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 Book Record

School:

District:

Division:

Region:

Date received by school:

Issued to Date Date

Condition Condition
(Name of Pupil) Issued Returned

To the Teacher
Write the pupil’s name clearly under the column “Issued to.”
Use the following letters in recording the condition of the book:

A. (New Book)

B. (Used Book in Good Condition)

C. (Used Book in Fair Condition)

D. (Used Book in Poor Condition)

Encourage and assist the pupil in repairing damaged textbooks.

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 Take Care of Your Book
Dos:

1. Cover your book with plastic or manila paper.

Old newspapers and magazines will do.
2. Be sure your hands are clean when you handle or turn the
pages.
3. When using a new book for the first time, lay it on its back.
Open only a few pages at a time. Press lightly along the
bound edge as you turn the pages. This will keep the cover
in good condition.
4. Use a piece of paper or cardboard for bookmarks.
5. Paste or tape immediately any torn pages.
6. Handle the book with care when passing from one person
to another.
7. Always keep your book in a clean, dry place.
8. When your book is lost, report it to your teacher right away.

Don’ts:
1. Do not fold the pages.
2. Do not write on the cover or pages.
3. Do not cut out any picture.
4. Never tear or detach any page.

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 INTRODUCTION

Dear Boys and Girls:

This Learner’s Material for Grade 3, was written in

response to the basic goal of education under the K to12
Enhanced Basic Education Program- “to prepare learners to
become productive, worthy and competitive young
scientists of the country.”

This is divided into four units with illustrations describing

each unit, representing the whole school year. Each unit has
chapter with lessons and activities prepared which are
aligned to the teacher’s guide.

Learning to develop, keen and accurate observation

skills through experiment, knowing more about matter, sense,
living things, non-living things around you discovering more
about your environment , climate change and other topics
about the surroundings, earth and space are all given focus
in this l learner’s material.

Explore Science and make it useful in your daily life.

Learning Science is having more fun.

The Writers/Conceptualizers

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Recognition is given to the following supervisors,

administrators, teachers, BEE Staff and experts in Science for their
enthusiastic commitment in the development, revision and
finalization of the teaching guides and learning materials for Grade
3 under K to 12 Basic Education Program.

Arthur DC. Sacatropes Dr. Luz E. Osmena

Education Prog. Supervisor Education Prog. Supervisor
Region III Region IV-A

Michelle G. Hatid-Guadamor, Ph.D. Aiisa C. Corpuz

Education Program Supervisor Science Coordinator
Division Office, Sorsogon Prov. Division of Tarlac City
Region V Region III

Jennifer M. Rojo Jennifer A. Tinaja

Master Teacher II MasterTeacher I
Neogen Elementary School Nueve de Febrero E.S.
Districtof Tagaytay City Mandaluyong City

Job S. Zape (Ret.) John Fitzgerald Secondes

Education Program Supervisor Master Teacher I
Division Office, Mandaluyong City Don Felix Serra Nat’l. Hi-sch
San Jaoquin, Iloilo Province

Leni S. Solutan Neolita S. Sarabia

Master Teacher Principal II
Sta. Barbara Elementary School STRIVE Coordinator
Division of Iloilo Province Division of Tagbilaran City

Romeo C. Ordoňez
Master Teacher II/Illustrator
Divisoria E.S. Mexico South District
Division of Pampanga

Susana D. Mota
Jemmalyn N. Malabanan
Encoders

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 Appreciation is extended to the following consultants/reviewers
for their untiring efforts in sharing their expertise:

Evelyn L. Josue
Science Educ. Specialist IV (Ret.)
UP-NISMED
Diliman, Quezon City

Pia Campo May R. Chavez

Science Educ. Specialist Science Educ. Specialist
UP-NISMED UP-NISMED
Diliman, Quezon City Diliman, Quezon City

Trinidad M. Lagarto
Senior Educ. Prog. Specialist, Anchorperson
Curriculum Development Division
Bureau of Elementary Education

Marilette R. Almayda
Director III
Bureau of Elementary Education

Marilyn D. Dimaano
Director IV
Bureau of Elementary Education

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page

Title Page i
Book Record for the Teacher ii
Copyright Page iii
How to take care of your Book iv
Introduction v
Acknowledgement vi

UNIT I: Matter

Overview

Chapter 1 – Solids 11-17

- Characteristics of Solids
- Naming /Classifying Different Solids
- Describing Solids according to Color
- Describing Solids according to Shape
- Describing Solids according to Size
- Describing Solids according to Texture

Chapter 2 – Liquids 17-23

- Characteristics of Liquids
- Naming /Classifying Different Liquids
- Describing Liquids according on how they flow
- Describing Liquids on how they take the
Shape of the container
- Describing Liquids on how they occupy Space
- Describing Liquids according to Smell

Chapter 2 – Gases 23-26

- Describing that Gases take the Shape of the Container
- Describing that Gases occupy Space
- Describing that Gases are Odorless and Tasteless

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Chapter 4 – Proper Use and Handling of Common Solids, 26-31
Liquids, and Gases at Home and in School
- List of Common Products Found at Home and in School
- Harmful Effects of Common Materials Found
at Home and in School
- Safety Measures in handling Harmful Materials

Chapter 5 - Changes in Materials 31-49

- Measuring the Temperature of Materials
- Measuring the Temperature of Hot/Warm Materials
- Measuring the Temperature of a Cold Material
- Changes in Materials as affected by Temperature
- What happens to Water when Heated?
- What happens to Water Vapor when Cooled?
- What happens to Napthalene Ball when Heated?
- What happens to the Air inside the Bottle/Balloon when
Heated or Cooled?

UNIT 2: Living Things and their Environment

Chapter 1 - Sense Organs 51-66

- Identifying the Parts of the Eyes
- Proper Ways of Caring the Eyes
- Identifying the Parts of the Ears
- How the different Parts of the Ear Work?
- Proper Ways of Caring the Ears
- Identifying Parts of the Nose and its Functions
- Proper Ways of Caring the Nose
- Identifying the Uses of Tongue
- Identifying the Parts and Functions of the Tongue
- Identifying the parts of the Skin and its Function
- Proper Ways of Caring the Skin

Chapter 2 – Animals 67-86

- Naming Animals around you
- Parts of an Animal
- Body Parts Animals Use to Move
- Classifying Animals according to how they move
- Body Parts of Animals that they use in getting foods

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 - Classifying Animals according to what they Eat
- Classifying Animals according to their Body Covering
- Classifying Animals according to their Habitat
- Useful Animals
- Importance of Animals according to Use
- Animals that can Harm People
- Proper Ways of Caring Pets

Chapter 3 – Plants 87-101

- Naming and Describing Plant Parts
- Same Plant Parts, different Plants
- Different Plant Parts have different Works
- Things that come from or made of Plants
- Different Uses of Plants
- Harmful Plants
- Proper Was of Caring Plants
- Characteristics of Living and non-living Things

Chapter 4 - Heredity: Inheritance and Variation 101-108

- Animals Produce Animals of the same Kind
- Physical Traits of People from Different Ethnicity
- Physical Traits of Animals of the same Kind
- Plants Produce Plants of the same Kind
- Growing Plants from other Plant Parts

Chapter 5 - Ecosystem 109-115

- Basic Needs Humans, Animals and Plants
- Things We Need from the Environment
- Conservation and Protection of the Environment

UNIT 3: Force, Motion and Energy

Chapter 1 - Moving Objects 116-130

- Describing the Position of an Object
relative to another Object
- Describing the Location of Objects After it is Moved
- Sounds

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Chapter 2 - Electricity 145-151
- Sources of Electricity
- Uses of Electricity

UNIT 4: Earth and Space

Chapter 1 - Surroundings 151-162

- The Surroundings

Chapter 2: Weather 162-178

- The Weather

Chapter 3: Objects Seen in the Sky 178-188

- Different Objects seen in the Sky

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UNIT 1: Matter

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 Chapter 1: Solids
This Chapter deals with solid as one of the three states
of matter. It has specific color, size, shape, and texture. The
particles of solids are close together. They move back and
forth but the particles do not change places.
Lesson 1: Characteristics of Solids
Activity 1: What are the characteristics of solids?

Objectives
1. Describe different objects in the school garden
2. Classify the objects based on their characteristics

Materials
Different objects found in the school garden

Procedure
1. Visit the school garden. Collect different solids.
2. List down 10 solids you have collected.
3. Describe the solids based on their characteristics
4. In the chart write the name of solids in their proper
column. Do this in your notebook.
small big rough smooth round square black white

In your notebook or on your paper, answer the following:

1. How did you describe the solids?
2. What are their characteristics?

Guide Question
What are the other properties of matter?

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Lesson 2: Characteristics of Solids according to Color
Activity 2: How do you describe solids according to their
colors?
Objective
Describe solids according to their color

Materials
Pictures and if possible concrete ripe papaya, unripe
papaya, ripe mango, unripe mango, ripe tomato, unripe
tomato, eggplant and charcoal

Procedure
1. Study the pictures of different solids.
2. Write the color of solid in the chart.
Solids Color

Ripe Mango

Unripe Tomato

Ripe Tomato

Unripe Papaya

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 Ripe Papaya

Watermelon

Eggplant

Charcoal

In your notebook, answer the following:

1. How did you describe the materials?
2. Do all solids have specific color?

Lesson 3: Characteristics of Solids according to Shape

Activity 1: Shapely solids

Objective
Identify solids based on their shape

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Materials
ball, eraser, calamansi, plate, guava, notebook,
triangle (musical instrument)
Procedure
1. Get six objects from the box.
2. Observe the shape of the objects.
3. Write the name of each object below their
corresponding shape.

Round Rectangle Triangle

In your notebook, answer the following:

1. How did you identify solids based on their shape?
2. What different shapes of solids did you observe?

Lesson 4: Characteristics of Solids according to Size

Activity 1: Identify solids according to size

Objectives
1. Identify solids according to their specific size
2. Measure solids using a ruler

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Materials
bag containing solids Ruler

Procedure
1. Get the materials inside your bag.
2. Identify solids according to their sizes.
3. Record it in your notebook.
Materials/Solid Size
big small

1. Measure each solid using a ruler.

2. Record your measurement in your notebook.

Solids Size (exact measurement)

Answer the following:

1. How did you identify the size of solids?
2. What did you use to measure the material?
3. Were you able to get the exact measurement of the
solids? How?
Guide Question
Do solids have specific size?

Lesson 5: Characteristics of Solids according to Texture

Activity 1: Classifying solids according to texture

Objective
Classify solids according to texture.

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Materials
bag or box containing stone, cotton, sand, banana,
cardboard, sandpaper, rambutan, jackfruit peelings
Procedure
1. Get all the contents of your bag.
2. In your notebook, write the name of each object and
classify according to texture.

Objects smooth rough soft hard

Answer the following:

1. How did you group the solids?
2. What characteristic of solids did you observe?
3. Were you able to describe the solids correctly based
on your observations? Why?
4. What values did you learn from the activities?

Chapter 2: Liquids
This Chapter deals with liquids having mass, how they
flow, how they take the shape of the container, how they
occupy space, the taste and the smell.

Lesson 1: Characteristics of Liquids

Activity 1: Naming different liquids

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Objective
Naming different liquids
Materials
different liquids, containers with different shapes

Procedure
1. Go to the school canteen.
2. Ask the canteen staff to show the different liquids
available.
3. Name each liquid.
4. Observe each liquid how they flow , shape of the
container, and the space each occupies.
5. Taste or smell the liquid but with safety precaution.
(Needs teacher’s advice.)
6. Record your observation in your notebook.

Lesson 2: Describing Liquids according on How they Flow

Activity1: How do liquids flow?

Objective
Describe how liquids flow

Materials
condensed milk, soy sauce, vinegar, shampoo, water
oil, 2 spoons, transparent bowl

Procedure
1. Get two teaspoons.
2. Hold each teaspoon with each hand as shown in the
picture below.

