DETAILED LESSON PLAN

I. OBJECTIVES

a. Label the parts of the tongue.

b. Identify the parts of the tongue that senses different tastes.
c. Show that the taste buds cover the tongue.

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

The Tongue and the Different Tastes

A. Concepts
1. The tongue senses different tastes.
2. Tastes areas are sensitive to bitter taste, sour taste,
salty taste, and sweet taste.
3. The tongue covered the taste buds.
4. The nerve connected to the taste buds send
messages to the brain.

B. References:

Science 3 Textbook page 53;

C. Materials:

Picture of tongue with label, candy, ampalaya,

vinegar or kalamansi, salt, popsicle sticks

III. PROCEDURE:

A. Preparatory Activities

1. Prayer

Before we start our lesson, may we have Remalyn to Ok ma’am.

lead a prayer

2. Checking of Attendance

May I know who is absent today Miss secretary. No one is absent

ma’am.
3. Health inspection

Before we start our lesson, let’s first have our health

inspection.

May I request your classroom

leader to help me check or inspect your finger nails?

Ask: Class why is it important for us to check or inspect

our finger nails and other parts of our body?

Answer: to avoid
Ask: What else? diseases ma’am.

Ask: What is the best thing that we should do

everyday? Answer: to be healthy
always, ma’am.

Answer: brush your

teeth, comb your hair,
B. Motivation take a bath everyday,
eat healthy foods
Ask: Class when you eat and chew the food you eat,
what helps you tell the taste of that food?

Ask: Ok, that’s correct

Answer: tongue
C. Lesson Proper ma’am

Ask:
1. What helps you tell the taste of the food you eat?

Have the pupils examine their tongue with the use of a

popsicle stick .

Ask: Class who among you tried to check their tongue

infront of a mirror?

Ask:What do you see on your tongue? Answer: the tongue

ma’am
.

Ask: How do you think the tongue can distinguish sweet

from sour taste, salty from bitter? Answer: Me ma’am

Present pictures of food.

Answer: pink color,
Conduct a taste test. Blindfold several pupils and ask tiny bumps
them to identify the tastes by doing the following:

Ask: May I call on 4 pupils to come infront and have a

taste test.

a) Taste the candy, ampalaya, vinegar and salt.

b) Ask some pupils to taste one food and tell its taste. Answer: By chewing
the food we eat, by
sweet, bitter, sour, salty licking the food.

Ask: How do you taste food?

What do you use for testing the taste of different foods?

4. Present the map of tongue showing the areas where

in the different taste are sensed.

Ask:

1. What are
the different
tastes of
food?

2. Which
part of the tongue Answer: by eating the
has the taste buds food; by chewing the
sensitive to food; by sucking
sweet food? Sour? Bitter? Salty? the food

Answer: the tongue

ma’am.
 Answer: Sweet,
bitter, salty, and sour
ma’am

IV. EVALUATION:

1. The surface of the (tongue, nose, eyes, ears ) has

taste buds.
2. The sweet taste is recognized on the (tip, back, side,
near tip) of the tongue.
3. The bitterness of ampalaya can be identified by the
(tip, back, side, near back) of the tongue.
4. The salty bagoong can be tasted through the (tip,
back, side, near back) of the tounge.
5. Maria ate tamarid candy. The sour taste can be
recognized by by the (tip, near back, back, at the
middle ) of the tongue.

V. ASSIGNMENT:
Complete the table using the four areas of the tongue. Put a
check ( / ).

Parts of the tongue

Taste Side near

tip back

the tip the back

Bitter

Salty

Sour
 Sweet