Question

With any type of new learning, students need practice and application of newly acquired skills to ensure mastery of content concepts. Can you list and describe two hands-on activities and identify materials, including manipulatives, to enable students to forge connections between abstract concepts and concrete concepts in a less language-dependent way?

Answer 1

To explain the concept of how rain happens. Students can be given a activity along with the teachers under their assistance where they have to boil water in vessels and the steam collected from it is then showered down through a pipe.

Another activity is to explain the solar system, the children could be made to do a roleplay activity in which they are the planets and sun, and they are revolving around each other. The material can be cardboards and papers and Colors on the it look like planets.