Dear All
We have started our new unit of inquiry "Media".The exciting learning journey has started and it will definitely be a fruitful and enriching experience.
Resource Websites for
the unit:
Association for Media Literacy
AML introduces visitors to the importance of media education. You
will find information on resources and upcoming events as well as critical
perspectives on media trends and issues.
Cartoons in the Classroom
Follow this link to the teachers’ guide for using the Professional
Cartoonists’ Index website in your classes. The site’s lesson plans show how
you can use editorial cartoons as a teaching tool at all levels.
Centre for Media Literacy
The site helps visitors to access, understand, analyse, and
evaluate the powerful images,words, and sounds that make up our contemporary
mass media culture.
Concerned Children’s Advertisers
CCA campaigns include nationally televised Public Service
Announcements and curricula for children from K-8, as well as tips and tools
for parents and community workers. It also includes videos.
Internet Archive
This site provides a digital archive of video, audio, music,
games, and texts.
Kids’ Take on the Media
This site describes the impact of media in children’s lives and
what our young people have to say about the topic.
Media Awareness Network
The network offers practical support for media education in the
home, school, and community and provides food for thought on our rapidly evolving
media culture. It also explores ways to make media a more positive force in
children’s lives.
Media Ed
This site is designed for teachers, students, and anyone
interested in media and moving image education at all levels.
National Film Board for Kids
NFBKids offers entertaining and educational activities for junior
students, from science adventures to online animation.
Newseum
This site provides a collection of front pages of newspapers from
around the globe, updated daily.
Newspapers in Education
Scholastic News Online
This is a source for news and information on current events,
designed especially for students in Grades 3-6.
BBC Newsround
Newsround provides news of interest to students from the U.K. and
around the world.
Time for Kids
Time magazine presents news for kids.
DO NOT FORGET TO MENTION THE CITATION ONCE WE REFER ANY WEBSITE AND USE THE IDEAS.
Cheers!
Ms.Safura
Form Tutor
Grade 6 K
August 13,2013
Students were engaged in learning about the impact of media on the decisions of people.
They were grouped according to their reading levels and were given handouts and photographs and use a "Visible Thinking" tool THINK,PUZZLE AND EXPLORE to present their thinking.
It was very interesting as they reflected that the learning engagement allowed them to think deeply about Media and helped them to make positive decisions with the new knowledge they acquired.
Students wrote thir reflects on ethics in media after viewing three videos on the topic.
They used the thinking routine WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT-INTERPRETATION ROUTINE.
Students completed generating their own questions related to the unit of inquiry using a thinking routine called QUESTION STARTS...where they used higher order Bloom's taxonomy question prompts to channelise their questions.
August 19,2013
Students inquired about the role and influence of favourite media using the reference books and websites.
August 21,2013
Students created concept maps on the different types and roles of media in their UOI thinking logs.
Later through a class discussions ETHICS was discussed using different case studies as examples and students were asked Why do they think that Ethics is valuable in life?
August 22,2013
Students worked on formative assessment.
August 23,2013
Today on August 23, 2013,
Grade 6 students had a guest lecture on the use and influence of media on
people by Ms Kamini Menon, a video journalist working with India Unheard, a
NGO.
Ms Kamini introduced
herself and spoke about her work to the students. She shared a power point
presentation on Media to start the session. She gave information and facts
about the origin and development of different sources of media. She interacted
with students by asking questions on media. She showed videos on different
types of media and explained in detail about the values of journalism. She
spoke about the problems face by disadvantaged section of community and about
their voice not reaching the common people and their interest.
She explained through
her job profile how media can create an impact on the society. She trains
people chosen from different rural areas of states to sensitize the problems
faced by the disadvantaged people. The person are trained to develop proper
communication skills to collect data by conducting interview from different
people facing the problems. Later they
are trained to use the camera, video cameras, cam corders and mobile phones to
send. These trained people go back to their places and collect problems in the
society and make videos on them. These videos are sent to the NGO for editing
and then these are published on the website as well as given to the person to
share it with the people to find out an appropriate solution, thereby community
empowerment.
The people are given
remuneration for the videos they send there by earning money for this poor
family. She showed the whole process, videos and shared the link she also
inquired about the media used by students and requested them to share the link
of the website and its activities on the social networking media they use. She
was open to the questions asked by the students. Then a quiz was conducted by
her at the end to check the understanding of the students about her session.
It was a privilege to
have Ms Kamini for the students as she gave the important information. Students
thanked her by giving her the card and vote of thanks. The session was an
enriching and the role of media as an eye opener on the problems and solutions
of the disadvantaged to people.
GUEST SPEAKER REPORT
Today, on August 30 2013 the
grade 6 of Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad students had a guest speaker for their
unit media. On the second line of inquiry, which was the role of language, arts
and music in media and the guest speaker was
Mrs.Alamelu Swaminathan who was accompanied by her husband. She was
about 72 years old and her husband is of around 82 years old & she told us about
music.
First she told us to sing
our favourite song which had been taught to us. We sang our song “Zara sun tujein dharti pukarein”
Then she told us about the different types of music and what their uses are.
