Relating this concept of congruency and similarity, I can easily teach them by drawing connections with their daily experiential objects and objects. for example, similar triangle shapes can be related to the shape of the roofs and congruent triangles can shown with the help of paper folding, rulers, sand drawing et.

How is this material created?

Now to talk about my presentation I have created a content based material using power point as an ICT tool for teaching ‘similar and congruent triangle’. Features such as inserting images, colors, shapes and animations made my task easy, fast and effective for teaching and learning purpose as images and animation provide visual cues for easy deciphering. On the other hand without having to manually draw pictures it saves resources and time. In my power point presentation, I have used the pictures of different objects, shapes and animations to convey the content matter in an efficient way since it requires less labor, time, and resources, without having to compromise the quality of the teaching learning material. Since children enjoy pictures and animations at a young age I have also included video in my power point presentation so that they are entertained as well as equally informed about the content matter. My first 4 slides contain the definition, concepts and examples of congruent and similar triangle followed by an activity divided among last two slides.

Activity and Instruction:

Activity- Identifying Congruent and Similar Shapes 

I have designed an activity to provide hands on experience to the learners, integrating Microsoft word within power point, indirectly demonstrating the interlinked features of ICT. The activity is to be carried out individually, they are supposed to identify and categorize the given shapes and pictures into similar and congruent triangles. I have given them certain period of  time to complete the task. 

The link for this power point presentation is given below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KgxqFnHWpL6PGTOcWevttAl6HTqThmM8/view?usp=sharing

                                                                 Introduction

Hello! readers welcome to my blog. I am Sonam Tshewang currently pursuing my bachelor’s degree at Paro college of education. I am from Mongar and I stay at Thimphu with uncle and auntie. To talk about my school life I completed my primary and middle education from Thimphu and studied high school at Sherubling located in Trongsa. My guardian showered me with love, care and support. So, I finished my early years of schooling without any hardships and deprivation.

Now to tell you about my hobbies, my favorite hobbies are playing basketball, football, playing volleyball, drawing and listening to music. Firstly, I feel great sense of enjoyment from playing football because football gives me lots of fun and happiness. Football not only releases a lot of stress which I get from works but also keeps me physically fit. Now the second of my favorite is drawing. Drawing let me feel at peace with myself and quite relaxed.

I like to draw a lot of different drawings and I spend most of my spare time drawing while also listening to music at the same time. I like to create my pictures in both pencil and color. When I work with color the number of colors let me feel that the pictures I draw are special. Thirdly, one of my favorite which I enjoy very much is volleyball. I started playing volleyball when I was at high school. I always stayed after school to play volleyball with my group friends.

Fourth, music is also a big part of my life. I listen to many different types of music. For example, I love classical, pop and rock songs. Whenever I do my work, I always put my earphones on and listen to the music. I have 200 plus songs. I love listening to music because I get to experience with different kinds of emotion. Through music I believe that we can learn a lot about people based on the kind of music they listen to.

Finally, I also enjoy playing basketball. I have a basketball idol called Professor. He inspired me with his fabulous skills when I look back over the years when I followed his career. I watched many of the matches in which he played. Not only did he have great technical basketball skills but he also showed a great cooperative spirit which worked very well with his teammates, making a great and strong team which was very difficult to be beaten. 

 Thank You.