LESSON PLAN

Date

: 22 September 2012.

Class

: 4 Anggerik.

Time

: 45 minutes.

Number of students

: 30

Subjects

: Biology Form 4

Learning area

: 2.0 Endangered Ecosystem

Learning objectives

: Understanding the human activities that endanger an ecosystem

Learning outcomes

: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. Identify the types of pollution and sources of pollution.
2. Describe types of pollution and sources of pollution.

Instructional tool

Power point slides, manila card, video.

Science process skills :

1. Observe the video that shown about the pollution
2. Communicate among the students in discuss the activity and brainstorming process.
3. Analyze several pictures and relate it to the sources of the pollutions.

4. Scientific attitude and noble values :

Being cooperative while carrying out the activities and discussion.

Being confident and willing to come out and talk in front of the class room.

Being able to think creative and critical about the sources of pollutions.

Appreciating our environments by take care of it.

Thinking skills

Relating the types of pollution and how its occurred.

Relating how human activities give rise to the pollution

Prior knowledge

Students have learned about:

1. Human activities that threaten the ecosystem.
2. The impact of human activities on the ecosystem.
3. The effects of unplanned development and mismanagement of the ecosystem.
Teachers reference

: Biology Spm, Integrated Curriculum for Secondary Schools (ICSS), Success, Gan Wan Yeat, Oxford Fajar.

Students reference

: Biology Spm, Integrated Curriculum for Secondary Schools (ICSS), Success, Gan Wan Yeat, Oxford Fajar.

Step

Content

Teachers activity

Students activity

Notes/Remarks

Introduction
set
(5 minutes)

Introduction
of the topic to
be taught.

Explanations
on the
learning
outcome to be
achieved for
the lesson.

Teacher asks the students about the

environment nowadays. How they feel
towards the environment they live
today.

Students actively give their comments

about the condition of the environment.
Example: A lot of garbage that didnt
manage properly.

Teacher interest students

with real life
experiences.

Teacher show video about the pollution

that are related to the human activities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=p6QLx7vEyIY

Students try to identify the pollution

and relate it to the human activities.

Observing skills are

implemented.

Communicate with student by guiding

them to identify the topic to be learned.

Students respond to teachers questions

actively and figure out the topic thats
going to be taught.

Communicating skills
are built up.

Q1: What the video shown about?

Q2: In your opinion, how did the
problems occur?
Q3: So, what do you think were
going to learn today?

A1: About the pollutions

A2: Almost occurred because of
human activities.
A3: Types of pollutions

Group points are based

on:

1. Show the learning outcomes to

be achieved in power point so
that student will have idea about
their lesson.
2. Inform them about the group
system and the way their given
marks.

Performance
during activity.
Participation in
class.
Values shown
during activity.

Group system is
conducted to retain

3. Students are divided into 6

groups with five persons each.

Step 1
( 10
minutes)

Identify the
types of
pollutions and
the sources of
pollutions.

ACTIVITY 1:
LABLE IT TRUE

Teacher continue the lesson with

Activity 1: LABLE IT TRUE.

Students focus and try to relate with

their previous knowledge with the
content of the topic to be discussed.

This activity needs the students to label

the pictures with the different types of
pollutions and done by group work.
Teacher asks the representative of each
group to come out to the front and
labelled the picture with the correct
answer.

Students actively engaged with the

activity.
Students try to identify the different
types of the pollutions according to the
pictures given.

Example:

Expected answer:
Water pollution

After the activity done, teacher ask one

students interest and

participation in class.
Reward will be given at
the end of the class.

This activity promotes

the cooperative skills
among the students.

representative among the students to

read aloud the different types of
pollutions.
1. Water pollution
2. Air pollution
3. Thermal pollution
4. Noise pollution
Teachers stress the students about the
differences of air pollution and thermal
pollution.
Step 2
( 15
minutes)

Describes the
types of
pollutions and
the sources of
pollutions.

