Topic/Title: Land Breeze and Sea Breeze

Teachers/Implementers: Caitlin Andrea Perral, Rud Rio Cajeta, Jireh Solis, Sheryl Lynn Quilab
Grade Level: Grade 7

Time Allotment: 1 Hour

Materials: Laptop, TV, Power Point Presentation, Visual Aids, and Materials for Activity

Learning Competencies and Objectives

Content Standards: The learners demonstrate an understanding of the sea breeze and land
breeze.

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. Identify sea breeze and land breeze.

2. Relate real life situations to convection.
3. Display the process of air convection through Smoke Flow activity.

ELICIT (5 min.) Access prior knowledge

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

On the screen, the students will see a photo of

a beach during daytime and nighttime. The
following question will then be asked to
them:

● H
a ve
you
ever experienced going to the beach
during daytime and nighttime?
● During daytime when you swim at the
beach, what’s the temperature of the
water? Yes
● After minutes of swimming, you
decided to go the cottage and as you
step on the sand, what do you feel? Cold
● During night time, does the
temperature of water and sand remains
the same?
● During night time, does the
temperature of water and sand remains Hot
the same?
● What do you think causes the
difference of the temperatures in land
and water during daytime and night
time? No. The water is now hotter than the sand.
 No. The water is now hotter than the sand.

Land and Water has different specific heat

capacity. Water have High Specific Heat
Capacity and Land have Low Specific Heat
Capacity.

ENGAGE (5 min.) Get the students’ minds focused on the topic

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

The students will be instructed to blow their

hand with their mouth open wide and with
their lips puckered. Then some students will
be called to answer the following questions.

● Does the temperature of the air on

your hand feel the same?
● In which case does your exhaled No
breath expand more - when blowing
with your mouth open wide or when
blowing with your lips puckered? When blowing with your mouth open wide.
The air molecules spread and occupy a large
space or volume.
● When did your hand feel hotter?
Why?

When blowing with my mouth open wide

because according to the formula of Density,
D=m/v, given with the same amount of air
molecules, volume is indirectly proportional
to the density. Density is also indirectly
proportional with temperature. The larger the
volume is, the less dense is the air, making it
warmer.)

● When did your hand feel cooler? When blowing with my lips puckered because
Why? air molecules are packed together creating a
denser air. The smaller is the volume, the
 denser is the air, making it cooler)

EXPLORE (15 min.) Provide students with a common experience

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

The students will perform the “Smoke Flow”

activity. The class will be divided into 8
groups. The seats will be arranged by the
students per group. Each group will be given
an activity worksheet and materials to be used
in the activity on the preparations and
instructions with the allotted time of 4
minutes. All groups will perform the
procedures in a simultaneous manner as the
teacher commands them to do so in a span of
5 minutes. When all the procedures are
performed, the teacher will give 3 minutes for
all the groups to answer the question.
Afterwards, another 3 minutes will be allotted
for the teacher to call some groups to share
their answer to the class.
**The activity sheet is attached**

Questions

● Why does the smoke from the

mosquito repellent coil enters the box?

● What is the process behind this?

As the heated air inside the box escapes, it

leaves a vacant space for the cooler air from
the outside to fill in.

Convection Current

EXPLAIN (20 min.) Teach the concept

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

Some students will be asked of what they

knew about Density, Wind, Breeze, and
Specific Heat.
 ✔ What do you know about Density?

The measure of how tightly the material is

packed together.
✔ How would you define Wind?

It refers to a moving air.

✔ What do you know about Breeze?

It refers to a light wind which has a soothing

✔ How about Specific Heat?
feeling.

Describes how much heat must be added to a

particular substance to raise its temperature.

The teacher will show the correct definition

every after discussed word:

✔ Density:
the
measure
of how
tightly
the
material is packed together.
● Which air temperature is less
dense?
● What happens to the Hot Air?

● Which temperature is denser?

● What happens to the Cold Air?

Hot Air.

✔ Wind: it refers to a moving air caused

Rise.
by the differences
in air pressure
within our
atmosphere Cold Air.
● When you’re at the beach during
Day Time,
where does Sinks.
the wind
come from?
● What about
during Night
Time?
✔ Breeze: it refers to a light wind which
has a soothing feeling. In coastal
From the Sea.
areas, there are
two types of
breezes: Sea
Breeze and
Land Breeze
● In what time do you think the Sea
Breeze would occur?
● How about Land Breeze?
From the Land.

✔ Specific Heat: describes how much

heat must be
added to a
particular
substance to
raise its
temperature.
● During daytime when you swim
at the beach, what’s the
temperature of the water?
● After minutes of swimming, you
decided to go the cottage and as
you step on the sand, what do you
feel?
● During night time, does the
temperature of water and sand
remains the same?
●

Which do you think heats up faster -

Day Time
land or water?
● Which has the greater heat
capacity?
● Which has the least heat capacity? Night Time
The teacher will show a picture of the beach
with labels of the land and water:

Cold.

Hot.

● Why the land has least heat

capacity and water has greater
heat capacity? No. The water is now hotter than the sand.

⮚ Sea Breeze

● Now that you know that the land

heats up faster, what happens to Land.
the air above the land during day
time?
● What would happen to the density Water.
of the air above the land?
● Where would it move?

Land

● Why the heated air rises?

● What happens to the air above the

sea during day time considering
 the fact that the water heats up
slowly?
● What would happen to the density
of the air above the sea?
● Where would it move?

● What would be the direction of

the wind during Sea Breeze?

