Mahwish Abid Class Teacher The City School, Jr. Section, PAF Chapter ACTION PLAN Mahwish Abid Class Teacher The City School, Jr. Section, PAF Chapter

“ Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.” Soren Kierkegaard

Long - Term Goal student’s abilities to understand the concepts To inculcate 21st century skills to enhance student’s abilities to understand the concepts of social studies. To enable students to use IT to gain access to additional information sources .

Short - Term Goal To enable students to: discuss the importance of the major crops of Pakistan. differentiate between the different environments, soils and the climate that each of the crops can sustain in. identify the positive as well as negative aspects of canal system irrigation. Write an autobiography by using Microsoft word. complete the project work .

Subject: Social Studies Grade : 4 Topic : Agriculture Content : explanation, discussion, group activities, project work. Skills : labeling , drawing , tracing , map reading , locating , scaling up and down , devising rules, reading, comprehending and understanding.

Instructional Strategies and Tasks The objectives will be listed on the board for the student’s knowledge so that they can understand what they will achieve by the end of the lesson. Introduce the appropriate vocabulary related to the topic . I will gauge their understanding by asking questions from the text. I will provide an opportunity to the students to work in groups to do the activities that are planned . Later taking feedback from each group. Students will be encouraged to use Microsoft word for writing an autobiography Will encourage them to make a project booklet on different types of crops grown in Pakistan and different kinds of farming .

Solutions to Anticipated Challenges Not many computers in the ICT lab to complete the individual task on time. Some students will refuse to work in a group for project work. Solutions: Will divide the group into subgroups and assign different task while working in the same group. Will ask a group leader to give task to each group member ( things to be brought by each person in a group) to complete the project work.

Time Line ( January ) 1st week Agriculture Types of farming. Activity 5A 2nd week Agricultural products in Pakistan Activity 5B ICT activity (autobiography) 3rd week Agriculture careers Activity 5D and 5E. 4th week Unit Summary Assessment

Objectives To enable students to: list the main crops of Pakistan. differentiate between the different environments, soils and the climate that each of the crops can sustain in. understand that farmers not only grow crops but raise animals on farms if they are a part of livestock farming. know that farming is not the only career associated with farming , there are also other careers associated with agriculture.

Vocabulary irrigation fertilizers fertile domesticating harvesting economy production agriculture network

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Resources Social studies Curriculum. Social Studies book. Microsoft word. Internet.

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