Grasslands Biomes.

Today's lesson is about pupils researching on what grasslands biomes are.
A detective case was created specially for them to "play" and take on a role.

Personally, I enjoyed teaching this lesson as pupils were co-operative and were quite focused on their task on hand. Each one of them had created their personalised KWL chart and I must say it was a job well-done.

Here are some samples of a KWL chart that pupils created.


What is a KWL chart? To answer that question, a KWL chart consists of three main questions.
K = What I know,
W= What we want to know,
L= What have we learnt.

Pupils were first asked what they want to know about the grasslands biomes. Several questions included "What type of animals can be found in grasslands biomes", "How is the climate like in grasslands biomes," etc etc...

These questions were then copied down into the W column. (What they wanted to know)
Afterwhich, pupils were grouped to read only a certain passage and I'm pleased that they were able to answer the questions that I asked even when they have closed their book.

Pupils are then tasked to complete the 'K' and 'L' column of their KWL chart by filling up what they know from the passage and what they learned from their friends respectively.

The lesson ends with a story that was shared to them during the last 10 minutes of the lesson. Its called "The DOT" by Peter.H.Reynolds.



I hope that this story has inspired them to make their mark wherever they go and not be afraid of trying as one will never know how far they can go. Sometimes, insignificant things go a long way.

Hope the class have enjoyed today's lesson as much as I enjoyed teaching them.

Mr Xie.