SCIENCE LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE 5 SECONDARY

Year Level: 10

Date: N/A

Time: N/A

Period/Lesson: N/A

Topic: Science- The Heart Structure

Length: 45mins

What do Students already know and value?

This Lesson should take place within a class room or area that is adapted for students to sit and which contains
either an interactive white board or projector.
Students should be familiar with the major systems that support the body, and should be aware that the heart
pumps blood and oxygen throughout our body.

Curriculum Outcomes and Essential Learnings:

Curriculum Outcomes & Understandings (According to ACARA)

Multi-cellular organisms rely on coordinated and interdependent internal systems to respond to changes to
their environment (ACSSU175)
Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence(ACSIS170)
Plan, select and use appropriate investigation methods, including field work and laboratory experimentation, to
collect reliable data; assess risk and address ethical issues associated with these methods (ACSIS165)

Lesson Outcomes:
Cognitive: Students will know the anatomical structure of the heart and the valves in which blood flows through from
each chamber.
Demonstrative: Students will be able to list the four chambers of the heart and state the direct of the blood flow through
it.

Assessment of the outcomes:

Students will be provided with a worksheet that will have the diagram of the heart. Students will need to label each
chamber of the heart and valve associated with blood flow. Then they will be required to number which chamber & valve
the blood flows through in order.
Key Language: (words the Ss will need to understand/remember so that they can talk about the topic )
Ventricles, Valves, Atrium, Veins, Arteries, Blood, Cardiovascular System
Anticipatory Set: (How do I settle students/ prepare them for lesson/ encourage participation/ motivate?)
Provide students with the necessary time to settle down and get to their seats. If the beginning of the lesson seems flexible
students will be less likely to fight against the structure.
Allow at designated points of lesson for students to talk amongst themselves. Giving them a sense of sharing their own
opinion builds self-esteem, character and also may provide silence when silence is necessary.
Provide team work as a motivation throughout the lesson. Students tend to be more motivated when they are aware that
they are not alone. They also may participate more in a smaller group than large class room.
Have as much one to one interaction with all students but specifically those that seem out of touch socially or more
reserved. Even if it is a pat on the back or encouraging word, it might mean the world to them.

INTRODUCTORY PHASE:
Time:

8:40

8:45

Teacher direction/
activity / instruction:

1. Lesson begins with

teacher plays the
Heart Song while
showing the video
associated with it on
the screen.

Check for
Student activity / what students
understanding / key
Resources:
are doing:
questions / manage the
learning:

1. Students will be sitting in

their seats, possibly
chatting, listening or
laughing at the song.

1. Encourage students 1. Heart Song

to sit quietly and
Video,
watch the video.
2. Projector/
whiteboard
2. Continue to
encourage students
to be silent before
2. At the end of the video 2. Students will be seating
continuing rest of
Be aware that students
themselves comfortably and
lesson.
might be rowdy so
focusing on the teacher.
allow time to quiet
3. Ask Students:
them down
What was the song
about?
3. Ask them questions
3. Students should be either
What can you
about what they just
silently thinking or talking
remember from the
saw, ask them if they
to others to try and get an
song?
know what the video
answer.
was about.

BODY OF LESSON:
Student activity / what students are Check for understanding / key
questions / manage the learning:
doing:

Time:

Teacher direction/ activity /

instruction:

Resources:

8:50

1. Teacher will show

1. Students will be sitting
1. Chang the picture to a 1. Projector/
clearly depicted
possibly talking, but
blankly labelled and
Whiteboard
images of the heart,
should be focused on the
call on students to
2. Heart Work
valves & chambers to
diagram on the screen
attempt and name the
sheet
students.
depicting the heart.
certain chambers and 3. Clicker
valves/
2. Teacher will then
2. During the True & False 2. Students as Lesson
divide class into
activity student will be
progresses will be
teams of four or five
broken into teams and
handed a worksheet
and share some true &
discussing their answers
with blanks and
false questions for the
multiple choice
teams to answer
questions in which
3. Students should be
while listening to the
3. Teacher will be
listening intently making
teacher will need to fill
keeping score and
notes on relevant
out.
reveal the correct
information and filling in
answers at the end.
worksheet provided.

9:00

4. A teacher will hand

the students a work
sheet and then should
explain the
relationship between
the chambers of the
heart , the valves and
the blood flow
through the heart to
the rest of the body.

CONSOLIDATION:
Time:

9:20

Teacher direction/ activity /

instruction:

Student activity / what students are Check for understanding / key Resources:
doing:
questions / manage the
learning:

(Depending on time)
Teacher will put students
into groups of 3 or 4
depending on size of
class and instruct them
on their activity.

Activity#1: Students will

break into groups and design
a memorable system to
remember the layout of the
heart. Have students search
online for good illustrative
images and ideas in creating
power point for whatever
they come up with.

Class most likely will

start this activity in the
following lesson.

Their results need to have

The hearts four chambers,
the four valves and the
directional blood flow

While activity is
Personal
underway mark students Computers
worksheets that they
Internet
filled out earlier in the
access
lesion to see which
Microsoft
students understood and Power Point
which did not.

Finish / summing up / link to the next lesson:

Depending on time have students either hand you their either finished or partly finished work to complete
next lesson.
If all groups finish with time to spare have each group or a representative preform/express their completed
activity in the next lesson.
In follow up lesson have the class vote individually on the winning group and whichever groups activity
wins it needs to be modified so that every group can learn it and by end of studying the heart preform it.
Homework:

Give students another worksheet about the heart to take home which they need to give to you the following day.