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 3. Scoop a teaspoon of water and a teaspoon of vinegar.
4. Hold two teaspoons with liquids at elbow level.
5. Tip both hands at the same time as shown in the
picture.

6. Record your observation in your notebook.

Which flows faster, water or vinegar?
7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 using other liquid and paired it with
water.
(Note: Water will serve as your point of reference as to
the flow of liquid.)

Name of Does it flow Does it flow Does it flow

Liquid slowly? fast? very fast?
1. water
2. soy sauce
3. vinegar
4. shampoo
5. oil
6. Condensed
milk
Guide Questions
1. Did the liquids flow at the same time?
2. Which liquids flowed fast?
3. Which liquids flowed slow?

Lesson 3: Describing Liquids on How They Take the Shape of

the Container
Activity 1: Do liquids have shape?

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Objective
Describe how liquids take the shape of the container

Materials
different shapes of container, water

Procedure
1. Describe the 3 shapes of container.
2. Get 3 kinds of liquids.
3. Pour each liquid in each container.
4. In your notebook, record your observation.

Name of Liquid Shape when poured in container

1.What happened to the different liquids after pouring them

2. Do liquids have the same shape?
3. What characteristics of liquids did you observe?
4. What does this activity tell about shape of liquid?

Lesson 4: Describing Liquids on How they Occupy Space

Activity 1: Do liquids occupy space?

Objective
Describe how liquids occupy space.

Materials
stones, water, beaker, rugs

Procedure
1. Prepare the materials.
2. Fill the beaker with water.
3. Put more water in the beaker.

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 4. Observe what happens while adding more water in
the beaker.
5. Put some stones in the beaker with water.
6. Again observe what will happen.
7. Record /draw your observation in your notebook.

In your notebook, answer the following:

1. What happened as you added more and more water
in the beaker? Why?
2. What did you notice when the stones sank to the
bottom of the beaker? Why?
3. What happened to the water? Why?
4. Does water occupy space? Why?
5. Do liquids really occupy space?

Lesson 5: Describing Liquids according to Taste

Activity 1: Do liquids have taste?

Objective
Describe the taste of liquids.

Materials
milk, juice, water, vinegar, hot sauce, softdrinks, wine,
catsup, fish sauce

Procedure
1. Taste each liquid.
2. Describe the taste.
3. Check the corresponding taste of liquid in the chart.

Liquid sweet salty sour bitter spicy tasteless

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In your notebook, answer the following:
1. How did you describe the different taste of liquids?
2. What are the different tastes of liquids?
3. Do all liquids have the same taste?
4. What should we do to avoid being poisened when tasting
liquids?
Lesson 6: Describing Liquid according to Smell
Activity 1: Do liquids have smell?

Objective
Describe the smell of different liquids

Materials
fish sauce, perfume, alcohol, catsup, coke, hand
sanitizer, shampoo, liquid soap

Procedure
1. Prepare the materials. Name the different liquids.
2. Describe the smell of the different liquids. (Do not put the
samples near your nose because some may cause irritation)
3. Record your observation.
Liquid Bad Smell Good / Fragrant Smell

In your notebook, answer the following:

1. What characteristics of liquid did you observed?
2. How were you able to group them?
3. Do all liquids have the same smell?
4. Do you frown when you smell liquids that have bad odor?
Do you smile when you smell liquids that have fragrant
odor? Why?
5.Do liquids have smell?

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 Chapter 3: Gases
This Chapter, deals with gases that do not have their
own shape but take the shape of the container; occupy
space, tasteless and odorless. Air is gas. We cannot see it by
our eye but we can feel it. The molecules are far apart from
each other.
Lesson 1: Describing that Gases take the Shape of the
Container
Activity 1: Do gases have shape?

Objective
Describe that gases take the shape of the container

Materials
different shapes of balloons (deflated), string

Procedure
1. Get different shapes of balloons.
2. Blow air into it. Tie it with string.
3. Describe the shape of air in the balloon.
4. Record your observation.
5. Draw the shape of gas in each balloon.

Questions
In your notebook, answer the following:
1. What happened to the balloon as you blew air into it?
2. Did the gas follow the shape of the balloon? Do gases
have shape?
3. What characteristic of gas did the activity show?
4. What is the shape of air container?
5. When can air have a shape?

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Lesson 2: Describing that Gases Occupy Space
Activity 1: Does gas occupy space?
Objective
Describe that gases occupy space

Materials
tissue, drinking glass, Styrofoam, big bowl filled with full
of water

Procedure
1. Prepare a drinking glass.
2. Place a paper towel at the bottom of a drinking glass
so that it will not fall out when the glass is inverted.
3. Fill a big bowl with water.
4. Hold the glass upside down and quickly plunge it into
the water.
5. Count one to ten while holding the glass underwater.
6. Slowly lift the glass up and out of the water. Be sure to
hold the glass straight upside down.
7. Observe. What happened to the tissue?
8. Do this with a piece of Styrofoam. Place the Styrofoam
in the water. Place your glass upside down over the
styrofoam and push straight down into the water.

In your notebook, answer the following:

1. What is inside the glass?
2. What happened to the paper towel? To the styrofoam?
3. What does the activity show?

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Lesson 3: Describing that Gases are Odorless and Tasteless
Activity 1:Air is odorless and tasteless

Objective
Infer that air is odorless and tasteless.

Materials
paper fan, balloon, mirror
Procedure
1. Blow your hands. Describe what you feel.
2. Now, blow into the mirror. Describe the air in the mirror.
3. Blow air in the balloon. Describe the air inside.
4. Get a partner, fan each other. Describe the air as to odor
and taste.
Questions
1. What did you feel after blowing your hand? Did you see
the air from your mouth?
2. In three sentences, describe how you felt while fanning
yourself and your partner.
3. Did you see the air inside the balloon? Why?
4. What characteristic of gas were presented in the activity?

Chapter 4: Proper Use In Handling

Common Solids, Liquids, and Gases
at Home and in School
This Chapter, deals with many things we have in
common at home and in school such as solids, liquids and

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gases. We should keep everything in its place. Label all
bottles correctly such as chemicals, and other materials.

Lesson 1: Common Solids, Liquids, and Gases Found at

Home and in School
Activity 1: List of Common Products Found at Home and in
School
Objectives
1. Identify common solids, liquids and gases found at
home and in school
2. Describe the uses of materials found at home

Materials
paper, pen, Manila paper

Procedure
1. Make a list of common products found in school and at
home. Group them in the table below.
Solid Liquid Gas

2. Group the materials listed in number 1 using the table

below.
Use Use for Use to Use as Use for Use for Use for
as cooking beautify beauty cleaning cleaning killing
food homes produc the the insects/
t house body/ pest
self

Questions

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 1. What are the common materials at home and in
school ?
2.What are the uses of materials at home and in school.

Activity 2: Harmful Effects of Common Materials Found at

Home and in School
Objective
Identify the harmful effects of materials found at home
and in school.
Materials
packaging of materials/product labels of materials
Procedure
1. Read the product labels of the common household
products /materials found at home and look at the
symbols in each label below :
[

flammable toxic

poison corrosive

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Here are some examples:

2. Using the table below, group the materials based on

the harmful effect/s on humans and other living things.

3. Write your answers in your activity notebook.

Poisonous Toxic Flammable Corrosive

Activity 3: Safety Measures in handling Harmful Materials

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Objective
Describe the proper use and handling of harmful
materials.
Materials
Pictures of proper ways of handling materials

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures.
2. Put a  on the box if it is a proper ways of handling
materials and put a  if it is not.

a. b.

Label poisonous Using hand gloves and

Substances and keep gas masks when using
out of childen’s reach pesticides.
c. d.

Inspecting regularly if the

cooking gas tank is tightly
closed.
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 Keeping flammable
materials near the
stove.
Question
Will you follow the safety measures in handling harmful
chemicals? Why?

Chapter 5: Changes in Materials

This chapter deals with the changes that solids, liquids,
and gases undergo when heat is applied or removed from
them. It also deals with the techniques in measuring
temperature with a laboratory thermometer.

Lesson 1: Measuring the Temperature of Materials

Activity 1: Is it Hot? Is it Cold?

Objective
Tell whether a material is hot or cold.

Materials
Manila paper marker pen, paper, pen
Procedure

1. Look at the pictures below. Tell whether the material

is hot or cold. Put a check (√) in column (3) if it is hot or
in column (4) if it is cold.

(1) (2) (3) (4)

Material/Object Is it Hot? Is it Cold?

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Candle Flame
2

Ice Cream
3

Boiling Water
4

Boiling Soup
5

Iced Tea

2. Give other examples of hot and cold materials. Write

them down in the appropriate column in the table
below.

Hot materials Cold materials

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Questions
1. When do you say that a material is hot?
2. When do you say that a material is cold?

Activity 2: Measuring the Temperature of Hot/Warm Material

Objectives
1. Measure the temperature of tap water and
hot/warm water using a thermometer.
2. Read the temperature from the thermometer
correctly.
3. Compare the temperature of tap water and
hot/warm water.

Materials
2 beakers or identical glass containers
Laboratory thermometer
Equal amounts of hot/warm water and tap water

Procedure
1. Look at the laboratory thermometer closely.
2. Observe the markings on the thermometer.

3. What is the smallest number? Where is it located?

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4. What is the largest number? Where is it located?

5. What unit of measurement is used?

6. What symbol is used to express a measurement of

temperature?

7. Half- fill the container with tap

water.

8. Place the thermometer in the container with tap water.

Hold it in upright position.

-___ Laboratory
thermometer

__beaker half-filled
with tap water

Caution: Do not touch the bulb of the thermometer

and do not let it touch the bottom of the container.
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9. Observe the level of the liquid in the thermometer.

10. Measure the temperature of tap water. (Read the

markings nearest the level of the liquid in the thermometer).
Record the temperature in table 1.
11. What is the temperature of tap water?
(This is the temperature of tap water at room
temperature).

Note: When reading the thermometer, position your

eyes at the same level as the liquid in the
thermometer.

230C
Sample
temperature
reading

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12. Half-fill also the other container with hot/warm water.

Caution: Be careful when pouring hot/warm

water into the container. You might get burned.
You may ask your teacher to do this.

1. Place the thermometer

in the container with
hot/warm water.
2. Observe what happens
to the level of the liquid in
the thermometer.

3. Read the temperature of

hot/warm water after 5 minutes. Record the temperature in
table 1 below.

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 a. What is the temperature of the hot/warm water?

Table1. Temperature of Tap Water and Hot/Warm Water

Material Temperature (0C)

Tap water

Hot/warm water

1. Compare the temperature of tap water and hot/

warm water.
-How will you compare the temperature of tap
water with that of hot/warm water?
2. Describe the effect of heat on the water.

- What is the effect of heat on water?

Question
What will you do if you need hot or cold water at home?

Lesson 3: Measuring the Temperature of Cold Material

Objectives
1. Measure the temperature of tap water and cold
water using a thermometer.
2. Read the temperature from the thermometer
correctly.

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 3. Compare the temperature of tap water and cold
water.
Materials
2 beakers/ identical glass containers
Laboratory thermometer
Equal amount of cold water and tap water
Ice cubes
Procedure
1. Half- fill the container with tap water.

2. Place the thermometer in the container with tap

water. Hold it in upright position.

Caution: Do not
touch the bulb of
the thermometer
and do not let it
touch the bottom
3. Observe the level of the liquid in the thermometer.
of the container.
4. Measure the temperature of tap water. (Read the
markings nearest the level of the liquid in the
thermometer). Record the temperature in table 2.
- What is the temperature of tap water?
(This is the temperature of tap water at room
temperature).

Note: When reading the thermometer, position your

eyes at the same level as the liquid in the
thermometer.

