Description

The content-based materials I have designed is for grade four students. The topic is on recording the temperature from studies subject. The main objectives of the materials are to define the temperature appropriately, read or write the record of the thermometer and then recognize the high and low temperature. The tool I have used this time is Camtasia. Camtasia is a powerful video editing software, which is use to record the videos on computer screen and it supports wide range of file formats for exporting and importing. Moreover, it is very useful for the educational presentation to convince the lesson and purposes by using this Camtasia studio.

How did I create the materials?  

In order to come up with this Camtasia video lesson, first I have planned a lesson in the PowerPoint presentation about temperature and then only I have screen recorded using Camtasia studio. I have designed a light blue background then, inserted different types of shapes (rectangle, circle cloud, stars, etc.) and filled them with appropriate colors to introduce the lesson. This background has used all across the slides. I have used entrance animation (grow & turn) to introduce the topic in the first slide and followed by fade animation to display the objectives of lesson in second slide. For the following slides, I have used simple and several animations like appear, fade, disappear, wipe and used the motions like up and down line from the more option animation, in order to guide the students properly and not to distract them. I have also inserted pictures downloaded from internet to support the concept and make it interesting and understandable. Not only this, I have also utilized shapes especially the transparent and red outlined circle to highlight the important points.

After the presentation is completed, I opened the Camtasia Studio 8.2 version, selected record the screen option, and started recording. I explained the concepts as if I were teaching in the real classroom. I saved the recording after it has done and automatically it took me back to Camtasia. Then, I started editing by using tool such as cut, split, transition, zoom-n-pan options. After that, I saved the video from produce and share option by selecting the MP4 with video player (up to 720p) because it will give the best version of graphic compare to other option.

When to use the materials?

The materials can used during lesson development and lesson closure. The video can suffice as information input under lesson development in teaching the concepts to students because all the information have clearly explained with voice narration. Whilst the teacher can pause the video to introduce the thermometer to measure the temperature and when it reaches to recording temperature while showing the increasing and decreasing liquid inside the thermometer part because students might be, confused if the video has played continuous without getting the concept. We can also pause the video after all the concepts have explained to carry out the activity. This video can used while teaching students about recording temperature if the school is limited with the instruments to use in recording temperature or during the present situation like lock down in the country where schools are closed and when teachers and students are doing online classes. In this type of situation, we can used such Camtasia video to convince effective information to the students as if like a practical classes.

 

Activity Instructions

It is an individual work.

Teacher will provide link on the worksheet for the students.

The worksheet contain three types of thermometers with different readings of temperature.

Since it is for grade 4 students, they are supposed to look at the thermometer scale and then write the temperature in the form of degree Celsius or in Fahrenheit.

If the students have written the correct scales, they will given marks.

Then teacher will add their mark as in their CA. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GA3hZHO_tTSTO0dsEn97s01OoRpeH-4O/view?usp=sharing