Working with Word

Health and Safety Trivia Game

LESSON PLAN 

Title of Lesson: Safety in the Workshop 

Analyzing Learners: 

          

General Characteristics 

Number of students: 16  

Level (grade): Form 1                             

Gender: 3 Female& 13 Male                                                 

Age Range: 12-14yrs 

Cultural/Ethnicity: Afro-Caribbeans, Spaniards 

Exceptionalities: 1 dyslexia (Aaron Gomes), 1 ADHD (Sarah Hurst), 1 Asthmatic (Larry John) 

  

Topic: Health and Safety                                                        Class: Form 1A1-1A2 

Subject: Mechanical Engineering                                           Date: 13th Oct, 2015 

Time: 90 mins (2 periods)                                                       Prerequisites: None 

  

Entry Competencies 

What skills do they have already: The students in this class have basic Technology Skills and is able to Draw and Communicate orally. 

  

Learner styles 

Visual (% of students):50% 

Auditory (hearing/verbal):5% 

Kinesthetic (hands on/physical):35% 

Other (A balance of various learning styles):10% 

  

Objectives 

1)      The 1st form Mechanical Engineering Technology student should be able to identify personal protective clothing used in the workshop with a 100% accuracy

2)      The 1st form Mechanical Engineering Technology student should be able to group each pictures provided under the heading (Fire/Fire Extinguisher, General Safety, Protective Clothing) with a 90% accuracy.

3)      The 1st form Mechanical Engineering Technology student should be able to explain the importance of safety in the workshop within 30 seconds with a 100% accuracy.   

Select Media, Materials 

MEDIA- Computer (Microsoft Word), Speakers, Projectors 

 MATERIALS- none-projective interactive media (Health and Safety Trivia Board Game), cue cards, pictures, Game Icons 

  

Utilize Media, Materials, and Methods 

The computer will be used to show video on the overhead projector

 Speakers With the aid of speakers the students will be able to hear the clip clearly. The speakers will enhance their learning experience

Projectors would be used to allow the students to view a video clip played on Microsoft Word on safety in the workshop.

The Health and Safety Trivia Board Game will be used to create competitive learning allowing the students to see there progression against the other teams. 

 Cue Cards consist of questions that will be asked by the teacher that students would have to

answer. 

 Pictures will be used where students would have to group each picture under the appropriate heading. 

 Game Icons will be issued to each player to move along the footprints on the board once questions are answered correctly.

Introduction

Students will be separated into groups of four and be engaged in a Health and Safety Board game. Instructions and rules of the game will be said. Students would be told they would be watching a short video on safety and fire.

Require Learner Participation 

Students will be placed into groups where they will be competing against each other as a team. They would then be shown a video of a hazardous workshop an also how to use a fire extinguisher and types of fire.  Students will be required to answer questions individually to advance in the game and work as a team to explain the reason for their answers.  Each team will then discuss among themselves in the bonus round to group pieces of pictures under there appropriate heading.

 Evaluate Student

  Students had to answer questions individually asked by the teacher and also to solve a puzzle in the final round as a group. Once the question was answered correctly the students moved one step forward on the Health and Safety board game. Questions answered would allow the teacher to know if students understand the topic and if objectives were successful.

Teachers’ Reflection

Overall the game was successful. The students were very excited to participate, they were very competitive and worked hard to ensure their team was victorious. They had a good understanding of protective clothing and general safety, however three out of 16 of the students showed a few difficulty in understanding fire safety, therefore some revision would be done next class.

Portfolio Reflection

Portfolio piece #2 was aimed at designing a teaching tool using Microsoft Word. Myself and fellow educator Mrs. Mckinze came up with a Health and Safety Trivia Game. This Health and Safety Trivia will serve as a wonderful tool to promote healthy competition, team work and to strengthen and support the learning process.

In Mechanical engineering as well as other technical vocational subjects, Health and Safety is a key topic. This is an essential topic to be taught yet many young students do not appreciate nor value the importance of these health and safety lessons,because they are mostly focused on immediately getting into the hands on side of things, thus they generally see health and Safety a boring topic. However, with this tool we can generate interest and excitement into our lesson. When using the game we can test and review several areas through question and answer. Students make progress by their ability to answer questions of varying difficulties to advance forward and win the game. This trivia game takes on the form of a race, there are four teams and the team who can get all their members or the most of their team to the finish line will win. It is possible to check each students' success by the number of questions he/she can successfully answer.

Time and financial constrains posed the first set of challenges for this piece. The presentation and design of this piece would have greatly benefited if more time and finance was given to its creation. The design was changed some three times because of time and finance. After settling on our design we still had to agree on how the game will work, and the position which the game would be played in. The original idea was for the game to be mounted on the wall but because of mounting issue with the game pieces, we had to settle for a flat board game.

My recommendations for improvement would be to first try to have the game mounted vertically so that the game could be played with a game show atmosphere. It would also be nice to increase the size of the actual piece, to give a chance for more questions to be asked to each student.