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 23 o C

Sample
thermometer
reading

5. Half-fill also the other container with cold water. (Some ice
cubes may be added to make the
water cold and to remove some
heat from the water.)

6. Place the thermometer in the

container with cold water.

7. Observe what happens to the

level of the liquid in the
thermometer.

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8. Read the temperature of cold water after 5 minutes.
Record the temperature in table 2 below.
- What is the temperature of cold water?

Table 2. Temperature of Tap Water and Cold Water

Material Temperature (0C)

Tap water
Cold water
9. Compare the temperature of tap water and cold water.
- How will you compare the temperature of tap
water with that of cold water?

10. Describe the effect of removing heat from the material.

a. What is the effect of removing heat from the
water?

Questions
Did you notice that as the water becomes hotter, the
bubbles rise? Why do the bubbles rise?

Lesson 4: Changes in Materials as affected by Temperature

Activity 1: What Happens When a Candle Wax Is Heated
and Cooled?

Objective
Describe what happens to a candle wax when it is
heated and when it is cooled.

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Materials
small piece of candle wax big spoon
matches thick cloth
candle ceramic saucer

Procedure
1. Put a small piece of candle wax in the spoon.
Wrap the handle of the spoon with a thick cloth.

2. In what form (solid, liquid, gas) is the candle wax?

3. Light the candle. Let it

stand on a ceramic saucer .

4. Hold the spoon with candle

wax over the flame.

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 Caution: The spoon will become hot.
Handle it with care.

5. Heat the spoon with candle wax for 5 minutes.

Observe what happens to the candle wax.

- What happens to the candle wax?

- Is there a change in the appearance of the wax?
In what form is it now?
- Why does this change happen?

- What is the effect of applying heat on the candle

wax?
6. Remove the spoon with candle wax from the lighted
candle.

7. Wait for a few minutes until the candle wax cools off.
Observe what happens.
- What happens to the candle wax?
8. Is there a change in the appearance of the candle
wax? In what form does the candle wax changed?

- Why does this change happen?

9. What is the effect of removing heat from the candle

wax?
Question
Is there any change when the candle wax was lighted?

Lesson 5: What Happens to Water when Heated?

Activity 1: What Happens to Water when Heated?

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Objective
Describe what happens to the water when the
temperature increases or when it absorbs heat.

Materials
beaker water marker

Procedure
1. Fill the beaker with 10 ml of
water. Mark the level of water.

2. Place the beaker with water

outside under the heat of the
sun for 15 minutes. Observe
what happens to the water.
3. Mark again the level of the
water.

a. Did you notice a

change in the amount or level of the water?

b. What does this observation show?

c. What is the effect of sun’s heat on the water?

Questions
Have you tried placing water in the basin under the heat of
the sun? What happened to the amount of water?

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Lesson 6: What Happens to Water Vapour when cooled?
Activity1: What Happens to Water Vapor when Cooled?

Objective
Describe what happens to water vapor when it is
cooled.
Materials
ice cubes glass jar with lid
tablespoon orange juice

Procedure
1. Hold an empty glass jar with both hands.
- What do you feel?
2. Pour orange juice (more than
half) in the glass jar as shown in the
figure below.

3. Put some ice cubes .Then, using

the lid close the jar tightly.

4. Shake the jar vigorously for a few seconds.

5. Hold the outside surface of the jar for few minutes.

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 - What do you feel?
- Is there air surrounding the jar?
- Is there water vapor surrounding the jar?
- Where did this water vapor come from?
7. Leave the jar on the table for 2 minutes.

8. After 2 minutes, look closely at the jar. Feel the

outside surface of the jar again for a few minutes.

- What do you feel and see on the outside surface

of the jar?
- What do your observations show?
Lesson 7: What Happens to Naphthalene Ball when Heated?
Activity 1: What Happens to Naphthalene Ball when Heated?

Objective
Describe what happens to the water when the
temperature increases or when it absorbs heat
Materials
Small piece of naphthalene ball
2 identical colored saucers
Piece of stone

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 Piece of cloth
Procedure
1. Get one piece of naphthalene ball. Place it on a piece
of cloth.

Naphthalene ball

2. Wrap it with a piece of cloth.

3. Grind it into smaller pieces using a stone.

4. Divide the ground naphthalene into 2 parts.

5. Put 1 part of the ground naphthalene in saucer 1, and

the other part in saucer 2.

- In what form is the naphthalene ball (solid, liquid,

gas)?

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 6. Place saucer 1 inside the room.

7. Place saucer 2 outside the room under the heat of

the sun.

`
8. Observe the naphthalene in saucer 1 and saucer 2
after 10 minutes. Describe what you observed.
- What did you observe?

- Did you notice any change in the appearance of

the naphthalene in saucer 1 and saucer 2?

- What does this observation tell you?

- What is the effect of heat on the naphthalene

ball?

Lesson 8 : What Happens to the Air inside the Bottle/ Balloon

when Heated or Cooled?
Activity 1: What Happens to the Air inside the Bottle/ Balloon
when Heated or Cooled?
Objective
Describe what happens to the air inside the
bottle/balloon when it is heated or cooled.

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Materials
Glass bottle (with narrow mouth) Balloon
2 small basins Hot water
Cold water
Procedure

1. Take a balloon. Stretch its

opening and place over the
top of the bottle as shown in
the figure below.

- Is there air inside the

bottle?
- Is there air inside the balloon?
2. Place the bottle in a basin with hot water. Observe it after
3 minutes.

- What happens to the balloon?

- What does your observation on the balloon
show?
- What is the effect of hot water on the air inside the
bottle?

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4.Transfer the bottle to the basin with cold water. Observe it
again after 3 minutes.

- What happens to the balloon?

- What does your observation on the balloon show?
- What is the effect of cold water on the air inside
the bottle/balloon?

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UNIT 2: Living Things and their Environment

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 Chapter 1: Sense Organs
In this Chapter, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin
are important parts of our body to be discussed. An organ is
a part which does specific work and does different things.
Proper ways of caring our sense organs are important.

Lesson 1: The Eyes

Activity1: “Eyes, See”

Objective
Identify the parts of the eyes.

Materials
mirror or magnifying glass

Procedure
1. Use the mirror to observe your eyes.

What are the parts of your eyes that you can see?

2. Read about the parts and function of eyes.

Parts and Function of our Eyes

Our eyes help us to see. It has different parts that

work together so we can see things around us. The
cornea is like a clear glass that covers the front of the
eye. The iris is the colored part of the eye. It lets just the
right amount of light to enter the eye. At the center of
the iris is the pupil. The pupil is a circular hole where light
enters. Next to the pupil is the lens. The lens focuses the
image we see onto the retina located at the back of
the eye. The retina is like a “screen” where the image of
the object seen is focused. The optic nerve connected
to the eye sends the message to the brain to tell about
the image seen.
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3. Based on what you read, label the parts of the diagram of
the eye.

a. b.

Fig 1. Front view of the human eye

c.
f.
g.
d.
h.
e.

Fig 2. Parts of the human eye

Questions
1. Close your eyes. Can you see anything?
2. What are the parts of the eye that you can see if you
look at it using a mirror?
3. Have you ever wondered why two eyes are better
than one?

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Activity2: “Eye, Care”

Objective
Identify proper ways of caring the eyes

Material
pictures showing proper ways of caring the eyes

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures below.
2. Put a  on the box if it shows a proper way of caring the
eyes and put a if it is not. Explain your choice.
3. Write your answer on your paper.

Watching very near

1. Reading in a dark room 2.
the television

Wearing sunglasses
3. 4. Using goggles when
on a sunny day
swimming

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Question
How do you protect your eyes?

Lesson 2: The Ears

Activity1 “Ear, Hears”

Objective
Identify the parts of the ears
Material
picture of the enlarged ear

Procedure
1. Read about the parts and function of our ears.
Parts and Function of our Ears
Our ears help us to hear sounds. It has different parts
that work together so we can hear sounds. The outside of
the ear is called the pinna. This is the part that you can
see where the girl’s earring is pierced. The pinna collects
sound and directs it into the ear canal. The ear canal is
like a tube where ear wax is formed. The ear canal directs
the sound into the eardrum located at the end. The
eardrum is like a thin piece of skin stretched tight like a
drum. When sounds reach the eardrum, it shakes or
vibrates. There are three small bones connected behind
the eardrum. These bones are called hammer, anvil, and
2. Based
stirrup. on the
When what you read,
eardrum labelthese
vibrates, the three
parts bones
of the
thatdiagram of the earone
are connected on your
afternotebook. .
another also vibrate. The
cochlea detects the vibration. The cochlea is the snail-like
part which is filled with liquid. When the liquid inside the
cochlea vibrates, it sends messages to our brain through
the auditory nerve to tell us about the sounds we hear.

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 f.
e.

h.
a.
d.

b. c.
g.

Question
What helps you hear when your teacher or your classmate?

Activity2: How the different parts of the ear work

Objective
Identify the parts of the ears and their function

Material
picture of the enlarged ear

Procedure
1. Read again the parts and functions of the ear in Activity 3.

2. Answer the following questions.

a. Which part of the ear collects the sound?

b. What happens to the eardrum when the sound

reaches it?

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 c. What happens to the three small bones when the
eardrum vibrates?

d. What happens to the liquid in the cochlea when the

three small bones vibrate?

3. Trace the path of the sound after it enters the pinna. Write
on the box the part of the ear.

pinna

Question
Do you protect your ear? How?
Activity 3: Ear Care

Objective
Communicate clearly proper ways of caring the ears

Material
picture of the enlarged ear

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures below.
2. Put a  on the box if it shows a proper way of caring the
ears and put a if it is not. Explain your choice.

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 Inserting sharp
1. Listening to loud music 2.
objects in the ear

Using clean cloth in Having a doctor

3. wiping the outer ear 4. check the ears

Question
Have you ever experienced loud sound?

Lesson 3: The Nose

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Activity 1: “NOSY NOSE”

Objective
Identify the parts of the nose and its function

Materials
Picture of the nose, hand mirror

Procedure
1. Look at your nose using the mirror. Draw your nose
below.

2. Look closely at your nose opening.

a. What can you see inside your nose?

3. Read about the parts and functions of the nose.

Parts and Function of the Nose

Our nose helps us to smell things around us. We use it
to breathe. The nose is made up of the nostrils, nasal
cavity and nerves. The nostrils are the two holes of the
nose. Inside the nostrils are hairs that keep dust out of the
nose.When you inhale, air enters the nostrils and passes
through the nasal passages and into the nasal cavity. The
nasal cavity is the space behind your nose, in the middle
of your face. Its walls are wet, warm, and covered with
mucus, a sticky liquid. Mucus traps dusts, dirt or germs
which enter the nostrils and were not filtered by the nose
hairs. Inside the nasal cavity are nerves that pick up the
scents carried by air. The nerves in the nasal cavity send
messages to the brain which interprets what we have
smelled.

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Questions
1. What do you call the two-hole opening of your nose?

2. What is the purpose of the hairs inside the nose?

3. Why is it necessary for the nasal cavity walls to be

covered with mucus or sticky liquid?

Activity2: Nose Care

Objective
Identify proper ways of caring the nose

Material
picture of the nose

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures below.
2. Put a  on the box if it shows a proper way of caring the
nose and put a if it is not. Explain your choice.

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 Using sharp objects to Covering the nose
1. 2.
clean the nose while passing a dusty
road

3. Blowing the nose hard 4. Using a clean cloth

in cleaning the nose
Guide Question
What are the proper ways of caring you nose?

Lesson 4 : The Tongue

Activity 1: My Tongue

Objectives
1. Identify the uses of tongue
2. Identify the parts and function of the tongue.

Materials

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picture of the tongue, hand mirror

Procedure
1. Look at your tongue using a mirror.

a. What can you see in your tongue?

b. What are the things that you can do with your
tongue?

