Lesson Plan – Needham 5-Phase (Constructivist Approach)

Date : 5 September 2007

Time : 0830 – 0930 am
Class : 5 Bestari
Enrolment : 30 students
Learning theme : Investigating materials
Learning area : 1.0 States of matter
Learning outcomes : At the end of lesson pupils should be able to:
1. State that water can change its states
2. Conclude that water can exist in any of the three states of
matter
3. Identify the processes involved when a matter changes from
one state to another.
Time required : 60 minutes
Strategy : Experimentation

Science Process/Manipulative Skills and Thinking Skills

• Observing
• Handling apparatus carefully and correctly
• Identifying
• Comparing and constructing
• Relating
• Communicating
• Experimenting
• Making conclusion

Scientific Attitudes and Values

• Systematic
• Interested and inquisitive about the environment
• Appreciative
• Caring
• Thankful

Learning aids and materials

• Ice cubes (picture and actual object)
• Water
• Beaker
• Glass Petri dish
• Hot plate
• Bunsen burner
• Retort stand
• Tripod
• Stainless steel plate
 Steps/Phase Contents Teaching & Learning Activity Remarks
(Time)
Orientation Demonstrate to Teacher shows to student to SPS:
(5 minutes) the student how put salt into beaker filled with Handling
to handle with water and lightly heat up by apparatus
fragile apparatus Bunsen Burner. carefully and
and to setup an Teacher ask question. correctly,
experiment. a) What do you think will Observing
Remind to happen to the salt?
student to use TS:
protective hand When it been heat up there is a Precaution
cover when steam emits from the water action
dealing with hot surface. Teacher ask question.
item. a) What do you think happen
with the water?

Then after it’s been heated

long enough the water will dry
and leaving a salt crystal.
Teacher then again asking the
question.
a) What is left inside the
beaker?

Teacher tell the student that’s

today lesson is about the states
of matter and they will carried
out an experiment to show the
changes of water into different
state.
Eliciting Idea Teacher divide student into 6 SPS:
(20 minute) groups of 5. Every group is Handling
given a plastic of ice, beaker, apparatus
Bunsen Burner and tripod. carefully and
Student will setup the correctly
apparatus and put amount of
ice and slowly heat up the Communicating
beaker. Then teacher will
instruct the student to set Experimenting
bigger fire to the beaker. When
the water starts to boiled,
teacher will ask student to put
stainless steel plate to the
steam produced and collect the
water that’s dripping from the
plate into another beaker. The
water collected then is put into
a freezer.
Then teacher will ask the
student to record down their
observation on the table
consist of:-
1) Process applied (slow
heat, fast heat, steam is
 trapped and water
freeze).
2) Types of transformation
of the ice.

Restructuring The process Teacher will ask the student to

idea involved when discuss among themselves SPS:
(20 minute) ice is heat up what is process involve base on
until its boiled their observation which is Inference
and transform record down inside the table.
into the ice 1) Melting
again. 2) Boiling
3) Evaporation TS:
4) Condensation
5) Freezing Comparing and
constructing

Relating

Application of The other things Teacher shows or discuss with

ideas which have the another example of matter TS:
(10 minute) same state base which have the same state
on their process when some process applied to Comparing and
involved and suit it. constructing
with their
purpose.

Reflection Recall the Teacher asks student to

(5 minute) changing state of summarize today’s lesson. SPS:
water and Teacher will further ask
process involved question to stimulate students Making
during the thinking. conclusion
experiment Question.
1) Can you think another TS:
thing that can change
differently than the Relating
process mentioned
above?
2) What is the process you
mention is called.