Task Two – Active Learning Environments

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Planning activities that allow students to clarify, question, apply, and consolidate new
knowledge.
What is an active learning environment? What are its benefits? How does it link to the inquiry
cycle?
Active learning means students engage with the material, participate in the class, and collaborate
with each other. In active learning, students are in more control of the learning, and it shifts the
emphasis on learning from the teacher to the students. I saw in my classroom that the students
were very patient to the teacher and she explains everything in a clear way to them.
Reference Promoting Active Learning. (n.d). Retrieved from
https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/learning-
resources/promoting-active-learning

Active Learning. (n.d). Retrieved from http://geoffpetty.com/for-

teachers/active-learning/

Choose 3 lessons to observe to answer the following questions:

What was the activity?
The teacher give the students
worksheet include the picture of the
plant and he want the students to
write the name of each part in the
plant.
The teacher gives the students
plastic animals and let them to write
What was the prior
What was the impact of the activity
learning to this
i.e. no. of ss engaged?
lesson?
Some of the The students search for some
students have information inside the book, and
knowledge of the then they try to find the names of
names of the parts the parts in the plan. This activity
in the plant. help the students to learn more
about the plants and to have more
information and ideas about the
plants.
Some of the The students were very excited
students have prior and understand the lesson; the
 the names of the animals that they learning of the teacher gave each group one ipad
have on the whiteboard. name of animal to search about the name of the
because some of different animals. This activity help
them very care and the students to improve their
love the animals so abilities while search about the
that why they have different animals to have more
knowledge about prior learning.
the animals.
The teacher gives the students one Some of the This activity help the students to
blank paper to draw the skeleton and students have know the name of each part in the
then write the name of each part in knowledge of the skeleton, and have more
the skeleton. meaning about the knowledge also to improve their
skeleton. cognitive skills while think about
the name of each part in the
skeleton.

CONCEPT ROLE IN ACTIVE One Reference from 2015 forward that

LEARNING shows what the concept is AND how it
works in Active Learning
STUDENT CENTRED -Focus Methods of teaching that shift the focus of
-Listen instruction from the teacher to the student.
INQUIRY CYCLE -Describe The process of describing, critiquing,
-Evaluate evaluating and discussing the whole inquiry
-Discuss cycle or specific phase.
PROCESS SKILLS -Observe The ability to make good observations is
-Think essential to the development of the other
science process skills.
HANDS-ON MINDS-ON -Learn The student should be actively involved with
-Understand
CONSTRUCTIVISM -Explain Philosophical viewpoint about the nature of
-create knowledge.
-think
PROBLEM SOLVING -Search The process of finding solutions to difficult or
-focus complex issues
 CONCEPT ROLE IN ACTIVE One Reference from 2015 forward that
LEARNING shows what the concept is AND how it
works in Active Learning
BLOOM’S TAXONOMY -Classify A set of three hierarchical models used to
-Work classify educational learning.
ESSENTIAL & GUIDING -Understand Key instructional content and assist students
QUESTIONS -think and teachers in understanding what is
important to teach and to learn.
SEQUENCING OF -Identify Process of identifying and documenting
ACTIVITIES - Write relationships among the project activities.
ASSESSMENT -Take action The action of assessing someone or
-Help something.

Which activity engaged most students? Why do you think this happened? How could the activity
be improved to further increase student engagement?
The activity that when the teacher gives the students plastic animals and let them know which
animal is this and write the name of the animal, i think this happened because the teacher want
the students to memorize and know the animals name and how do they look like and have a full
understanding about what they are learning about. The activity will be improved to further
increase student engagement by giving them more worksheets or activities to understand the
lesson well.

Record and reflect on the safety components of at least 3 lessons taught whilst on TP.:
When the students work on an
experiment in the lab room they
What safety issues were taken into consideration?
should wear goggles and gloves
to keep their hands and eyes safe.
Yes they were following the
Were the students made aware of them? How? instructions and they wear the
gloves and goggles.
No, there wasn’t any problem
Did any safety issues arise in the lesson that were not because the students didn’t break
planned for?
the rules, and they listen to the
 instructions that the teacher give
them.
Yes it has poster that is posted in
the back of the class and it
included that the students should
Is there signage in the classroom regarding safety?
not touch everything in the lab and
they have to wear the goggles
before entering the lab.