FORM 5 BIOLOGY SYLLABUS

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FORM 4 BIOLOGY SYLLABUS

http://www.kolejku.com/ppk/hsp/science/kbsm/hsp_biology_f4.pdf

COMMENT ON THE SUITABILITY AND USEFULNESS OF DATA LOGGING, SIMULATION AND MODELING IN ADRESSING THE STUDENT'S PROBLEM IN LEARNING.

THE SUITABILITY AND USEFULNESS OF DATA LOGGING, SIMULATION AND MODELLING IN ADRESSING STUDENT’S PROBLEM IN LEARNING.

DATA LOGGING :

v Help students to conduct the experiments by using data logger device so that the students clear about the significant of data logger in order to get more accurate result and help the experiment data collection.

v Since the data logging process involve engage, empower and enhance stages, they provide the students ideas when they exposed to engage questions and widen the student’s knowledge when student move to empower stage and enhance stage. At enhance stage, students can improve their critical thinking when answering the tough questions and apply the concept that have learnt to answer that question.

v So students involve actively in class if teacher introduce them with data logging learning programme.

SIMULATION :

v The lesson be more interactive since students are expose to the movable picture or software that help them understand more the topics that have studied.

v Students clear about the certain process in the body that cannot be seen if the process is present in simulation. So, the learning process more interesting and knowledgeable.

v Simulation help the teacher to give the review about the topics and give more easy to teacher to gives the summary regarding the topics.

MODELING :

v Involve the students in handling the modeling can increase the student’s interest about the topics.

v Moreover, the students can see the process involve regarding the topics clearly.

PROBLEM IN INTERGRATING THE USE OF DATA LOGGING, SIMULATION AND MODELING.

v The problem is when teachers can use this programme properly.

v The teachers do not know how to use this programme and foe them this programme is hard to practice.

v The difficulties of teachers in handling this device affect the student’s interest to learn the topics.

SUGGESSTION TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

v Teacher must competent in handling all tools to improve the learning process so that the students can get benefits from that.

v Ministry of Education must give the intensive exercises to teachers in how to use technology so that they can apply it in learning process.

v Students also must be expose to how to use technology in searching the information and they must know the significant of ICT in education.

ENGAGE, EMPOWER AND ENHANCE MODEL IN DATA LOGGING

Perception about it?

Data logger is device that can be used to store data. By using data logger during teaching and learning process, the data collections more accurate in the terms of reading and more easier to conduct the experiments. The engage, empower and enhance model in data logger process, have a lot of advantages to students and teachers. During engage process, teacher give students the questions or pictures to elicit the student’s knowledge about the topics. Engage process helps students to think and gives their ideas about the questions. Empower model helps students and teacher to conduct the experiment easily so that they gets a accurate result and the graph obtained in less with error compared to traditional ways. For enhance model, the question mostly more challenging than engage, so the students must understand the concept before answer enhance questions. It helps the student to understand better the topics after engage and empower process introduced.

Values and difficulties implementing this model?

This model helps the teaching and learning process more interesting since involve teacher and students center where students and teacher involve actively in class and sharing the ideas together. This model also elicit the students knowledge about the topics and helps them to remember the knowledge permanently.

Difficulties during the implementation of this model more focus to the teacher. This is because the teacher must know how to elicit the student knowledge about the topics using engage model. If the students cannot understand the engage’s question then teacher get problem to correct the misconception of students. Teacher must know how to use the data logger device wisely so that they get no problem in teaching to students. Most of the new programmed cannot be used un school because of the weakness of teacher in using technology.

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY- PBL

DATA LOGGER - EFFECT ON ENZYME CONCENTRATION

ABOUT UPSI

BACKGROUND

Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris was established on 1st May 1997 based on Government gazette P.U.(A) 132 & 133 dated 24th February 1997 under the Order of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Corporation) and the Order of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Campus) 1997. However, the history of this University dates back to 1922 when the University was then known as Sultan Idris Training College (SITC).

SITC was set up by the British government and it was the brainchild of the Deputy Director of Malay Schools, Sir Richard Winstedt. SITC was officially opened on November 29, 1922 by the Chief Secretary to the Federation of Malay States, Sir George Maxwell, making it the highest institution of learning exclusively for the Malays at that time.

Graduates of this institution were greatly respected and honoured by the society as it was renowned for producing prominent figures like the ‘Father of Modern Malay Language’, Zainal Abidin Ahmad or popularly known as Za’ba, novelists like Harun Aminurrashid, and Ahmad Bakhtiar and legendaries such as Ibrahim Yaacob and Aminuddin Baki. Tan Sri Awang Had Salleh, a national figure in the field of education and not forgetting the Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Ghaffar Baba are also the ‘products’ of SITC. To many, SITC was regarded as the birthplace of Malay nationalism.

In the early days, students of SITC had to undergo a three-year training course, where they learnt traditional skills and arithmetic. These students were under the tutelage of its teaching staff comprising of four Europeans, one Filipino and ten Malays.

After the 1957 Razak Report, new subjects were introduced and the training course was extended to five years. In addition, the name of the college was changed to Maktab Perguruan Sultan Idris (MPSI).

Traditionally, MPSI accepted only male students. However, in 1976 it began to open its door to the female population admitting its first batch of 150 female students. 1n 1987, the Minister of Education bestowed the institute status upon the country’s oldest teacher training college, and MPSI was thereafter referred to as Institut Perguruan Sultan Idris (IPSI). With its new status, IPSI started to introduce new courses including a twinning programme with Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (currently known as Universiti Putra Malaysia). By then, the number of students, lecturers and support staff had increased in tandem.

It is the aspiration of the Ministry to have only graduate teachers spearheading both the primary and secondary schools in Malaysia. Thus, in order to realise such noble dream, the Ministry of Education granted the university status to IPSI on 1st May 1997.

THE CAMPUS

Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah campus is located at the border of Perak and Selangor in Tanjong Malim on a 33ha of land. However, the ground breaking ceremony of the new Sultan Azlan Shah campus has taken place on 24th April 2002 by His Royal Highness the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuf Izzuddin Shah Ghaffarullahu-lah. The new campus will be built on an 800 acres of land located at Behrang Ulu, 5km from its current campus.