Subject: Earth and Life Science

Date: August 23, 2017

Time: 1:00-2:00
2:00-3:00

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able;
1. To discuss the historical development of the concept of life including theories, experiments and
evidences.
2. To describe the conditions on early Earth that made the origin of life possible and the first life
forms.
3. To discuss the unifying themes of life and how they are interconnected.

II. Subject Matter

A. Topic: Introduction to Life Science
B. Reference:
 Reece JB, Urry LA, Cain ML, Wasserman SA, Minorsky PV, Jackson RB. Campbell Biology.10th
edition. San Francisco, California, USA: Pearson Education Inc.; 2014.
 The Origin and Early History of Life.http://www.mhhe.com/
biosci/genbio/raven6b/graphics/raven06b/other/ch04.pdf.7 August 2015.
C. Material:
 Writing and coloring materials, sheets of paper, photos of organisms, white cartolina/manila
paper

III. Learning Procedure

1. Motivation
 Guide Question
What is Life?
2. Group Activity (Gallery Walk)
 Each group will be tasked to make a poster pertaining to the historical development of the concept of
life including theories and evidences. Students will choose the topic based on the provided list (no
duplication). Guide the students in preparing the posters.
 Guide Question
1. When did the first life forms emerged? Does life come from life or non-life? Explain how proponent
proved the theory?
 Accomplished posters/ exhibits will be posted within the classroom (distribute it to the corners of the
room) and students will be asked to move around the room for viewing of ‘exhibits’ (gallery walk). A
rubrics will be presented and used to rate the posters made by groups.

3. Café Conversation
 Continue further discussions on topics presented. Understanding the past requires students to develop
an awareness of different perspectives. The Café Conversation teaching strategy helps students practice
perspective-taking by requiring students to represent a particular point-of-view in a small group
discussion.
 Expand further the discussion including the themes of life and how living things interact with each other
and with their environment; Give students the themes of life then from there expound further by
asking them to give examples for every theme cited. Discuss the unifying themes of life and how they
are interconnected.

4. Assessment
 The scores from the activity will be counted as quiz for the day.

5. Assignment
 Have an advance reading/research about the types of cells.