Basic 5 Science Term 1 Week 5 Lesson Plan

Teacher brings a bag into the classroom that contains an object that has a connection to the lesson. Then it is passed around and learners try to determine what is in the bag just by feeling it. The student who guess right wins, and hence introduce the lesson. Engage learners to play games and sing songs to begin the lesson.

Display some solid and liquid substances for learners to observe, e.g. water, common salt, vinegar, sugar, sand, cooking oil and soft drinks. Put learners in groups and ask them to add each of the substances to a separate quantity of water whilst stirring and observe what happens. Learners describe the material combinations they have produced, i.e. as solid-liquid mixture, liquid- liquid mixture or a solution. Learners find out the difference between a mixture of sand and water and a mixture of salt and water. Learners also differentiate between the mixture of water and soft drink and the mixture of water and cooking oil. Put learners into groups to demonstrate how to recover the salt from the salt solution. Assist learners to separate different solid-liquid mixtures and liquid- liquid mixtures using separation methods such as filtration, evaporation, sieving and use of separating funnel. For this activity, learners use sand and water, water and palm oil and clear plastic bottles to prepare solid-liquid and liquid-liquid mixtures and compare how their components separate.

Ask learners series of questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt