A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

Content Standard: Plate tectonics

Performance Standard: The learners shall be able to, use maps, diagrams, or models, predict what could
happen in the future as the tectonic plates continue to move.
Learning Competencies: Explain how the continents drift S11/12ES-Id-20
Cite evidence that support continental drift S11/12ES-Id-21

I. Objectives At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:
1. Discuss the history behind the Theory of Continental Drift;
2. Describe the Continental Drift Theory; and
3. Enumerate and explain the evidence used to support the idea of drifting
continents

II. Content
Deformation of the Crust: Continental Drift

III. Learning Resources

Earth and Life Science.pdf/Teaching guide for Senior High School (pages 129-136)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/High_School_Earth_Science/Continental_Drift
https://www.google.com/search?q=7+continents&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwich
p_jp7LkAhXPPXAKHY8FADkQ_AUIESgB&biw=1366&bih=657#imgrc=lIjOUHMjXEl0sM:

IV. Procedures
A. Before the Lesson
1. Checking of Attendance

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Response

Venus, please write the names of those Yes Ma’am
who are absent today. Thank you.

2. Review of the Past Lesson

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Response

What was our previous discussion all
about?
Very good.
What are the layers of the earth?
That’s correct, thank you.
Our last topic was about the endogenic
processes that occur in our earth like
magmatism, earthquakes etc…
Crust, mantle and core.

3. Motivation
a. Students will enumerate and label the seven (7) continents of the world on the
material that the teacher will provide.
b. Follow-up Questions

1) What are the seven continents of the world?
2) Do you think the 7 continents has its
similarities? Why? Why not?
Okay, thank you.
Any other similarities?
Yes, nice answer.
Students’ Response
Asia, Europe, North America, South
America, Australia, Antarctica and
Africa
Yes. They are similar with the
landmasses like the mountains,
volcanoes, etc…
Same species of animals and plants
can be found in different countries
They seem to fit together.
 3) What can you observe about the
landmasses of Africa and South America?

B. During the Lesson

1. Jigsaw Puzzle featuring the Pangaea and Continental Drift
The teacher will give puzzle materials to each group, in which they will be given 3 minutes to
solve the puzzle.

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Response

Okay class, last time I already grouped you Yes Ma’am.
for our activity today. Kindly go to your
respective group quietly. Thank you.
I will tell the instructions first then you can Yes Ma’am.
start doing the puzzle.
Any questions? None Ma’am.
Okay, you may start.
(after 3 minutes)
Time is up. Are you done? Yes Ma’am
Please, ask someone from the group to
show your puzzle in front.
How did you solve the puzzle? The line on the side showed some hint
about the puzzle.
What was the image formed after you It was the famous Pangaea.
solved the puzzle?
Okay. Thank you very much. All of you did a
great job.

2. The teacher will present PowerPoint slides about the topic. The PowerPoint slides includes
the following:

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Response

a. The concept of how continental drift
came about.
What do you think does continental drift It is the separation or movement of
means? continents.

The idea that continents fit together like

pieces of a jigsaw puzzle has been
around since the 1600s, although little
significance was given to it.

Who do you think proposed the idea of

continental drift?

Alfred Wegener, a German

meteorologist, first articulated the
continental drift hypothesis in 1912. He
proposed that a single supercontinent,
Pangaea, separated into the current
continents and moved across Earth’s
surface to their present locations. He
published his work through a book
entitled “The Origin of Continents and
Oceans” in 1915. Because of the movement of plate
tectonics. As the plates move the
What do you think was the mechanism that continents also move or drift apart.
caused the continents to drift?

The ocean floor was characterized by

deep depressions called trenches and a
network of ridges that encircled the globe.
 These topographic data, together with
heat flow measurements, led to the
emergence of the Seafloor Spreading
Hypothesis which revived interest in
Alfred Wegener’s idea of drifting
continents.

Any questions regarding the continental None Ma’am.

drift?
b. The evidence supporting continental
drift
1) The fit of the continents
2) Similarity in geologic units and
structures It is trace/object from an organism of past
3) Fossil match geologic ages that has been preserved in
What are fossils? the earth’s crust. The minimum time it
How long does it take a buried organism to takes to make a fossil is 10,000 years
become a fossil?

4) Glacial and paleoclimate evidence

C. After the Lesson

1. The teacher will give a short quiz.

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Response

Okay class since you did an amazing job
during our discussion; it is time to check if
you really understood our lesson for today.
Please bring out, one-fourth sheet of paper
and were going to have a short quiz. Yes, Ma’am
The teacher will present the questions in the
PowerPoint slides in which the students were
going to read and answer.
The quiz will be composed of True or False
and Enumeration.
Items
True or False
1. Alfred Wegener proposed that a single supercontinent, separated into the current
continents and moved across Earth’s surface to their present locations.
2. In the evidences supporting the continental drift, opponents of Alfred Wegener concluded
that there are no fossil match between landmasses.
3. In 1915, Alfred Wegener published his works in a newspaper about the origin of continents
and oceans.
4. Pangaea came from an ancient Greek word meaning “first land”
5. Seafloor spreading is a geologic process in which tectonic plates—large slabs of Earth's
lithosphere—split apart from each other.
6. The ocean floor was characterized by deep depressions called trenches and a network of
ridges that encircled the globe.

7- 10 ENUMERATE the 4 evidences supporting the continental drift.

2. Assignment
The teacher will give pointers to read for the students for their next lesson.

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Response

Okay class for your assignment, please Yes Ma’am.
make an advance reading on the following:
Cell and cell theory
Cell parts and Functions
Biological levels of organization
Prepared by: Noted by:

LESLY ANN M. DE VERA DANIEL F. RICAFORT Ph.D.

Teacher II SSMT II, SGH STEM III-B

Checked by: Approved:

MARBETTE DG. PARDITO Ph. D. LAMBERTO L. FERRER JR.

Mentor, SSMT I Principal II, ASP SHS