The Use of Dominoes (Do A 10-Minute Organized, Efficient and Smart) Activities in Science Grade Iii Lectures

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Activity-based instruction has been a practiced in Science classroom, but the researcher noticed that being involved in too much activities does not help learning anymore. Pupils just learn to play but cannot comprehend the daily lessons. For this reason, the researcher will try to shorten the time for activities and give more focus on discussion after. As a Masterteacher, the researcher believed that any innovation in teaching strategies can contribute better for student’s learning.

METHODS

The study aims to determine the effect of activity-based learning on Grade 3 Science pupils' academic performance. The activity based learning is to be executed using "10-minute activities.” The activity will serve as a lesson starter to remind pupils of prior learning. The study will be conducted in Calamba Elementary School, Division of Calamba City on the first and second grading period of school year 2016 -2017. A hetero-section of Grade 3 pupils being taught by the researcher will be the respondents in the study. The effects of this instruction on pupils' performance will be measured based on the results of the pre-test and post-test assessments and the weekly on-the-spot test. The overall effects of the said instruction on the pupils' academic performance will be measured using the results of the first and second periodical tests and the first and second grading period performance ratings.

RESULTS

The pre-test assessments earned an MPS of 25.29 showing that the pupils obtained extremely low performance. The post-test assessments yield MPS of 79.90 which shows that the pupils reached high proficiency in learning the lessons. The skewness was found at -0.49 which shows that most of the pupils score higher than the mean score of 29.96 but does not exceed the highest score of 35 points. The results imply that the pupils performed well on this assessment which is also a manifestation that engagement to learning was reasonably attained on the first quarter of the school year. The over-all results of the on-the-spot test reveals that out of 100 total scores, the pupils have earned MPS of 72.25 which is a manifestation that they reached the upper average level of performance.

DISCUSSIONS

The utilization of DOMINOES (DO a 10-Minute Organized, Efficient and Smart) Activities in Science Grade III Lectures, the result of the on-the-spot test reveals the progress in performance from extremely low to upper-average performance. More so, the results imply the difference between the performance of the pupils before and after the use of activity based learning on the first grading period manifests essential impact on learning.