2. Read about the parts and functions of the tongue.

Parts and Function of theTongue

The tongue is the sense organ that helps us taste all

things we place inside our mouth. It has taste buds
embedded in it. The taste of the food passes through the
bumps of the tongue, the taste buds, and nerve
endings.The nerves send messages to the brain which
interprets the taste of the food.

Taste buds

Taste buds

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3. Trace the path of the taste of food after it enters the
mouth. Write on the box the part of the tongue where it
passes.
Food in Brain (tells the
mouth taste of the food)

Question
What helps you taste the food?

Activity2: Care of the Tongue

Objective
Identify proper ways of caring the tongue

Material
pictures showing different ways of caring the tongue

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures below.
2. Put a  on the box if it shows a proper way of taking
caring of the tongue and put a if it is not. Explain your
choice.
Write your answer on your paper.

Eating hot food Having a doctor

check the tongue
when it has sores
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 1. 2.

3. Using a tongue scraper 4.

to clean the tongue Brushing teeth

Question
Have you ever experienced pain on your tongue?
What did you do?

Lesson 5 : The Skin

Activity 1: My Skin

Objectives
1. Identify the parts of the skin
2. Identify the function of the skin

Materials
picture or your skin/Magnifying glass

Procedure

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 1. Look at the skin of your arm. Use the magnifying lens to
observe it closely.

a. What can you see in your skin?

b. Do you see tiny hairs and tiny openings?

2. Read about the parts and functions of the skin.

Parts and Function of the Skin

The skin is the outer covering of our body. It protects

the body from losing too much water, injuries, and infection.
It helps maintain body temperature and help us sense our

The skin consists of two layers. The epidermis is the

outer layer of the skin on the surface on which dead skin
cells are found. This is the part that we can see and touch.
The dermis is the inner layer of the skin which contains blood
vessels, nerves, sweat glands, and oil glands.

The sweat glands open the surface of the skin through

the pore. The oil glands keep the hair and skin soft and moist.

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Touch, pain, pressure and temperature are sensed by the
nerve endings in the skin. The nerves send messages to the
brain which interprets the message and we feel the objects.

a. What covers your body from the top of your head to

the sole of your feet?

b. What is the outer layer of the skin?

c. What is found under the epidermis?

d. What does the dermis contain?

e. What keeps your hair and skin soft and moist?

f. What do the sweat glands do?

g. Which pick up the sensations of cold, heat, pressure,

and pain?

h. Which part of the skin carry message to the brain?

Question
Observe your body in a mirror. What covers your body from
the tip of your head to the sole of your feet?

Activity2: Care of the Skin

Objective
Identify proper ways of caring the skin

Material

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 Different pictures of the skin showing the proper ways of
caring the skin

Procedure
Look at the pictures below.
Put a  on the box if it shows a proper way of taking
caring of the skin and put a if it is not. Explain your
answer.

Taking a bath everyday 2. Walking with bare

1.
feet

3. Wearing clean clothes 4. Drinking plenty of water

Question
Do you practice personal hygiene?
Chapter 2: Animals

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 This Chapter deals with animals that can be found
anywhere. They have body parts and functions. They live in
different habitats/places. Some of them grow and develop.
Not all animals are useful. Some of them are harmful to
humans but can be controlled. There are many ways of
caring our animals

Lesson 1: Animals in the Environment

Activity 1: Name that Animal around you

Objective
Name animals around you

Material
pictures or video of animals

Procedure
A. Animals Around Me
1. Look at each picture below.
2. On your paper, write the name of the following
animals.

a. b.

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 c. d.

c d

e. f.

3. Aside from the animals shown in a – f, what other

animals are found in the farm? List them down.

B. Animals from Other Countries

1. There are many kinds of animals in the world. The
pictures below are some of them. Can you name
them? Write your answers on a piece of paper.

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 h i.

j. k.

Question
What are other animals can you name around you?

Lesson 2: Body Parts of Animal

Activity 1: What are the body parts of an Animal

Objective
Describe the parts of some animals shown in the video

Material

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 pictures/video of animals
Procedure
1. Look at the picture of the frog. Identify the numbered
parts

2. Write your answers on a piece of paper.

3. Look at the picture of the horse. Identify the numbered

parts.
4. Write your answers on a piece of paper.

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5. Look at the picture of the bird. Identify the numbered
parts.
6. Write your answers on a piece of paper.

7. What common body parts can you find in a frog, a horse

and a bird? Write them down on your paper.

Question
Were the parts of animals clearly shown in the video?

Lesson 3: Classifying Animals according to Body Parts and

Use
Activity1: Body Parts Animals Use to Move

Objectives
1. Describe how animals move;
2. Identify the body parts that enable animals to move.

Materials
Live animals (or pictures/video of animals)
frog cat or kitten (in a cage)
butterfly earthworm
fish spider
snail chick or duckling

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Procedure
1. Bring some live animals to class or go to the school
science garden or pond.
2. Observe how the animals move.
3. Observe the body part/s that each animal use/s to move
from place to place.
4. Supply the table below with the correct answers. Do this
on a separate paper.

Animals How does it What body part does

move? it use to move
a. frog
b. butterfly
c. snail
d. cat/kitten
e. spider
f. fish
g. earthworm
h. chick/duckling

Question
Why animals have different habitats?

Activity 2: Classifying Animals According to How They Move

Objectives
1. Infer how some animals move based on their
common body parts; and
2. Group animals according to how they move.

Materials
Live animals (or pictures/video of animals)
frog cat or kitten (in a cage)
butterfly earthworm

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 fish spider
snail chick or duckling

Procedure
1. Look at the animals below.
2. On your paper answer the following questions.

Butterfly Duck Fish

Squid Grasshopper Rabbit

Snail Honeybee
Caterpillar

3. Group the animals as to how they move. On your paper,

answer the following:

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 Movements made by several animals

Walk Jump/ Swim Fly Crawl

Hop

a. What body part does the animal use to move

from place to place?

Animals Body Part/s Used

Rabbit ________________
Fish ________________
Snail ________________
Honeybee ________________

Questions
1. Describe how animals move?
2. How do they differ from other animals?

Lesson 4: Body Parts of Animals that they Use in Getting

Foods

Objective
Infer the body parts used by animals for eating /getting
food.

Material
video of animals

Procedure
1. Look at the picture of some animals below. On your
paper, write your answers on how they get/eat food.

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 frog grasshopper

chicken dog

a. What body part of the animals does it use in getting

or eating its food?

Animals Body Part/s Used

Frog ________________
Dog ________________
Grasshopper ________________
Chicken ________________

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 2. Get a picture of the mouth parts of the four animals
from your teacher.
3. Observe the mouth parts carefully.
a. Can a chicken eat the corn if its mouth is shaped like
the mouth of a dog?
_________________________________
b. Can a frog catch a fly if it has a beak like that of the
chicken?
___________________________________________
c. How do animals differ in the way they get or eat their
food?
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Question
How do animals get /eat their food

Activity 1: Classifying Animals According to What They Eat

Objectives
1. Infer what animals eat based on their mouth parts
and body parts.
2. Classify animals according to what they eat.

Material
picture of different animals eating food

Procedure
1. Identify the kind of food that each animal eats. Write also
the body part/s that they use in getting and eating their
food.

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 Goat eats Pig eats
___________________. _____________________.
Body part used in getting Body part used in getting and
and eating food: eating food: ________________
________________

Duck eats Cat eats

__________________. ____________________.
Body part used in getting Body part used in getting and
and eating food: eating food:
________________ _________________

Cow eats ________

Body part used in getting Horse eats __________.
and eating food: Body part used in getting and
________________ eating food: ________________

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2. Group each animal as plant-eaters, meat-eaters, or
variety- eaters by writing the names of the animal under
the proper column.
Animals and the food they eat
Animals and the Food they Eat
Plant eater Meat Eater Plant & Meat
Eater

a. What other animals that are plant eaters do you

know?

b. What other animals that are meat eaters do you

know?
c. What other animals that are plant & meat eaters do
you know?

Question
What do you call animals that plant eaters, meat eaters or
both?

Activity 2: Classifying Animals According to Their Body

Coverings

Objectives
1. Describe the body covering of animals
2. Group animals according to their body coverings.

Materials
colored pictures of: dog, cat, frog, duck, and lizard

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Procedure
1. Look at the pictures below. On your paper describe the
body covering of the animals.

a. Dog b. Cat c. Bird

d. Crab e. Duck f. Shrimp

2. Get a piece of paper. Divide it into two parts and group

the animals according to their body covering. Write the
body covering on the left column, and the animals with
similar body covering on the right column as shown on
the table below.

Animals with similar body covering

Body Covering Animal

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 a. What other animal has a similar body covering to
a dog? _______________
b. What other animal has a similar body covering to
a duck? _______________
c. What other animal has a similar body covering to
a shrimp? ________________

d. How does a body covering help animals?

________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________

Question
Why do animals have body covering?

Activity 3: Classifying Animals According to their Habitat

Objectives
1. Relate the animals’ body covering to where they live.
2. Group animals according to where they live.

Material
Pictures of animals

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Procedure
1. Look at the animals below.

Whale Tur

Group the animals as to where they live. Write

your answers in your Activity notebook following the format
of table below.
Places where animals live

Animals that live in water

Animals Freshwater Saltwater Animals
that live that live
on land both on
land and in
water

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Question
Why do animals live in different places?

Lesson 5: Importance of Animals to Humans

Activity 1: Useful Animals

Objectives
1. Explain why animals are important to people
2. Group animals according to what people get from
them or how they can extend help to people.

Materials
pictures of useful animals

Procedure
1. With the help of the internet and books, what are the uses
of the following animals to people?
carabao horse frog goat
cow mudfish sheep tilapia

2. Classify the animals listed above according to the things

that people get from them. Some animals may be
classified under more than one group. Do this in your
Science activity notebook.

Classification of animals based on their usefulness to

people

Source of Skin for Used for Plowing

Source of Food Bags, Shoes and the Field and
other things Carrying Loads

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Question
What are other uses of animals aside from food,
transport, and raw material for shoes and bags?

Activity 2: Harmful Animals to Humans

Objective
Identify animals that can harm people

Material
pictures of harmful animals

Procedure
1. From what you learned from reading, watching television,
or from your family members:
a. What animals can make people sick?
b. What kind of sickness is this?

2. Write your answers to questions a and b in your Science

activity notebook following the format of Table 1below.

Animals that can harm people

Animals that can make Sickness

people sick

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Question
What should you do to avoid harmful animals?

Lesson 5: Proper Ways of handling Animals

Activity 1: Caring for Pets

Objective
Communicate to care for pets.

Materials
video clips about caring for pets

Procedure
1. Do you have a pet at home? What animal is it?
_____________________

2. Look for classmates who have the same pet as yours and
form a group.

3. In your group, discuss how you care for your pet. List down
4 things that you do to care for the animal in your Science
activity notebook.
a. ___________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________
d. ___________________________________________________

4. Listen to a zookeeper, veterinarian, or anyone who looks

after animals as he/she explains the proper ways of handling
animals. You can also view the video clips about caring for
animals.

5. List them down in your Science activity notebook

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Ask the “animal expert” if your group is giving the proper
care for the animal. Ask them why these things are
important. Write your answers on the table below.

Name of Ways in caring your Reason

pet pet

2. Write a short letter to your friend about your pet and how
you take care of it. If you do not have a pet at home,
think of the animal you want to have as a pet.

Question
Why should you observe safety measures while caring your
pet?
Chapter 3: Plants
This Chapter deals with plants. We are surrounded by
plants as living things. They have important parts such as
roots, leaves, stems, fruits, and flowers. We will observe plants
in the environment, naming, and knowing their uses to other
living things. There are many ways of caring our plants which
will be discussed also in this Chapter.

