Detailed Lesson Plan in Science 4

Prepared by: Ruth P. Tamayo

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the 45-minutes discussion, the students should be able to:
a. Make inferences about the features and characteristics of living things.
b. Define a cell and name its basic parts.
c. Identify the levels of organizations.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Lesson: Living things and Their Environment
Topic: The characteristics of living things
Materials: Power Point Presentation, Visual aids, and Marker
References: Conceptual Science and Beyond 4 Book (Pages 38-45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFykdf4kDc&t=40s

III. PROCEDURE
A. Preparatory Activity
1.1 Prayer

- Adam, can you please lead the prayer. - Yes ma’am!

- My Lord and my God, turn on your

spirit, to acknowledge your presence
this day. Let my thoughts, words and
actions be guided by your good will,
and always make me a vessel onto
your glory. With the highest praise,
worship and honor be yours forever
and ever, amen.

1.2 Greetings
- Good morning grade 4! - Good morning, ma’am! ^^ good
Afternoon classmates.

1.3 Checking of Attendance

- How many are absent today? - 3 maam!

1.4 Setting of Standards

- Okay! So, before we start let me remind you first my
rules in our class.
1. Raise your hand before speaking.
2. Respect and listen to your teacher.
 3. Respect and listen to your classmates.
4. Be prepared for class.

B. Lesson Proper
1.1 Drill
- Look at these pictures, say to me what it is?

- Dog
- Ballpen
- Chair
- Grass
- Tree
- Stone
- Clothes
- Teacher/human

1.2 Review

- Let’s have some short review about the topic that we

had last week.
- Has space and mass?
- What is matter?
- Solid
- Very good! And what is the types of matter? - Liquid
- Gas
- Plasma

1.3 Motivation

- Look at this picture again and try to figure out.

- Living things (right side
Guess what you think is moving/growing and the
 Dog
things were not moving.  Grass
On the left side, you will put those you think are  Human
not moving objects. And on our right side are the  Tree
things you think is growing.

- Non-living things (left side)

 Ballpen
  Chair
 Clothes
 Stone

1.4. Presentation

- Based on what we did. On the left side are those things - Living things
you said moving or growing. What do you call it?

- very good! Those are dogs, tree, grass, lion, and human
are all living things. And based on our examples what
come in your mind when we say living things? - Have life.
- Alive
- Growing
- Reproduce

- Yes! When we say living things it means life or a form

of life such as animals, plants, human, bacteria.

- So how do we able to know or identify if its living

things.

 Ability to reproduce – it means this

living things can produce one or more
other than individuals.
 Example: us human, we are living
things. Apart from we are growing,
moving, we are also coming from our
parents since they can reproduce child
and we are offspring of our parents.

- Same with animals, plants, and insects too, they can

also reproduce.
 Ability to move – this will be the best - Plants are not moving maam
ability for you to characterized living
things from non-living things.

- It is. Plants are always moving, but they can’t

technically walk just us human and animals. Plants are
moving itself by reacting to the sunlight and that is
called phototropism. Also, they have the own energy to
survive and create their own food too.

- Another thing that will help you characterized living

things, look at this picture again. So, this is lion and
tree. Is this two both living things?
- Yes!
- Lion is an animal, and a tree is a plant. They are both
living things, but they are different in many aspects.
- Yes maam
Let us characterize them. I will read some ability and
you will tell if the lion has it or the tree or either of
them. Okay?

 Has definite size and shape?

 Can move on its own.
 Has definite life span?
 Can reproduce its own kind.
 Can grow.
 Requires energy and water from the
environment.
 Inherits characteristics from parents.
 Adopts to and survives in its own.

- Now do you understand grade 4? - Yes

- Just like tree and lion. A lot of living things are entirely
different from each other but because both are living
things, they also share common and similar
characteristics.

 And that is because all living things are made

up of microscopic units that we all known as
“cell.”
 Cells are building blocks of all living things.
All living things are made of cell.
 Cell – is called functional unit of life, because
it can carry out life processes, such as nutrition
etc.

- Cells
- What do we call again the functional unit of life?
- Very good! Don’t forget that grade 4.

- A cell is contained of three parts.

 Membrane – a thing layer that controls and
irregulates the movement of substance in and
out of the cell. It also provides protection from
its surroundings.
Example: the water jog that we had at home,
there’s a filter in it. So, before you drink the
water it already filters out the water. And that
filter would the membrane, it filters out all the
bacteria to protect us.

 Nucleus – this serves both as repository and

 genetic information as cells control center of
our life activities. It is the one responsible for
the hereditary characteristics of all living thigs.
example: Adam’s father has red eye and his
mother have brown eyes. Adam got brown eyes
which is from his mother traits.
- The genes are passed down from one generation to
generation that is why when we are seeing families, we
can already saw their similarities.
- Yes maam!

- Understood grade 4?

 Cytoplasm – as you can see, between the cell

membrane and nucleus, there’s a substance
called “cytoplasm”. It looks like a jelly because
it’s a jelly fluid inside the cell. It is the one who
transport, maintain the cell shape, protect the
cell, and host of metabolism process.

- Look at this picture. We have the animal and plant cell.

o Animal cell – the cell membrane is in the outer
layer. It gives structures and absorb nutrients to
convert as energy and helps animals to move. It
also has the membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and
mitochondria.

