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Unit IV, Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Bodies of Water in Your Community

STRUCTURED LEARNING EPISODE

GRADE III
Competency:
Lesson:
Objectives:
Reference:
Materials:
Activities:

Describe the things found in the surroundings (S3ES-IVa-b-1)

Relate the importance of surroundings to people and other living things (S3ES-IVc-d-2)
Bodies of Water in Your Community
1. Describe the bodies of water
2. Infer that plants and animals are present around and in the bodies of water.
3. Participate in group activities
K to 12 Learners Material pp. 151-152
K to 12 Teachers Guide pp. 157-160
pictures of different bodies of water; pencil
photocopy of two bodies of water, crayon or water color, clear tape, cardboard , pair of
scissors
Priming
Questions
Have you gone swimming with their parents, brothers and sisters? Where was
the place? Did you enjoy swimming?
Have you traveled by boat with their parents, brothers and sisters? Where was
the place? Did you enjoy the travel?
Where do you get the water you use for drinking, for taking a bath, and for
washing their clothes?
Based on the answers to the questions, ask the pupils: are there different kinds of
bodies of water? Name some of them.
Activity
Activity Sheet 4: Bodies of Water in your Community
Analysis
Let the pupils examine closely the pictures in the Activity Sheet. Ask them if the
body of water is familiar to them.
Discuss further the characteristic of the different bodies of water. Refer to the
background information for this topic. (see Teachers Guide pp.157-158)
Abstraction
What are the different bodies of water present in your community?
Water bodies are described in a plethora of different names in English - rivers,
streams, ponds, bays, gulfs, and seas to name a few.
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream
banks. It moves to a lower level in a channel on land. Example of this is
Tandawan stream in Davao.
A river is a natural watercourse usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a
lake, or sea, or another river. In few cases, a river simply flows into the ground
or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. The rivers in the
Philippines are the Pasig River ,called Ilog Pasig in Filipino that connects
Laguna De bay to Manila Bay.
A hot spring is produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater
from the Earths crust, Example is the Tangub Hot Spring in Camiguin. It is in
the sea at normal water level. At low tide the warm water comes out between
the rocks.
A pond is a small lake, most often in a natural depression. Like a stream, the
word lake is quite a generic term - it refers to any accumulation of water
surrounded by land - although it is often of a considerable size.
A sea is a large body of saline water that may be connected with an ocean or
may be a large saline lake that lacks a natural outlet. An example is the
Camotes Sea, a small sea between the Eastern Visayas and the Central

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Unit IV, Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Bodies of Water in Your Community

Visayas. It is bordered by the islands of Leyte to the north and east, Bohol to the
South and Cebu to the West.
Oceans are the ultimate bodies of water and refers to the five oceans - Atlantic,
Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern. The equator divides the Atlantic Ocean and
Pacific Oceans into the North and South Atlantic Ocean and the North and
South Pacific Ocean.

Application
1. Kangkong grows in shallow bodies of water. What do think will happen to them if
they are planted away from bodies of water?
2. Roy noticed that frogs are abundant in the nearby pond, while toads can be barely
seen. What is the reason behind this?
Closure
Ask the pupils to complete the table below.
BODIES OF WATER
Fresh Water
Salted Water
Plants and Animals Present

Assessment

Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer on your paper.
Column A
1. a body of water with a current, confined within a bed
and stream banks. It moves to a lower level in a
channel on land.
2. usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a
lake, or sea, or another river.
3. produced by the emergence of geothermally
heated ground water from the Earths crust,
4. localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land
apart from a river, stream, or other form of moving
water that serves to feed or drain the lake
5. a large body of saline water that is connected to an
ocean or may be a large saline lake that lacks a
natural outlet.
6. the smallest indentations of land by a lake, sea, or
ocean.
7. larger than a cove and can refer to any wide
indentation of the land
8. larger than a bay which is usually a deep cut of the
land
9. body of water surrounded by land
10. body of water smaller than ocean

Agreement

Column B
a. sea
b. lake
c. spring
d. river
e. hotspring
f.

lake

g. gulf
h. oceans
i.
j.

coves
bay

1. Draw a water body found in your community.

2. Collect pictures of the different kinds of bodies of water.

Prepared by:

KATHERINE L. ROMERO

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Teacher I

SUPPLEMENTARY WORKSHEET
GRADE III
Competency:
Lesson:
Objectives:
Reference:
Materials:
Direction:

Describe the things found in the surroundings (S3ES-IVa-b-1)

Relate the importance of surroundings to people and other living things (S3ES-IVc-d-2)
Bodies of Water in Your Community
1. Describe the bodies of water
2. Infer that plants and animals are present around and in the bodies of water.
3. Participate in group activities
K to 12 Learners Material pp. 151-152
pictures of different bodies of water; pencil
photocopy of two bodies of water, crayon or water color, clear tape, cardboard , pair of
scissors
Activity Sheet 4: Bodies of Water in your Community
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.

Prepared by:

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Unit IV, Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Bodies of Water in Your Community

KATHERINE L. ROMERO
Teacher I