Share your best contest : ticklinks contest and events

Contests serve an important role in pushing kids to succeed and perform. They provide far more benefits than just the award for the winner. Contests allow participants to get valuable experience, benchmark and analyze results, demonstrate abilities, and discover personal aptitude. Students are also encouraged to improve their ideas and talents, as well as to use new tactics.

A contest is an excellent setting for learning because failure has no serious implications and they may compare their knowledge of the subject to that of others in a risk-free atmosphere. While contributing, the learner can go deeper into a subject and improve their knowledge while having fun! Students can learn a lot and discover their passion in different subjects. Soft skills such as visual presentation, diction, voice modulation, and speaking confidence are also taught to students, all of which are critical 21st-century talents.

ticklinks hosts contests for students and instructors with the goal of promoting project-based learning in a fun and creative approach that will improve students' abilities in general. The DAV Group of Schools, Bharti Foundation, Ramakrishna Mission Science Center, and Firki Teach for India are also involved in the contests.

One such contest organized by tickLinks is the Share Your Best Contest. Let's dive in to know more about it.

About Share Your Best Contest

The contest "Share Your Best - Teaching Learning Material" was organized by tickLinks from April to May 2021. This contest encourages teachers from all grade levels, every school and foundation all over India to participate in this contest and submit their submissions based on the themes given. The contest was organized with the theme of Earth Day.

The teachers were asked to submit their Teaching Learning material for a 35 mins class. The activities were divided into two groups based on age groups of students i.e. standard 4-6 and standard 7-9. The themes were equally distributed according to the grade level and subjects covering English, Maths and Science.

The contest was partnered with

• IISER Pune
• TROP ICSU
• Bharti Foundation
• DAV group of schools, Chennai
• Firki
• Ramakrishna Mission Science Centre
• tickLinks

Purpose of event

The contest aims to promote inter-disciplinary, activity-based learning – aligned to the curriculum. By sharing teachers encourage peer learning.

BENEFITS OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Allow a productive break from schooling!
• Improving their academic performance
• It can help your child to build their skills outside of the classroom
• It can improve time management skills
• learning new & useful skills
• It can open your child's mind to a new view

Theme of event

All the themes were based on the occasion of Earth Day. The themes mainly focused on Water conservation and forest conservation. Under each theme, the teachers were provided with instructions and guidelines and also a lesson plan to guide them through the activity.

Summary of event

Let's look at few examples of the activities given to understand better.

Class 4-6, Subject Science, Theme - Water conservation

The teachers were supposed to submit their best teaching-learning material for a 35 minutes' class on any one of the given topics:

• What is the water storage problem?
• What can we do to solve it?
• How is it linked to Global Climate Change?

The theme was chosen because water is an important theme in National Curriculum Framework for classes 4-6. The teachers were expected to deliver the outcome through a mix of activities, case studies, learning aids. The submissions were expected in the form of PDF, videos, images or Audio. A sample lesson plan was provided to teachers for each theme.

Class 7-9, Subject Maths, Theme - Data Handling on Forest Conservation

The teachers were asked to submit their best teaching resource for a 35 minutes' class to teach one of the following topics:

• Find Mean, Median and Mode of given data set and explain the significance of observations.
• Collect, Record and Represent data as - Bar Graphs, double bar graphs, histograms, frequency tables.
• Collect data and calculate probability of the event.

This theme was chosen because Forest Conservation is an important theme in National Curriculum Framework for classes 7-9. The teachers were told to use data and situations around Deforestation to bring out the above learning on Data Handling. Each theme had helpful resources like an attached document with instructions and guidelines and few sample submissions.

Some of the important terms for the contest were:

• The entries were called for webinar discussion if they were shortlisted.
• The decision of the organizers was final.

The event was followed by exciting prizes and certificates for all by IISER Pune and DAV Chennai. The awards were given in the following manner:

• Excellence Awards for top 15 entries.
• Appreciation Awards for top 50 entries.
• Participation Awards for valid entries

And in conclusion, the top winners were awarded prizes which included:

• Internship opportunity at IISER Pune through virtual workshops.
• 12 Exciting book prizes.
• Hosting of entries on tickLinks, TROP ICSU and other partner websites. 

tickLinks has over 9500 high-quality lesson plans for Class 1-10th covering - Maths, EVS, Science, English, and SST.

This content assists teachers in making the classroom relevant and entertaining through activities, exercises, worksheets, and other methods, as well as facilitating differentiated learning. It supports effective classrooms by reducing class preparation time.

Different Education Boards Teachers Resources are available in one Platform.

These are open links and freely accessible. Here is the list of boards and their resources available on ticklinks application and website

1. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
2. Punjab School Education Board
3. Maharashtra State Board Of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
4. Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education
5. State Board of School Examinations, Tamil Nadu
6. Board of Secondary Education, Assam
7. Meghalaya Board of School Education
8. Telangana Board of Secondary Education
9. Jharkhand board of education