4a's LP
Sample Teaching Exemplar
Title 555
Grade Level: III
Concept Focus" A small family can meet basic needs
Subject Area: Science and Health, MLC 5.6
Period Covered: One session
I. Objectives
• To enumerate the advantage of having a small family in meeting basic needs (MLC 5.6);
• To compare small and big families in meeting basic needs;
• To discuss the implications of meeting basic needs to certain rights that children should enjoy.
II. Materials Strips of paper with the following phrases separately written on it:
Right to nutritious food
Right to comfortable home
Right to clothing
Right to education
Right to health services
III. Procedure a. Priming: Ask the following questions
• who eat canned sardines?
• who can picture the situation inside a can of sardines? b. Activity Using an imaginary space, ask for five pupils to stay inside the space and do whatever they want to do (they can sit, play, lie down, dance, etc.). Call for another group (about twenty or more) and let them all stay inside the same space. Make sure that the pupils will be limited in their movements, their bodies crashing against each other. Let them move without going outside the space. Observe their reactions. c. Analysis Ask the following questions:
• how did the members of the first group feel while inside the space?
• how did the members of the second group feel? (the teacher will write on the board the responses in first and second questions)
• how do you relate this situation to big and small families in terms of home, food, clothing, medical services, and education? ( the responses to this questions will also be written on the board)
• what does the activity tell us? (expected answer: the more persons occupy a space, the more it becomes uncomfortable to them.) d. Abstraction Use the responses on the board in comparing the big and small families in meeting basic needs. Discuss the advantages of having a small family in meeting basic
Title 555
Grade Level: III
Concept Focus" A small family can meet basic needs
Subject Area: Science and Health, MLC 5.6
Period Covered: One session
I. Objectives
• To enumerate the advantage of having a small family in meeting basic needs (MLC 5.6);
• To compare small and big families in meeting basic needs;
• To discuss the implications of meeting basic needs to certain rights that children should enjoy.
II. Materials Strips of paper with the following phrases separately written on it:
Right to nutritious food
Right to comfortable home
Right to clothing
Right to education
Right to health services
III. Procedure a. Priming: Ask the following questions
• who eat canned sardines?
• who can picture the situation inside a can of sardines? b. Activity Using an imaginary space, ask for five pupils to stay inside the space and do whatever they want to do (they can sit, play, lie down, dance, etc.). Call for another group (about twenty or more) and let them all stay inside the same space. Make sure that the pupils will be limited in their movements, their bodies crashing against each other. Let them move without going outside the space. Observe their reactions. c. Analysis Ask the following questions:
• how did the members of the first group feel while inside the space?
• how did the members of the second group feel? (the teacher will write on the board the responses in first and second questions)
• how do you relate this situation to big and small families in terms of home, food, clothing, medical services, and education? ( the responses to this questions will also be written on the board)
• what does the activity tell us? (expected answer: the more persons occupy a space, the more it becomes uncomfortable to them.) d. Abstraction Use the responses on the board in comparing the big and small families in meeting basic needs. Discuss the advantages of having a small family in meeting basic