Gr.-10-Weekly-Prototype LP-SCIENCE-Wk7 (Ok)

Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region VII-Central Visayas
DIVISION OF CEBU PROVINCE
Weekly Prototype Plan for SCIENCE- 10

Quarter 1 , SLM/Week 7 , October 3-7, 2022
MELC: describe the possible causes of plate movement Code: S10ES-Ia-j-36.5
Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

I. Objectives 1.Tell the possible direction of 1. Describe Pangaea through 1. Analyze a magnetic 1.Comapre Pangaea with the
A. Knowledge motion of the continents as they reconstructing it polarity map world map 1.Evaluate the students’
B. Skills drifted away 2. Compare and contrast 2. Calculate the rate of 2. Observe the direction of its understanding through a
C. Attitude/Values 2. Draw fossils of plants and Pangaea and world map at seafloor spreading using continent motion relative to its weekly test.
animals as evidence found in the present magnetic clues current location 2.Follow the given
present continents that will help 3. Express ideas of what will 3. Recognize ideas of what 3. Recognize ideas of what will instructions of each type of
solve the puzzle in the fitting of happen to the world as the will happen to the world as happen to the world as the test.
the drifted continents continents continuously move the continents continuously continents continuously move 3. Recognize the
3. Express ideas of what will move importance of the Earth’s
happen to the world as the Mechanism
continents continuously move
II. -Subject Matter The Earth’s Mechanism The Earth’s Mechanism The Earth’s Mechanism The Earth’s Mechanism Weekly Test
-References Science 10 Module 7 Science 10 Module 7 Science 10 Module 7 Science 10 Module 7 Science 10 Module 7
III. Procedure
A. Preparation Q and A Forum In 1912, Alfred Q and A Forum Review of Past Lesson Activity:
(Introductory Activity, Wegener (pronounced as 1.Give the students three
Drill, Review of Past Have you had the chance to go vey-guh-nuh r), a German How this theory contributed more minutes to scan their
Lesson, Motivation) ta mountain, stand on its peak meteorologist, proposed a What to the Continental drift notes before the start of the
and look at the beauty that it theory that about 200 million theory? What causes continental drift? exam.
offers? years ago, the continents 2.Let them prepare a bond

were once one large What are the findings that What are the 4 main evidence paper to serve as their
Do you think it looks the same as landmass. He called this support Seafloor spreading of continental drift? answer sheets.
before? landmass Pangaea, a Greek theory? 3.Remind them to observe
word which means “All Earth”. Who discovered continental silence and honesty while
Perhaps you would think that it Pangaea evolved into how Solicit ideas and answers drift? taking the test.
might be different – all plain, no the continents look today. from students
plateaus, no mountains. This Pangaea started to
If it wasn’t the same 10 years break into two smaller
ago, how much different is it 10 supercontinent called
million years ago, 100 million Laurasia and Gondwanaland
years ago? during the Jurassic Period.
These smaller
Solicit ideas from students supercontinents broke into
the continents and these
continents separated and
drifted apart since then.
Is this idea somehow true?
If you lived during Wegener’s

time, will you believe him?
B. Presentation Activity 1 Activity 1 Activity 1 Activity 1. Activity

Activity 1.Orient them on the
Drifted Supercontinent How fast does it go! Modern World Map vs. different instructions of the
Supercontinent! Adapted (Glencoe Earth Pangaea test.
Materials
Science student edition
photocopy of the seven continents Procedure:
copyright 2002) Procedure
world map
pair of scissors 1. Make sure that you put
fitting edges of the continents Materials 1. Compare Pangaea with the
Procedure side by side to form the • Magnetic polarity map world map.
supercontinent Pangaea. • Metric ruler 2. Now move one continent
1. Carefully cut the traces of the 2. Compare Pangaea with the • Pencil relative to its current location.
seven continents. Be careful in world map. Carefully observe the direction
using the scissors. Procedure
of its motion as it assumes its
2. Sketch the dominant species of 1. Study the magnetic polarity
plants and animals found in the map. You will be working with
current location and position.
continents before and after drifting normal polarity readings; these Record your observation.
away from each other. are the peaks above the 3. Do the same procedure to
3. Put the cut-out together (just like baseline on the top half of the the other continents. Record
Pangaea graph. your observations.
2. Place the long edge of the
ruler vertically on the graph.
Align the ruler with the center
peak 1 of the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge.
3. Determine and record the
distance and age that line up
with the center of peak 1 west.
Repeat this process for peak 1
east of the ridge.
4. Calculate the average age
and distance for this pair of

