Appendix 1: Lesson Plan (template)

LESSON PLAN Subject: science

Trainee: Topic or Theme: living and non-living things

Class: grade 3 Date & Duration: march 24

Lesson Focus

On living and non-living things, the difference between them, and their characteristics.

Lesson Outcomes

Students will be able to:

 classify objects as living and nonliving.

 identify what living things and non-living things are.
 Create living and non-living thing craft.
 Predict if an object is a living or non-living thing by listening to their characteristics.
And naming it.

Links to Prior Learning

By bringing real animals/plant they already know and studied about and explain why we call
.them living thing
21st Century Skills

 Critical Thinking – by asking topic related questions.

Group work and sharing resources during the activities will reinforce the following skills:

 Collaborating
 Communicating
 Social Skills
Key vocabulary

Living

Non-living

Grow

Change

Breathe

Move

Water

Air

food

Possible problems for learners Solutions to possible problems

Not be able to understand that not all Use real life examples. By bringing the plant and
living things look the same / move etc. compare it with the fish. Explain how they’re
different but considered a living thing at the same
time.

Resources/equipment needed

 A projector to show the video

 A computer to play the video
 Worksheets
 Color pencils / pencils
 Cotton
 Paper plates
 Scissors & glue
 Real animals/ plant – living things
 Non -living thing objects

TASKS/ACTIVITIES
Resources Introduction
 & Time
Students will: Teacher will:
 explain to the students that they will
Time:  Watch the video. watch a video and they must pay
 Answer the questions that the attention.
10 minutes teacher asked.  Play the living and non- living things
video
Recourses:  Ask video related questions like;
- What have you seen in this
Projector
video
and - Who can explain this to me?
computer - What topic of today’s lesson?

Resources
Main activities
& Time
Students will: Teacher will:

Time:  Answer the questions.  Activity 1:

 Participate Bring real animals/pets like fish, turtle ,
20 minutes  Classify living and non-living bird etc. ask the students what do they
things objects notice about these animals. Ask
Recourses:  Create a sheep and a boat questions like:” does they move?
using papers, cotton and paper Breath? “
Projector
plates.
and  Present their work Explain that some living things doesn’t
computer  Predict
move, eat the way animals do. Bring a
plant for an example and explain how
this plant is a living thing.

After explaining what a living thing is,

bring some objects like; pencil, ball,
cup etc. and explain how non living
thing has the opposite characteristics
that living things has.

 Activity 2:
after explaining, the teacher will
provide students with toys that look
like real things around us. students will
sort these toys and classify them into
living and non- living things.
  Activity 3:
Students will make create a living “a
sheep “and non-living thing “a paper
boat” using cotton, papers, paper plates
etc.
Students will present their work and
will talk about what they did and will
explain how the sheep is different than
the boat. Which one is a living thing
and why?

 Activity 4:
Hide your object behind your back
describe it and ask the students to
predict what is it that you are hiding for
example:
“I’m hiding a non-living thing; we use
it to write and it can come with
different colors”
Answer: a pencil

Time :15 minutes

Differentiation activities (Support)

Visual: the video will contain living and non-living things’ photos and explanation.

Auditory: the introduction has a video that they should lesson carefully to. To be able to answer
the teachers’ questions.

kinaesthetic: students will use materials like cotton, papers, scissors to make a living and non-
living thing. Students will sort objects/toys into living and non-living things

Resources Plenary/Conclusion
 & Time
5- 10 minutes Students will Teacher will

present their work “ the sheep & Ask the students about what they have
paper boat they created” and will done during the activities time.
explain how the sheep is different Ask them to describe what they
than the boat and witch one is a created and what they have learned.
living/non-living thing and why And let them explain how a boat is
different than a sheep. Using
vocabulary, they’ve learned today.
Homework
Assessment
Strategies:
☐ Observation ☐ Student self- ☐ Oral ☐ Peer assessment
assessment questioning

☐ Quiz ☐ Student ☐ Written work ☐ Verbal feedback

presentation and feedback