The Da Nang Education Department is promoting learning activities through play, especially scientific discovery content in the form of games to create excitement for students.
VNA – Creating conditions for teachers and students to exchange, study, develop their talents, and help students gain experience, the Da Nang Education sector has made innovations in extracurricular activities by integrating many creative activities and scientific discoveries into the teaching program. Thereby, helping students demonstrate their full skills, become the masters of the activities, and bring positive results in the teaching and learning process.
Innovation in organizing extracurricular activities
From February 22-24, Duc Tri Kindergarten - Primary and Secondary School Organized the Experience - Creativity Festival. The festival included many interesting activities such as: exhibition of 100 STEM products; experience with Robots; bilingual presentations; astronomy exploration; fun science experiments; talent test... These activities created conditions for teachers and students to share, learn, and approach STEM education; at the same time, it was an opportunity for students to experience and discover new knowledge.
Meritorious Teacher Le Thi Nga, Principal of Duc Tri Kindergarten - Primary and Secondary School, said that through these learning-while-playing and playing-while-learning activities, students can apply knowledge from books to practice, practice to practice skills and become more confident and bold to express themselves more. Through that, the school's staff and teachers also have the opportunity to study to improve their professional and technical skills.
“The school always hopes that by innovating this extracurricular activity, it will create a happy and dynamic learning environment; all students will be listened to, shared, respected, discovered and encouraged to develop their own talents,” Ms. Le Thi Nga shared.
Attending the presentation and creating STEM products with his child, the parent of Nguyen Vinh Tuong (grade 1/5, Duc Tri Kindergarten - Primary and Secondary School) expressed: "I was very surprised when participating in the Experience - Creativity festival with my child. The festival had many interesting and useful activities. There were many play corners and activities for all children to express their talents and interests. My child was very interested and passionate about the experience activities. I hope the school will have more activities like this so that the children have a useful playground."
Enjoying the STEM creative experience corner, parent of Tran Nhat Khang (grade 9/4, Duc Tri Kindergarten - Primary and Secondary School) said: “I really like the STEM creative experience corner. The children were guided by teachers to invent products from recycled materials that are very practical, creative and beautiful. In addition, the bilingual explanation activity also helps children to be confident and demonstrate their language skills.”
Parent of Pham Tran Minh Trong (Class 5/1, Duc Tri Kindergarten - Primary and Secondary School) said that the activities in the school's Experience - Creativity Festival were very new. There were many activities to help students test their intelligence, discover their own talents, creative corners to orient their career passion, and corners for children to have fun. The activities were very practical and useful for students.
Fun science discovery lesson
Organize the class to become a mysterious space exploration lesson, with small experiments organized in groups. Binh Minh Kindergarten (Hai Chau District) creates conditions for children to participate in group experiments such as: fog experiment, hot air balloon experiment, air bubble experiment, globe experiment, rain experiment, day and night experiment... Especially, during the space exploration hour, children can also wear space travel costumes and experience walking in space.
According to Principal of Binh Minh Kindergarten Luong Thi Thuy Quynh, science discovery lessons, integrated into the curriculum, help children have practical experiences, explore science, and develop their own skills. These activities can be organized in many spaces, in the classroom or outside the school yard. The choice of which science discovery activities, when and where to organize them depends on the content of the topic, the educational goals that the teacher sets in accordance with the actual conditions of the class.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong, teacher of Grade 2, Binh Minh Kindergarten, said that with the materials used to conduct experiments through games, teachers must practice and ensure the safety of children. Teachers need to be proficient in the skills of overseeing group activities to guide, support and explain to children. In addition, teachers need to search for and create external tools and equipment to conduct scientific experiments effectively and interestingly.
According to Ms. Dang Thi Cam Tu, Head of the Preschool Education Department, Department of Education and Training of Da Nang City, the education sector is promoting learning activities through play, especially scientific discovery content in the form of games for students to experience. To effectively implement science lessons, schools must innovate teacher testing and evaluation activities. At the same time, there is a plan to foster the capacity to organize scientific discovery activities for teachers to ensure scientific content suitable to the actual conditions of each school./.