Name: Dana Hijazi Global University

Education Department
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Lesson Plan
Grade Level: Two Date: 23 of December, 2019
Subject Matter: Science Term: One
Number of periods: One Model implemented : The Indirect Model
Title: In the Air or Under Water, How Do they Breathe?
Pre-requisites: Different groups of animals (mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish).

Rationale: Students will know what are the respiratory organs that are used by animals while
breathing.

General objectives:
Get to know different respiratory organs and their difference.
Understand how some animals that live under water breath.
Know how animals that live in land breath.
Specific objectives:
Knowledge: Define lungs.
Define gills.
Comprehension: Identify the difference between the gills and the lungs.
Identify the respiratory organ for different animals.
Recognize the function for each of the lungs and the gills.
Content:
Bodies of information

Materials needed:
-Laptop
-Projector
-White board
Instructional Procedures:
Planned beginning:
-Tell the students to open the book on pages 46 and 47.
-Ask them what do you observe in the picture found in page 46? They might say animals, a
dog, a cat, water, a fish, air and a lizard.
-Ask them what do you think the lesson will be about? They might say the lesson will be about
different animals, different environments or difference between animals living in water or on
land.
Body:
-Display two pictures one shows died fish and the other shows a cow.
-Ask the students to tell you what they are seeing in these two pictures. They will say a cow
and a died fish.
-Ask them why do you think the fish is died? They might say because the fish is outside water
or someone killed it.
-Tell them fish can’t live outside water and when we take them off water they will die while
other animals like cows, dogs, cats and others they live outside water, in land.
-While explaining that we breath oxygen which is found in air then it goes to the trachea
(windpipe) and then enters our lungs, so the lungs help us to breath in air, show them a
diagram about the respiratory system. As well as, mammals like cows, dogs and others have
lungs to breath.
-Ask them why fish can’t live outside water? Do they have lungs? They might say that fish
can’t breath in air because they don’t have lungs unlike us.
-Now, tell them that fish don’t have lungs and they have another organ called gills that help
them to breath.
-Display a picture for the gills in a fish and explain that gills are found behind the mouth of the
fish. Fish take in water by their mouth, then they breath when the gills separate the oxygen
present in water and throughout the water and the carbon dioxide.
-Then, tell them that animals that live on land have lungs and most animals that live in water
have gills.
Finally, I will ask them if they know any sea animals that breath in air. The answers might be
the whales and the dolphins. Then I will ask them how do these animals breathe? They might
say by their lungs. So I will say there are some animals that live in water but breath in air by
their lungs.
Closure:
-To sum up the lesson, I will display a video that explains the difference between how we
breath using our lungs and how fish breath using their gills and I will be reviewing main
points.

Assessment:
Formative:
-Solve exercises to match each animal with its right respiratory organs.