Use of Concept Maps and Task Based Activities

Use of Concept Maps and Task Based Activities for teaching languages in a mixed age & ability classroom environment 8 th July 2017 Amanpreet Kamal and Saumya Raman Indian Community Language Schools Parents and Teachers Conference

2 What is a Concept? An idea of what something is or how it works.

3 What is a Concept Map? “Concept maps present a way to visualise concepts and the hierarchical relationships between them. ” J. D. Novak and D. B. Gowin, Learning How to Learn, Cambridge University Press, 1984

4 What is a Concept Map?

How to create a Concept Map? 5 CONCEPT • represented in boxes or circles Concept CONCEPT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONCEPTS • shown by a connecting line LINKING WORDS • words on the line to specify the relationship between concepts Linking words

6 Concept Map Notation Unidirectional relationship Concept Linking words Concept Bidirectional relationship Concept Linking words Concept

7 Multiple ways of using Concept Maps in the classroom Number of participants • Individual activity • Small group activity • Whole class activity Start the activity • With a focus question • With a concept list • Fill in the blanks

8 1 Creating a Good Concept Map Sunlight Brainstorm concepts Flowers Water • Petals 2 Arrange concepts Plants Leaves 3 Connect concepts with linking words Air • Green Roots

Creating a Good Concept Map 9 Air Sunlight Plants have need Water need Roots need Leaves Concept Map on Plants Example in English Stems modified to form Flowers are usually have Green Petals

Creating a String or Sentence map – not a good Concept Map 11 CONCEPTS Paper Wood Trees is made of made to Logs Cut Logs Mill goes to Water Soft of to Grow Soft Wood becomes Cut Grow Water

12 FOCUS QUESTION What is your favourite sport? CRICKET

13 Concept Map: My Favourite Sport My favourite sport is cricket. Cricket is fun to watch on tv or in the park. I play cricket with my friends on Sunday afternoon in the park.

Concept Map: My Favourite Sport 14 KEY: cricket Linking words is the stadium every a sport Sunda fun to y in TV Linking words is play I Concept Relationship between concepts on watch in in the park

Concept Map: My Favourite Sport (PUNJABI) ਕਰ ਕਟ ਬਹਤ 15 ਦ cricket ਮ ਨ ਪਸਦ ਹ ਸਟਡ ਅ ਮ doordarshan ਵ ਚ ਬਹਤ ਤ ਦਖਣ vich te ਨ ਲ nal har bahut dēkhaṇā ਐਤਵ ਰ aitvār pasand hai stadium ਦਰਦਰਸ ਨ team ਹਰ bahut mainū ��� di ਵ ਚ ਖਡਣ vich khēḍṇā ਵ ਚ vich ਨ nū ਪ ਰਕ park

Concept Map: My Favourite Sport (HINDI) 16 कर क ट ���� क हर cricket har म mein bahut mujhe सटड यम mein पर par ravivaar �� म doordarshan रव व र pasand hai stadium दरदर शन team kee बहत मझ ट म बहत bahut दखन dekhna म खलन म mein khelana mein क ko प र क park

17 Task based Activities Example 1: Using cues from the concept map, imagine you are playing cricket, lets plan for the day. On which day do you want to play cricket?

18 Task based Activities At what time would you like to start?

19 Task based Activities Example 1: Using cues from the concept map, imagine you are playing cricket, lets plan for the day. At what time would you like to finish?

20 Task based Activities Where would you like to play?

21 Task based Activities How many people could we call?

22 Task based Activities How many people in each team?

23 Task based Activities Example 1: Using cues from the concept map, imagine you are playing cricket, lets plan for the day. • Intermediate- arranged in a timeline: • Who is involved at each step? • What things need to be organised? • Advanced- arranged in a table to assess each task: • When does it need to be done by? • Where would you get all the resources from?

24 Task based Activities Example 2: Speaking task using cues from the concept map to complete the following sentence My favourite sport is… • Beginners- Which place do you want to go to? Who do you want to go with? When would you like to go? • Intermediate- How would you get to the destination? What activities would you like to do? • Advanced- How did you feel playing cricket? What could you do next time? Focus on complex sentences that use adjectives.

25 Task based Activities Example 3: Using cues from the concept map, create a story board of how you would like your picnic to be? • Beginners- only picture based • Intermediate- pictures with short sentences • Advanced- pictures and sentences that describe emotions throughout the picnic

Task based activities 26 Purpose • Engage students • Critical component of active learning • Assists in assessing students • Cohesive understanding of concepts

27 ACTIVITY CONCEPT MAP TASK BASED ACTIVITY • Create a concept map in your language on the topic PICNIC • Develop a task based activity in your language about going on a picnic for: • Beginner level or • Intermediate level or • Advanced level

Going on a Picnic 28 Type • Family Picnic • School Picnic • Picnic on the beach • • Participants Food Teachers Students Parents Volunteers Friends Family Relatives • Drinks • Juice • Water • Fruit • Vegetables • Snacks • Samosas Transport • • Bus Car Train Boat Activities • • • Soccer Cricket Skipping Playground Kite-flying Things to Bring • • Blankets Basket Plates Utensils Napkins Hat Sunscreen

Picnic 29 for food at the park includes fruit snack s samosa s activities has a playground soccer cricket

30 Task based Activity - PICNIC How will you be travelling to the picnic? Bus Car Train Boat

Plan 31 Weeks Objective Key sub concepts Activities Evaluation Week 1 Identifying numbers Numbers (1 -10) Task based activity To be able to incorporate numbers into a sentence Week 2 Telling the time Quarter to, quarter past, half past, numbers Task based activity To be able to say/write a sentence telling the time Week 3 Identifying the days of the week Weekdays and weekends Task based activity To be able to incorporate the days of the week and time in a sentence Week 4 Prepositions Use of in and on Task based activity, Concept Map To be able to construct a sentence using in and/or on. To be able to identify ad use prepositions in a concept map. Week 5 Nouns, pronouns Names of people, places or things. Use of I, me etc Concept Map To be able to identify and use nouns and pronouns in a concept map. Week 6 Verbs Use of verbs such as play, watch, see etc Concept Map To be able to identify and use verbs in a concept map. Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

32 Song about going on a Picnic in Punjabi VIDEO

33 ACTIVITY SONG • Create a song or a rhyme in your language on the topic PICNIC

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