Photo viewer and projector

On 13^th October, I made a lesson to teach class vii about the courses of river that flow through Bhutan. IN general, the students of Samtse had not been to northern part of Bhutan. When the vegetation and features of Bhutan was taught to them, they had very little prior knowledge about it. They were not able to take in that Northern part of Bhutan had very different vegetation and feature. Therefore I collected the pictures of some unique features and the vegetation of northern Bhutan, especially Bumthang. My first idea was to print the pictures and show to them but due to lack of resources, I was not able to come up with colored pictures, so I used my laptop and showed them the pictures of it after downloading from the internet.

Students in class

I showed the picture using the window photo viewer on the screen using projector so that they were able to see the colored picture and analyze the difference of vegetation between the southern foothill and the alpine areas. The students showed a keen interest in it because whatever they were shown was quite new for most of them. They leaf shapes, the trees and the mountains were very different from what they have been seeing till now in their local areas.

One of the dominating advantages of showing the pictures was that the students were able to virtually analyze the features and make out the difference beyond what is given in the text. The colored pictures were very useful as they were visually attracted whereby they were able to retain the information for a long period of time. 

ICT in n class

In conclusion, I feel that students should be given different opportunity to explore the world in learning effectively. Using ICT in the form of photo viewer and power point is also one of the methods to boost interest in learning beyond the text.