Science 2 – SPED GT

S.Y. 2021-2022 – FOURTH QUARTER – WEEK 2

Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of the importance

of land, water, and air as resources
Performance Standard: The learner should be able to participate in taking care
of his/her surroundings
Learning Competencies: Infer that a polluted environment may cause air-borne,
water-borne and soil-borne diseases
I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to
1. identify and describe the activities of human beings that affect the
surface of the Earth
2. state what pollution is
3. describe how soil, water, and air become polluted

II. CONTENT: Human Activities That Affect the Earth’s Surface

III. LEARNING RESOURCES:
A. References
1.Teacher’s Guide pages: Cyber Science, page 84
2.Learner’s Material pages: None
B. Other Learning Resources:
1. Investigating Life’s Wonders Science 2, pages 347-348, 351
2. Cyber Science 2, pages 327, 334

IV. PROCEDURES:
A. Reviewing previous lesson or presenting the new lesson(Elicit)
To check your understanding about our lesson last week, answer the
following:
1. What are the parts of the Earth?
2. Why are land, water and air important?

B. Establishing a purpose for the lesson (Engage)

Sing this song to the tune of “This Is the Way”.
 Answer the following questions.
1. What are the children doing?
2. How do they do their work?
3. Why it is important to segregate the garbage?
4. Why it is important to save water?

C. Presenting examples/instances of the lesson (Engage)

Everything that people do affect Earth. The effects may be bad or
good. Some activities can destroy the habitat of animals. Some can
pollute the land, water, and air. Everybody must be responsible with
his/her acts.

D. Discussing new concepts and practicing new skills #1(Explore)

Activity 1
Problem: How do activities of man affect the Earth’s surface?
Materials: pictures of good and bad activities of man
Procedure:
Study the pictures.
1.

A B

2.

A B

3.

A B
 Investigate:
A. What letters are the harmful activities of human that will destroy the
Earth’s surface?

1. _____ 2. _____ 3. ______

B. How about the useful activities to preserve nature?

1._____ 2. _____ 3. ______

E. Discussing new concepts and practicing new skills #2(Explore)

Activity 2

Study the pictures.

Which pictures can pollute the land, water or air? Encircle them.

E. Developing mastery(Explain)

What activities of people can affect the Earth?

What is pollution?
 G. Finding practical applications of concepts and skills in daily living(Elaborate)
What activities will make the Earth happy. List down at least five of them. Use
verbs in the future tense.

1. ______________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________
H. Making generalizations and abstractions about the lesson(Elaborate)

Land, water, and air are important to all living things. But many human
activities make the land, water, and air dirty. Pollution happens when land,
water, and air become dirty and unfit for use. Polluted land, water, and air are
harmful to living things.

I. Evaluating learning(Evaluate)

I. Put a check (√) in the box if the given activity of man will pollute the land,
water, and air.

1. Panting in the backyard

2. Throwing trash in the river

3. People cutting trees
4. People throwing garbage on the streets
5. Overuse of pesticides
II. Match the cause with its effect. Write the letter of the correct answer on
the blank..
_____ 1. dirty water A. smoke coming from factories
_____ 2. dead fish B. people cutting trees
_____ 3. mountain without trees C. people throwing garbage on
streets
_____ 4. dirty air D. women washing clothes in the
river
_____ 5. a mountain of garbage E. spilled oil from ships and boats
J. Additional activities for application or remediation
Answer this.
What can you do to help lessen land, water, and air pollution?

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