Digital Fact File of Rivers

ISA Activity- River, The life Giver

Activity 1 : Digital Fact File of a River

Grades involved: Year 7 and Year 8

Fact files help students to collect and present basic data and analysis on a given topic. As the students studied the features of Rivers, they were asked to collect basic information on various rivers of the world. And to make it more interesting, the students used power point presentations.

 This blog is on the Digital Fact files of various rivers created by my students of Grades -7 and 8. Please go through them and add in your valuable comments.

   The Activity Description

• The students were briefed upon the features of a river with the help of a power point presentation and a globe activity
• The students were taken out for a campus activity to see the features of a river practically
• They were then divided into teams based on 5 important rivers of the world i.e. Ganges, Mississippi, Nile, Thames and Yangtze
• The students were then given an orientation on the information they need to collect about their assigned river
• The ICT teacher explained about the preparation of power point presentation.
• The students discussed in groups, researched the internet and browsed through books in the library
• The teams prepared the Digital Fact File of a river using MS- power point presentation as their tool.
• The teams presented their Digital fact files to the rest of the class.

You can find their findings in the links below.(The blogs were created by students themselves)

River Ganges - Tholakari, Gyani and Himisha of Grade-8 and Harshavardhan of Grade-7
http://isariverganges.blogspot.in/
River Thames - Sakshi, Joe and Chethna of Grade-8 and Nigel of Grade-7

http://thamesriverfactfile.blogspot.in/

River Mississippi - Priya and Harshitha of Grade-8 and Brandon of Grade-7
http://mississippiisa.blogspot.in/

River Nile - Shriya and Ramsai of Grade-8 and Joshua and Muskan of Grade-7
http://isarivernilefactfile.blogspot.com/

River Yangtze - Vishwa and Shadrach of Grade-8 and Evangeline and Jayavardhan of Grade-7
http://www.dauntingriver.blogspot.in/

  Some of the photographs taken while the activity was in progress. 

Geography teacher Mrs. Jyothsna explaining the features of the river
"This is the mouth of a river and here are the meanders".

The teacher showing the features of the river in the school campus

 


Activity done by partner school- British school of 
 Kualalampur.

 

This is a waterfall and some meanders.

Time to meet the river teams

"Can you see the uplands?"

 

Teacher giving the orientation on preparation of Digital fact files

Here are the students discussing and sharing work cooperatively.

So the work has been handed out and the students are leading out jobs to each other on the presentation of the work. Some are even planning out the layout of the slides in the presentation!

  "How is the planning going?". 

" Let us cooperate and divide the work amongst our group as planned?"

" This activity is sure to be interesting!"

These are the statements going through the students minds.

Students browsing through the books in the school library to prepare their digital factfiles

Students being guided by their ICT teacher, Mrs Manju on preparation of the power point presentation.

Students researching the information on the internet and preparing the Digital fact files in the computer lab

This is from the World Fact Book

Presentation of ‘Digital Fact files

River Yangtze by Evangeline, Shadrach, Vishwa and Jayvardhan

River Nile by Joshua, Ramsai, Shriya and Muskan

River Mississippi by Priya, Ethan, Brandon and Harshitha

River Ganges by Tholakari, Harsha, Himisha and Gyani

River Thames by Sakshi, Joe, Nigel and Chetna

Students explaining to the parents about their findings on the Open House day 14th November 2015.

The Digital fact file of the ISA project on Rivers was overall a great success!