Appendix 1: Lesson Plan (template)

LESSON PLAN Subject: science

Trainee: Khawla Ali Topic or Theme: living and non-living things

Class: grade 2 Date & Duration: 18th March

Trainee Personal Goals

I am working on: classroom management.

Lesson Focus

On living and non-living things, the difference between them, and their characteristics.

Lesson Outcomes

Students will be able to:

Students will be able to classify objects as living and nonliving. Students will be able to identify
what living things and non-living things.

Links to Prior Learning

Link this topic to the” natural resources “topic by classifying some natural recourses and
explaining how some of them considered as living and some as non-living thing
21st Century Skills

 Critical Thinking – by asking topic related questions.

Group work and sharing resources during the activities will reinforce the following skills:

 Collaborating
 Communicating
 Social Skills
Key vocabulary

Living

Non-living

Grow

Adapt

Possible problems for learners Solutions to possible problems

Not be able to understand some English Use picture to clarify some ideas and translate some
vocabularies words to their mother tongue language if needed.

Resources/equipment needed

 A projector to show the video

 A computer to play the video
 Worksheets
 Color pencils / pencils
 pictures cards of living and non-living things
 The activity worksheets are enough for each group.
 Make sure every group has enough pencils.
 The projector and the computer are working

TASKS/ACTIVITIES
Resources
Introduction
& Time
 Students will: Teacher will:
 Greet the students, ask what day is
Time:  Watch the video. today
 Answer the questions that the  Let them read your rules and show
10 minutes teacher asked. them what they’re getting in return.
 explain to the students that they will
Recourses: watch a video and they must pay
attention.
Projector  Play the living and non- living things
and video
computer  Ask video related questions like;
- What have you seen in this video
- Who can explain this to me?
- What topic of today’s lesson?

Resources
Main activities
& Time
Students will: Teacher will:

Time:  Answer the questions, read.  Play the PowerPoint slides introduce
 Predict the topic “living and non-living
20 minutes  classify the pictures and put things”, the PowerPoint will contain;
them under the category it the meaning of living and non-living
Recourses: belongs to. things, their characteristics and
Projector examples of each.
and
ask questions while presenting (can
computer
you show me one living/non-living
thing in the classroom?)

 after explaining, using a flash cards,

choose some students to come and sort
the pictures of living and non-living
things.

 Hide your object describe it and ask the

students to predict what is it that you
are hiding for example:
“I’m hiding a non-living thing, we use
it to write and it can come with
different colors”
Answer: pencil
Differentiation activities (Support)

Before you send the students to their groups, give them instructions about what should they do.
For high level students:
Write under each picture in the worksheet weather it is living or non-living thing, and they will
draw one living thing and one non-living thing
For mid- level students:
Sort the living and non-living thing into the proper columns
For low level students:
Draw living and non-living things and label them if possible.

Resources
& Time Plenary/Conclusion

Students will Teacher will

Display their worksheets and
describe it and tell the other
students what they did.
Homework
Ask the students about what they have
done during the activities time.
Ask them to describe what they did
and what they have learned.

Assessment
Strategies:

☐ Observation ☐ Student self- ☐ Oral ☐ Peer assessment

assessment questioning

☐ Quiz ☐ Student ☐ Written work ☐ Verbal feedback

presentation and feedback

Reflection: