LEYTE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

Paterno St., Tacloban City

NAT SCI 503 - Strategies and Methods in Teaching Science

Lesson Plan in Species Diversity (Classifying Organism)

Teacher : ALVEN M. REY

Time Frame : 1 Hour
Method used : Process Approach

I. OBJECTIVE:

Classify organisms using the hierarchical taxonomic system (S8LT-IVh-20).

II. LEARNING TASK/SUBJECT MATTER:

a. Topic: CLASSIFYING ORGANISMS

b. Concept:
There are different kinds of organisms that inhabit the earth, they come in different shapes,
colors, and sizes. These organisms are found in various places from the soil, to the rivers, oceans, forests,
salty or hot places, in short in every corner of the world.
Scientist devise a way of naming and classifying organisms that they called hierarchical taxonomic
system. This system of classification or categories consist of the Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class,
Order, Family, Genus and Species.
In naming organism we use the Genus and Species category we called scientific name.

c. Skills: Observing, Clasifying/Naming, communicating and interpreting data.

d. Materials: Pictures of the animals and plants seen on the communities, manila paper, marker and coloring
materials.
e. References: DepEd Science Grade 8 Learner’s Module; Rabago, Lilian M. (2014). K to 12 Worktext 8
Science and Technology. Vibal Group, Inc. 1253 G. Araneta Ave., Quezon City and online sources.

III. STRATEGIES/PROCEDURES:

A. Routine Check:
B. Review/Refreshment:
Direction: complete the concept map by putting each word in its correct place.

C. Unlocking of Difficulties:
1. Organism – a living thing.
2. Species - a group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are
usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
3. Fertile Offspring - young of parents which can continue to reproduce.

D. Motivation:
Direction: given the symbols and its counterpart letters, can you guess what our topic for today.

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 Teacher’s Activity Learners’ Activity
A. Preliminary Explorations
 Look and observe the pictures in front, what are  Animals and Plants.
the pictures show?
 Can you name these animals?  Yes.
 Having said that let us perform the activity
“What’s in a name?
 Are you ready?  We’re ready sir.
 (Students are doing the activity while the teacher  Students will post their anchor chart after
is facilitating.) the activity in the board for discussion.
 (answer of the students depend on the
 Are there organisms that others gave the same answers they put in their anchor chart)
name to as your group did? Give examples.
 Are there organisms that others gave a different
name to as your group did? What are these
organisms?
 What can you say about your knowledge of the  I only know the organisms name waray-
organisms before the other groups’ presentations waray dialect, Filipino and English.
and discussion?
B. Invention Lesson
 How many names does the organism have?  It has many names depending on places.
 These are what we called local and common
names of organism?
 Why do you think we need to name organism?  For people to easily identify an organism.
 Let us analyzed the sample classification of
organism.
 Which organisms in Table above are similar up to  Domesticated Cat, Dog, Wolf and Lion
the Order category?
 Dog and wolf, because they fall on the
 Which organisms are most closely related? Why same category from Kingdom category to
do you say so? genus category.
 Can a dog and a wolf produce fertile offspring?  Yes, because they almost similar.
Explain your answer.
 Examine the row for species in Table above.  Its first letter is written in small letter and
What have you noticed? all the letters are italicized.
C. Discovery Lesson
 Try to look in the pictures.
 Which do you prefer clutter house or clean  Clean house, because it is easy to move
house why? and find what we need.
 Why we need to organize our things?  To make our life easy.
E. Lesson Proper:

F. Generalization:

 Scientist use scientific name to identify and classify organism.

 They group organism according to what category it belongs: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, and Species. (Keep Personal Computer On For Great Surfing)

G. Assessment:
Direction: in a ¼ sheet of paper answer the following.
1. Give the seven categories in classifying organism.
2. In what categories does the scientific name come from?

IV. ASSIGNMENT:
Direction: In your note book answer the following questions.
1. What are the three domain used by scientist to classify all organism? Then give the kingdom under in
this domain?

Prepared by:

ALVEN M. REY
MAEd – Nat. Sci.
Activity: What’s in a name?
Objectives:

After performing this activity, you should be able to:

1. give the names of organisms as they are known in your community and
2. Recognize the need to have a system of classifying and naming organisms.

Materials Needed:

Pictures of different organisms

Marker and Coloring Materials
Cartolina or Manila Paper

Procedure:

1. Get pictures of organisms from your teacher.

2. With your group, discuss how each of these organisms is called in your community. Accept any
name which your group mates will give for an organism. If you know other names by which an
organism is called in another place, include them. Write them on your anchor chart.
3. Be ready when your teacher asks you to present your work to the class. Take note of how the
other groups named each of the organisms shown.

Domesticated
Category Dog Bangus Wolf Lion
Cat
Kingdom Animalia Animalia Animalia Animalia Animalia
Phylum Chordata Chordata Chordata Chordata Chordata
Class Mammalia Mammalia Actinopterygii Mammalia Mammalia
Order Carnivora Carnivora Gonorynchiformis Carnivora Carnivora
Family Felidae Canidae Canidae Canidae Felidae
Genus Felis Canis Chanos Canis Panthera
Species catus familiaris chanos lupus leo
Scientific
Felis catus Canis familiaris Chanos chanos Canis lupus Panthera leo
Name
Analyze the Sample classification of organisms in the table and answer the questions below.