Lesson integrated with ICT on Trade

Integration of ICT in our daily lesson is a boost to the students which involves students in learning more through real world situation where they see hands on experience. And also it boost their learning and improves their knowledge. Students are engaged fully in their work through ICT integrated lesson and their also improves their retention power. They tend to explore more on the topic by browsing themselves or get help from their friends.

On 9^th November, I took class VI ‘B’ students to TV room during the 6^th period to teach on the topic: “Trade”. Firstly I revised the taught lesson on economic and non-economic activities and its types. Before I screen the short video clip on TV, I asked questions such as: what is trade? Do we do trading here in our locality? What types of trade does people do? ‘The exchange of goods and services among the people and countries is called trade’. Selling of goods and services to other countries is called export. Bhutan exports some goods such as apples, oranges, cardamoms, potatoes, minerals and electricity to India and Bangladesh. Buying of goods and services from other countries is called import. Bhutan imports goods such as salt, rice, cars, oils and clothes from countries like India, Bangladesh and Thailand.

After doing so, I screened them short video clip on trade, import, export and barter system/trading. So in between the video, I explained them what each of them means it and some of the difficult terms. Sometimes I paused them in between the video and ask questions to grab their attention and whether they are paying full attention or not. For example: what things are exported from our locality? Name some things that we import. How can we reduce the import of vegetables from other India? Is barter system still practiced in your community? Why?

As an activity, I asked them to list things or commodities that we export to India and import from India. Students spent three minutes to jot down few points and asked few volunteers to share their answer.  I also supplemented some points on top of their presentation and we discussed in detail some of the advantages and disadvantages of trade. Students enjoyed the video as they watched with full concentration and few students even ask me some questions in between the video.

As a closure part of my lesson I asked some students to say what they understood from the video or asked questions like: what is trade? What is barter system? Do we still practice barter system? Why? What will happen if we keep on importing commodities from other countries?  

 

 

‘Bhutan imports various goods from other countries’. How can we reduce the import of goods from other countries? What are some of the problems of trade?  Overall, students enjoyed the lesson and all are involved in the activity. I ask them to solve some questions from the text book in the evening as home work.

                                        Students during the ICT lesson