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Tuesday 24 March 2015

LP alignment - Sunel (Science dept.)

Teacher: Mr. Sameer Khan

                                               Lesson plan

Class IX
Topic: Classification of organisms
Resources: iron materials. Wood materials, plant parts,  plastics materials,  utensils, etc. 

INTRODUCTION: firstly I’ll put some questions in front of them like:
                                What do you know about classification?
                                Why we need to classify organisms?
           After their responses I’ll clear all doubts if they have.


LEARNING OUTCOME: By this topic students will be able to identify the criteria of classification and able to arrange according to the characteristics of organisms.

                   Teacher’s actions
                Students responses
Firstly I’ll divide whole class into some groups and assign their roles.

 After that I’ll provide all materials (mentioned in resources) to them and give instructions to classify in to its particular groups and record your observations.
In between the activity I’ll put some questions why u classified the materials in their particular group. What criteria do you use?
Then I’ll give the some classes or topic to read from their text.

After that I’ll put some classes of organisms on the wall and provide organism’s pictures to them individually and give instructions to put pictures of organisms in their particular classes from your observation and ideas which you take from activity and text.




They will be collects materials from me and starts classify.
They will be writing their observations.

They will be giving me answer as per their observations.


They will be read it carefully


They will be hang pictures in their particular classes from their observations.

HOME WORK: I’ll give some organisms name to find their classes and special characters also give some classes name to find their examples (Organism’s name).
                           


Revision: I will write the classes name on the black board and explain in summaries.

Black board summery
                                                                                            
                                                                                                              AGENDA
                                                                                                 Classification of organisms

                             Classes: Plantae, animalia, amphibia
                                            Reptilia, aves, mammals


Why is my lesson plan aligned?
                         In this lesson plan learning outcome was students will be able to identify the criteria of classification also able to arrange with characters of organisms.

                        According to learning outcome I gave them a concrete experience by some general materials (mentioned in resources). By this activity (mentioned in teacher’s action) students have understood about the criteria of classification. That was my learning outcome. So starting was aligned.
                      After that I made some groups and gave instructions to read their text. After their reading I put a chart and put some classes name of organisms  and I provided some pictures of organisms which they belong from related classes and gave instructions to put the pictures in their particular class by observing figure and characters which you read in your text.
                      By this activity students have understood about the arrangements of organisms with their characters. That was also my learning outcome so activity also aligned.
                       I also gave them some questions like find some examples and characters of organisms from your text. Such questions helped them in understanding the unique characters of organisms in a particular class. That was also my learning outcome so home work was aligned too.



1 comment:

Reniscience Education said...

Thank you for posting this. I have a few questions for you to think about and discuss with your school leader:
1. When you give them the materials to sort, do you tell them how to sort it or do you leave it up to them to decide how? It's not clear from your lesson plan.
2 I am not clear if you want kids to IDENTIFY the criteria for sorting or DEFINE what criteria means. From your first activity it seems more like you are defining what criteria means..
3. It is not clear what they are reading and how that information will help them with classifying. Please add such details to your LP in the future. If you remember, we had discussed always giving students a TASK when they are reading. What task did you assign to them?
4. DO you think the last activity could have been a small group activity? What benefits would that provide?

I think you have partially met your objective but you may want to think about writing clearer objectives.