A Detailed Lesson Plan in Science 6

I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson the student will be able to:
a. Identify the different types of interactions among living things.
b. Give examples of living things found in tropical rainforests.
c. Describe the interactions among living things in tropical rainforests.
d. Discuss the interactions between living and tropical rainforests.
II. SUBJECT MATTER:
Topic: Lesson 1: Interactions in Different Ecosystem
III. LEARNING PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity
A. Daily Routine
 Greetings/ Introduction
• Good day class!  Good day Teacher!
• I’m Teacher Meryl! What is my name again?  Teacher Meryl!
• Very good!
 Prayer
• Let’s all stand for a prayer.  Students will pray in
 Cleanliness chorus.
• Okay class before you take your seats, kindly
pick up the trash under your chairs and
arrange it properly.
 Attendance
• Let me now check the attendance, as I call
your name you will say “wooow Regine!!”
aloud. Understood?
 Yes, Teacher Meryl!
• Ok let’s begin!
o Calling names...  “wooow Regine!!”
 Classroom Rules/Standards
• Before we start, let me explain the rules of  Sit properly.
our class.  Listen to teacher.
 Raise your right hand if
you want to talk in the
class.
 Respect each other.
B. Warm Up
 Before we start our lesson, let us warm up first. We
all need to stand up and sing and dance after me.
Understand?  Yes, Teacher!
Science time song  Children will sing and
What shall we do in our science time? dance.
we observe, we compare (repeat)
 Good job class! Did you enjoy what we did?  Yes, Teacher!
 Nice to hear that! Because of that let’s do the “Oppa  Students will do the Oppa
clap” Clap
C. Lesson Presentation

 Motivation
• Are you in a relationship?  No, Teacher!
• When we say relationship, it doesn’t only  Yes, Teacher!
pertain on having relationship with boyfriend
or girlfriend. We can say that relationship is
also with your family, friends, neighbors, and
enemies.
• What do you see in the picture?

 Boy playing with his dog.

 A flower and a bee

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 A tree with moss and ants

•
• Good job class! Those pictures are simple
interaction among living things that you
might find around you.  We need to interact with
• Why do we need to interact with others? Or others to fulfill our needs.
why do we need to make relationship to
others?  We make relationship with
• Wonderful answer! To fulfill our needs. others because “no man is
Every living thing or organism has needs. an island.
Okay any other answers?
• Fantastic! We are all in need because we
cannot live on our own and indeed “no man
is island.”

 Discussion
• Let us now proceed to our lesson. Our lesson
for today is about interaction in different
ecosystems, specifically in tropical
rainforest, coral reefs, and mangrove
swamps. But today we will focus on tropical
rainforests.
• Let’s first have an activity. I will group the
class into two (2) group and who’s group
will finish will have a reward after. I have
here crossword puzzles. Does everybody
know how it is done? Kindly raise your
hands.  Children will raise their
• Very well1 I will explain it for those who hands.
does not know the crossword puzzle.
• Okay below the crossword puzzle are the
definitions there will be horizontal and
vertical. You will put your answer on the
designated number. And on the left side are
the possible answers. Do you understand?  Yes, Teacher!
• Very good let’s begin!


•
• Excellent class! All did a great job.
• Okay now let’s begin with our lesson.
• First, we discuss the ecosystem. Kindly read.
 Ecosystem - is a
• Good job! There are different ecosystems
community where living
that exist, it can be on land, or water.
things interact with their
• The relationship between the living things is
environment and other
called symbiosis. Please read.
living things.
 Symbiosis – is a type of
biological relationship
among living things that
live closely together.
• Now we will travel. Are you ready class?  Yes, Teacher!
• Ok pretend that we’re riding a bus. Safety
first! let’s all buckle up! All set?  Yes, Teacher!
• Well then let’s go!
• We arrived at our destination! the tropical
rainforest! Can anyone define the tropical  Tropical Rainforest – is
rainforest? an ecosystem where you
can find a wide variety of
plants, animals, and
microorganisms in an area
• Let’s move on to our journey as can you see where rain falls frequently.
on your right and left window you will see
tall trees. Did you know class that those trees
can grow as tall as 50-80 meters for its
leaves to get sunlight.
• Do you see living organisms on those trees?
Can you name one?

 Birds
 Insects
 Lizards
 Frogs

•
• Fascinating isn’t?
• Did you see that class? A mushroom on a
tree!  Yes, Teacher!

•
• What do you think is their relationship?  Parasitism, Teacher!
• Awesome! Parasitism, can you define  Parasitism – is a
Parasitism? relationship in which a
parasite gets its food from
an organism (host),
causing it harm.
• Correct! Which do you think is the parasite?
And which is the host? Remember:  The mushroom is the
o Parasite – is the organism that gets parasite, and the tree is the
its food from another. host.
o Host – is the source of the food.
• That’s right! Fungi gets their nutrition from a
tree and cause plant diseases.
• Look class! There are ants on that acacia
tree!

•
• As you can see the ants live on the acacia
tree and feed on the sap. Also the ants
protects the acacia tree from plant eating
organisms such as caterpillar.
• What do you think is their type of  It is Mutualism, Teacher!
relationship?
• Great! It is Mutualism. Why did you say so?  Because they help each
other.
• Yes indeed!
o Mutualism – is a relationship in
which two organisms help each other
to survive.
• What’s that class?
 Lions are figh�ng with each
other, Teacher!

