Lesson integrated with ICT on Hazards and Disasters

ICT integrated lesson in teaching and learning enable students to provide access to more and better educational content which helps them in acquiring more knowledge in their daily lives. It also boost their learning by engaging them with different forms of technologies whereby they explore and learn more by doing themselves.

So on 11^th October, I took class VI ‘A’ students to conference room during the 7^th period to teach on the topic: “Hazards and Disasters” through use of projector.  Firstly I introduced them the topic and then gave them worksheet to check their prior knowledge about the topic.

Write disaster or hazard by reading the statements:

Sl/no	Statement	Before	After
1	Wet floor
2	Heavy objects at a height
3	Flood
4	Plane crash
5	Forest fire
6	Naked wire in the kitchen

 

After checking their prior knowledge, I began my lesson by explaining what is hazard? What is disaster? with some examples through power point presentation. An object or situation, or behaviour that has the potential to cause injury, damage properties, or the environment is called hazard. A sudden accident that causes great damage or loss of life is called disaster. Then I explained about the differences between hazards and disasters. To be clearer on the taught topic, I showed pictures of hazards and disasters one by one and made them to identify it. For example: a fan on the ceiling (hazard), forest fire (disaster), flood (disaster), an object at a height (hazard), etc. I made them to reason out why it is a hazard or disaster?

Now to check whether students understood the lesson presented or not, I ask them to take out the worksheet that they did before the start of my lesson and told them to write hazard and disaster in the second column.

Write disaster or hazard by reading the statements:

Sl/no	Statement	Before	After
1	Wet floor
2	Heavy objects at a height
3	Flood
4	Plane crash
5	Forest fire
6	Naked wire in the kitchen

As a closure just to revise what was taught, hazard and disaster are closely related and sometimes used as same. Yet they are quite different from each other. Hazard becomes a disaster only when it causes harm. I ask few children to tell some causes of hazards and disasters and also ask them to look for more examples of hazards and disasters. So I found students are enjoying the lesson and they were very eager what might come in the next slide. I told them to Google it for more understanding of the topic.

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