The teacher will discuss the wind movement

of the sea breeze and the reason why the wind

It is because of its molecular structure. The

land which is a solid material has a compact
structure which means that the molecules are
very close to each other that’s why, the heat
can be transmitted easily. Unlike the water
which the molecules are far from each other.
moves in that direction.

Sea Breeze occurs during day time

wherein the wind will be coming from the sea
to land. Since the land heats up faster, the air
above it also heats up causing the air
molecules to move faster occupying a large
volume and making it less dense causing it to
rise. The sea heats up slower making the air
above it cooler than that of the land causing
the air molecules to move slowly occupying a
small volume and making it denser causing it
to sink. The molecules of the hot air leave a
space for the molecules of the cool air to fill
in. So after the sinking of the cooler air above
the sea, it moves toward the area above the The air above the land heats up.
land. The hot air that has risen eventually
cools and sinks and the cycle continues.

⮚ Land Breeze

Less Dense.

Upwards because the air will rise.

 The hot air molecules tend to spread or
expand occupying a large volume causing it
to rise.

The air above the sea is cooler compared to

the air above the land.
✔ During the night time where there is
no sunlight, which between the land
and water cools off faster?

Denser.

Downwards because the air will sink.

The wind will move from the sea to the land.

 ✔ What would happen to the wind
movement during land breeze? Does it
stay the same?

✔ Why would the wind movement

change?

The teacher will explain the wind movement

during land breeze and the reason why the
wind moves in that direction.

During Land Breeze the opposite

happens. The wind will be coming from the
land to the sea. Since the land the cools off
faster, the air above it also is cooler than that
of the sea causing the air molecules to move
slowly occupying a small volume and making
it denser causing it to sink. The sea cools off
slowly making the air hotter than that of the
land causing the air molecules to move faster
occupying a large volume and making it less
Land cools faster during night time.
dense causing it to rise. The molecules of the
hot air leave a space for the molecules of the
cool air to fill in. The hot air that has risen
eventually cools and sinks and the cycle
continues.

The wind would move from the land to the

✔ What is the difference between the sea therefore, it is not the same with the
wind movement during land breeze movement of the wind during sea breeze.
and sea breeze?

The air above the land would be much cooler

now since the land cools off faster because of
its low specific heat capacity. On the other
hand, the air above the sea would be warmer
considering that the water has high specific
Sources:
✔ Science and Technology for the
Modern World pp. 165
✔ iLearn Science pp. 210
✔ Learners Material pp. 134-135
heat capacity and cools off slowly than the
land. The warmer air would rise leaving
space for the cooler air to fill in.
 Land breeze and sea breeze have the same
processes but it differs with where the wind
comes from. During sea breeze, the wind
comes from the sea to the land while in
during land breeze, the wind comes from the
land to the sea.

ELABORATE (8 min) The students apply the information learned in the explain

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

The students will relate the topic to a situation

that has happened in a coastal area of the City.

Situation:

There was an unregulated Material

Recovery Facility near a coastal area in Brgy.
Santiago years ago and was closed for good.
But the remains are still there.

The residents continue to smell the foul

odor during day time yet the odor will be
gone during night time. What do you think
would be the reason why this happens?
During day time, as sea breeze occurs, the
wind moves from the sea to the land causing
its foul odor to be smelled by the people.
During night time, as land breeze occurs, the
people can no longer smell the foul odor
because the wind moves from the land to the
sea.

EVALUATE (5 min) How will you know that the students have learned the concept

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

The students will answer a short quiz.

Instruction: Read carefully the questions and

write the letter of your choice on a ¼ sheet of
paper.

1. Land and sea breezes are an example

of what process? B.
A. Conduction
B. Convection
C. Radiation
D. All three
2. What is the motion of the cooler air?
A. Stay where it’s at
B. None of the above
 C. Rise
D. Sink
3. What is the motion of the warmer air? D.
A. Stay where it’s at
B. Rise
C. None of the above
D. Sink
4. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Land and water heat and cool at
the same rate
B. Land heats and cools faster B.
C. Land heats faster but water
cools faster
D. Water heats and cools faster
5. During the day, how do the
temperatures of land and water differ?
A. Land is warmer while water is
cooler
B. Water is warmer B.
C. They have the same temperature
D. It depends on the type of land
6. Give other real-life examples of
convection other than sea breeze and
land breeze.

A.

Air conditioner being put at in an elevated

position, Boiling water in kettle, and
Convection Currents in the Asthenosphere

EXTEND (2 min) Deepen conceptual understanding through use in new context

Why is it that the effects of ozone depletion are much evident on Antarctica?
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SMOKE FLOW

Whenever there is a temperature difference, heat transfer occurs. In some, it causes

movement of molecules that makes some materials to rise and sink.

Precautions:

● Open flames
-Tie back all loose hair and clothing before igniting an open flame.
-Never leave an open flame unattended.
-Never let the fire from the alcohol lamp touch any part of the box.
-Do not play with fire.
● Report any problem immediately.

Materials:

● Box
● Alcohol Lamp
● Mosquito Repellent Coil
● Match

Procedures:
1. Place all the materials on the floor.
2. Light the alcohol lamp.
3. Light the mosquito repellent coil and hold it
2 inches near the hole at the side. Take note
of the necessary precautions.
4. Place the alcohol lamp inside the box by
opening the plastic cover. Take note of the
necessary precautions.
5. Observe what happens after 2 mins. Figure 1. Set-up of the
Activity

Question: e

1. Observe the direction of the smoke.

2. What concept can you observe in the flow of the smoke from the alcohol lamp &
mosquito repellent coil?