Basic 3 Science Term 1 Week 9 Lesson Plan

Use questions and answers to review learners understanding in the previous lesson Engage learners to sing songs and play games to get them ready for lesson

Explore the previous knowledge of learners on this topic, e.g., learners know of iced water, ‘ice block’ and rainfall. Provide learners with cut-out pictures or videos of the other forms of precipitation (snow, hail, sleet, these may be foreign to them. Learners examine the pictures and communicate their ideas on the different types of precipitation. Guide learners to explain each term. For example: Sleet is ice pellets that fall from clouds. Hail: precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice (5 mm or more in diameter – anything smaller is considered an “ice pellet“). Snow: precipitation composed of white or translucent ice crystals, chiefly in the form of snowflakes. Sleet: a mixture of rain and snow. Freezing rain: rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing – the liquid precipitation freezes when it hits the super-cold surface. Assessment: Assist learners to build vocabulary on precipitation. With the aid of flashcards, learners work in groups to match pictures showing different types of precipitation with their correct names. Learners draw a picture showing a rainy day. Project: Assist learners to undertake an activity to create artificial rain in the school. For this activity, learners use clear bowl of water, metal lid and locally made water-cycle picture chart to observe the water demonstration and trace the process on the chart.

Ask learners series of questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt Learners to read and spell the key words on the board.