Lesson Plan of Use of Tables & Graphs

Lesson Plan of Use of Tables & Graphs

Subject English

Grade II

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Read tables and charts in the classroom.
• Locate month and date in a calendar by reading across and down.

Information for Teachers

• Teacher must have a calendar.

• Students must be taught about the rows and columns of the calendar. The week days are written above horizontally in the calendar.
• Teacher must guide the students that week days are written horizontally and the subjects are written vertically.
• Teacher must do the recap of the previous lessons by asking simple questions before starting this lesson.
• Take help from the textbook to teach this lesson. Use all activities related to this lesson in the textbook.

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, charts, coloured chalk, a table of days of the week

Introduction

• Ask the students to see different displayed charts in the classroom.
• Ask them the question:
  • • Why are these charts displayed in the classroom? (Accepted answer: They give us information)

Development

Activity 1

• Ask the students to find tables and charts present in the classroom. (Possible answer: timetable chart, math chart etc.)
• Ask them to read familiar words in the table and charts.
• Tell them that these tables and charts give us some information.
• Paste the following pre-pared tables of days of the week on board.
• Remind that days are capitalized.

• Ask them, ‘which fruit will we eat on Sunday?’
• Then ask them, “When will we eat an apple?”
• Ask same type of questions for all types of food and days.
• Make a table with one game to play for each day of the week.
• Show the table of days of the week, class timetable, etc.
• Tell them each block has information across and down.

• Hold a stick in your hand in your hand and point towards columns and rows of the timetable.
• Tell number of periods and the days of the week in class timetable.
• Then ask them, ‘what will we study in the first period on Monday? ‘ask them to see the next column to Monday)
• Paste the calendar on the board.

• Ask the following questions.
  • • What day is the 1^st of July?
    • What is the date two days after 13^th July?
    • What date is two days before 17^th August?
    • What day was that?
    • You are going on holiday on the 23^rd July for 10 days what date and month will you come back?
    • You are going on holiday for 3 weeks starting on the 11^th July, what day will you come back?

CREATE A CALENDAR

• Make a calendar and display it in the class.
• Decorate it with pictures and your own colours themes.

Activity 2

• Make them recall the months of the year and days of the week.
• Ask students: what day is it today?
• Ask them: what month is it? And show how the months and days are written?
• Point out to show them the day, date and month in a calendar.
• Repeat till all students are able to do so.

Sum up / Conclusion

• Suggest that we can use a large calendar with big numbers and can make an activity calendar of different television programs on activities done in school programs that we watch during a week.

Assessment

• Show the class a calendar and ask questions about rows and columns.

Follow up

• Ask the students to make an activity calendar for one week with pictures.
• Find exercises given in textbook related to this lesson.
• Asl all students either do them in the book or the notebook.