Task 4

Choose ONE lesson that you will teach and show how you developed it as an INQUIRY based lesson that uses the 5E cycle. You should teach this lesson, get
feedback, and do the usual reflection that is required for all lessons (see Task 3) (CLOs 1-6).
Lesson Title Life cycle of plant
Level of Inquiry Structured inquiry
A brief description of the lesson

Students were learning the steps of life cycle of the plant.

The Problem or Issue

What will happen to the plant if the plant starts to grow and there are some elements missing
during the process.

Essential Question

How do plants grow?

Guiding Questions

Know and create a life cycle of a plant

Learning Outcomes (LOs)

By the end of the lesson’s students will Know the process and the steps of plant life cycle.
be able to:

Hypothesis

The plant will not grow if one step is missing.

Prediction The plant has to go thought all of the steps to grow.

The outcome or product of the The students were expected to make the steps using different pictures and materials.
students’ investigation (i.e. what will the
students be expected to produce at the
end of their investigation)
 Stage What Experiences will Questioning Map Process skills Literacy skills
students participate in?

These must also include:
• Differentiated Activities
and
• formative evaluation,
including what will students
produce by the end of this
section.
Engagement
What are some questions
that I will ask students
during each ‘E’ (& at what
level of Bloom’s is each of
these questions?)?
What process skills will I create
experiences for students to use
at each ‘E’
(name, how, and where)
Which literacy skills will I
create experiences for
students to use at each ‘E’
that students will use at this
stage?
(name, and say how and
where)

• Access prior learning In this lesson the students will

• Engage students in new concept.
• Elicit curiosity
• Act as a bridge between past
and present learning
experiences
• Expose prior conceptions.
• Organise students thinking
towards the LOs
How many steps in the Observing in this stage of the 5 Students will have to write
learn about the steps of plant plant life cycle? what they observed and
E’s the students have to look
life cycle. Remember record it.
and write notes to see what
What will happen if the the changes during the life
Students will have different
plant did not go thought
differentiated activities based all of the steps? cycle of the plant is.

on their levels. Analyse

By the end of the lesson the

students will produce the
steps of plant life cycle. By
drawing and writing the
vocabulary words.
 Stage
Exploration
• According to the level of inquiry,
students are given opportunity to
design and/or conduct a preliminary
investigation. The investigation
allows learners to use their prior
conceptualisations to explore
questions and possibilities
surrounding the LOs, and to generate
new thinking about the LOs.
Explanation
• Teachers provide opportunities for
learners to engage in the conceptual
probing and development needed to
explain the science (or a focus area
of it) that supports the exploration,
and its outcomes.
What Experiences will
students participate in?
These must also include:
• Differentiated Activities
and
• formative evaluation,
including what will students
produce by the end of this
section.
In this stage the students will
get a chance to look at
different stages of the plant.
In this stage as a teacher I will
give the students a chance to
explain what they did in the
lesson using their own
vocabulary.
Questioning Map
What are some questions
that I will ask students
during each ‘E’ (& at what
level of Bloom’s is each of
these questions?)?
What are the steps of
growing plant?
Do you see any changes
as we progress into the
next stage?
Why do you think plant
have to do all the steps of In this stage the students have In this stage the students
the plant life cycle?
Process skills Literacy skills
What process skills will I create Which literacy skills will I
experiences for students to use create experiences for
at each ‘E’ students to use at each ‘E’
(name, how, and where) that students will use at this
stage?
(name, and say how and
where)
Classifying and predicting
In this stage the students have Students will have to read
to think and predict what will and write the different
happen in the next step of the changes in the plant and
life cycle of the plant. And to recorded into a recording
see the different changes that sheet.
the plant goes throw.
Classifying
to give further information are writing one sentence
and explanation about what is about each life plant cycle
plant life cycle and how they stage.
worked in their groups.
 Stage
Elaboration
• Teacher provides students with
experiences which help to deepen
and broaden students’ conceptual
skills and knowledge around the LOs.
The elaboration, extension, and
application of the LOs to real life
phenomena is welcomed at this
stage
Evaluation (Summative)
• Evaluation with the 5E learning cycle
occurs at every other ‘E’ formatively;
and at the end of the lesson
summatively.
What Experiences will
students participate in?
These must also include:
• Differentiated Activities
and
• formative evaluation,
including what will students
produce by the end of this
section.
In this stage the students will
apply the knowledge and the
skills that they learned in the
lesson.
In this stage the students will
be evaluated by the teacher plant life cycle?
at the end of the lesson.
Questioning Map
What are some questions
that I will ask students
during each ‘E’ (& at what
level of Bloom’s is each of
these questions?)?
How does the plant grow
and what are the life cycle
steps?
What are the steps of
Process skills
What process skills will I create
experiences for students to use
at each ‘E’
(name, how, and where)
Communicating
In this stage the students will
share what they did during
the lesson.
Inferring
In this stage the students will
be observed by the teacher
while they are doing the
assessment.
Literacy skills
Which literacy skills will I
create experiences for
students to use at each ‘E’
that students will use at this
stage?
(name, and say how and
where)
Speaking: students will
have to explain orally about
the activity that they did in
the lesson.
Writing: In this stage the
students will have to
answer different questions
on a paper.