LESSON PLAN

Pedagogy of Science: Science Lesson Plan



Pedagogy of Science: Science Lesson Plan

Introduction

Lesson plan is an important tool for providing detailed guides for teachers in presenting the curriculum. These help teachers to develop the teaching material required for teaching students (O'Bannon 2008). The material required is differentiated according to levels. They are various methods for teaching students. They are considered as the road map for teachers and a certain direction and understanding the direction the teacher can take. This planning also helps in the absence of teacher in understanding the lesson to be taught to the students. This paper presents a science lesson plan for grade 5 students.

Purpose of the Lesson

The purpose of this lesson is to examine human actions and their consequences to our environment. In addition, the student must identify human actions that have been linked to the green house effect.

What Students Know

What Students should know

What students have learned

• The basic idea of fossil fuels; their orgin and their use.

• The role of tree in maintaining and improving the environment and atmosphere.

• The harmful effects of pollution

• The need, use and effects of factories and vehicles in our everyday life

• Encouraging the students in participating in the brainstorming session. The teacher simultaneously describes the ways in which human activities threaten the world's ecological distribution. In explaining the impact of humans on the earth's climate, the teacher might use a concept map or a web.

• The potential negative effects of fossil fuel use on the environment and the weather.

• The carbon di oxide emission from the burning of fossil fuels.

• The danger that global warming places on human, animal and plant life.

• Ways in which the effects of global warming can be minimized or prevented.

• Ways in which human activities ...