ACTIVITY 2:
DISCUSSION

Teacher asks each of the group leaders

to choose one envelope at the front and
ask them not to open until it announced
to do so.

One representative read aloud the types

of pollutions.

Developing the
confident level among
the students to be one of
the representatives of the
class.

Students concentrate and try to make a

difference about the two types of
pollutions that are closely related.
Group leader of each group take the
envelope and manila card with marker
pen.

Developing the critical

thinking.

Group points are based

on:

Each of the group will be given one

piece of manila card and marker pen.

Performance
during activity.
Participation in
class.
Values shown
during activity.

After each of the group ready, teacher

Students start to work in their group.
asks the students to open the envelope
and take a look what the picture that
they got and start to think about it.
Since it have six groups of the students,
two groups got the similar types of
pollutions with the others.
Teacher explains the task of the

Students listen and try to understand

Critical and creative

activity.

the explanation given by teacher.

Each of the group needs to describe the

type of pollution that they have and
discuss among them what the sources
of the pollution that gives rise to it and
how it is occurs.

Students try to relate the sources of the

pollution that they get based on their
knowledge about it.

Teacher asks the students to write out

all the sources of the pollution on the
manila card within 15 minutes.
Step 3
( 10
minutes)

thinking skills are

developed.

Students actively participated in the

discussion activity. Each of the group
members have to give their idea about
the discussion.

After they finish the task, teacher asks

each of the groups to present their
findings at the front.

Each of the group members come to the

front and present their findings.

Teacher asks the students to be freely

ask the questions to the group that have
done their presentation.

Students ask the questions to the group

that have presented.

After all the groups have done their

presentation, teacher stress back what
are the sources of pollutions and relate
to the human activities.

Students focus and concentrate to the

teacher explanation.

Teacher tries to inculcate the moral

values among the students by asking
them several questions.

Students try to relate the environments

with their life.

This activity promotes

confident level among
the students as they have
to be able to deliver the
contents at the front
clearly.

Moral values are

inculcated among the
students.

Q1: What do you feel when living in

such bad environments?
Q2: What do you think about the
effects if continuously come into
contact with pollutions?
Q3: So, what you need to do to take
care of our environments as to stay
healthy?

Closure
( 5 minutes)

Assess and
summarize
the lesson of
the day.

Teacher use concept map to summarize

the lesson.

Expected answer:
A1: Uncomfortable to live in bad
environments.
A2: Effects our health

A3: Dont throw the rubbish every

where, start to recycle and so on.

Students actively participated to

summarise the lesson.

Teacher shows incomplete concept map Students give the best answer to
to the students on the powerpoint slide. complete the concept map.
Teacher discusses the concept map with
the student by asking them to give the
answer in order to complete concept
map.

Teaching Aids:
Power point slides

Appendix:
Activity 1 and 2: Four pictures of different types of pollutions

Water pollution

Air pollution

Thermal pollution

Noise pollution

Concept Map: Closure

POLLUTIONS

TYPES OF POLLUTIONS

1. Increased
WATER
sediment from soil
POLLUTION
erosion
Improper waste
disposal and
littering

SOURCES
Leaching
OF of soil
pollution into water
POLLUTION
supplies

2. AIR
Vehicle
or
manufacturing
POLLUTION
exhaust
Forest fires,
volcanic eruptions,
dry soil erosion,
SOURCES
and other natural
sources OF

POLLUTIO
Building
construction or

3. THERMAL
Power plants
POLLUTION
Urban sprawl
Air pollution

FUNGSI
RAWAN:
particulates
that
trap heat

SOURCES
MENYERAP
HENTAKAN

Deforestation
OF
DAN MENGHALANG
KEROSAKAN
TULANG
POLLUTIO
Loss
of

4.
NOISE
Traffic
POLLUTION

Airports

Railroads

Manufacturing
SOURCES
plants
OF
Construction or
POLLUTIO

demolition