LESSON PLAN-1

SETUP- ONLINE SUBJECT: BIOLOGY PERIOD: 1st

DATE: 27/07/21 BRANCH: BIOLOGY DURATION: 35 mins
CLASS: VII TOPIC: FORESTS: OUR LIFELINE
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* GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• To develop the interest of students towards the science subject
• To develop logical thinking among students.
• To develop skills of scientific enquiry among students.
• To develop scientific attitude among students.
• To develop critical thinking among students.

* SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Cognitive
• The students will be able to define the forests.
• The students will be able to express the environment of forests.
 The students will be able identify different types of trees.
 The students will be able to explain that wild animals lived in deeper area of the forest

Affective.
• The students will be able to realize the importance of forests.
• The students will be able to choose the correct attitude towards the forests
Psychomotor
• The students will be able to demonstrate different things obtained from the forest.
• The students will be able tolist different types of plants.

*PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
The students have the basic knowledge of forest

*INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS

INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS EXPECTED ANSWERS

Q1. On Which planet do we live ? A1. We live on earth.

Q2. In how many parts, the earth is divided? A2. The earth is divided in two parts.

Q3. Name the two parts of earth. A3. The parts of earth are Land and water.
Q4. What do we called a large area of land PROBLEMATIC QUESTION
dominated by trees and shrubs?

* STATEMENT OF AIM
Today, we will learn about the Forests which are our lifeline.

* TEACHING POINT: FORESTS: OUR LIFELINE

* TEACHING METHOD: Story telling Method
* TEACHING TECHNIQUE : Question Answer technique
PUPIL TEACHER'S STUDENT'S ACTIVITY WHITE BOARD WORK
ACTIVITY

PUPIL TEACHER WILL

TELL A STORY TO
EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT:
One evening Rashi entered the
park with an elderly person. She
introduced him to her friends.
Prof Ahmad was a scientist
working in the university. The
children started
playing while prof Ahmad sat
on a bench in the corner. He
was tired as he had participated Student will listen the story
in the golden jubilee carefully
celebrations of the town.

Teacher will take a pause form

thr story and ask a question to
students:-
Ques:-Who was Prof. Ahmad Ans. Professor Ahmad was
and why he was tired? Rashi's friend. And was tired
TEACHER'S STATEMENT because he had participated in
Definition:- golden jubilee celebration.
Forest:-An area with high
density of trees is called a
forest. A forest is a system
which is composed of plants,
animals and microorganisms.
Or
The forest is a wide land which
is dominated by plants- trees,
herbs, shrubs, creepers,
climbers etc.
STORY RESUMED
After a while, the children also
come and sat around him. They
wanted to know about the
celebrations. Prof Ahmad told
them that after the cultural
programme, the senior people
discussed the town's unem-
ployment problem.

QUESTION:-What was Ans. The problem of

discussed in the programme? unemployment was discussed in
the programme.
STORY RESUMED

A plan was proposed to but up a

factory by clearing an area of
the forest just outside the town.
This would give the increasing
population of town a chance to
get jobs. The children were very
surprised when Prof Ahmad
told them that many people
had objected to this idea.

QUESTION:- What was the Ans. The plan proposed was to

plan proposed? set up a factory by clearing
forests.

STORY RESUMED

“ This is because the forests

serve as green lungs and water
purifying systems in nature”,
Prof Ahmad realised that the
children also wanted to know
more about the forest , so they
decided to visit it with prof
Ahmad.

TEACHER'S
EXPLANATION Students will listen carefully
TEACHER'S STATEMENT and ask question if any.
Definition:-
Forest:-An area with high
density of trees is called a
forest. A forest is a system
which is composed of plants,
animals and microorganisms.
Or
The forest is a wide land which
is dominated by plants- trees,
herbs, shrubs, creepers,
climbers etc.

We all know that plants

provides us oxygen to live and
forests have so many plants or
trees means they produces a
large amount of oxygen for us
that is why the forests are also
called green lungs.

Forests also helps in raining.

And also purifies the nature and
protest us form the pollution.