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Lesson 1: Naming Plants and Parts
Activity 1: Plants Around You

Objectives
1. Identify some plants in the garden
2. Describe the parts of a plant

Materials
plants in the garden

Procedure

Part A. Tomato Plant (example only, add two more plants in

the garden)
1. Look at the tomato plant below.

2. Name the parts of the tomato plant as numbered.

Part B. Parts of tomato plant

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3. Look at the plants in the school garden.

a. Do all the plants in the garden have all the plant parts
that the tomato plant has?

4. Choose three kinds of plants in the garden. Write the

names of the plants in Table 1.

5. Observe the different parts of each plant.

6. Copy the table below on a separate sheet and check in

the column below of plant part present.

Parts Observed in Three Kinds of Plants

Name of the
Roots Stems Leaves Flowers Fruits
plant
Example:
 
Mayana
1.

2.

3.

7. Do all three plants in Table have all the plant parts?

8. Can you name plants on your way to school?

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Lesson 2: Same plant parts, different plants
Activity 1: “No two plants are alike or similar”

Objective
Compare the plant parts of different plants

Materials
plants in the garden

Procedure
1. Choose two different kinds of plants in the school garden.
They should be mature plants.

2. Observe the stem of each plant.

3. Copy the table below on a separate sheet of paper and

record your observations.

Stems of Two Kinds of Plants

STEM
Grow straight up or Soft (can be bent)
Name of the trail along the or hard (cannot be
plant ground or climb bent; woody)
fences and other
plant

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4. Observe the shape, color, and edges of the leaves. Draw
the shape of one leaf in the table below. Color the leaf
according to the colors you observed.

Leaves of Two Kinds of Plants

Name of the plant Leaf

5. Observe the flower (if there is any) of the plants.

6. Record your observation in the table below.

Flowers of Two Kinds of Plant

Flower
Name of the
plant Does it Does it grow in
Color
grow singly? groups/cluster?

a. Based from your observations, what can you say about

parts of different plants?

Question
Why do we need to observe the different parts of the
plants?

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Lesson 3: Functions of the different Parts of the Plant
Activity 1: Different plant parts have different works

Objective
Infer the function of different plant parts

Material
picture of a banana plant or live plant

Procedure
1. Look at the banana plant in the garden, backyard of your
school or at the picture
2. On your paper, answer the following questions:

leaves

fruit

flower

trunk

root

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 a. What part of the banana plant holds it firmly to the
ground?
b. What part of the banana plant makes it stand upright?
c. What part of the banana plant makes its food?
d. What part of the banana plant develops into a fruit?
e. What part of the banana plant absorbs the water and
nutrients from the soil?
f. What part of the banana plant carries the water and
minerals from the roots to the other parts?

Lesson 4: Uses of Plants

Activity 1: “The Wonderful Plants “

Objectives
1. Identify things that come from or are made from
plants
2. Identify the different uses of plants

Materials
real objects or pictures of plants plate, mango, eggs,
metal, coconut, paper, wood chair, cotton salt

Procedure
1. Put a check mark [] on your paper if the object came
from or was made from plants. Put a cross mark [X] when
it did not come from or was not made from plants.

1. plate 2. mango 3. eggs

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 5. coconut 6. paper
4. metal
oil
potpot

7. wood chair 8. cotton 9. salt

From your answers in step 1, write two uses of plants on your

paper.
1.
2.
Question
Do you have things at home made of plants

Lesson 5: Harmful Plants

Activity 1: Harmful plants

Objectives
1. Identify plants that are harmful.
2. Infer that some plants can be both useful and
harmful.

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Materials
pictures of harmful and not harmful plants

Procedure
1. Interview your parents, other people at home, or
neighbors.

a. What are some of the plants that are harmful? Why are
they harmful?

b. Are there plants that are harmful and useful at the

same time?

2. Copy the tables below on your paper and write your

answers in them.
T Harmful Plants
Name of the plant Plant Part Why is it harmful?

Plants that are Both Useful and Harmful

Name of the Why is it Why is it
Plant part
plant useful? harmful?

Question
Do you know of any plant which is useful and harmful?

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Lesson 6: Proper Ways of Caring Plants
Activity 1: “We care plants”

Objectives
1. Infer how to care for plants
2. Cite ways of caring for plants

Material
Video clip of proper ways of caring plants

Procedure
1. Look closely at each
picture.

a. What is the girl doing

with
the plant?

b. Is that a good thing to

do with plants? Explain.

c. What are the two boys

doing with the plant?

d. Is this a good thing to do

to plants? Explain.

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 e. What is the girl doing with
the plant?

f. Is this a good thing to do to

plants? Explain.

g. What is the boy doing with

the plant?

h. Is this a good thing to do to

plants? Explain.

i. What are the two boys

doing with the plant?

j. Is this a good thing to do to

plants? Explain

Question
How do you care plants at home or in school?

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Lesson 6: Characteristics of living and nonliving things
Activity 1: The living and nonliving things
Objectives
1. Identify characteristics of living and nonliving things.
2. Identify the difference between living and nonliving
things.
3. Classify things as to living or nonliving.

Materials
pictures of living things

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures.
2. Tell their characteristics by answering the question in
each column with YES or NO.
3. On your paper, write your answers.

Characteristics of living things

Objects Does it Does it Does it Does it Does
grow? repro- move breathe? it
duce? by need
itself? food?

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Rock

 What are the characteristics of living things?

 What are the characteristics of non living things?

3. Group the objects in number 2 in the table below.

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 Do this on your paper

Living Things Nonliving things

Question
What are the differences between living and nonliving
things?
Lesson 2: Comparing Living Things from Non Living

Activity 2 “Are you a living or a non-living thing?”

Objective
Compare living thing from non living.

Material
Pictures or real different living and nonliving things

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Procedure
1. Look at the pictures.
2. Put a check (/) mark on your paper if it is living and
cross (x) if it is nonliving.

2. Write your answers on your paper.

 What are living things?

 What are non living things?

Question
Do you see around you things which are living and non
living?

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 Chapter 4: Heredity: Inheritance
and Variation
In this Chapter, it deals with animals and plants
produce of the same kind. Some physical traits are common
or shared among a certain group of humans.

Lesson 1: Animal Reproduction and Heredity

Activity 1: “Mother, Father and Babies”

Objective
Infer that animals produce animals of the same kind

Material
pictures of animals with their babies /video clips of animals
with their babies

Procedure
1.Name the animals shown below.
2.Match the animal on the left with its young .
3, On your paper, write the letter of your answer.
____ 1. a.

____ 2.
b

____ 3. c.

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______ 4. d.

Look at the drawing of animals below. Identify each

animal and write the name on your paper.

Animal A Animal B

Question
Is animal A, the young of animal B? Why?

Lesson 2: Human Reproduction and Heredity

Activity 1: Physical Traits of People from Different Ethnicity

Objective
Infer that some physical traits are common or shared
among a certain group of people (i.e., ethnicity).

Material
picture of ethnic group

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Procedure
1. The picture below shows several Filipino kids.

a. What similarities in physical traits does this group of kids

have?

2. Look at the drawing below.

b. What similarities in physical traits does this group of

children have?

c. Which physical traits are different in each kid in the

drawing?

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 d. Can you give example of other group of people
having the same physical traits?

Activity 2: Physical Traits of Animals of the Same Kind

Objective
Infer that some physical traits are shared within the
same group of animals.

Material
Illustrations of different breed of dogs

Procedure
Look at the drawings of different kinds of dogs below.

a. What physical characteristics/traits are similar to

them? Give three.
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________

Question
On your paper, write three physical characteristics/traits of
animal

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Lesson 2: Plants Reproduction and Heredity
Activity 1: Growing plants from seeds

Objective
Infer that plants produce plants of the same kind.

Material
Mongo seeds, 3 wooden boxes/3 cans

Procedure
Part A
What will happen if you plant a mongo seed in soil? Draw
your prediction in Box A.

1. Place four mongo seeds in a small container containing

soil.
2. Water the seeds.
3. Observe the seeds on the following day.
Part B
Observe the mongo seeds that you planted in the previous
day.
a. What happened to the mongo seeds? Draw what you
observed in Box B.

b. What would happen to the mongo seeds after one

month? Draw your prediction in Box C.

Box A Box B Box C

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Activity 2: Growing plants from other plant parts

Objective
Infer that plants produce plants of the same kind.

Material
katakataka plant

Procedure
1. Observe a mature leaf in the katakataka plant. Take note
of the leaf margin/edge.

Katakataka plant

a. What is growing out from the edge of the leaf?

b. Is this still part of the plant or is it a new plant? Why
do you say so?
2. Look at the small plant growing from the margins.

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 c. Does it look similar to the “parent” katakataka plant?
Why do you say so?
3. Look at the drawing of an Agave plant.

d. What are the pointed leaves for?

e.Does it look similar to the “parent” agave plant? Why
do you say so?

Question
Are there any plants other than katakataka which grow from
other plant parts?

Chapter 5: Ecosystem
Activity 1: The Basic Needs of Humans, Animals and Plants
Activity 1: Basic Needs of Humans, Animals and Plants
In this Chapter, activities on the combined physical
and biological components of an environment are discussed
and that is Ecosystem. The basic needs of humans, animals
and plants are identified, the relationship of living things in an
ecosystem, things we need from the environment and the
protection and conservation of our environment.
Lesson 1: Basic Needs of Humans, Animals and Plants
Activity 1: “What do we need for survival?”

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Objective
Identify the basic needs of humans, animals and plants.

Material
pictures/video clips of the basic needs of humans,
animals and plants

Procedure
1. Put a [] if people, animals, and plants needs the
following in the table below:
Needs People Animals Plants Activity
Food eating
Water drinking
Air breathing
Habitat Place
where they
live
Clothing/covering Movement

2. Perform the activity listed in the first column.

Write your answers on a piece of paper.
2. Answer the questions below.
a. What activities are common to people, animals
and plants?
b. Do people, animals and plants breathe the
same air? Where do they get the air they
breathe?
c. Do people, animals and plants eat the same
food? Where do they get the food they eat?
d. Do people, animals and plants drink the same
water? Where do they get the water they
drink?

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 e. Do humans, animals and plants live in the same
or different habitats? Can we find these
habitats in the same environment?

Question
Are there other things human needs?

Activity 2: Things We Need from the Environment

Objectives
1. Identify the needs of living things that are provided
by the environment.
2. Explain how living things depend on the environment
to meet their basic needs.

Materials
Sun headband, Rain headband, Plant headbands
Rice plant, Animal headbands, Caterpillar, Bird (rice
bird and chicken), Colored strips of construction paper

Procedure
1. Your teacher to give you a printout.
2. Color your printout. After you have colored your printout,
cut out your picture and attach it to colored strips of
construction paper.
3. Your teacher will help you cut the strips to fit your head
and staple the two ends together.
4. Put on your headband and sit together in groups
according to your organism.
5. The rice group will stay in front, followed by caterpillar and
bird.
6. Listen to the instructions of your teacher.

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6.1 Your teacher is the sun. The teacher will face the pupils
with the rice plant headbands and will say “I am the
sun. I help the plants grow.”
6.2 The pupils with the rain headbands will stand and water
the rice plants by making rain movement through their
hands and fingers. They will face the pupils with the rice
plant headbands and say “We are the rain. We bring
water to plants. Water helps the plants grow.”
6.3 The pupils with the rice headband will imagine that
they are growing and will stand. They will wave their cut
outs of palay grains. They will say “We need the sun
and we need the water from the rain. Sun and water
help us grow.”
6.4 The pupils with the caterpillar headband will stand and
say “We are very hungry. We need to eat. We will eat
the rice plants.” They will approach the rice plants and
will make eating movements.
6.5 The pupils with the bird headbands will stand and say
“We are very hungry. We need to eat. We will eat the
rice plants. We will eat the caterpillars.” They will
approach the rice plants and caterpillars and will make
eating movements.
6.6 The pupils representing people will stand and say “We
are very hungry. We need to eat. We will eat the rice
plants. We will eat the chicken.” They will approach the
rice plants and chicken and will make eating
movements.
7. Answer the following questions:
a. What things does the environment give to people,
animals and plants?

