Science Lesson Plan

Lesson-2 (Single Lesson)

Teacher: Mini Vithayathil Lesson Date: 12/08/20

Subject: Biology year 11 Topic/Genre: Infectious disease

Lesson Objectives: Lesson Duration:

45 min
 Identify that Infectious diseases can cause widespread health
issues for local, national, and/or global populations by
investigating disease outbreaks.
 Identify how epidemic and pandemic spreads and identify
different disease outbreaks in the history

Main Topics focused: Macro skills focused:

Epidemics and Pandemics Critical and creative

thinking skills/ Science
Literacy

Link to curriculum:- @ SACE 2019

Science Understanding:- Infectious diseases can cause widespread health issues for local, national, and/or
global populations

Materials: Laptops, Smart Board, PowerPoint Slides, TED-Ed YouTube Videos, Time line of Infectious
diseases: Online interactive resource from National Science Foundation

Safety and Risk Assessments N/A

Visual Learning resources (PowerPoint Slides,

Differentiation: Adjustments for Needs of Learners YouTube Videos), Jigsaw model collaborative
learning
 TIME Warm up/ INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE & ACTIVITIES RESOURCES

10:40 Attendance/ Warm up/ Homework update

10 min

10:50 Power Point presentation starts to discuss about disease out breaks,
20 min epidemics and pandemics. PowerPoint Slides,

TED Education YouTube video to inform how pandemic spreads. TED-Education video on
Jigsaw model
learning how pandemic spread
Students are informed about the history of notable epidemics and https://www.youtube.com/
strategy pandemics with more focus on Black death, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Covid- watch?v=UG8YbNbdaco
allowed 19.
students to be
active
participants in Jigsaw Model learning strategy (Group of 4) Time line of Infectious
their learning diseases:
process. All Students are instructed to access the National Science Foundation website
to do the activity of Timeline of Infectious disease. Each group gathers http://infectiousdiseases.edc
students were
information about one epidemic or pandemic disease and become experts to .org/content/timeline-
engaged in the share their understanding to the class in the same lesson or in the next emerging-diseases-
classroom lesson 1?view=teacher&node=20
activities and
this learning
strategy Homework information on the board/ need to upload in Microsoft
created a teams before Friday and prepare to teach the class about the epidemic
positive or pandemic they have investigated.
environment in Cooling down…Pack-up
the classroom