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SCIENCE LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Darrell Dulalchan

DATE: 30th October, 2015
CLASS: Form 3
TIME: 40 mins
PERIODS: 1
UNIT: Humans and the Environment
TOPIC: Conservation of Animals
REFERENCES (exclude class text, include page numbers).

Biology for CXC.Chinnery and Glasgow

PRE-REQUISITES

Knowledge: - 1. Students should be able to define terms such as habitat, ecosystems,

environment, species and pollution.
2. Students should be familiar with food chains and food webs.

Skill:- students should know how to: Make accurate observations and work in groups.

MATERIALS & RESOURCES

For Teacher

For each group / student

Lower Science Book 2

Multimedia Projector
1

YouTube videos

Handouts

CONCEPT OR PRINCIPLE

Man has an important role to play in the preservation of the environment. The effects of man
can have serious consequences to nature and in order to preserve nature every person can play
an active role in preserving our forests and wildlife since we all depend on all living things in
order for us to survive.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, students should be able

to:

Classification

Learning Type

Comprehension

Cognitive

Recognize the important role animals and plants

play in our lives.

Valuing

Affective

Develop strategies to conserve forests and wildlife

Create

Cognitive

Describe how human activities can be detrimental

to organisms and the environment.

PROCESS SKILLS

During this lesson, students will be engaged in:

Identifying / formulating a problem

Designing and Planning an experimental procedure
Setting-up and executing experimental work

Observing and measuring

Recording of data and observations

Interpreting and evaluating data and observations

Communicating scientific ideas, observations and arguments

Applying scientific ideas and methods to solve qualitative and quantitative problems

Decision-making based on examination of evidence and arguments

Extracting from available information data relevant to a particular situation

ACTIVITIES

Introduction:
ENGAGEMENT- T shows a bitstrip comic of a hunter and an activist. T then asks if they are
familiar with any of these events. T asks students to decide who they believe makes more sense
and initiates a debate. T then introduces the topic
T then tells students that man has many effects on the environment but today we will be
focusing on the effects of man on nature i.e. plants and animals.
EXPLORATION Teacher then does a role play which continues from the bitstrip involving a
report being made to a police officer (played by the teacher) by a the activist (an assistant) and a
threat to his life.
ELABORATION Students are then asked to pretend they are fellow officers and are asked by
the Police officer if they think that the activists reasons his life is under threat is valid. The
officer presents the student (his fellow officers) with a copy of the report made by the activist.
Students are then asked to assist the officer in assisting the citizen by developing strategies by
which the society can help the citizen.
EVALUATION Students are shown a video.
Students are then asked to explain orally if there were any similarities about the video and the
activists complaints.
T recaps main points of the lesson.

Assignments:
Students are asked to design a flyer to create public awareness of mans effects on nature.

TEACHERS EVALUATION OF LESSON

ROLE PLAY:
Activist Officer good morning I want to make a report. Them people trying to kill me.
Police- Who trying to kill you?
Activist Everybody, Everybody trying to kill me.
Police How everybody trying to kill you?
Activist- They trying to kill me cuz they killing the forest and everything in it.
Police- Boss, u serious?
Activist- Yes, I serious. They cutting down the forest and burning it. They killing all the animals.
Police- But what that have to do with you?
Activist- It have to do everything with me. When they kill the forest and I want to eat my fruits I
eh have none. I does depend on the wild meat for food. When they kill the all the animal I eh have
none to eat and when they cut down the forest the animal does dead too cuz they eh have a place to
live and nothing to eat. I does even sell some wild meat for money and if it eh have no animals I
cyah buy nothing.
Police- Calm down sir calm down.
Activist- How u expect me to be calm? Them people eh even realise they killing themselves and
you too.
Police- How I involved in this?
Activist- Boy all ah we involved. Where u feel we does get medicine from. Where u feel we does get
we fever grass and bush tea, is the forest. Even the medicine in the pharmacy does come from the
forests.
Activist Officer they done polluting the air with they smoke and killing we, they eh realize that
the oxygen in we lungs for we to live does only come from plants and trees. Them people so stupid
too when them ready they crying when rain fall how landslide and flood damaging they house and
them eh realise is cutting down the same trees cause that.
Police- Ok sir, I have taken your report. Now I cant charge everybody for this but I will ask my
fellow officers for help to come up to a solution to help you and I will get back to you.
Activist- Thanks officer, good day.