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• What do you think are they fighting for?  Their figh�ng for food,
• Yes, they are! What do you think is their type Teacher!
of relationship?  Compe��on, Teacher!
• Correct! It is Competition. What is
competition?  Compe��on – is a
rela�onship wherein
organisms compete for food
and space.
• Very good! Some wild animals seek for the
same food in a specific area, forcing them to
compete to satisfy their needs. We better get
out here before they eat us.
• Let’s go! There is a snake! What do you
think it’s doing?

 The snake is ea�ng the frog.

•
• What is their type of relationship? And why?  Preda�on, because the
snake kills and eats the frog.
• Very well said!
o Predation – is a relationship in
which an organism, the predator kills
and eats another organism, the prey,
for food.
• Which one is the predator, and which one is
the prey? Remember:
o Predator – is the one that feeds on
another organism.
 The predator is the snake,
o Prey – is the organism that is killed
and the prey is the frog.
and eaten.
• Look at that creature! Does anyone know  It is a Sloth, Teacher!
that animal?

•
• Yes, it is! Do you notice the green color  Yes, Teacher what is that
thing on its fur? thing?
 Algae? How did that
• It is algae.
happen?
• Yes algae, their relationship is called
Commensalism.
o Commensalism- - is a relationship in
which organism benefits without
harming the other.
• The algae seek shelter in the fur of a sloth
and get plenty of water. The sloth, in turn,
uses the algae's green color to camouflage
itself and gets nutrients through its hair and
skin.
 • Another example of it are ferns growing on
trees. The fern receives nutrients from the
tree without affecting or harming the tree.
• We are now done on our trip its time to go
back. Did you all have fun?
• But before we go back did you know that  Yes, Teacher!
here in tropical rainforest living thing
interact with non-living things, too.
o Abiotic – are the non-living
components in an ecosystem.
o Example of this is sunlight and wind.
• Organisms need interact with different
nonliving things for them to meet certain
needs.
• Strong winds disperse or scatter seeds from
the parent plant. But it is not experienced by
all plant in rainforest, because the amount of
wind is not the same for all areas or layers of
the forest.
• Now let’s go back!
D. Generalization
 What have you learned from today’s lesson?  Children’s answers may vary.
 Very well said class! Let’s do Oppa clap for that!  Oppa clap
 Interactions with others is very important doesn’t
matter if it is a living or nonliving thing both is need 
for us to survive.
 Do you have any ques�ons regarding our lesson for today?
 None, Teacher!
E. Application
 Yes, Teacher!
 If you don’t have any ques�ons, let’s have an ac�vity.
 Are you ready?
 We will group you into 5 groups and each group will
discuss the different relationship that was assigned.
You will talk about how the relationship advantageous
or disadvantageous. And will present it in front of the
class. Also, I have here cards for you to pick on what  None, Teacher!
performance you will do, which is:
• News report – Adapt a certain portion of a
news TV program to explain the chosen
relationship. The group members will act out
as reporters or news anchors and the
characters in the report.
• Rap – Compose and present a rap about the
benefit and/or harm caused by the chosen
relationship to the organisms involved.
• Commercial or advertisement – Prepare and
present a commercial to explain the positive
things about the chosen relationship.
• Talk show – Act out as celebrities promoting
the chosen relationship among organisms.
They have to say good things about the
relationship.
• Poem – Create and recite a poem to explain
the chosen relationship.
 Any questions?
 • Group 1 parasitism
• Group 2 mutualism
• Group 3 competition
• Group 4 predation
• Group 5 commensalism
 Each group will be giving 10 minutes to prepare.
 You may all now begin.

Rubric 8 6 4 2
Product doesn’t
Product fully related Product relates to Product relates to part
Content relate to the
to the content most of the content of the content
content
4 3 2 1
Enthusiasm and Enthusiasm and
Enthusiasm, smiles
smiles and no smiles were seen Very little or no
Performance and a small number
mistakes for the sometimes, or major enthusiasm
of mistakes
entire performance mistakes occurred
Very few
Movement Totally in sync Mostly in sync Sometimes in sync movements if any
were in sync
Cheer was mostly
Cheer was usually Cheer was not
Voice Cheers was loud and hard to hear and
loud enough to hear loud or
Projection fully comprehensible sometimes not
and comprehensible comprehensive
comprehensible
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IV. EVALUATION
Mul�ple Choice. Read and answer the ques�ons on the interac�on of living things. Choose the leter
of the correct answer and write your answer on the blank before the number.

___B____1. What ecological relationship exists when the banana plants are planted in the same area?
a. commensalism b. competition c. predation
___A___ 2. A worm lives on the leaves of the calamansi plant. Which of the two organisms is the parasite?
a. worm b. calamansi plant c. leaves
___C____3. Which of the following is an example of organisms that show commensalism?
a. eagle on snake b. egret to a carabao c. orchids on the branches of trees
___B____4. Which of the following organisms is NOT a predator?
a. eagle b. fly c. lion
___C___5. What ecological relationship exists between butterflies and flowers?
a. parasitism b. predation c. mutualism

V. ASSIGNMENT
Give one example of the following symbiotic relationships that we just discussed. Draw it on
a short bond paper.
1. Mutualism
2. Commensalism
3. Parasitism
4. Predation
5. Competition