* EVALUATION:
FILL IN THE BLANKS
1. Prof Ahmad was a ___________working in the university.
2. The senior people discussed the town's _________ problem.
3. The forests serve as green _________and water purifying systems in nature.
4. The forests are also known as _________.
* TEACHING POINT: VISIT TO A FOREST
* TEACHING METHOD: Story telling method
* TEACHING TECHNIQUE : Question - Answer technique

PUPIL TEACHER'S STUDENT'S ACTIVITY WHITE BOARD WORK

ACTIVITY

PUPIL TEACHER WILL

TELL A STORY TO
EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT:

PUPIL TEACHER’S
EXPLANATION :

One sunday morning, the

children packed The student will
listen. a few things like a knife,
a hand lens, a stick, a notebook
and walked together through a
forest trail near a village.
Ans knife, hand lens,
Question:-What things they stick, notebook etc.
bring with them?

STORY RESUMED

On their way, they met Kajal, a

young girl of their age group, of
nearby village, who was taking
cattle for grazing along with his
aunt. She was very
agile, running here and there to
keep the head All are going to
visit together.
Ans. a young girl of their
QUES.Who was taking cattle? age group, of nearby
village, who was taking
STORY RESUMED cattle

When she saw the children,

Kajal also started walking along
with them. The students will
while her aunt went on a
different path. Listen actively.
As soon as they entered the
forest Kajal raised her hand and
signalled them to keep quiet
because noise could disturb the
animal living in the forest .

QUES.Why Kajal say not to Ans. Because noise could

shout in forest? disturb the animal living
in the forest.
Kajal then took them to a place
at a height to show them the
broad view of the forest.
Children were surprised because
they could not see any land. The
different treetops had formed
green cover over the land.

Question:-What covers the Ans. The different

land? treetops had formed green
cover over the land.
STORY RESUMED

However, the cover was not

uniformly green. The
environment was peaceful and a
cool breeze was blowing. This
made children quite fresh and
happy. While coming down,
they got excited on hearing a
sudden sound of birds and some
noise from the top branches of
the trees .

Question:-How was the Ans. The environment

environment of forest? was peaceful and a cool
breeze was blowing.

Question. Where were the birds Ans. The birds are sitting
sitting? on top branches of the
trees .
STORY RESUMED

Kajal told them to relax since it

was a normal phenomenon here.
Because of children’s presence ,
some monkeys had climbed
higher upon the trees where
they disturbed the birds.
Animals often give this type of
warning call to alert The
students will other animals.

Ques. Which animal claimed to Ans. Some monkeys had

the student's? climbed higher upon the
trees.
STOTY RESUMED
Rashi also told that many listen.
other animals like bear, bison,
jackals, porque pine , elephants
live in the deeper areas of the
forest. Prof Ahmad cautioned
children that they should not go
deep into the forest.

Ques. Which animals was Ans. animals like bear,

present in the forest?
Yes not any these there are so
many kind of wildlife present in
the forest which can be very
dangerous.
bison, jackals, porque
pine , elephants are
present in the forest.

STORY RESUMED

The children saw many animals

and plants in the forest.
The path was uneven and
covered with trees.
k help them to identify Neem
Sal,teek,shisham, semel,alma,
pipal, etc trees.
Prof. Ahmad introduced them
with some other shrub herbs
plants and trees. Trees were also
covered with different types of
creepers and climbers.
She also told them about the
uses of these plants and what we
get from them,
Like gum, oil ,furniture, pages
,pencil, fuel wood, plywood etc.

Explanation –
As Kajal told everyone there are
many types of trees in the
forests. Like neem, pipal
,sheesham( whose wood is used
for making furniture), alma and
many medical plants too.

And we get any things from

forests like:-
Food
Oxygen
Rain
Gum
Paper
Rubber
Furniture
Fuel
Grains
Etc............

Hence we all should protect the

forests and the wildlife too.

* EVALUATION
CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION
Trees were covered by
a. Creepers and climbers
b. Plants and animals
c. Wood and furniture
d. Monkeys and birds.
2. What thing we do not get from forests:-
a. Gum
b. Trees.
c. Air
d. Wood
RECAPITULATION
WRITE TRUE OR FALSE,
1. The different treetops had formed yellow cover over the land___________.
2. In the forest, a cool breeze was blowing _______.
3. The forest provides a home for many animals and plants____________.
4. The sun was easily visible through the leaves of the trees__________.
5. The forests provide medicinal plants_________.

* HOME ASSIGNMENT:
MATCH THE FOLLOWINGS
(i) Trees (a)Neem
(ii) Shrubs (b) Seed-bearing plant but does not have woody stem
(iii) Herbs (C) Animals
(iv) Medicinal plants (d) A woody perennial plant
(v) Fodder (e) A woody plant but small than tree

* REMARKS AND SUGGESTIONS