I followed Cikgu Salwa to enter the year 5B class in science subject. I sat at the back of the class to have my observation during the science subject was conducted. The teacher recalled the students that the topic they had discussed in previous lesson by asking some questions for a little guidance. Then, students were required to take out their exercise book and copied the questions from the blackboard given by the teacher. The students were given a couple minutes to have their own discussion and the teacher was gone around the class to supervise them. After that, the teacher discussed the questions with the students and also gave some explanations for the answer who gave by the students.
By the end of the class, teacher gave some homework to them and required the students to do their revision on the topic that they had discussed for next week monthly examination preparation.
Feelings
During my observation, I felt surprised from the students because they show actively while doing their discussion with the teacher. It was much different in my expectation that the students will be show very passive while they are asking to give their opinion or view. The whole class was well conducted by the teacher and the students were well self-discipline during the period.
Evaluation
The exercises given by the teacher were about the food chain and food web. Firstly, the teacher asked the students to give the definition of food chain and food web and also the meaning of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. The students also required to give the meaning of producer and consumer. Students were been told to identify and classify the group according to the food the animals eat. Then the students were gone further to identify the producers and consumers and construct the food web and food chain among the animals and plants. After that, students moved on to discuss the prediction given by the teacher using a simple basic mathematics skill.
Beside, I found that the teacher was much concentrated the method to answer the questions during the examination. The students were been told to memorize the types of question and how to handle or answering that kinds of question. I think this will probably not to encourage the students to have the critical and creative thinking skills.
The students will be lead by the questions and become passive.
Analysis
The questions given by the teacher during the exercise were as below:
Based on the diagram shown, construct there food chains that can be found.
Grass----Caterpillar----Grasshopper----Hen----Fox
1. Which is the producer?
2. Which are the consumers?
3. Based on the food chain construct a food web.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Caterpillar 45 38 29 18
Bird 4 7 11 16
The table above shown that the relationship between caterpillars and birds.
1. What is the trend of the number of caterpillars?
2. What is the trend of the number of birds?
3. Why the number of caterpillars is decreasing?
4. Predict the number of birds in week 5.
Based on the animals that given as below, construct a food web.
1. Paddy plant----Sparrow----Rat----Grasshopper----Frog----Eagle
2. Elodea----Tadpole----Guppy----Tilapia----Beaver
From the questions given by the teacher, I found that the trend of the questions was using inductive learning method. Initially, teacher asked the students to identify and classify each of the animals, for example: What does the animal eat? Is the animal herbivore or carnivore? Is the animal a producer or consumer?
So on, the students were required to construct the food chain and the food web based on their classification that had made from previous question. Furthermore, the students also were required to predict what would be happen for the ecosystem if the number of the animals are increasing or decreasing. Now, we found that the students were started with the specific knowledge which then consolidated with more and more information until a general concept was formed.
Conclusion
From my observation in the class, I am able to conclude that teaching and learning of science can be conduct effectively with applying the learning theories. Students form their knowledge through the action of hearing, reading, writing, talking, remembering and thinking. The elements of inductive and deductive learning which employ to the learners should be depend on the topic that will be discuss and is suit to the topic and learners.
Action plan
In future, I will make this teaching approach for my teaching to the students. I will enhance this teaching approach through using more sources and specific activities to help students understand the concepts and the relationships between the activities and theories.
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