She also gave us interesting facts about music which she had been experienced. She was polite to us and every moment she
allowed us to ask questions and she was very busy explaining about music about
her career she was behaving like our friend which was looking very nice to me.
She didn't even look at teachers she was like someone from our friends is
telling us about the music and other thing.
After a while she told us
interesting and true facts which looked like she would now sing one of those
& she actually sang it. She had a music box that was put on a low pitch .
She sang it so well that, I don't
As she was going to end her
session the grade 5 students of AKAH came and once again she sang the song for them. She told them the
same facts and some new facts which I didn't know. At last it was time for her
to go and we gave her a thank you card which was from our side and that’s how
the session ended.
Field trip report to The National Institute of
Amateur Radio
On 27th August, 2013,
the Grade 6 A and K went to the National Institute of Amateur Radio, NIAR near
Somajiguda. We went there for our unit Media. We went there to learn about
radio, which is a mode of communication. We left the school at 10 'o clock. We
went there through a bus.
First the guide, Mr Jose showed us a video on their organization. We learnt many new facts on radio. We learnt about the inventor, Marconi. The people who are in the organization should be above 12 years. The trained people then teach a syllabus of radio to the people. The training takes 2 or more months. Later on, we learnt about HAM, which are Hertz, Armstrong and Marconi. Then, Mr. Jose answered our questions and he answered all the questions properly. Eventually, we learnt on walkie-talkies. Meanwhile Mr. Jose was explaining, snacks were served..
Subsequently, we went around the campus into a small museum where we saw a variety of radios and walkie-talkies. We saw the official radio used by Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. Moving ahead, we went to the Wireless museum room which had plenty of transmitters and receivers. After that, we were divided into 2 groups and the people demonstrated how to use walkie- talkies. We each got a chance to speak in the walkie-talkie.
Finally, we boarded the bus and ate our lunch, which was really delicious. We reached school at 2:00 pm. Through this field trip, I learnt amazing facts on radio and their organization. It was a really interesting and knowledgeable field trip.
First the guide, Mr Jose showed us a video on their organization. We learnt many new facts on radio. We learnt about the inventor, Marconi. The people who are in the organization should be above 12 years. The trained people then teach a syllabus of radio to the people. The training takes 2 or more months. Later on, we learnt about HAM, which are Hertz, Armstrong and Marconi. Then, Mr. Jose answered our questions and he answered all the questions properly. Eventually, we learnt on walkie-talkies. Meanwhile Mr. Jose was explaining, snacks were served..
Subsequently, we went around the campus into a small museum where we saw a variety of radios and walkie-talkies. We saw the official radio used by Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. Moving ahead, we went to the Wireless museum room which had plenty of transmitters and receivers. After that, we were divided into 2 groups and the people demonstrated how to use walkie- talkies. We each got a chance to speak in the walkie-talkie.
Finally, we boarded the bus and ate our lunch, which was really delicious. We reached school at 2:00 pm. Through this field trip, I learnt amazing facts on radio and their organization. It was a really interesting and knowledgeable field trip.
Iliyan Ajani
Grade 6k
September 5,2013
Students conducted experiments on properties of sound and completed their observation report in the UOI books.
EXPERIMENT REPORT-1
This is the lab report
of the first experiment grade 6k did. This experiment’s main aim was to find
the different properties of sound and test which chemical tube would give more
sounds by tapping. In this experiment, we had to tap chemical tubes with
different amounts of water and tap them and observe the different sounds. Now I
am going to explain this experiment in detail to you.
First, I thought that
many different sounds would come out by tapping the different tubes because of
vary of amount of water. This was my first guess. I thought that the one with
more water gives more sound when tapped. Further in the report, you’re going to
see whether my guess was correct or not.
The materials used in
this experiment were:
·
Test tubes
·
Water
·
Pencil,
scale and any metallic object to tap the test tubes. Procedure
·
First, we
should take three chemical tubes
·
Second, we
should fill them with water with exact measurement like 3/4th, 2/4th
and 1/4th of water in each chemical tube.
·
Next, we
should tap the chemical tubes gently with a tapping material of any kind.
Through
this experiment, I observed that the different chemical tubes give different
sounds when tapped. My guess was wrong because as I thought, the chemical tube
with the highest amount of water would give more sound, but the one with the
least amount of water gave more sound.
I
discovered that the one with the least amount of water gave more sound because
the atoms in it can move free and hit the chemical tube so that more sound can
be produced.
Through
this experiment, I came to know about the different properties of sound.
Vignesh
6 K
September 5,2013
Experiment on light:Rectilinear propagation of light:Light travels in straight lines.
September 19,2013 -Summative task:
Dear Parents find the link for the summative assessment.
Today we started our day with UOI. In UOI our first unit was media in which we made a mind map in our thinking logs we wrote some points related to our central idea then we made our own central idea. our central idea was the use of media influences the decisions and opinion of individuals and societies. The theme foe this unit is how we express our self's. Our concepts for this unit are form, perspective, reflection. Our related concepts are communication, subjectivity, truth, beliefs, opinion, prejudice ans network.
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