SCIENCE LESSON PLAN

Subject: Science

Date: 17 April 2010

Time: 9:00am – 10:00am

Topic: Animal food chain

Theme: Investigating living things

Year: 5U

Number of pupils: 46 pupils

Prerequisite knowledge: Pupils know what herbivore, carnivore and omnivore is

Learning outcome: By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:

1. Construct 2 food chains that each consists of 3 animals and a plant

2. Identify which animal is a producer and which is a consumer

Science Process Skills: Observing, Classifying, Making inferences

Manipulative Skills: Labeling

Thinking Skills: Attributing, Grouping and classifying, Relating, Sequencing

Scientific attitudes and: xx

noble values

Teaching and learning: 1. Microsoft PowerPoint

resources 2. Laptop and projector
3. Worksheet
4. Science workbook
Phase/Time Content Teaching/Learning Activities Remarks
Teaching aids
Orientation Animal displayed 1. Teacher shows images of • Laptop
(5 minutes) Bear, monkey, rabbit, animals on projector screen. • Projector
frog, fox 2. Pupils are told to point out
whether the animal displayed is SPS
a herbivore, carnivore and • Observing
Animal eating picture omnivore. • Classifying
A mouse eating a 3. Teacher shows a picture of
grasshopper animal eating, and asks pupils TS
what is the relationship between • Grouping
the 2 animals. and
classifying
• Attributing

Eliciting Ideas Question & statement 1. Teacher will use PowerPoint Teaching aids
(5 minutes) 1. Animals must eat to to display the following animal • Laptop
survive and plants’ pictures on screen: • Projector
2. Animals doesn’t just
eat one animal or a)Horse b)Snake SPS
plant c)Mouse d)Tiger • Observing
3. What does animal eat e)Lizard f)Dog • Classifying
g)Cat h)Monkey
i)Fish j)Earthworm TS
k)Chicken l)Grass • Grouping
m)Ladybird n)Rice and
o)Crow p)Eagle classifying
2. Teacher asks what does the
animal displayed on screen
eats.
3. Teacher asks whether the
animal displayed on screen will
be eaten by any other animal.

Restructuring Teacher explains 1. Teacher uses Teaching aids

of idea 1. Carnivore eats meat PowerPoint to show a variety of • Laptop
(10 minutes) 2. Herbivore eats plant animals • Projector
3. Omnivore eats both 2. Teacher explains the
meat and plant common traits/ characteristics SPS
4. Plant is a producer of herbivore, carnivore and • Observing
5. Herbivore is a primary omnivore • Classifying
consumer 3. Teacher explains how • Making
6. Carnivore is a those traits/ characteristics inferences
secondary or tertiary compliment the different
consumer categories of animals TS
7. Omnivore is a 4. Teacher explains how a
• Grouping
secondary or tertiary food chain is formed based on
and
consumer the traits/ characteristics of
classifying
animal
 5. Teacher explains that a • Relating
food chain cannot be completed
without a producer and the
consumers.

6. Teacher explains that

some animals cannot become
primary, secondary or tertiary
consumer because of the
nature of their characteristic

Application of Pictures provided Teacher gives a worksheet with Teaching aids

idea pictures of animals and plants. • Laptop
(6 minutes) a)Goat Pupils are required to create 2 food • Projector
b)Tiger chains using the pictures provided. • Worksheet
c)Dog
d)Chicken Teacher compares pupils’ SPS
e)Earthwor worksheet to check if they got the • Observing
m correct answer. • Classifying
f)Grass
g)Snake Teacher asks further questions TS
h)Eagle related to food chain. Pupils will
• Grouping
i)Mouse answer whether the food chain is
and
complete or incomplete, and what
classifying
is wrong to it (If any).
• Relating
Question
What if one of the • Sequencing
animals is changed to
another animal? MS
• Labeling

Reflection Chart Teacher explains further about food SPS

(4 minutes) 10 0
90
chain using a chart: The number of • Making
80
70 producer or consumer changes inferences
when one of them changes its
60
% 50
40
30
20
amount. TS
• Relating
10
0

Teacher asks pupils not to tamper

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with nature’s ecology system.