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 b. What will happen to humans, animals and plants if
there is no sunlight?
c. What would happen to people, animals and plants if
there is no water?
d. What would happen to people, animals and plants if
there were no plants?
e. What would happen if the environment could no
longer give the needs of people, animals and
plants?

Activity 3: Conservation and Protection of the Environment

Objective
Explain why there is a need to protect and
conserve the environment.

Material
picture of environment
Procedure
1. Look at the picture below.
2. List down things that could cause harm to animals and
plants.
3. Answer the following questions on your paper.
a. What are the things that people do that harm animals
and plants?
b. What will happen if we continue to cut a lot of trees?
c. What will happen if we will not take care of the air we
breathe?
d. What will happen if we will not take care of the soil?
e. What will happen if we will not take care of our water
supply and other bodies of water?

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Questions

a. What are the things that humans do that harm animals

and plants?
b. What will happen if we continue to cut a lot of trees?
c. What will happen if we will not take care of the air we
breathe?

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UNIT 3: Force, Motion and Energy

Chapter 1: Moving Objects

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 Chapter 1: Moving Objects
This Chapter deals with different ways in which we
describe ways of moving objects. Two ways to make objects
move can be by pushing, pulling, using a reference point or
a reference object is emphasized to give the accurate or
precise location of the object. Water moves object. Magnet
has two poles of which unlike poles attract each other while
like poles repel each other. When a force is applied to an
object, the object can move fast or slow, forward or
backward, and stretched or compressed.

Lesson 1: Describing the Position of an Object relative to

another Object
Activity 1: What is my position?

Objective
Describe the position of an object relative to another object.

Material
Real objects such as table, cabinet, ball, door, balloons

Procedure
1. Write the correct word that describes the position of the
object or animal or person in each picture. Choose from
the list of words in the box. Do this in your notebook.

top behind right table cabinet

under in front left boy

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a. The book is on _____________ of
the ___________.

b. The ball is _____________

of the _____________.

c. The door is _____________

the _____________.

d. The cat is_____________

the _____________.

e. The balloons are in the girl’s

_____________ hand.

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Activity 2: How do you know that an object has moved?
Objective
Describe the location of an object after it has moved
Materials
meter stick toy car
Procedure
1. Using a chalk, draw a line on one side of the table. Label
this line as “start.”
2. Put the toy car behind the line as shown below.
start

3. Slightly push the toy car.

4. Mark the location of the car once it stops.
start stop

5. Using a meter stick, measure the distance from “start” to

the position where the car stopped. In your notebook
answer the following questions
start
stop

meter
stick

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 a. What is the location of the car before it was pushed?
b. How far did the toy car move?
c. What is the location of your toy car after pushing it?
d. What is the reference point/object that tells you that
the toy car moved?

Question
Can you move an object without pushing it?

Activity 3: How can you make objects move?

Objective
Describe the different ways to move objects
Materials
Assorted objects (examples: eraser, pencil, notebook,
key, coin)
Procedure
1. Get five small objects from your bag. Put them on the
table.

2. Make each object move. Try different ways, of moving

the object.

Table 1: Different ways of moving different objects

Object How did I make the object move?
Example: By pushing with my fingers
eraser By lifting with my hand
1.

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 2.

3.

4.

5.
Question
What are the different ways of moving objects?

Activity 4: Making a Wind Wheel

Objectives
1. Describe how wind moves objects
2. Make a wind wheel
Materials
pencil with eraser, paper, paperclip, tape

Procedure
1. Make a wind wheel. Look at the procedure below on how
to make a wind wheel.

-Holding only the handle, make your wind wheel spin. Try
different ways.
- What are the different ways of making your wind wheel
spin?
a. What made the wind wheel spin?

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2. Look around your room.
b. What other objects can be moved by the wind?
Question
What are the different ways of making wind wheel?

Activity 5: Making a Paper Boat

Objectives
1. Describe how water move objects
2. Make a paper boat
Materials
basin with water , Paper, Tape

Procedure
1. Make a paper boat. Look at the procedure below on
how to make a paper boat.

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2. Holding your paper boat, make it float and move in a big
basin of water. Try different ways and write them on your
notebook.
a. What are the different ways of making your paper boat
move on water?
b. What makes the paper boat move?

Lesson 2: Describing the Location of Objects after it has

moved

Activity 1: Make It Move!

Objectives
1. Describe how a magnet can move objects
2. Identify objects that can be moved by a magnet
Materials
Paperclip (metal), magnet, cardboard (about 15 cm x
15 cm) assorted objects (hair pin, small nails, round
fastener, eraser, crayon, bottle caps)

Procedure
1. Place a paperclip on top of a cardboard.

2. Hold a magnet under the cardboard.

Move the magnet.

a. What happens to the paper clip?

3. Try placing other objects on top of the cardboard. Make

each object move.

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4. On your notebook, copy the table and write the objects
you placed on the cardboard in column A and answer
the question in column B.

A B
Object Did the object move?
paperclip Yes

b. What objects were moved by the magnet?

c. For the objects moved by the magnet, what kind of
material are they made of?

Activity 2: Attract or Repel!

Objectives
1. Identify the poles of a magnet
2. Infer that a magnet has two poles
3. State that like poles repel; unlike poles attract
4. Infer that the strength of the magnet is stronger at
the poles

Materials
Paperclips (metal) magnets

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Procedure
Place a bar magnet on a box filled with paperclips.

1. Lift the bar magnet. In your notebook, write your answers.

a. Did paperclips “stick” to the bar magnet?
b. Which part of the magnet did the paperclips “stuck?”
c. What does this tell you about the strength of the
magnet?

2. Get two bar magnets. Place them together in different

ways.
d. Did the two magnets attracts each other? Draw their
position below.
e. When did the two magnets repel each other? Draw
their position below.

Activity 3: Ready, Set, Go!

Objectives
1. Describe different ways of moving a toy car.
2. Identify objects or materials that can move a toy
car.
Materials
Toy cars Magnets Fan
Procedure
1. Each group will have one car for each race. (The cars
were prepared beforehand.)

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2. There are four races.
Race 1: One pupil from each group will push the car from
the starting line to the finish line. The first car to cross the
finish line wins.
Race 2: One pupil from each group will pull the car from
the starting line to the finish line. The first car to cross the
finish line wins.
Race 3: One pupil from each group will fan the car to
move it from the starting line to the finish line. The first car
to cross the finish line wins.
Race 4: A magnet will be attached to the toy car. One
student from each group will use a magnet to push the
car by placing the magnet attached on the car. The
magnets should not stick together. The first car to cross the
finish line wins.

a. How were you able to make the toy car move? List
them all below.
b. Do you have toy car at home? Did you try playing with
it? How did you find it?

Lesson 3: Describing Different Ways of Moving Objects

Activity 1: Fast or slow; Forward or Backward

Objectives
1. Describe the movement of an object as fast or slow
2. Describe the movement of an object as forward or
backward.
Materials
2 toy cars
Procedure
1. Label the toy cars as “1” and “2”.
2. Mark a starting line on the floor.

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 3. Put the two cars behind the starting line.
4. Measure 1 meter from the starting line. Draw a line.
starting line 1-m line

5. At the same time, lightly push one toy car and the
other toy car harder. Observe them. In your notebook,
write your observations.

6. Which toy car reached the 1 meter line first?

a. Which of the two toy cars moved faster? Why
b. What did you do to make the toy car roll fast?
c. What did you do to make the toy car roll slowly?
d. When you pushed the toy car, did it move forward or
backward?
e. What would you do to make the toy car move
backward?
f. Did you try playing toy car racing? How did you
measure the distance when you reach the finish line?

Activity 2: Can it be stretched or compressed?

Objectives
1. Describe the act of stretching and compressing
objects
2. Name objects that can be stretched or compressed

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Materials
garter rubber bands
Procedure
1. Each member of the group should have one rubber
band. Each should have a different color.

2. The group should position themselves behind a marked

line.

3. Stretch the rubber band using your fingers. Release the

rubber bands at the same time. In your notebook record
your answers.

a. What happened to the rubber band when you

released it?
b. Whose rubber band moved the farthest from the
marked line?
c. Whose rubber band was nearest to the line after
release?
d. What other objects can be stretched like the rubber
band? Name two.

4. This time, use the garter. Make the garter longer.

a. How did you make the garter longer?

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5. Make the garter shorter.
a. How did you make the garter shorter?
b. What other objects can be compressed? Name two.
c. Do you play Chinese garter? How do you make it
longer and shorter?

Chapter 2: Light and Heat

This Chapter deals with the different sources of light,
whether natural or artificial, their importance in our daily
lives, and the proper ways of using them.

Lesson 1: Sources of Light

Activity 1: The Wonderful Light

Objectives
Identify sources of light
Classify sources of light into natural and artificial

Materials
flash light, candle, bulb, pictures of lighted charcoal,
sun, moon
Procedure
1. The pictures below show different things that give off
light.
2. Write the name of these things that give off light in your
notebook.

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 a. b.

c. d.

e. f.

3. Name other things that give off light aside from the
things presented. Write them down in your notebook.

Group your answers and write in the table below. Light

can come from natural or artificial sources. Natural
sources are those found in nature. Artificial sources are
those made by people. Do this in your notebook.

Natural sources of light Artificial sources of light

Question
What is the difference between natural light from artificial
light?

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Activity 2: Uses of Light

Objective
Identify uses of light
Materials
Tennis racket, shuttlecock, net
Procedure

1. Look at the pictures and answer the questions in your

notebook

a. What is the boy doing?

b. Why is he able to hit the shuttlecock?
c. What is the source of light that let him see the
shuttlecock?

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 d. What is the boy doing?
e. Why is he able to read the book?
f. What is the source of light that let him see the book?

Question
Is there any other source of light?

Activity 3: Other Uses of Light

Objective
Identify other uses of light

Materials
Different plants, pictures of traffic light, light house

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures and answer the questions in your
notebook.

a. Why is sunlight
important to
plant?

b. Why is traffic light important?

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 c. Why is a
lighthouse
important?

Activity 4: Safety in Using Light

Objective
Identify the proper ways of using light
Material
Sunglass, umbrella
Procedure
1. Look at the pictures below.
2. Put a  on the box if it is a good practice and put a if it
is not. Do this in your notebook.

Looking directly at the Using sunglasses

Sun

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 Reading in the dark Using umbrella

Question
How do you feel wearing sunglass during summertime?
What is the use of this?
Activity 5: Sources of Heat
Objective
Identify things that give off heat

Materials
sun, boiling kettle under the gas burner, electric toaster,
lighted charcoal, etc.
Procedure
1. The pictures below show different things that give off heat.
2.Write the name of these things that give off heat in your
notebook.

a. b.

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 c. d.

e. f.

Question
Do you have appliances at home? Name them.

Activity 6: Uses of Heat

Objective
Describe uses of heat.
Material
Pictures of uses of heat

Procedure
Look at the pictures. Describe how heat is used in each
picture. Write your answer in your notebook.

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 Activity How is heat
Source of heat
used

a.

b.

c.

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 d.

e.

solar panel

Question
What are the other uses of heat?

Activity 7: Safety in Using Heat

Objective
Identify the proper ways of handling hot objects.

Materials
Gloves, pictures of hot food, gas flame,
kettle with boiling water

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Procedure
Look at the pictures below.
1. Put a  on the box if it is a good practice and put a if it
is not. Do this in your notebook.

a. b.

Using gloves to handle Turning off the flame of

hot food the gas after use

c. d.

Staying un Touching hot objects

der the sun

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 Chapter 3: Sounds
This Chapter deals with the sources of sounds, ways of
producing sounds, and appreciating the importance of
sounds.

