SCIENCE TEACHING PLAN

Teacher: Ma. Karina D. Ferreras Date: March 20, 2018

School: The Lewis College-High School Grade Level: Grade 8

Subject Matter:
A. Topic: Parts of the Brain
B. Skills: Illustrating, Identifying, Defining
C. Materials:
Material Quantity
Projector 1
Laptop 1
Colored paper 3
D. References:
https://www.enkiverywell.com/parts-of-the-brain-and-their-functions.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
E. Teaching Strategies: Inquiry Approach, Discussion Method

Lesson Objectives:At the end of a 60-minute period, at least 75% of the students are expected to;
1. identify correctly the main parts of the brain;
2. act out the activity that the brain’s part control;
3. appreciate the importance of the brain through active participation in class discussion.
Teaching/Learning Tasks:

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY
Cycle of Inquiry STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

PRE-ACTIVITY
Good Morning Class!
Have you prayed? Not yet ma’am!

Who’s the assigned student for our prayer today? In the name of the…………….

Kindly arrange your chairs properly. (students will move their chairs to their proper
places)
Do we have absentees today?
 Very Good!
None, Ma’am
ELICIT

To elicit the students’ preconceptions about the topic, the teacher

will let the students answer the ff. fact or bluff questions.
Fact or Bluff
 Pose a question 1. Human brain is responsible for controlling behavior,
interpreting senses and initiating body movement.
1. Fact
2. Cerebellum constitutes the largest part of the human brain.
2. Bluff
3. Cerebrum is known as the little brain.
3. Bluff
4. Brain stem is the section of the brain responsible for
4. Fact
supervising important tasks such as blood pressure, breathing
5. Fact
and heartbeat.
5. Cerebellum is the region of the brain responsible for
movement.
 Formulate ENGAGE
hypothesis
What do you think is the reason, why brains are so appealing to Perhaps it’s because the brain is where our entire
zombies? Why do zombies love brains that much? body is coordinated, where our memories are
stored, and where our senses are interpreted.
Are you familiar with the brain’s main parts that are responsible for
controlling our daily functions?
No ma’am.
EXPLORE

Divide into two teams. Each team has an equal number of players.
 Design/conduct
A representative from Team #1 and Team #2 gets a “brain card” from
Investigation
the teacher. It has the name of a brain part and an activity it controls.
The representative of each team will show the name of the part of
the brain to his groupmates first, then will act out the activity. The
two teams will have a maximum of five minutes to guess the activity
that is being acted out.

Team #1
Cerebrum ------------------------------------------ touch
--------------------------------------------thinking
--------------------------------------------problem solving
 Cerebellum-----------------------------------------balance
Brain Stem------------------------------------------breathing
Limbic System-------------------------------------emotion

Team #2
Cerebrum------------------------------------------reasoning
--------------------------------------------hearing
--------- ----------------------------------sight
Cerebellum-----------------------------------------movement
Brain System---------------------------------------heartbeat
Limbic System-------------------------------------hunger

EXPLAIN

Based on your activity, can you now name some brain parts and Student 1: Sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing,
identify their functions? speech, thinking, planning, problem solving,
 Collect/analyze/ memory, and perception of pain are functions
interpret data/ Yes! you are correct, cerebrum mainly controls our senses. It is also controlled by Cerebrum.
information responsible for thought processing like problem solving, reasoning
and thinking. Cerebrum constitutes the largest part of the human
brain.
Student 2: Cerebellum controls our movement
Right! Cerebellum is the part of the brain that controls our including the balance and posture.
movement. It is known as the little brain but even though the
cerebellum is smaller in size, it contains more neurons than the entire
brain itself. Student 3: The limbic system mainly controls our
emotion.
The limbic system lies inside the cerebrum. It is sometimes called the
emotional brain because it takes charge of our emotional response.
Student 4: Brain stem is responsible for monitoring
The brain stem is located underneath the limbic system. This section our blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate.
of the brain is tasked to supervise the important tasks such as blood
pressure and etc.

ELABORATE

Now that you’re already familiar with the brain parts and function, As a human being we should be aware of our own
why do you think it is necessary for us to study the human brain? body, including every activity our body is
 Draw conclusion experiencing. Studying the brain enables us to
understand why some processes occurs in our body.
 EXTEND

What is the importance of studying the brain in the field of Medicine? Studying the brain is essential in the field of
medicine in terms of identifying and understanding
some brain failure.
 Communicate EVALUATE
results/findings
In a ¼ sheet of paper, identify the parts of the brain and give their
corresponding functions.

1.______

Cerebrum-controls our senses and thought

processing.
Cerebellum-controls the body movement.
3.___________ Limbic system-controls our emotions.
2._________ Brain Stem-monitors the voluntary movement such
as breathing.
4.____________

ASSIGNMENT
The teacher will ask the students to research some trivia about the
brain and they are to write it on a 1 whole sheet of paper so that by
tomorrow they will have something to share to the class.