A Detailed Lesson Plan

In Science for Grade 7 Students

October 29, 2019
by: Amriha D. Bani

I. OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to describe the motion in
terms of distance and displacements, solve problems related to distance and
displacements and relate distance and displacement in real life scenarios.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: Distance and Displacements

B. References:

K-12 Science Curriculum Guide

Grade 7 Science Learner’s Material

C. Instructional Materials:

marker, cartolina, manila paper, diagrams, activity sheets

D. Value Integration:

Cooperating, Understanding, Analyzing, Reasoning

E. Science Concept:

Distance is a scalar quantity that refers to the length of the entire path
that the object travelled.
Displacement is a vector quantity refers to the shortest distance between
the object’s two position, like the distance between its point of origin and
its point of destination. It is indicated by direction.

III. LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 TEACHER’S ACTIVITY LEARNERS’ ACTIVITY
A. Preliminary Activities
(students arrange their chairs
Good Morning Class! Before we start, please and pick up the papers and
arrange your chairs and pick up the papers and trash)
trash under your chair.

May I request someone to lead the prayer? (students praying)

How are you today class? We are fine maam

Did you enjoy your day? Yes maam

Before we start to our next lesson, I will remind

you to our Classroom Rules. Our classroom rules
are LCR, L stands for Listen. C stands for
Cooperate and R stands for raise your hand.
Always listen, cooperate to our class activities Yes maam
and raise your hand if you want to answer the
question, if you want to ask question and if you
want to ask permission from me to go outside.
But of course you are only allowed to go outside if
it is an important matter. Are we clear class?

B. Review Lessons

It’s about motion.

What was our lesson last meeting?

What is motion? Motion is defined as the

continuous change in position
with respect to a reference
point for a particular time
interval.

If an object is changing its

When can we say that an object is in motion? position with respect to a its
point of reference.
By describing through visuals
How do we describe the motion of an object? using diagrams, graphs,
words and even tables

None maam
Do you have any question about motion?

C. Lesson Proper

1. Presentation

Our lesson for today is all about distance and

displacement.

These are the objectives for this lesson, everyone

please read. (students reading the
objectives)
At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able
to describe the motion of an object in terms of
distance and displacement, solve problems
related to distance and displacements and relate
the motion, distance and displacement in real life
scenarios.

(Discuss the objectives further)

Do you understand class?

Yes, maam
2. Discussions

Let’s unlock some terms:

Point of reference – A fixed point with respect to

which a body changes its position. It is a point
that stays still and does not move which helps to
analyze the motion of a body.
Scalar - are quantities that are fully described by
a magnitude (or numerical value) alone.

Vector - are quantities that are fully described by

both a magnitude and a direction.

To discuss further we will define first what is

distance and displacement.

Jennica please read the definition of distance. (Jennica will read the
definition)
Distance is a scalar quantity (magnitude) refers
to the length of the entire path that the object
travelled.

Look at the example on figure 5 on page 172 on

your book.

The dog ran 10m to the east, then 5m the south

and another 10m to the west. What is the total
distance of the dog that is travelled? Total meters
that the dog has travelled is 25 meters.

Other way to describe the motion of an object is

based on its displacement. Let’s define what is
displacement.

Liza please read the definition of displacement.

Displacement is a vector quantity (magnitude

and direction) refers to the shortest distance
between the object’s two positions, like the (Liza will read the definition)
distance between its point of origin and its point of
destination. It is indicated by direction.

At our example in figure 5, we can see the initial

position of the dog and the final position of the
dog. Since displacement refers to the shortest
distance between the point of origin (point of
reference) and the point of destination, if we apply
it on figure 5, the dog has travelled 5 meters to
the south.

In the figure 5 and 6, the broken lines represented

as distance travelled by the object while the
continuous line represented as displacement.

Here are some more illustrations to describe the

differences between distance and displacement.

Can you give one difference between the

distance and displacement based on the given ( student answering the
examples? question)

When can displacement be equal to zero?

( student answering the
question)
Is it possible to get zero displacement?

( student answering the

What if the ball, car and the dog in the illustration question)
go back to their starting positions, what will
happen to their respective distances? ( student answering the
How about their displacements? question)

( student answering the

What are the directions of the displacements in question)

each example?
( student answering the
question)
To discuss further about distance and
displacement, we will solve problems related to
distance and displacement.

(give them an activity sheet ‘ how far is near’ to

answer their activity)

(students will do their activity

D. Generalization individually)

Define what is distance?

Yes, Cherry

Distance is a scalar quantity

What is displacement? that refers to the length of the
Yes, Aubrey entire path that the object
travelled.

Displacement is a vector
quantity refers to the shortest
distance between the object’s
two position, like the distance
Which is much greater the distance or between its point of origin
displacement? and its point of destination. It
is indicated by direction.
Yes, Jomar

When the displacement can be equal to zero? Distance is always greater

Yes, Michael than displacement.

Give yourself, a barangay clap

When the object goes back to
starting position.

IV. EVALUATION

1. It refers to the shortest distance between its point of origin and its point of
destination.
a) displacement c) distance
b) acceleration d) motion
2. It refers to the length of the entire path that the object travelled.
a) displacement c) distance
b) acceleration d) motion
3. Scott travels north 5 kilometers and then goes west 3 kilometers before
coming straight back south 2 kilometers. What is his distance?
 a) 7 kilometers c) 9 kilometers
b) 8 kilometers d) 10 kilometers
4. Dong walked 300 m east from home to visit utoy. He then walked another
400 m north to fetch inday and both of them walked 300 m west to watch
the birds. He left inday then walked 400 m north. Which of the following
statement is not true?
a) Dong went home
b) Dong has travelled a total distance of 1.4 km
c) Dong’s displacement is shorter than the total distance he has travelled
d) Dong’s displacement is zero if he has travelled 400 m south after
leaving inday.
5. Which of the following statement is true?

i. The distance travelled by an object can be equal to displacement

ii. The displacement of a moving object can be greater than its distance
travelled.

a) i c) both i and ii
b) ii d) none of the above

V. ASSIGNMENT
Make a roadmap that shows how you get to school from your house in a short bond
paper. Check your book at page 174 for more guidelines.