Sample Science Lesson Plan – for observation

Date 6/3/2018 Student Fatima Bilal

teacher
Time 9:45 till 10:35 School Australian International School
MCT Garnel Desravins Class 4B
Lesson Sustainability No of 26
unit/page students
Context of the lesson
The lesson is about sustainability, which mainly talks about how can we use the things in our lives continuously and
how can we make it environmental friendly for the people.
Teaching goal.
My teaching goal is to make the students have an idea about sustainability, and how can we help sustainability grow.

Learning objectives

- Students will be able to identify the meaning of sustainability and decomposing.

- Students will be able to differentiate between sustainability and decomposing.
- Students will be able to recognize what are the things can grow sustainability (recycling)
- Students will be able to design a picture about sustainability.

Assumptions about prior learning.

The students may have a background knowledge about sustainability.

Anticipated problems and possible solutions

- Technical problems in using the laptop.
- Solutions: bringing another laptop in case.

Personal focus for this lesson

- Time management in how to give a certain time to each activity.
- Behavior management in how to get the student’s attention.

Target language Teacher language

Sustainability
Decomposing Greeting the students “Good morning students”
Recycling
Warming them up “today we will have an interesting
lesson you might have an idea about”

Motivate them by reminding them of “star of the lesson”

which I will be giving them by the end of the lesson.

Main tasks or activities. Resources and teaching aids.

First activity: students will have a research about - Teacher’s laptop

sustainability and decomposing and will explain it to - Students laptops
their classmates. - Pictures (sustainability and decomposing)
- 3 labeled containers (glass, paper and bottles and
Second activity: students will have an interactive activity cans)
about recycling, they have to put the item pictures in the - Pictures of different items (newspapers,
right container. magazines, coca cola can, etc..)
- A3 paper
Third activity: students will draw or write about - Markers
sustainability in their own words and their own
understandings.
Consider these grouping strategies: Consider where the children are working:
- Pair work
- Individual work - Classroom (on their chairs and desks)
- Group work

Planning Stages Within the 5-E Inquiry Model

Engage
PURPOSE:
● To convey the context of the lesson(s)/unit by conveying an important Key Question
● To engage students in investigations that reveal their thinking to themselves and the teacher.
● To engage their interest.
Key Question: what do you know about sustainability?

Teacher
The teacher will show the students pictures of
decomposing things such as pictures of plastic
decomposed. So the teacher will tell the students
that plastics are Unsustainable an we cannot use
them in entire life. After that the teacher will show
them a short video about sustainability with small
explanation.
Student
The students will see the pictures and predict the
right vocabulary of each picture. Also the students
will watch the video with the teacher and will
recognize the meaning of sustainability,
decompose and unsustainable.

Explore
PURPOSE:
● to test ideas and develop knowledge using explorations, investigations, experiments
● to modify and record ideas as they change due to activities
● to develop new questions and testable hypotheses
Activities (list) Driving Question
● First, each pair get their devices, and
will open KidRex.org - What did you find after doing the
● Second, each pair will have a research research?
about decomposing and sustainability
meaning. - Can you explain what does
● Third, each pair will read the meaning. sustainability and decomposing means?
● Fourth, each pair will read the meaning
out loud to their classmates.
Teacher Student

The teacher will tell the students to open their Students will be doing their research with their
devices and go to KidRex.org and have a research pairs and discus about it.
about the meaning of sustainability and
decomposing. After that each pair will explain Students will explain the meaning to their
what did they have found about sustainability and classmates.
decomposing and they will explain the meanings
that they found.

Student Communication Product:

Students will be discussing and helping each other to find the meaning of sustainability and
decomposing with their pairs.
 Explain

PURPOSE:
● to provide students with relevant vocabulary, formal definitions and explanations of concepts

Content Media: teacher lecture

Teacher Student

After the activity, the teacher will starts explaining The students will be interacting with the
the meanings of sustainability and decomposing, teacher, by giving examples of sustainability
the teacher will explain these two meanings by
or about decomposing. Also the students
using flashcards and pictures for the students to
make it more visual for them. After explaining the might have different explanations about
meanings, the teacher will tell the students that what sustainability means.
there’s an example of sustainability which is
recycling. So she will explain what is recycling
and how it works. And she will give an example
about recycling and will explain how is recycling
helps us nowadays.

Elaborate
PURPOSE:
● to extend students' conceptual understanding through application or practice in new settings

Activities: Teacher Student

Content media:
3 containers labeled, such as
container 1 (papers), container
2 (bottles and cans) and
container 3 (glass)
Extending/application:
Students will have a picture of
each item. After that the
students have to move from
their places and get their items
pictures inside their container
according to the item they
have.
Group discourse:
After each student goes to
his/her container, the students
will start explaining about their
items and their container
whether its about glass, bottles
and cans or papers.
In this activity, the teacher will - students will have their
have 3 different containers and pictures.
each container is labeled, such
as container 1 (papers), - They will start looking
container 2 (bottles and cans) for their right
and container 3 (glass) after container.
that the teacher will give each
student a picture of the item - They will put the
and she will tell them to put picture in the container
their item picture in the right and will explain for
container according to their their friends what is
item picture, so for example if their container is about.
one student has a pepsi can
picture, they will put the
picture in the “bottles and
cans” container. After putting
the pictures in their container,
each group will explain what is
their container about and what
are their items.
 Evaluate
PURPOSE:
● for students to assess their understand of the learning objectives
● for the teacher to assess student understanding of the learning objectives

Skill/Reasoning Learning Objectives Assessment Instrument

The students will be able to improve their
creativity by drawing to explain the
meaning of sustainability with a picture.
Also to improve their writing skills by
writing what sustainability means to
them by their own words.
Knowledge Learning Objectives
The students will recognize sustainability and
decomposing by displaying a picture for them.
Teacher
The students will have an A3 paper to draw or to
write on it and to explain the meaning of
sustainability by drawing or writing.
Assessment Instrument
The teacher will show the students some pictures
of sustainability and decomposing and
the students have to say what each
picture describes.
Student

The teacher will tell the students to draw a picture Students will have the papers and will start
or write a small paragraph about sustainability in drawing/ writing about sustainability.
your own words.

Lesson plan reflection.

areas of strength.

The things that were good in the lesson is the engage activity, where i let the students to see a picture and
guess what is it about and doing a research after that to have more information about what did they saw. and
they did a research about sustainability, decomposing and recycling. the other thing that was good in my
lesson is the evaluate activity, where the students were able to draw a picture about the lesson and have a
small paragraph that explains what did they understand from the lesson, and i think this is a good way to let
the students have the chance to be creative in drawing and also to build their skills in writing.

areas of development:

The things that need to be developed is the elaborate activity, where the students had to classify the pictures
to the boxes in the classroom. the point of the activity was that the students will know that recycling helps
and supports the sustainability and at the same time they will know the classification of the recycling and
they will be able to explain what each recycling bin includes and how can people recycle these things. But
because of the time i wasn’t able to let each student to explain, so i did it in a quick way. Also i should be
more creative in the elaborate activity and make the students do more than just classification and explaining.
The things that i need to develop in my next lesson is time management and put on more creativity in the
lesson.