Detailed Lesson Plan in Grade 10 Science

Plate Tectonics

Section: Time:

I. Objectives

A. Learning Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students

should be able to:

1. Determine the composition of earth’s lithosphere;

2. Differentiate the two types of crust;
3. Determine the major plates and minor plates;
4. Demonstrate the concept of Elastic Rebound Theory; and
5. Promote earthquake preparedness in the school and
community

II. Subject Matter: Tectonic Plates

A. References
 LAS Grade 10 Weeks 1-2

B. Materials
 Canva presentation, activity sheets

C. Strategy: 5 E’s

III. Learning Task:

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preliminary Activities

Good morning class! Good morning!

Before we proceed to our proper

discussion, let’s have a short prayer to
be led by the teacher.

Lord God, Our Heavenly Father ……

Amen.
Amen.

Please pick up pieces of paper in your

surroundings. Keep the unnecessary
things that are not related to our (Students listening carefully)
subject and topic.

Is that clear class?

Checking of attendance
Review/Drill

Before we proceed to our new lesson Our past lesson was about
this morning, we will be having a review the SeismicWaves.
first on our previous discussion about
Seismic Waves. (Students will raise their
hands)
Before we begin with our new lesson,
let’s see what you have learned on our
previous lesson. Identify what type of
seismic wave is being asked:
1. Body Wave
1.This travel through the inner layers of
the earth.
2. Surface Wave
2.Travel only in the surface.
3. P-Wave
3.The first wave to be felt on the earth’s
surface. 4. Love Waves
4.The fastest type of surface waves and
moves the ground from side to side. 5. Rayleigh Waves
5.Move in a circular manner.

Engage

Now, let’s play a game. Let’s call this

game Picture Puzzle. I will group you
into regroups hid picture pieces under
your chairs and all you need to do is to
get those pieces of pictures and arrange
them into one picture.
Yes Sir!
Do you understand?

Your game starts now!

Well done! Thank you for your utmost

participation class. This morning we will
discuss about plate tectonics.

Engage (Students are watching the

video)
But before we will proceed to the topic
for today, let’s watch the video clip.
(https://youtube.be/d9bKXY0OMxc) Yes sir!

Do you believe that mountains,

volcanoes, and trenches?
What do you think is the phenomena
behind these?

We will be able to discover more as we

go along with our discussion which is
about Plate Tectonics. 1. Determine the
composition of earth’s
At the end of the lesson you are all lithosphere;
expected to: 2. Differentiate the two
types of crust;
3. Determine the major
plates and minor plates;
4. Demonstrate the
concept of Elastic Rebound
Theory; and
5. Promote earthquake
preparedness in the school
and community

Explore

Determining the location of the

earthquake epicenters plays a vital role
in laying the foundations of plate
tectonics. Let us see how early
geologists used the plotted positions of
earthquake epicenters throughout the
world in conceptualizing crustal
movements.

Let us now look the Map of the Plate

Boundaries.

Plate Boundaries

World Map
What do you think is the difference from
the Map of the Plate Boundaries and the
World Map?
There are two kinds of crust:
the thicker but less dense
continental crust and the
oceanic crust which is
relatively thinner but denser
than continental crust. While
the regular map in the second
(2) figure, there are 7
relatively large plates and
several smaller ones,
including the Philippine plate.

That is correct!

But what do you think is the basis of

dividing the world in such manner?

The next activity will help you to

confirm
your answer to the last question. This
activity is called “Let’s Mark the
Boundaries”
Criteria Points
Instruction: Presentation 15
1. Get your materials per group. Delivery & 10
2. Cooperate and collaborate with your discussion
groupmates.
Creativity 10
3. Your time is 10 minutes to study, to
analyze and to answer the guide Teamwork 5
questions. Total 40 pts
4. Choose two to three presenters of
your activity.
5. Your score for this activity is based
on rubrics.

Let’s now begin!

Time is up!
Please, paste your activity works on the
board.
(The presenter presents their
Give you an “Good Job Clap” works and answer the guide
Let’s start group 1. questions )
I want to hear the next group, group 2.
Present your work group 3.

(The teacher will add information while

the presenters present their works.)

Explain

Remember class that not ALL edges of

continents, mid-continents, or oceans
can
be places where earthquake might
occur.

Key concepts:
•Plates are large pieces of the upper few
hundred kilometers of Earth that move
as a single unit as it floats above the
mantle.

•The plates are in constant motion. As

they interact along their margins,
important geological processes take
place, such as the formation of
mountain belts, earthquakes, and
volcanoes.
The three types are divergent,
convergent and transform
boundary.

There are three distinct types of plate

boundaries, which are differentiated by
the type of movement they exhibit. Divergent sir.
What are those?

Absolutely!

It’s first type of plate boundary wherein

plates move apart, creating a zone of Sir, convergent.
tension. What it is?

Let’s take the case of the Philippine

plate and the Eurasian plate. You will
notice that the two plates are moving Transform Sir.
toward each other. This is an example of
a zone where plates collide, and what
types of plate boundaries is?

Correct! The best example of this plate

The third type is the transform fault
boundary where plates slide or grind
past each other without diverging or
converging.
boundary is the San Andreas
fault which is bounded by the
North American plate and the
Pacific plate.

Excellent!

Based on map, kindly give me one best

example of transform?
(Students are listening)

Additional information:

Elastic Rebound Theory explains how

energy
is spread during earthquakes. As rocks
on opposite sides of a fault are
subjected to force
and shift, they accumulate energy and
slowly
deform until their internal strength is
exceeded. At that time, a sudden
It is important to identify
movement occurs along the fault,
areas which are prone to
releasing the accumulated energy, and
earthquakes so that
the rocks snap back to their original
necessary precautions could
undeformed shape.
be done if ever you’re living in
one of those places.
Extend
To be aware how plates are
Why do you think it is important for us move and gives a strong
to identify areas which are prone to calamity to them
earthquakes? environment, but also it rises
the wonderful world.

Why you need to study the types of

plate boundaries?
 IV. Evaluation

Draw three types of plate boundaries and give the description of each type.

V. Assignment

Give at least five possible effects of converging continental plate and oceanic
plate.

John Mark P. Orillosa

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