peaks
5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for
the remaining pairs of
normal polarity peaks.
6. Calculate the rate of
movement in centimeters
per year using the formula
Rat
e =
dist
anc
e/t
Analysis Let students answer guide Let students answer guide Let students answer guide Let students answer guide Give them enough time to
questions questions questions questions finish per test items.
Ask them to review their
Q1. What do the Glossopteris Q1. What clues are useful in Q1. How far do the plates Q1. Where do you think was
fossils tell us about the early answers before submitting
reconstructing Pangaea? move away from each other the Philippines located during
positions of the continents? their test papers
every year? the time that the Pangaea
Q2. Which continents do you existed? How the Philippine
Q2. If Glossopteris fossils were
think were neighbor before? islands emerged?
found in Antarctica, what was the
climate of this continent before? Q3. Is there a possibility that Q2. If Africa is
approximately 2400 km Q2. If the continents will
Q3. If the climate and the the current location of a
away from the Mid-Atlantic continue to move, try to predict
position of a place are relative to continent would be different
Ridge, how long ago was it the Philippines’ location 100
each other, where then was the 100 years from now?
when Africa was directly at million years from now?
initial location of Antarctica 250
or near the Mid-Atlantic
million years ago?
Ridge?
Q4. What does the presence of
Mesosaurus fossils tell about the
initial location and positioning of
South America, Africa, and
Antarctica?
Abstraction The teacher discusses The teacher discusses The teacher discusses Checking and elaboration of
(Discussion) Continental Drift was a the given test.
Continental Drift Theory The Continental Drift Theory Seafloor Spreading theory that explained how
In the early part of the 20th The Continental Drift Theory of Harry Hess and continents shift position on Earth’s
century, scientists began to put surface. Set forth in 1912 by
Theory of Alfred Wegener Robert Dietz is believed to
together evidence that the Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist
states that the continents occur as hot magma rises at
continents could move around on and meteorologist. Continental
Earth's surface. were once part of a large the rift in the mid-ocean drift also explained why look-alike
The evidence for continental landmass called Pangaea ridge. This magma cools animal and plant fossils, and
drift included: which drifted away from each down and becomes the new similar rock formations, are found
1. Fit of the continents other. The continents moved seafloor as it pushes the on different continents.
2. The distribution of ancient fossils Wegener searched for
away from each other former.
3. Evidence from Rocks and evidence to support the
towards their current
mountain ranges The old seafloor is Continental Drift theory. He
4. Locations of Ancient climatic
positions. noticed the fit of the edges of the
Evidence to the Continental destroyed at the subduction
zones and Coal Deposits continents on the opposite sides
Drift Theory zone and melts inside the
of the South Atlantic, the
1. Puzzle like fit of the mantle. The age of rocks distribution of fossils in different
Continents and the magnetic stripes in continents, rock features, and
2. Evidence from Fossils the ocean floor support the ancient climates or the coal
3. Evidence from Rocks and Seafloor Spreading Theory. deposits.
mountain ranges
Seafloor spreading
4. Locations of Ancient
helps explain continental
climatic zones and Coal
drift in the theory of plate
Deposits
tectonics. When oceanic
plates diverge, tensional
stress causes fractures to
occur in the lithosphere. At
a spreading center, basaltic
magma rises up the
fractures and cools on the
ocean floor to form new
seabed. Volcanic activity
causes the seafloor to

spread along oceanic
ridges, forming new areas
of crust and mantle.
Write the seven (7) continents in Oral recitation By group, Identify the continents of the world
Application a. Alphabetical order Create a seafloor spreading
b. Largest to smallest Where do you think was the model
continent Philippines located during the
time that the Pangaea
existed?
How the Philippine islands

emerged?
C. Generalization/ Continental drift is Continental Drift was a Findings that support The Continental Drift Theory
Conceptualization the hypothesis that the theory that explained how Seafloor Spreading Theory: The Continental Drift
Earth's continents have moved continents shift position on Theory of Alfred Wegener
over geologic time relative to Earth’s surface. Set forth in 1. Rocks are younger at the states that the continents were
each other, thus appearing to 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a mid-ocean ridge. once part of a large landmass
have "drifted" across the ocean geophysicist and 2. Rocks far from the mid- called Pangaea which drifted
bed. meteorologist. Continental ocean ridge are older. away from each other. The
The idea of continental drift drift also explained why look- 3. Sediments are thinner at continents moved away from
has been subsumed into the alike animal and plant fossils, the ridge. each other towards their
science of plate tectonics, which and similar rock formations, current positions.
studies the movement of the are found on different
continents as they ride on plates continents.
of the Earth's lithosphere. Wegener searched for
evidence to support the

Continental Drift theory. He
noticed the fit of the edges of
the continents on the
opposite sides of the South
Atlantic, the distribution of
fossils in different continents,
rock features, and ancient
climates or the coal deposits.
IV-Evaluation Give a 5-item test Give a 5-item test Give a 5-item test Give a 5-item test TEST PROPER: The teacher
(Assessment) 1. Who is the person credited 1. What is the force that 1. A subduction zone is 1. What evidence did Wegener shall make at least two types
with developing the theory of moves the continents? formed... use in his theory? of tests composed of twenty
continental drift? a. Conduction a. when one tectonic items per test.
a. Continents and fossils
a. Harry Hess b. Convection plate sinks below another fitting together/matching-up like
b. Galileo Galilei c. Radiation b. at every type of puzzle pieces
c. Alfred Wegener d. Conveyor belts convergent plate boundary b. glacier scars and other
d. Isaac Newton a. at every type of climate evidence from
2. Originally the Continental divergent plate temperature
2. What two specific continents drift theory was not well boundary c. mountain ranges and
fit together most noticeably? received by other scientist. b. at transform rocks line up across continents
a. Africa and North Why? boundaries d. all of the above
America
b. South America and a. There was a 2. Whenever a subduction
zone is formed a ______ is 2. How long ago is Pangea
Europe competing theory at
formed. believed to have existed?
c. South America and the time that was
Africa more believable. a. Mountain a. 200-300 million years
d. Antarctica and Africa b. There was no data b. Island Arc ago
showing the c. Rift b. 1000-2000 years ago
3. How does fossil evidence continents ever d. Volcano c. 10,000-20,000 years

