The Solar System - Project Proposal

by Wee Sim Tan, Janet Thang and Elizabeth Wok

Subject
Science

Topic
Cycles - The Solar System

Level
Primary 5 EM1

Lesson duration
2 periods (1 hour)

Instruction and learning strategy
Students will use the program in pairs.

Prerequisite knowledge/skills
Subject: None
Computer: Basic computer skills such as starting a computer and program execution, mouse-clicking and typing.

Specific instructional objectives
1. Identify and order the planets in the solar system.
2. Relate and explain shape of the visible moon from earth to its phases (with regards to the position of earth, its moon and the sun).
3. Explain and demonstrate solar and lunar eclipses by creating a model.

Problem
Visualizing the position of the earth, its moon and the sun cause and effect particular phenomenons.

Activities/tasks
Students to navigate program and webpages embedded for research in order to produce a working model of the solar system, explain moon phases and demonstrate solar and lunar eclipses.

Tools
Web sites, powerpoint, MindManager, Blogger

Control
Learner: speed, depth of content within the limits specified
Computer: limit content and provide guidance

Navigation
Students will be able to navigate to any page via buttons, graphics and a toolbar.

Attraction
Relevant graphics and animations.

Media use
Video, text and animations on the solar system.

Wong and Goh's proposal (a sample only)

Template for EED/TED249 Final Project Proposal
Brainstorm: identify some problem areas in your curriculum subjects.
Examples: a section of a topic that is very hard to teach in a traditional manner; an abstract topic; a difficult problem to solve; something that is best taught by using lots of visuals or animations. Make sure your topic is relevant to the school curriculum

Trainee Teachers’ names:


Subject:

Topic:

Level:
E.g. Primary 1, Primary 3 (EM1).

Lesson Duration:
1 – 2 periods

Instruction and learning strategy
How will students use the program? Do they use it individually, in pairs or groups?


Pre-requisite knowledge/skills
What prior subject and computer knowledge/skills must the students have in order to use the program?


Specific Instructional Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1.
2.
3.

Problem
(What is the authentic/real problem to solve? The problem must be authentic and related to the topic.)



Activities/tasks
(What are the activities/tasks students have to perform in order to solve the problem?)


Tools
(What tools are used to carry out the activities? The tools can be web sites, PPT, Excel, Word, concept mapping tool, communication/collaboration tools, etc.)

Learner control
(Will learner or computer control the learning process? And how?)


Metaphor
(Are you going to incorporate some metaphors (like icons on tool buttons, book or desktop metaphor etc) in the program? If yes, what are the metaphors?)


Navigation
(How can the user navigate the program? Will the user walk through the program only by following predetermined route or can the user jump to any page by clicking a hyperlink/hotspot, and how?)


Attraction
(How are you going to beautify the interface to make it attractive?)


Media use
(What media (text, audio, video…) are you going to use? How do these media support each other on each screen as well as in the whole program?)

Proposal

Each group please upload your final project proposal to this blog to share with others