SCIENCE YEAR 4 DAILY LESSON PLAN
(BASIC NEEDS OF PLANTS)
Date :23/05/2011
Time : 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Theme : Investigating Living Things
Topic : Basic Needs of Plants
Learning area : Living things have basic needs
Learning objective : 1.3 : Understanding that plants have basic needs
Learning outcomes : At the end of today’s lesson, pupils will be able to identify the
basic needs of plants.
Scientific skills : SPS: Clssifying
Experimenting
Observing
Making inferens
Interpreting data
Resources : Internet (blog)
| Lesson Development | Activities |
| Orientation (5 minutes) | 1. Teacher elicits pupil’s prior knowledge about the basic needs of plants by watching video clips based on the growth of a plant from seeds become plants. 2. Pupils answer the questions to get attention for the lesson. |
| Step 1 (15 minutes) | 1.Teacher explains what are the basic needs of plants to pupils through the blog. 2. Pupils read the notes and explanations given carefully. 2. Pupils answer a few questions based on the pictures shown in the PowerPoint. |
| Step 2 ( 20 minutes) | 1. Teacher shows an album to pupils by the blog. 2. Explains the conditions and the features about how to create an album based on the basic needs of plants. 3. Pupils create a post card using their own creativities. |
| Step 3 (15 minutes) | 1. Teacher provides a puzzle game for the pupils. 2. Pupils read the questions that provided in the quiz and then try to find the answers by click the boxes given in the blog. |
| Closure (5 minutes) | 1. Teacher asks the pupils to recall what they have learnt in this lesson by listening a song based on the basic needs of plants. 2. Pupils sing together according to their groups. |