Lesson : Sources of Sounds

Activity 1: Sounds around Me

Objective
Identify sources of sounds.

Materials
pictures of objects having various sounds

Procedure
Sit quietly and listen to the sounds around you. In the table
below, list all the sounds you hear. Write the sounds heard
and objects that produce the sound in your notebook.

Sounds heard What object produces

the sounds?
Example:
Ark! Ark! Ark! dog

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Question
Have you experience hearing different sounds like music,
blowing of horn, voice of your classmates and sounds of
different animals?

Activity 2: Different ways of producing sound

Objective
Describe ways of producing sound.
Materials
maracas guitar drum/box whistle
Procedure
1. Make the drum, guitar, maracas and whistle produce
sound.

2. Write on the table below what you did to make them

produce sound. Do this in your notebook.
What I did to make it
Object produce sound

maracas

drum

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 guitar

Question
Can you play other musical instrument aside from the one
presented? How?

Activity 3: Make your own kazoo!

Objectives
1. Make an improvised kazoo; and
2. Describe how sound is produced using a kazoo

Materials
cardboard or tube from tissue paper
paper waxed paper
rubber band a sharp pointed object

Procedure
1. Place a small square piece of waxed paper on the end of
the cardboard tube. Secure it tightly with a rubber band.
Poke a hole through the tube with a sharp object.

2. Hum through the kazoo. Feel the end of the kazoo with
your fingertips.

3. Discover what happens when you cover the end of the

tube with your hand. Then, cover the little hole in the tube.
Have fun with your kazoo!

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Question
Did you find fun blowing your Kazoo? Why?

Activity 4: Uses of Sounds

Objectives
1. Describe uses of sounds; and
2. Appreciate the importance of sound.

Materials
Pictures of ambulance vehicle, fire truck, church with bell,
Real alarm clock, doorbell.
Procedure
1. Look at the pictures. Describe the use of sound in each
picture. Do this in your notebook.

a. What is the use of the

b. What is the use of the
sound of an ambulance?
sounds produced by the
two girls?
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 c. What is the use of the d. What is the use of the
sound of the radio? sound of a whistle?

e. What is the use of the f. What is the use of

sound of the alarm clock? the sound of the fire
truck?

g. What is the use of the h. What is the use of

sound of the bell in the sound of the
church? doorbell?

Question
Do you know of other things aside from the activity
presented having sounds with importance?

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 Chapter 4: Electricity
This Chapter deals with the sources of electricity, uses or
importance in our lives and the safety measures on how to
use electricity.

Lesson 1: Sources of Electricity

Activity 1: “Our appliances at home”

Objective
Classify objects that operate using battery or when
plugged in electrical outlet.

Materials
computer, electric fan, television set in school
cellphone, toy car, flashlight, radio

Procedure
1. Look at the pictures. Classify them into objects that
operate using battery, when plugged in an electrical
socket or both. Do this in your notebook.

computer mobile phone electric fan

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 flashlight
television
toy car

electric oven
radio

2. Group the objects in the table below.

Plug in electrical Battery & Plug in
Battery
outlet electrical outlet

Question
Do you have appliances at home which are operated
both with battery and electricity? How do you use
them?

Activity 2: Uses of Electricity

Objective
Describe the uses of electricity.

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Materials
electric stove, electric kettle, electric fan,
television, cellphone, toy car

Procedure
1.The pictures show some objects that use electricity. Use the
words in the box to complete the sentences. Do this in your
notebook.
cook boil cool
light move sound
entertainment communication

a. Electricity is used in an
electric stove to ________
food.

b. Electricity is used in an
electric kettle to ________
water.

c.
Electricity is used in an
electric fan to ________ us.

d.
Electricity is used in a
television to give us ______.

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 e. Electricity is used in mobile
phones for ___________.

f. Electricity is used in
refrigerator to _____ food.

g. Electricity is used in a bulb

to _______ a house.

h. Electricity is used in a toy

car to make it _______.

i. Electricity is used in radio to

make _________.

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Question
What are the other household appliances you have at
home? Name their uses.

Activity 3: Using Electricity Safely

Objective
Identify the proper use of electricity and other
electrical devices.
Material
Actual Electrical outlet and electric fan in school

Procedure
1.Look at the pictures below.
2.Put a  on the box if it is a proper use of electricity or
electrical devices and put a if it is not. Do this in your
notebook.

Inserting other objects in Touching a switch

an electrical outlet with a wet hand

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 Removing plug of Inserting too many devices
electrical devices when into one extension cord
not in use

Questions
Do you have extension outlet at home or in school?
How do you use it?

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UNIT 4-Earth and Space

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 Chapter 1
This Chapter deals with the study of the surroundings
and the things that make it up: living things, different bodies
of water and landforms.

Lesson 1: The Surroundings

Activity 1: Different things around you

Objective
Naming different things around you.

Material
Magic square chart

Procedure
1. Study the Magic Square Chart.
2. Think about your surroundings.
3. Write your ideas inside each square.

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 SURROUNDINGS

PEOPLE AROUND SUNSHINE and

FRESH AIR

YOU
Place
Where You
Live

FOOD
RIVER, LAKES , HILLS , Plants and animals
MOUNTAINS

SURROUNDINGS

Then, write them in your notebook.

a. What makes your surroundings a nice place to live
in?
b. Why should you keep your surroundings clean and
orderly?
c. How can you keep your community a safe
place to live in?
d. Where do you live? Can you name
things around your house?

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Activity 2: Take a Tour Around

Objective
Describe things in the surroundings.

Material
None (just go around, in and out of the classroom)

Procedure
1. Fall in line and go outside the room quietly.

2. Follow your teacher as she walks you around the

school.
3.Observe the places carefully as you go through them.
Describe the place you observed. Write your answers
in your notebook following the table below:
School’s surroundings
Place Visited Description

Place #1.

Place #2.

Place #3

Place #4.

Questions
1. What were the places you visited?

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 2. What did you see in these places? Describe what you
saw.
3. Are these things important in an environment of the
school? of the community? Why?
4. Why should you keep our surroundings clean and
orderly?
5. How do you keep your school environment a safe
place to study?

Activity 3: A Walk in the Garden

Objectives
1. Name things found in the garden.
2. Group things as to living or non-living thing.

Materials
Paper Pencil and crayons Magnifying lens (if available)

Procedure
1. Take a walk in the school garden e.g. flower garden,
vegetable garden, herbal garden. Pair with a friend.
2. Observe the following measure while in the garden:
a. Avoid touching plants. Some may have spines or
thorns.
b. Refrain from smelling different flowers. It might cause
discomfort or cause allergy.
c. work with your buddy. Stay together at all times.
3. Observe the things that you see around. You can use the
magnifying lens to have a closer look at small objects.
4. Answer the guide questions in your notebook

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Questions
1. What are the living and non-living things in the garden?
Living things: Non – living things:
2. How many kinds of plants did you see? What are they?
3. How many kinds of animals did you see? What are
they?
4. Complete the table below.
Living Things Non Living Things

5. Write in one or two sentences what things can be seen

in a garden in your notebook.

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Activity 4: Bodies of Water in your Community

Objectives
1. Describe the bodies of water.
2. Infer that plants and animals are present around and
in the bodies of water.

Materials
photocopy of two bodies of water
crayon or water color, clear tape, cardboard , pair of
scissors

Procedure
1. Group yourselves into 5. Have a photocopy of the bodies
of water.
2. Using crayons or water color, color the illustrations and cut
the paper following the broken lines.

3. Tape each cut out bodies of water onto a sheet of poster

board using only a small piece of clear tape along the
top of each card ( so the card flips upwards) and answer
the questions. Do this on your notebook.

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 Guide Questions
1. Do you have a similar body of water in your
community? Describe it.
2. Do you use the water for a particular purpose?
Describe the use.
3. Is the body of water important ?

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Activity 5: The Landforms

Objectives
1. Describe landforms.
2. Make a poster board presentation.
Materials
landform pictures, pair of scissors,
glue or paste, crayons, pencil,

Procedure
1. Group yourselves into 5. Have a photocopy of the
landforms.
2. Match a landform picture with its description in your
notebook. Cut out the landform pictures. Glue each
landform next to its description. Make a poster board for
this activity.

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mountain

valley

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 2. Are there landforms in your community? Pick out a
picture of a land form from the list which is similar to
where you live. Tell something about your
community. Do this in your notebook.

3. Are landforms important? Why?

Chapter 2: Weather
Chapter 2 on weather deals with types of weather,
appearance of the sky, weather changes and its effects to
people, animals and plants. It also deals with precautionary
measures on different weather conditions and preparation
of improvised weather instrument.

Lesson 1: The Weather

Activity 1: “The Weather Watcher”

Objectives
1. Describe the weather for the day.
2. Draw the clouds seen in the sky.
3. Describe the appearance of the clouds.

Materials
weather watcher card coloring markers, crayons, pens
KWL Chart,

Procedure
2. Look around you and at the sky above. Observe the day’s
weather. Write the following in your notebook.
a. Is it sunny?

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 b. Is it rainy?
c. Is it windy?
d. Is it stormy?

3. Observe the sky for five minutes.

CAUTION: DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN. THE SUN’S
RAYS CAN HARM YOUR EYES.

4. Draw some of the objects that you see in the sky. Use
coloring pencils or pens for your drawing. Do this in your
notebook.
5. Complete the table below. Do this in your notebook.

Shape of the cloud Color of the cloud

6. Describe the clouds based on what you wrote on the

table. Write your answer in your notebook.

Activity 2 : Types of Clouds

Objectives
1. Describe the different clouds in the sky.
2. Show a four-day weather condition and the type of
cloud each day.

Materials
weather chart, coloring pencils, or pens, cotton balls,
glitters for lighting and rain paper and pair of scissors glue

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Procedure
1. Observe the clouds in the sky every morning and every
afternoon for four consecutive days. Record your
observations in your notebook.

2. On the first day, draw the shape of the cloud in column 1

of Table 1. Then, make a model of this cloud using cotton
balls to represent the type of cloud you observed. Paste this
model under your drawing. You can improve your model by
using glue and glitters. The glitters will represent rain and
lightning.

3. Repeat Step No. 2 for Tuesday until Thursday. You should

have a complete table on Thursday, the fourth day.

Table1. Cloud observed each day for four days

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

 Describe the shape of the clouds each day every

morning and afternoon.
 Monday _____________________________________
 Tuesday _____________________________________
 Wednesday _________________________________
 Thursday ____________________________________

Questions
1.Does the cloud change every day?
2.Write one or two sentences about what you have
learned in this activity.
Use the guide below for the types of clouds.

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i. Cirrus clouds are thin and wispy

ii. Cumulus clouds are white and puffy

Stratus clouds are low, flat and gray

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Question
What is the weather today?

Activity 3: My Improvised Weather Instruments

Objectives
1. Make a simple weather instrument.
2. Describe the uses of the instrument.

Materials
Set A: wooden sticks, strip of paper, glue
Set B: cardboard, wooden sticks, glue
Procedure
For Set A. Making a Wind Vane
1. Cut a strip of paper longer than the length of the
stick.
2. Glue strip of paper to one end of the stick.
3. Place your improvised weather tool in an open
space.
4. Observe how it works. Draw the weather instrument
in your notebook.
5. Show to the class how your instrument works.
For Set B. Making another Model of a Wind Vane
6. Get a thick cardboard.
7. Cut two arrows of the same size. Make the tails
bigger than the arrow heads.
8. Put a stick between two arrows. Staple or paste
them together.

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 Illustration here

9. Place your improvised instrument at the top of a

pole.
10. Draw the weather tool in your notebook.
11. Show to the class how your instrument works.

FOR SET B Speed and direction of the wind

1. Place your improvised wind vane on top of a pole or

elevated area (location A).
2. Observe how the strip of paper moves every 5
minutes for 15 minutes.
3. Transfer your wind vane to another location. Call it
location 2. Observe again.
4. Put a check mark in the table 2 below for your
observations.

