Lesson Plan for Low Achievers

The Lesson Plan for Low Achievers

Class:  Year 2

Enrolment :  20

Time :  30 minutes (10.30 – 11.00)        

Date/Day :  24.02.2010 (Wednesday)

Topic :  Volume of Liquid

Curriculum Specifications:

6.1  Introduction to Volume of Liquid

6.2  Measuring and Comparing Volumes of Liquids

Vocabulary:  empty, half full, full, volume, liquid, measure,

more, much, capacity

Behavioural Objectives/Learning Outcome   : 

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

1.       Understand and use the vocabulary related to volume of liquid

2.       Measure and compare volumes of liquid by direct comparison

    and by using uniform non-standard units.

Previous Knowledge:  Has studied about the concept of more or

much more than and less than in Year 1

Teaching Aids/Materials:  Three plastic cups of similar sizes, three drinking bottles of similar sizes, a bucket

Moral Value(s):  Attentiveness

Educational Emphases/Thinking Skills:  Analysing, evaluating

Set Induction/5 minutes

1. Three plastic cups: one with no water, another

which is half full and the last one which is full are displayed.   Pupils

are told to identify which plastic cup has more water and less water.  Then,

they are to arrange the cups from the least to the most.

Development(First teaching activity)/10 minutes

1.  Students are told that the plastic cup with no water is empty.  Then,

the plastic cup with a bit more water is half empty while the plastic cup

which is filled with water is full. 

2.  Then, a few students are asked to come to the front of the class to fill

the soft drink bottles with water.  They are to arrange the bottles in the

order of empty to full. 

Empty Bottle

Half Full Bottle

Full Bottle

Development (Second Teaching Activity)/10 minutes

1.  The students sit in groups of four.  Each group is given three plastic cups,

three plastic soft drink bottles and a bucket of water. 

2.  Then, they listen to the teacher’s instruction as to fill the bottles with

water or to fill the cups with water and arrange them from the left to the right. 

3.  The teacher’s instruction: ‘Firstly, fill the plastic cup with no water. 

Let it be empty.  Secondly, fill the soft drink bottle with water.  Let it be full. 

Now, fill the soft drink bottle with water.  Let it be half full.

4. The winners and the losers are determined.  The winners are given prizes

while the losers are punished to put all the teaching aids away

Closure/5 minute

1. The teacher asks the pupils which  plastic cup holds more water and which

holds less water. 

2.   The possible answers given by the pupils are:  The empty cup holds less

water than the cup that is half full and that is full.

Reflection:  ___________________________________________________