Sample Science Lesson Plan for observation

Date

2-11-2016

Time

40 minutes.

SST
Alena
What does living things
need

Lesson
Unit/pa
ge
Context of the lesson:

Studen Maryam AL Shehhi

t
teacher
School
GEMS
Class

No of
studen
ts

28

In this lesson plan, the students will recognize what is the plants and
animals are need to live.
Teaching goal
Understand that in order to survive, animals need air, water, food, and
shelter, and plants need air, water, soil, and sunlight.
Learning objectives
o Identify what animals and plants need to live.
o Classify the things that animals and plants need.
Assumptions about prior learning
o They will know some things that animals and plant need it, for
example, water and food.
Anticipated problems and possible solutions (Mention problems and solutions
related to management, tasks or students

No time to finish all concept of the lesson because they are in grade
one but I will try it to make it easy for them.
In my class there are some hyperactive students because that I will

give the experiment about make plant.

Personal focus of this lesson

I will give the students real experience that will help them to
understand more.
I will give the students chance to involve in all activities.

Target language
Living things
Nonliving things
Grow
Move
Reproduce
Breath
Survive
Animals
Plants
Water
Soil
Air
Main tasks or activities (list the tasks
in sequence, e.g. flash card recognition,
worksheet, drawing posters etc.)

Review (power point)

Experiments
Sing a song
Experiment
Poster

Consider these grouping strategies:

Individual
Groups
Whole class

Teacher language (list language used by

you)

What are the animals needing to

live?
What is the plant need to live?
Does it eat?
Does it grow?
Does it move?
Does it reproduce?

Resources and
teaching aids (list
the aids eg. Realia,
poster, WB, flash
cards, etc.)

Cards
Song
Pictures
Worksheets
PowerPoint

Materials
For Each Group:

Poster
Worksheet
Picture
White board

Consider where the children are

working:
Moving around the classroom
At their desk

Planning Stages within the 5-E Inquiry Model

Engage
Key Question:
Review of the last lesson
Examples of living things and non-living things
Tell me the difference between living and nonliving things?
Teacher (What will the teacher do/say Student (What will the student
etcetera)
do/say etcetera)
The teacher will show students some
Students will answer, the
pictures, then she will ask them it is
teacher questions by
living things or non-living things.
remembering what they
studied in previous class.
The teacher will choose one student
and she will ask her what is the
difference between living things and
non-living things.

Teacher will ask some question to

engage them for a new lesson. For
example, do all living things eat? Why
they eat?

Explore & Explain

PURPOSE:
To know what the animals and plant need to live?
Activities (list)
Driving Question
The teacher will do an experiment with
The students will observe
the students and the students will
and
compare
the
observe and discover what is plant and
differences between the
animal needs to grow.
plant
and
animal.
Students
will
answer
The teacher and students will conduct
teacher
questions
by
an experiment with a plant and
thinking and observing
Tortoise to determine what they need
what happened.
to survey., In the medial of class in the
table we have plant and turtles.

The teacher will ask the students

questions about plant and Tortoise. For
example, what Tortoise animals need
to live?
What the plants need to grow

Sort the things that they need it?

Students will sing a song about what a

plant needs to grow

Elaborate
Activities:
Teacher
Student
The teacher will do two
Teacher will
activities have the same
Students will
tell two groups
objective, but it is different
start to do
what they will
from students' interest, I
do and she will
their work with
will give each 3 students
give them their
enthusiasm
materials, soil, seeds, water
work.
feeling.
Because they are active
students they like to touch
and walk to do their work.

The other group will create

a poster; they will draw
pictures of what a plant
needs to grow.
I use this activity for this
student because they like to
show their creativity to do
their work.
Then students will explain
their work

Evaluate

The teacher will give the students an individual worksheet to make sure
the students understand the lesson. While the students answer the
sheet the teacher will walk
around them and to see their
answer and correct it.