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1. By:
Dr. Rakhi Sawlani
Effect of Digital Storytelling Approach
in Teaching of Science Concepts
Encouraging a STEAM focused school curriculum
Approaches and strategies of STEAM across school curriculum

2. ART OF STORY TELLING
• A story can be made out of anything and everything. It connects with people on
an emotional level.
• Story telling is an art. A potential story writer is careful
while converting idea, imagination or experience into writing.
Hence, one has to learn the art to make their story worth
reading.
• People use their observations to make inferences and draw
• conclusions about the other individuals and objects.
• People share their thoughts as they form the identities of characters while
creating stories. These thoughts are the building blocks of the short stories and
they are helpful to generate writing ideas.

3. Types of stories
• funny, amusing, crazy
• five essential components of story writing:

4. STEP I - PLOT or SCENARIO
• Plot is the main event of the story. It’s also known as a story-line.
• A plot is a literary term used to depict how a story is arranged by its
author.
• Main elements of a plot are as below:

5. Introduction
• Juncture of capturing the attention of the audience.
• Introduce the character.
• Describe the setting of the story.
• Introduce the main conflict(main problem)
of the story.

6. Rising Action
• Raise the expectation of your readers.
• Main characters are established and events begin to get
complicated.
• There is a struggle between the character and the real self, that is,
soul, habits, choice, abilities comes up.
• There is also a struggle between the major character and the
outer world like nature, weather, society, the government, a
union, a belief system etc.
• Suspense is built
to reveal more information about the problem.

7. Climax
• Create a dramatic turning point for the story.
• It usually occurs in the last half of the story or close to the end of
the story.
• The shattering moment where main character is at the centre of
the conflict and reaches an emotional high point, may feel
overwhelmed, trapped, desperate, or even out of control.
• Will he survive or die? Will the conflict be resolved or not? “What
will happen next?”
• iv) Resolution: Loose ends are tied up. Events and complications
start falling into place. Either good or bad, the consequences of
the action taken by the main character is faced with realities.

8. STEP II - SETTING
• It’s about the place and time a story takes place. It helps to establish the mood
of a story. Multiple aspects of a setting are:
• a) Place: This indicates where the action of the story takes place?
• b) Time: This indicates when the events took place i.e. about the year, month,
time of the day, historical period.
• c) Atmospheric condition: This indicates what weather is it? Is it rainy, stormy,
winter or summer?
• d) Social condition: This indicates the daily life of the characters i.e. their
speech, dress, habit etc.
• e) Mood: This is about the feelings created at the beginning of the story i.e.
cheerful or frightening?

9. STEP III - CHARACTER
• A character is a person, animal or thing in a story. It could be fictional or
real. Character can be a(n):
• A protagonist is a clear center of the story, the leading figure. He/she is the
hero of the story. While an antagonist is the opposition or “enemy” of the main
character, often called as the villain. It could be a concept, institution or
character(s).
• The characteristics of a character is revealed through: his/her physical
appearance, what he/she says, thinks, feels, dreams , what he/she does or
does not do, what others say about him/her, how others react to him/her

10. STEP IV - POINT OF VIEW
• This is the point from which the story
is told having several variations:
• a) First Person – The story is told by the
protagonist or a character who relates closely
with the protagonist or other characters. The
person uses the pronouns “I”, “me”, “we”.
• b) Second Person – Story is told by a narrator
who addresses the reader or some other assumed
“you”; speaker uses pronouns “you”, “your”, and
“yours”.
• c) Third Person – The narrator sees all of the
action. Speaker uses the pronouns “he”, “she”, “it”,
“they”, “his”, “hers”, “its”, and “theirs”. This person
may be a character in the story.

11. STEP V - THEME
• It is very important to give the central message i.e. “moral of the story”.
• It reveals the belief the author is trying to convey like a broad theme on
“love,” “desire,” or “loss,” and think about it from the point of view of your
main character.
• It includes:
• a) Story’s title that usually limelight what the author is saying.
• b) Various figures of speech utilized to highlight the theme.
• c) Common themes occurring in literature, on television and in film.

12. Digital Storytelling: Introduction
• Digital Storytelling is a technique
which benefits students skills like
collaboration, communication,
critical thinking, problem-solving,
skill development.
• Offers a constructivist e-learning
environment
• an asset based signature pedagogy
• a teaching and learning tool in
classrooms by teachers.

13. Digital stories
• Makes use of wide range of media
including photos, images, video, stop-
motion animation, voice narration,
sound recording and design though
video and audio editing software.
• Student-centered learning strategies
including project-based learning,
cooperative engagement, reflection on
learning, and integration of technology.

14. DEFINITION
• STEAM Education: An educational approach
that inculcates the arts medium like visual or
performing arts such as storytelling into STEM
topics.
• Digital Storytelling – Student centred
learning strategy that integrates digital stories
into instructions using multimedia technology
for educational purposes.

15. Digital stories
Subject- Science topics
Day 1. The Veggie Monster
Day 2. The Clever Farmer
Day 3. Kensuke's Kingdom
Day 4. The Lonely Seed, An Arrogant Tree, Sona And Toofaan
Day 5. Itch - Changing state
Day 6. Rahim Chacha
Day 7. The greedy merchant
Day 8. The eccentric king , Motion
Day 9. The Joy of Circus
Day 10. The Giant's Palace
Day 11. Goodnight Mister Tom – Electricity
Day 12. Four crooks in a village
Day 13. Water - My Friend
Day 14.Pradushan Maan
Day 15. Wake up before it is too late

16. Extra Resources & Activities
• TicTacLearn English you tube videos of short
stories for class 6 students.
• Students gather more information through
online resource, read sections from book and
write summaries of concepts, play music based
on the concepts.
• Assessment - Students construct diagrams,
model related to the concepts learnt through
digital medium and give a lot of effort to create
the art using their knowledge of sequences and
patterns.

17. CONCLUSION
• Digital storytelling approach in teaching of science yielded
better academic achievement.
• Experimental group students seem to be interested,
motivated and involved.
• Treatment program had a positive effect among students.
• Digital storytelling under STEAM education is an effective
way to teach and learn science.
• Learning becomes permanent and STEAM approach to
teaching diverse subjects must be adopted by teachers all
over the globe.
• STEAM approach gives the teachers an opportunity to
enable students to develop essential skills like critical
thinking and problem solving.

18. References
• http://www.writersspace.net/art-story-
writing/
• https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/tea
chers/blogs/john-depasquale/migrated-
files/11.27_short_story_graphic_organizer_0.pdf
• https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Short-Story