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Table 2. Movement and direction of the wind

Location A Time
After 5 After 10 After 15
min. min. min.
Strip of paper does
not move
Strip of paper sways
Strip of paper makes
sound
Location B

Strip of paper does

not move
Strip of paper sways
Strip of paper makes
sound
6. From your observations, did the wind move? Describe
how it moved and its direction.

7. How do you describe the how fast (speed) the wind

moved in location A? Place a check (√ ) beside your
choice below.
Slow _______ moderate _______ fast ______

How do you describe the how fast (speed) the wind

moved in location B? Place a check (√) beside your
choice below.
Slow _______ moderate _______ fast ______
8. In this activity, do wind speed and direction vary in
different locations at the same time? Why?

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Activity 4: Does Weather Change?

Objectives
1. Tell how cold or hot the air is.
2. Compare the temperature of air in different places.
3. Describe the speed and direction of the wind.

Materials
SET A: 2 thermometers and crochet thread or thin rope
SET B: Improvised wind vane weather chart
Timer

Procedure
A. Temperature of air in a room
1. Take two thermometers.
2. Tie one thermometer (A) tightly to a strong support
inside the room. You can tie it to a nail on the wall or
a window grill. Just make sure that you hang the
thermometer in a place where you can easily read
the temperature.

Thermometer A Thermometer B

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 1. Tie the other thermometer (B) to a shady area
outside the room. You can tie it to a branch of a tree
that is not directly under the sun’s heat.
2. Two students will read thermometer A, Another two
students will read thermometer B. That will be the
initial temperature of air inside and outside the room.
3. Continue taking the temperature readings every 10
minutes until you reach 60 minutes.

Complete Table 1 below with your result n your

notebook.

Table 1. Temperature of air inside and outside the room

Time (min.) Temperature (0C) Temperature (0C)
Inside the room outside the room
0
10
20
30
40
50
60

Questions
a. Inside the room: What is the highest temperature
recorded? Lowest temperature recorded?
b. Outside the room: What is the highest temperature
recorded? Lowest temperature recorded?
c. Are there changes in the temperature readings
inside the room? How about outside the room?

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 d. Where were the temperature changes greater,
inside or outside the room?
e. What do these changes in the temperature mean?
f. In which area was the air cooler, inside the room or
outside the room?

Activity 5: The Daily Weather

Objectives
1. Describe how the wind moves within the day.
2. Tell how hot or cold is the place you are staying in.
3. Identify the elements of weather involved

Materials
weather Chart improvised wind vane
thermometer string or thin rope

Procedure
1. Observe whether the day is sunny, windy, rainy, or
stormy.
2. Go outside the room with your teacher and group
mates. Find an area where you will place your
improvised wind vane.
3. Observe the instrument for ten (10) minutes. The
following questions can help you with your
observations:
A. Is the paper moving? Is it moving slowly,
moderately, or fast?
B. What does the movement of the paper mean?
C. What is the direction of the wind?

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4. Record your observations and answers to questions A,
B, and C in the Table 1.

Table 1. Observations on the wind’s speed and

direction for the day
TIME Observations
First 5 minutes
A
B
C
Next 5 minutes
A
B
C

5. Take the temperature of air in the room and outside the

room every 10 minutes for 30 minutes. Write your
readings in table 2.

Table 2. Temperature of air inside and outside the room

Time (min.) Temperature (0C) Temperature (0C)
Inside the room outside the room
0
5
10
15
20
25
30

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 In which place is air cooler, inside the room or outside
the room?

6. Complete your observations of the day’s weather. Fill

up Table 3 with your observations.

What to Observe DAY 1

Weather Condition
 Sunny /Fair
 Rainy
 Windy
 Stormy
Clouds
 Clear
 Partly cloudy
 Cloudy
Type of Cloud
 Cirrus
 Cumulus
 Stratus
Type of Cloud
 Cirrus
 Cumulus
 Stratus

 Describe the weather condition for the day.

 Does the weather condition change within the day?

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Activity 6: Weather Reporter

Objectives
1. Make a weather bulletin for a week.
2. Report orally the weather for the week.

Materials
weather charts thermometer

Procedure
1. Use the weather chart in activity 5.
2. Make a simple weather bulletin using the table
below.

WEATHER
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
Temperature: _______________

Question
Have you ever interviewed a weather forecaster? What
have you learned from him/her?

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Activity 7: Weather Collage

Objectives
1. Describe how weather affects people, plants
and animals
2. Make a collage showing the effects of weather
on people, plants and animals

Materials
cut out pictures showing different activities of people
paste or glue coloring pen/pencils
cartolina for each group
Procedure
1. Talk with your group mates. Think about the good
and bad effects of the different kinds of weather
on people, plants, and animals. Write the results of
your discussion in your notebook following the table
below.
2. Make a poster showing these effects of weather on
people, plants and animals. See Table 1.

Table1. Effects of different weather conditions on

people, plants, and animals
Weather Effects of Effects of Effects of
condition weather on weather on weather on
people Plants Animals
Sunny
Windy
Rainy
Stormy

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 A. What kind of weather brings good effects on
a) people? Why?
b) animals? Why?
c) plants? Why?

B. What kind of weather brings bad effects on a

a) people? Why?
b) animals? Why?
c) plants ? Why?

C. What kind of weather do you like most? Why?

D. What kind of weather do you hate most? Why?

Activity 8: Be Careful with what we do

Objective
Draw the safety and precautionary measures in dealing
with the different types of weather condition

Materials
Clothes and things used in different weather
conditions, Activity notebook.
Procedure
1. Draw one activity you need to do for each
weather condition. Do this in your notebook.

Things I like to Things I should not do

do (Draw) or
be careful of the
things I do
Sunny Day
Rainy Day

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 Things I like to Things I should not do
do (Draw) or be careful of the
things I do
Windy Day
Stormy Day

2. How different are the activities you do during warm

or sunny days from the activities you do during cold or rainy
days?

3. How different are the conditions of animals during

sunny weather from cold rainy day?

Chapter 3: Objects Seen in the sky

This Chapter deals with the different objects in the sky,
their sizes and brightness. It further discusses the position of
the sun and its effects on people, animals and plants.

Lesson 1: Objects Seen in the Sky

Activity 1: Sky during night and day time

Objective
Describe the objects seen in the sky.
Materials
Graphic organizers
Procedure
Write what you see in the sky during day time and night
time. Copy the model below in your Activity notebook.
Then, answer the questions that follow.

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Graphic Organizer 1: Objects seen in the sky at night.

Sky at
night

Graphic Organizer 2: Objects seen in the sky at daytime

Sky at day

a. What objects do you see in the sky at night? During

the day?
b. Are they the same objects?
c. Tell something about these objects.
d. Why do objects that are seen at night cannot be
seen during daytime?

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Activity 2: Sizes of objects seen in the Sky

Objective
Relate the different sizes of objects seen at night and
day

Materials
small ball; 2 big balls; ruler or meter stick

Procedure:

Set-up A
1. Get 1 small ball and 1 big ball. The balls should be of
the same kind.

2. Put the big ball 4 meters away from the small ball.
(Figure1)

1. Position yourself in front of the small ball.

2. Look at the balls at eye level.

3. Observe their apparent sizes.

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Figure 1.
Set-up B
1. Get 2 big balls. Place them 4 meters apart on table.
2. Position yourself infront of the 1st ball, then look at the
two balls at eye level. Observe their sizes.

Set-up C
1. Reverse the set-up in B.
2. Place the big ball 1 meter away from you. Place the
small ball 4 meters away from the big ball.
3. Position yourself infront of the big ball and look at the
balls at eye level.

Questions
a. In set-up A, which ball looked bigger as you saw it?
b. Describe what you saw in set-up B. Which of the 2 balls
appeared bigger? Or smaller?
c. How did the big ball appear in set-up C? the small ball?

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Activity 3: Brightness and Dimness of Objects seen in the Sky

Objective
Describe the brightness and dimness of objects
seen in the sky.
Materials
3 candles of the same size and kind; match; long
table

Procedure
1. Place three candles 3 meters away from each on a
long table.
2. Stand about a foot away from the first candle and
observe the brightness of the three candles at an eye
level.
3. Record your observations in your notebook.

Questions
Write your answer in your notebook.
a. Which candle looked bigger and brighter?
b. Which candle looked smaller and dimmer?
c. How would you relate the distance between the 3
candles to their brightness or dimness?

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Activity 4: Position of the Sun at Different Times of the Day

Objective
Make observations of the position of the sun at different
times of the day

Material
Flashlight
Procedure

1. Use the figure above as a guide to make the set up.

2. Focus the flashlight at different positions. The flashlight is
the sun and the object at the center is anything on
Earth.
3. Point the flashlight to the object at the center. Observe.
4. Record your observations.

Questions
a. In the morning, what is the position of the sun?
b. At noontime, where is the sun?
c. In the afternoon, where can you find the sun?

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Activity 5: Harmful Effects of Sun’s Heat to People

Objective
Make observations of the effects of the sun to
people

Materials
alcohol burner, eggplant, tomato, kitchen tong,

Procedure
1. Light the burner.
2. Hold the eggplant with a kitchen tong near the fire for
three minutes. (Fig.1)
3. Repeat the procedure for the tomato. Use the kitchen
tong.
4. Observe the skin of the eggplant and tomato.

Questions
Write the answers in your Activity notebook.
a. Did you see some changes in the skin of eggplant and
tomato after holding it near the alcohol lamp? What are
they?
b. Did you see some changes in the skin of tomato after
putting it over the alcohol lamp? What are they?
c. Draw the appearance of tomato and eggplant before
and after they were placed near the alcohol lamp. Do
this in your notebook.
d. Why do you think the skin appear burned or dark?
e. Can the changes in the skin of eggplant and tomato
happen in the skin of people? How?
f. What are the effects of too much heat on people?

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 g.Gather pictures of people who work under the sun for
long hours. Describe the effect of the sun on the
people.

Activity 6: Effects of Sun’s Heat on Plants

Objective
Describe the effect of sun’s heat on plants
Materials
Plants available in the school/ community
Procedure
1. Get two potted plants of the same kind preferably
having the same height and number of leaves.
2. Place one potted plant under the sun ( Plant A) and
the other one under the shade ( Plant B )
3. Water the plants with the same amount of water.
4. Observe each plant two times a day, in the morning
and in the afternoon. Do this for three days.
5. Copy the table below in your notebook. Write your
observations in your notebook copy the table below.
Name of the Plant ___________________
TIME OF THE WHAT DO I SEE?
DAY Plant under the Plant in the sunny
shade area
8:00 AM

2:00 PM

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Questions
a. Describe the condition of the plants before placing
them under the shade and under the sun.
b. What happened to Plant A and Plant B after 2 days.
Do they look the same?
c. What happened to Plant A and Plant B after 3 days?
Do they look the same?
d. Does the sun have any effect on both plants?
e. Write a statement about the effects of the heat of the
sun on plants.

Activity 7: Effects of Sun’s Heat on Animals

Objective
Describe the effects of the heat of the sun on animals

Materials
Garden or places near the school ground

Procedure
1. Look for animals in the school surroundings. Identify
the animals.
2. Describe the appearance of the animals that you
see.
3. Describe the behavior of each animal.
Record your observation in your notebook.

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 Name of Where Appearance What was What
the did I see of the the other
Animal the Animal animal behavior
( Local animal? doing? of the
Name ) animal
did you
see?

Questions
a. Where did you see the animals? Name the animals.
b. Did you see animals staying in shady areas? Why do
they like to stay there?
c. Did you see animals under the heat of the sun? Why do
they like to stay there?
d. What were the animals doing under the shady area?
e. What were the animals doing under the sun?
f. Does the sun have an effect on animals? What is it?

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