Question

1. Assumptions:

• Your class consists of 30 students and each has a tablet OR a Smartphone.

• You have high speed internet connection OR 3G connection.

2. Select a topic that you intend to teach which can be on science, social science, a hobby, self-improvement and any others.

3. Your students – kindergarten or teenagers or college students or adults (such as workers in a particular industry).

4. Design a Lesson Plan using the template below [It is only a guide and you can adapt accordingly]

LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE Topic: ……………………………… Objective of the Lesson: …………………………. Learning Outcomes: ………………. Duration: ………………………………………… Background of students:…………………………. Prior knowledge of students on the topic: …………… Equipment & Facilities: ………………………………… Procedure: Opening of Lesson ………………………. Step 1 – what teacher does / what students do Step 2 …………………. Step 3 and so forth………… Closure: …………………………………………………… Evaluation [Do students understand?]

5. Your lesson should be for 60 minutes. [However, if your students are young children, you may want to break up the lesson to 30 minutes each].

6. The internet tools and content may include are as follows:

• Content from websites, blogs, etc.
• Websites with learning activities
• Video clips
• Audio clips / podcasts
• Pictures / diagrams
• Animations / 3-D images
• Online tests
• Powerpoint slides
• Blogs & discussion forums
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Any other ‘stuff’ available on the internet

[NOTE: Make sure you provide links to these resources and show how you intend to use them]

7. You do not need to provide any references as this paper relates to you designing a product.
8. State in detail in the Lesson Plan what you (Teacher) will be doing and what your Students will be doing during the 60 minutes.
9. Your Lesson Plan should be about 10-11 pages.

Answer 1

Topic: Yoga and Meditation

Objective: To get better awareness about yoga and how it can help us to focus on ourselves and get relief from stress.

Learning outcome: Students will be able to cope up with their stress.

They will able to concentrate more on what they are doing and achieve thie goal.

Students can understand the physical, psychological and emotional effects of yoga.

Duration: 60 minutes

Background of students: Teenagers

Prior knowledge of studets on the topic: They have got the knowledge only through the websites and from different advertisemnets.

Equipments and facilities: Students will be provided with virtual and live demonstrations of yoga. And they will be able to practise yoga at the same time. And the trainer will be provided for them.

Procedure:

a. Opening of Lesson:

Yoga is one among the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy, is essentially a stereological descipline that has been generally accepted by other schools like Buddhism. The word yoga is derived from the sanskrit word 'yuj' which means to join or unite. In a deeper sense, yoga aims at the union of the empirical self with the transcendental self. The science of yoga has its origin thousands of years ago, long before the first religion or belief systems were born.

Several thousand of years ago, on the banks of the river Kantisarovar in the Himalayas, Adiyogi poured his profound knowledge into the legendary saptarishis or 'seven sages'. It was then carried over to different parts of the world. But, it was actually in India that the yogic system found its fullest expression. The number of seals and fossil remains of Indus sraswathi valley civilization with yogic motives and figures performing yoga sadhana suggest the presence of yoga in ancient India.

b. The teacher says about the more deatials of what really is yoga and the contents of yoga. The purpose of yoga is 'moksha' or liberation through the exact definition of what form this takes depends on the theological or philosophical system which it is conjugated.

The different techinques of yoga are the suryanamaskar, meditation and pranayama. The different parts of the body such as the brain, lungs, heart, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, backbone and the glada are poditively affected by the yoga.

c. Describing about the three aspects of the nature which is known as the gunas. There are mainly three aspects of nature which is exlained by the yoga and they are known as the gunas. The three gunas are the rajas guna, tamas guna and sattva guna. According to Bhagavad gita,these three gunas 'bind to the mortal body the deathless embodied self'. The rajas guna includes the characteristics such as the passion, active or lively and confused. The tamas guna includes the characteristics such as the darkness, destructive behavior and chaotic. The sattvic guna is the characteristics such as the goodness, constructive and harmonious.

d. The training of yoga is given to the students at the 4th part of the class. The students are introduced to the different postures of yoga and explained the importance of these postures. And the different asanas are also introduced

The students are given theoretical practical understanding of yoga. And the classes are concluded by again giving a brief description about what yoga actually is. Then later a feedback section is created in which the students are asked to give their opinions and evaluation of the classes.