VISUALISER
Year group:- Year 1. Age - 5-6 years old.
Lesson:-
Science – “Sorting and using materials” - QCA Unit 1C. Cross curriculum links to“Labelling and classifying” - QCA ICT Unit 1D
Aims –
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To understand that every material has many properties, which can be recognised usingour senses and described using appropriate vocabulary. - QCA Unit 1C.
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To use words
e.g. hard, shiny, and rough
to describe materials and objects. - QCA Unit1C.
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To understand that objects can be described using key words. - QCA ICT Unit 1D.
Prior Learning:-
The children had first-hand experience of feeling the objects and thenthese and other objects were sorted into sets of hard, soft, rough, smooth and shinyobjects. In the next lesson, objects from the previous lesson were put in a feely bag and thechildren were asked to identify the object based on the answer to their questions. E.g. Is itsoft? Is it bendy?
How the Visualiser was used:-
Prior to the session, objects were put on the Visualiser and astill photograph of them was scanned into a Smart Notebook file. The lesson itself was torecord key words that could be used to describe these objects. During the session I wrotethe key words on the whiteboard using the pens, which I later replaced with computer textfor use in a subsequent lesson.
The benefits of the Visualiser:-
The Visualiser enabled use of objects that the childrenwere familiar with from previous lessons. The facility to easily take a still photograph of anobject and use it in a Smart Notebook file is particularly useful. When previously teachingthis unit I have held the objects up and recorded the key words on the Whiteboard. Whereobjects were particularly small this meant that some of the class had an obscured view.However, using the Visualiser in conjunction with a Smart Notebook file enabled all to have aclear view of the object and I was able to record key words directly onto an image of it. An
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