support Wegener's moved. ago
hypothesis of continental c. The scientists did not 3. New seafloor is created d. 20-30 billion years ago
drift? know the force at a ________.
a. Similar fossils are found responsible for a. deep sea trench 3. What evidence did Wegener
along continental moving the b. mid-ocean ridge NOT use to support his idea of
margins that appear to continents. c. subduction zone continental
join together. d. The scientist d. transform fault drift?
b. Fossils are found in presenting the data 4. Which of the following a. Mountain ranges on
areas where the was unreliable. was not used by Wegener different continents
present-day climate as evidence of lined up when
could not have 3. When the theory of Continental Drift? coastlines were
supported the organisms Continental Drift was widely a. Magnetic reversals matched up
that made the fossils. accepted? on the seafloor b. The thickness of layers
c. Similar fossils of giant, a. 1920s b. Fossils that were in the Antarctic
land-dwelling dinosaurs b. 1930s found on different c. Rock strata on different
are found on continents c. 1940s continents continents lined up
separated by oceans. d. 1950s c. The fit of the when coastlines were
d. all of the above continents matched up.
4. An enormous single large d. Evidence of glacial d. Fossils of plants and
4. What evidence proved that mass known as ________ scratches animals in climates
South America, Africa, India, was hypothesized. continents found where their survival
and Australia were once a. Pannotia near the equator would have been
covered by glaciers b. Pangaea impossible
a. Leftover portion of c. Rodinia 5. What is Sea-Floor
glaciers d. Laurasia Spreading?
b. Cold climates
c. Glacial deposits and 5. What would you be most a. Mid-Ocean ridges
4. New seafloor is created at a
rock surfaces scarred by likely to find at a convergent continually add new
________.
boundary between two pieces
glaciers of continental crust? material to the ocean floor. a. deep sea trench
d. Enormous valleys a. Volcano b. The moon b. mid-ocean ridge
formed by glaciers b. Mountain c. A thing in the Ocean c. subduction zone
c. Rift d. transform fault
d. Mid-Ocean trenches
5. Then what "mechanism" is d. Island Arc
behind the theory to work? continually add new
a. Plate tectonics material to the ocean floor. 5. Which of the following was
b. Revolution of the Earth not used by Wegener as
c. Magic evidence of
d. Plate Boundaries Continental Drift?
a. Magnetic reversals on
the seafloor
b. Fossils that were found
on different continents
c. The fit of the continents
d. Evidence of glacial
scratches continents
found near the equator
V-Assignment/Homework Research Research and read about Ponder! NOTE:

Why are Europe and Asia Seafloor spreading theory. If the continents will The teacher must examine the
separate continents? continue to move, try to Be prepared for a weekly test test results using the test
How this theory contributed to predict Philippines’ location analysis and determine the
to evaluate your understanding
degree to which each student
the Continental drift theory? 100 million years from now? of the entire module.
has mastered the lesson. If
75% of the students had
What are the findings that answered correctly then the
support Seafloor spreading teacher shall continue to the

theory? next module, however, if more
than 30% fails then the
teacher should make
interventions before going to
the next module.
Reflection/s:
(Ex. 24 out of 60 got 75% _______ of ______75%PL _______ of ______75%PL _______ of ______75%PL _______ of
_______ of ______75%PL
performance level) ______75%PL
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JASMIN P. FABILLAR JASMIN P. FABILLAR JUVIMAR E. MONTOLO

Master Teacher Science 10 Team Leader Education Program Supervisor - Science
Lipata National High School
Minglanilla District

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Republic of the Philippines

Weekly Prototype Plan for SCIENCE- 10

MELC: describe the possible causes of plate movement Code: S10ES-Ia-j-36.5

Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

offers? years ago, the continents 2.Let them prepare a bond

Is this idea somehow true?

If you lived during Wegener’s

B. Presentation Activity 1 Activity 1 Activity 1 Activity 1. Activity

and distance for this pair of

causes the seafloor to

How the Philippine islands

evidence to support the

3. How does fossil evidence continents ever d. Volcano c. 10,000-20,000 years

V-Assignment/Homework Research Research and read about Ponder! NOTE:

support Seafloor spreading teacher shall continue to the

JASMIN P. FABILLAR JASMIN P. FABILLAR JUVIMAR E. MONTOLO

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