 Mitochondria – produce energy

through the process of oxidative
phosphorylation.
 Ribosomes- helps the producing of new
proteins by translational process. That
process forms amino acid.

o Plant cell- basic unit in kingdom of plantae.

 Cell wall – the outer layer that
surrounds the cell membrane. It
supports the plant growth and act as
first line of defense when plant
encounters pathogens.
 Chloroplast - contains green pigment
called chlorophyll, which is essential
for capturing the energy of sunlight. - Process of plants to use sunlight,
We all know as photosynthesis. water, and carbon dioxide to create
- Are you familiar with photosynthesis grade 4? oxygen and energy.
- Very good! That is how plants make their own food to
live and grow.
- Most plants and animals are composed of many cells or
called multicellular. As we, humans are also a
multicellular because our body is composed of trillion
cells.

- There are over 200 different types of cells in our body

and each of them have different functions.

- Look at this picture I have some sample body cells.

 Cardiac stem cells – found/live in our heart.

Our heart cell is capable of self-renewing and
generating coronary vessels and heart muscle
cells called cardiomyocytes.
 Feeder cells- it supports the growth of cells in
culture by contributing an undefined and
complex mixture of extracellular.
 Heart muscle cells – are striated, branched,
contain many mitochondria and are under
involuntary control.
two major types:
1. Myocardial contractile cells –
responsible for contractions
that pump through the body.
2. Myocardial conducting cells –
to initiate and propagate the
electrical activity that travels
throughout the hearts and
triggers the contractions of
myocardial contractile cells.
 Vascular cells – this is the line of entire
circulatory system from the heart to the smallest
capillaries.
- Yes

- Are you still here grade 4? - Cardiac

- Feeder
- What are the sample of body cells that we discussed - Heart muscle
again? - Vascular
-
- Cells!

- And what is the basic unit of life again?

- Very good! You really are listening. Let’s continue.

- Let’s now identify the levels of organizations in our
human body.
 Cells- the smallest and basic unit of every living
thing.
 Tissue - a group of cells that have similar
structures.
types:
 Epithelial tissue -creates protective
boundaries and involved in diffusion of
lions and molecules.
 Connective – underlies and support
other tissue.
 Muscle tissue – contracts to initiate
movement in the body.
 Nervous – transmit of the body
composed of two or more tissue.

 Organs -There are 78 organs and these five is

considered vital for survival.
 Heart
 Brain
 Kidney
 Lungs
 Liver

 Organ system – this is now the group of our

organs that is working together to do the job for
the body they lived in.
example: our respiratory system and the
circulatory system work closely together to
deliver oxygen to cells.

 Organism – since we are living things, we

human are living organism. So, we can
consume energy to food we eat, and to sustain
our body functions. And we can grow, move,
reproduce, being sensitive is because we are
living organism.
 - Organs
Brain
Heart
1.5 Enrichment Activity lungs
kidney
- According to this picture, make a table, separate where liver
are the organs, organ system, and tissue and cells.
- Organ system
digestive system
circulatory system
skeletal system

- Tissue
connective
muscle

- No maam!
 - Yes

1.6 Generalization
- Very good grade 4, you are really listening on our
discussion for today.
- Just always remember and make a review about our
lesson so you won’t forget it until your exam day.
- For you to identify if its living things or not. Keep in
mind the characteristics of a living organisms.
 They can grow, reproduce, sensitivity, and can
obtain energy to survive on its own.
 Living organism is living things such as human,
plants, animals, bacteria.
 And we, humans are organism that is composed of
organ system that is separately called organs, that is
composed of different types of tissue. And that
tissue is a group of cells. And a cell is the basic unit
of life which all living things have.

- No more questions grade 4?

- Any clarifications?
- Are you ready for our activity?

1.7 Application
A. Group Activity
- Divide the class by 2. Group 1 will create
model/drawing in a small blackboard of animal cell and
group 2 will be the plant cell. Be creative.

B. Separate the group 1 from group 2. I will have a

question and they will race to the board to write the
correct answer.
 IV. EVALUATION

Directions: Answer the following questions, write the

correct letter of your answer.
1. It has an ability to reproduce one or more other than
- B
individuals.
a. non-living things c. cells
b. living things d.
2. This three is all living things except for__________. - D
a. human c. monkey
b. tree d. fan
3. Parts of cell that controls and irregulates the movement of
- B
substance.
a. Nucleus c. Cytoplasm
b. Membrane d. All the above
4. This is the functional unit of life.
a. cells c. organ - C
b. tissue d. none
5. This is essential for capturing energy to sun also called as
photosynthesis.
a. cell wall c. Chloroplast - B
b. chlorophyll d. none
6. It is a body cells that can be found in our heart.
- C
a. Muscle cells c. Cardiac stem cells
b. Tissue cells d. Feeder cells

7. Types of tissue that connects and support other tissue. - A

a. Connective tissue c. Muscle tissue
b. Epithelial tissue d. All the above
8. A group of organs that is working together to function the
body. - B
a. Organisms c. Bacteria
b. Organ system d. None
9. The basic unit of kingdom of plantae.
a. Animals c. Plants - C
b. Bacteria d. Cells
10. It is the outer layer that surrounds the cell membrane - B
a. Chlorophyll c. Nucleus
b. Cell wall d. Tissue
Instruction: In one whole sheet of bond
paper, draw the level of organizations of
animals.

V. ASSIGNMENT