 Ansa Irfan  Class Teacher  The City School,  Jr. Section, PAF Chapter

“The average teacher explains complexity, the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.”

 To inculcate 21 st 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.

To enable students to:  Discuss the importance of the major crops of Pakistan  Differentiate between the environments, soils and climate that each of the crop can sustain in.  Differentiate between renewable and non- renewable resources.  complete the project work

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

 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.objectives  Introduce the appropriate vocabulary related to the topic.vocabulary  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.activities  Students will be encouraged to use Microsoft wordMicrosoft 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.project booklet

Challenges: 1. Not many computers in the ICT lab to complete the individual task on time. 2. Some students will refuse to work in a group for project work. Solutions: 1. Will divide the group into subgroups and assign different task while working in the same group. 2. 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, February ) 1 st week Agriculture Types of farming. Activity 5A 2 nd week Agricultural products in Pakistan Activity 5B ICT activity (autobiography) 3 rd week Natural Resources Discussion Worksheet 4 th week Activity Posters

Vocabulary fertilizers fertile irrigation domesticating harvestingeconomy production agriculturenetwork

Directions: Explore your classroom, your home, or the playground. Try to discover and record as many renewable and nonrenewable resources as you can. RenewableNonrenewable

Project

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

“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given.” ( Bertrand Russell)

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” (William Arthur)