CHAPTER 6  Instructional Software for Classroom Use

Explore

Instructional Software in My Care

            This activity aims to search for further instructional software that can be used in instruction and activities of a specific lesson.

            Explore the internet to look at least 5 instructional software of your chosen topic related to your major that may be used in instruction and giving activities to improve students’ skills. Identify whether it is drill-and-practice, tutorial, instructional game, simulation or problem solving software. Describe its function and usability.

Name: Maria Mikaela V. Salcedo                                                 Date: Aug. 20, 2018

Section: 4A

Specialization: Biological Science

Topic: Bacteria

Instructional software	Website from where the instructional software is found	Function/Usability
Bacteria	livescience.com	Bacteria are microscopic single-celled organisms that thrive in diverse environments. They can live within soil, in the ocean and inside the human gut. Humans' relationship with bacteria is complex. Sometimes they lend a helping hand, by curdling milk into yogurt, or helping with our digestion. At other times they are destructive, causing diseases like pneumonia and MRSA.
What is Bacteria?	en.wikipedia.org	Bacteria (/bækˈtɪəriə/ (About this sound listen); common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) are a type of biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a number of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals.

What are bacteria and what do they do?	medicalnewstoday.com	Bacteria are microscopic, single-celled organisms that exist in their millions, in every environment, both inside and outside other organisms.
Bacteria	britannica.com	Bacteria, singular bacterium, any of a group of microscopic single-celled organisms that live in enormous numbers in almost every environment on Earth, from deep-sea vents to deep below Earth’s surface to the digestive tracts of humans.
Introduction to the Bacteria	berkeley.edu	Bacteria are often maligned as the causes of human and animal disease (like this one, Leptospira, which causes serious disease in livestock). However, certain bacteria, the actinomycetes, produce antibiotics such as streptomycin and nocardicin; others live symbiotically in the guts of animals (including humans) or elsewhere in their bodies, or on the roots of certain plants, converting nitrogen into a usable form. Bacteria put the tang in yogurt and the sour in sourdough bread; bacteria help to break down dead organic matter; bacteria make up the base of the food web in many environments. Bacteria are of such immense importance because of their extreme flexibility, capacity for rapid growth and reproduction, and great age - the oldest fossils known, nearly 3.5 billion years old, are fossils of bacteria-like organisms.

ASSESS

Name: Maria Mikaela V. Salcedo

My Instructional Software
This activity aims to bring out the creativity among the students in making instructional
software that may contribute to students’ learning and development of skills.
Considering the chosen topic in the explore activity, create your own instructional
software, May it be Drill-and-Practice, Tutorial, Instructional Game, Simulation, or Problem
Solving Software. Present your instructional software to the class. Write a brief description of
your developed software below, and share its benefits and limitations.

PowerPoint
Through the use of this aid the students will
easily visualize the lessons with the use of
special effects and additional pictures. It makes
the lesson more attractive and meaningful.
Its limitations, it contains only texts and
pictures.