Activity based learning involves using activities as the base for the educational process to actively engage students in learning. Some key points: - It began gaining popularity during World War 2 with pioneers like David Horsburgh incorporating activities like music, carpentry and gardening into the curriculum. - There are different types of activities used in ABL like role playing, debates, experiments, field trips and discovery learning to explore concepts hands-on. - ABL is beneficial for students as it allows them to learn better through direct experience in their environment and when they participate and learn on their own.

1. Activity Based Learning

2. Meaning of Activity
•The state of being active.
•Any specific behaviour or action of a particular
kind.
•A thing that a person or group is doing or has
done.
•An educational task that involves direct
experience and participation of students.
•A specific pursuit or deed in which a person
participates.
Examples: Acting, performing, demonstration,
playing a game, thinking, writing, reading,
reasoning, questioning, answering, operating
something etc.

3. Meaning of Activity Based Learning
• An activity or activities used in an educational
process to make students learn.
• Learning through and from activities.
• Activity based learning means that the
teacher incorporates activities of some type in
teaching to make students learn.
• Using an activity or activities as a base for
learning.

4. History of Activity Based Learning
• ABL started some time during world war II
• David Horsburgh is considered as the pioneer of
ABL system.
• He opened a school called NEEL BAGH in Kolar.
• School has a diverse Curriculum which included
music, carpentry, sewing, gardening, as well as
school subjects.
• Teaching materials were systematically planned
with different learning activities.

5. Different types of ABL
• Dramatization: Conversion in to a dramatic form or
reconstruction of an event, novel, story etc in a form suitable
for dramatic presentation.
• Quizzes: Competitive activity in which participants should
give the answers to the questions in a prescribed span of
time following some pre-determined rules.
• Group discussions: Discussing in smaller groups(four to
fifteen students) about a given topic and reaching a decision
or arriving at some conclusions.
• Role play: Enacting some situations or playing the role of
things, persons, characters etc.

6. • Educational Games: These are games that are
designed to help students to learn about certain
subjects, enhance concepts, understand different
contents, learn a skill etc.
• Brainstorming: It is a group activity in which group
members are encouraged to produce a large
number of ideas quickly on theme or a problem
without commenting on any one’s view points for
subsequent discussion and evaluation.
• Problem solving: Problem solving is a process of
finding the solution to the problem by using one or
more concepts or principles or formulae or required
information.

7. • Debates: Arguments (discussion involving
Arguments) between two groups in which one
group argues to defend the controversial issue or
theme and other group puts up the arguments
against the theme.
• Discovery learning: Learning through exploration
or discovery. Learning by exploring or discovering
many aspects of the environment on their own.
• Project: It is a practical unit of activity having
educational value and aimed at achieving one or
more definite goals of understanding, involves
investigation and solution of problems, planned
and carried out to completion by pupils in a
natural ‘real life’ situation.

8. • Field work: Going to the real life situations for
observing the phenomenon, collect relevant data,
process and analyze the data and arrive at
conclusions.
• Experimentation: Carrying out or conducting the
experiments in the laboratory.
• Concept mapping: It is a process of representing
the concepts or different things in hierarchical
fashion with most inclusive, general concepts at
the top and less general concepts at the bottom in
a pictorial form.

9. Construct a concept map using the
following:
Jean Piaget, Neel Bagh, Field Trips, Field visits,
Discovery Learning, Indoor Activities, Different
types of ABL, Individuals recommended ABL,
Horsberg, Outdoor activities, activity based
Learning, Drama and Jerome Bruner.

11. Why do we need ABL?
• Children can learn well when they learn in
their surrounding environment.
• When they actively participate and involved in
learning.
• When they learn on their own.

12. How will you organize ABL?
• Decide Instructional Goals
• Understand the learners’ cognitive
level and characteristics.
• Consider the nature of the subject.
• Know the time available for
achieving the instructional goals.

13. • Availability of human and non-human
resources.
• Select or design the suitable activities.
• Prepare for implementing that in the
class.
• Provide for link between different
activities and previous knowledge.
• Implement it in the class room.
• Follow it up and bring about required
changes in the activities for better use.