A Detailed Lesson Plan in Science 7

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
a. define what is a wave;
b. differentiate transverse wave and longitudinal wave;
c. draw and label the illustrations for transverse and longitudinal wave.

II. Subject Matter

a. Topic: Waves Around You
b. Sub-topic: Transverse wave and longitudinal wave
c. Material: DLP, Laptop, slinky, rope
d. References: Retrieved from https://www.dallenscience.com/i
Science-grade 7, Learner’s Material, First edition, 2017

III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Students Activity
A. Preparatory Activity
Good morning class. Good morning sir.
You now take your seats. Thank you sir.
Are you all here today?

For our lesson for today we have here

our lesson objectives.
At the end of the lesson, the students
should be able to:
a. define what is a wave;
b. differentiate transverse wave and
longitudinal wave;
c. draw and label the illustrations for
transverse and longitudinal wave.

B. Lesson Proper
a. Motivation
For now we move on to our next module
in your book which is on waves around
us.
But before anything else, I have here a
rope and a slinky.
From this materials we now try to form
waves from it.
(The teacher perform on how to create
waves from the materials)
(The student tries to form a wave.)
Who wants to try it?

b. Presentation
From our activity on the rope and slinky,
what can we say now about waves?

Waves are disturbances that carry

energy through matter.

What causes waves?

Waves are created when a source of
energy causes a medium to vibrate.
A vibration causes wave motion.
Or simply waves are created by moving
the object side to side, up and down, or
backward and forward.
For example:
(The teacher tries to move the rope and
the slinky). Yes sir.

Clear?

What carries waves?

 medium - a medium is the
material through which a wave
travels.
-A medium can be a gas, for example
the air we are breathing. For instance
how come that we can hear sound?
That is because there is a vibration in
the air that our ear detects.
-liquid, for example the water
-solid, an example is the wall.

In studying wave we have here the other

terms this are:
Wave pulse
is a single unrepeated
disturbance.
Periodic wave (A student also performs the wave
is a series of wave pulses or pulse and periodic wave.)
disturbances.
(The teacher performs again an activity
on the rope for the students).

Now we need another volunteer to come

and show us about wave pulse and
periodic wave. (A student in front performs the action
while the class identifies the term.)
Now the student in front performs the
action of wave pulse and periodic wave
randomly and his classmates will
identify which among the terms he is
performing.
We now move to the types of waves.
Transverse Waves
• the wave motion of particles in
the medium move perpendicular
to the direction of the wave.
• Wave causes the particles in the
medium to move up and down or
back and forth at right angles to
the direction the wave travels.
How is that? Actually, the representation
of that is the wave we are forming with
the rope. Going back to the definition,
transverse wave is the up and down or
back and forth motion of the wave at the
right angles to the direction the wave
travels.
Now we have here the parts of the
transverse wave.

Parts of a Transverse Wave

 The crest is the highest point on
a wave.
 The trough is the valley between
two waves, is the lowest point.
 The wavelength is the horizontal
distance, either between the
crests or troughs of two
consecutive waves.
 The amplitude the distance from
the undisturbed level to the
trough or crest.

(The teacher discusses each parts by

illustrating it by using the rope.)

Next type of wave is the :

Longitudinal Wave
• A mechanical wave in which
molecules in the medium moves
forward and backward along the
same direction that the wave
travels.

We have here also the parts of the

longitudinal wave.
The compression is the part of the
compressional wave where the particles
are crowded together.
 The rarefaction is the part of the
compressional wave where the particles
are spread apart.

The wavelength is the distance from

compression to compression or
rarefaction to rarefaction in a
compressional wave.

(The teacher discusses each part using

the slinky.)

Moving on we have here another type of

wave which is the:
Surface wave which is often the
combination of the two waves, the
transverse wave and the longitudinal
wave.
The particles typically move in back and
forth, and side to side motion.
For example are the waves in the ocean The vibration from the motion of the
and in the swimming pool. hand.
The rope.
c. Activity The rope represents the transverse
(The teacher performs an action using wave while the slinky represents the
the rope and the class identify it using longitudinal wave.
the terms, wave pulse and periodic
wave.)
Now the class answers these questions.
1. What is the source of the wave?
2. What is our medium?
3. Which among this rope and slinky
represents the types of waves?

Very good.

IV. Evaluation
What is given below is the summary of our lesson today. Now, you are to:
1. Make a table differentiating transverse wave from longitudinal wave.
 A. For longitudinal wave the vibration of the particles of the medium are in the
direction of wave propagation while in transverse wave the particles of the
medium vibrate in a direction perpendicular to the direction of propagation of
wave.
B. A longitudinal wave proceeds in the form of compression and rarefaction while
for a transverse wave, the wave travels using crest and trough.
2. Draw and label the parts of transverse wave and longitudinal wave.

V. Assignment
(The students will read on the characteristics of wave.)

Prepared by: Noted by:

ABEL MONOTEN Ma’am MARIBEL BRAGADO

Student teacher Science Teacher