Activity Based

Learning
 Meaning of
•The state ofActivity
being active.
•Any specific behaviour or action of a particular
kind.
•A thing that a person or group is doing or has
done.
•An educational task that involves
direct experience and participation of students.
•A specific pursuit or deed in which a
person participates.
Examples: Acting, performing,
playing a game, thinking,
demonstration, reading
,writing,
reasoning, questioning, answering,
something
operating
etc.
Meaning of Activity Based
Learning
• An activity or activities used in an
educational process to make students learn.
• Learning through and from activities.
• Activity based learning means that
the teacher incorporates activities of some
type in teaching to make
students learn.
• Using an activity or activities as a base
for learning.
 History of Activity Based
Learning
• ABL started some time during world war II
• David Horsburgh is considered as the pioneer
of ABL system.
• He opened a school called NEEL BAGH in
Kolar.
• School has a diverse Curriculum which
included music, carpentry, sewing, gardening,
as well as school subjects.
• Teaching materials were systematically
planned with different learning activities.
 Different types of
• Dramatization: ABL
Conversion in to a dramatic form or
reconstruction of an event, novel, story etc in a form
suitable for dramatic presentation.

• Quizzes: Competitive activity in which participants should

give the answers to the questions in a prescribed span of
time following some pre-determined rules.

• Group discussions: Discussing in smaller groups(four to

fifteen students) about a given topic and reaching a decision
or arriving at some conclusions.

• Role play: Enacting some situations or playing the role

of things, persons, characters etc.
• Educational Games: These are games that are
designed to help students to learn about certain
subjects, enhance concepts, understand different
contents, learn a skill etc.

• Brainstorming: It is a group activity in which group

members are encouraged to produce a large
number of ideas quickly on theme or a problem
without commenting on any one’s view points for
subsequent discussion and evaluation.

• Problem solving: Problem solving is a process of

finding the solution to the problem by using one or
more concepts or principles or formulae or
required information.
• Debates: Arguments (discussion involving
Arguments) between two groups inwhich one
group argues to defend the controversial issue or
theme and other group puts up the arguments
against the theme.

• Discovery learning: Learning through exploration

or discovery. Learning by exploring or discovering
many aspects of the environment on their own.

• Project: It is a practical unit of activity having

educational value and aimed at achieving one or
more definite goals of understanding, involves
investigation and solution of problems, planned
and carried out to completion by pupils in a
natural ‘real life’ situation.
• Field work: Going to the real life situations for
observing the phenomenon, collect relevant data,
process and analyze the data and arrive at
conclusions.
• Experimentation: Carrying out or conducting the
experiments in the laboratory.
• Concept mapping: It is a process of representing
the concepts or different things in hierarchical
fashion with most inclusive, general concepts at
the top and less general concepts at the bottom
in a pictorial form.
 How will you organize
ABL?Instructional Goals
• Decide
• Understand the learners’
cognitive level and
characteristics.
• Consider the nature of the
subject.
• Know the time available
for achieving the instructional
• Availability of human and non-
human resources.
• Select or design the suitable activities.
• Prepar for implementing that in
e the
class. for link between
• activities
Provide and different
previous knowledge.
• Implement it in the class room.
• Follow it up and bring about
required changes in the activities for
better use.