LAB 5: BIOLOGY LABORATORY LESSON PLAN

DATE

: 21.3 2014

DAY

: Friday

TIME

: 8.10-9.30 a.m (80 minutes)

SUBJECT : Biology
FORM

: Form 4 Jabir

VENUE

: Biology Lab 1

NO.OF STUDENT: 30/30

TOPIC

: Experiment of the Intraspecific and Interspecific competitions in

plants.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVE: To study the intraspecific and interspecific

competitions in plants.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:
1. Student had already learnt about ecosystem.
2. Students have learned the different trophic levels in food chain and food
web.
NOBLE VALUES:
1. Student will showing interests and curiosity in the environment
2. Student are being cooperative
3. Student can appreciate the balance in nature.
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TEACHING MEDIA:
Text book, marker pen, and white board.
MATERIAL AND APPARATUS:
Three seedling trays (2 m x 1 m each) with garden soil, a packet of maize seeds, a
packet of paddy seeds, Distilled water, Ruler, Oven, Compression balance, Spade
Waterproof pain, and Paintbrush.

PRECAUTION STEP:
1. Handle glass apparatus carefully.
2. Make sure no zero error before using the compression balance.
INDUCTION SET:
Teacher asks students the different between intraspecific and interspecific in plants.
Teacher discusses the answer with students. Then teacher relate the discussion with
todays experiment.
CONTENT

ACTIVITY /METHOD
TEACHER

STUDENTS

Experiment to study the

1. Problem identification
intraspecific and
interspecific competitions ini) Teacher will aski) Student will
student what
answer the
plants
is the
question.
purpose of
2

NOTES

Question:
1) How do
intraspecific and
interspecific
competitions

the
experiment?

There are three variables in

this experiment.

affect the
growth of maize
and rice plants?

2. Variable identification

i) Teacher will ask Students will

Constant variable:
student to
write the
Quantity and types of garden
identify and
answer
soil
write all three
correctly on
variable in
the
Independent variable:
this
whiteboard.
Types of seedlings
experiment.

Teaching media:
White board,
Marker pens.

Dependent variable:
Dry mass of seedlings /
Height of seedling
Hypothesis:

3. Hypothesis construction
Question:

Intraspecific competition i) Teacher asks the Students discuss

occurs between plants of the
students to
in group about 1) What is the
hypothesis of
same specifies while
discuss in the
the hypothesis
this experiment?
interspecific competition
group to give
of the
occur between plants of
a hypothesis
experiment
different species.
to the
and leader
experiment.
will write
ii) Teachers discuss
their answer
the best
in whiteboard.
hypothesis of
this
experiment.
Materials and apparatus:

4. Designing experiment
Teaching media:
3

Three seedling trays (2 m x Teacher will ask Students will

1 m each) with garden soil, a
student what
answer the
packet of maize seeds, a
is the material
question
packet of paddy seeds,
and apparatus
given.
Distilled water, Ruler, Oven,
used in this
Compression balance, Spade
experiment?
Waterproof pain, and
ii) What is the first
Paintbrush.
step to do?
Procedure:

iii) What is next?

1. The seedling trays are

labeled A, B and C using
waterproof paint.
2. The seedling trays are
filled with equal amounts
of garden soil. The seeds
are planted as shown in
the diagram at 5 cm
intervals.
3. The seeds are watered
carefully with distilled
water each day.
4. After 30 days, 10 paddy
seedling are pulled out
randomly from tray A.
The roots of the seedling
are cleaned under running
water.
5. The Paddy seedling are
then heated and dried at
105C in an oven.
6. Step 4-5 are repeated for
seedling tray B and C.
The average dry mass a
4

White board,
Marker pens.

maize seedling in tray C

are weighed separately.
7. The results are recorded
in table.
5. Data collection
Teaching media:
Average dry mass (g) Teacher ask
Tray A

Tray B

Tray C

Paddy

Maize

Paddy

seed

Seed

seed

The hypothesis is accepted:

Intraspecific competition
occurs between plants of the
same specifies while
interspecific competition
occur between plants of
different species.

Student write

student to

their result in

present their

table form in

result.

white board

6. Making conclusion of the

experiment
Teacher will aski) Student will
student to
conclude the
make a
experiment.
conclusion
for this
experiment.

ii) Teacher asks

students
whether the
hypothesis is
accepted or
5

White board,
Marker pens.

not.
7. Making report.
Teacher ask
student to
make a proper
report for this
experiment.

Every student
will do their
report and
submit during
next class.

Teacher explains
the format on how
to do laboratory
report correctly on
white board.

ii) Teacher ask

students to
add some
discussion for
this
experiment
CONCLUSION:
At the end of the laboratory teacher will make an overall conclusion and stress the
important points in the experiment to study the intraspecific and interspecific
competitions in plants.