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Name of school: Quarter: 4TH Quarter
Grade level & Grade 5 Week: Week 3 Day 2
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Subject: SCIENCE Date and
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Topic: Teacher:
I. Content, standards and learning competencies=
A. Content The learners learn that weathering and erosion shape the
standards Earth’s surface by breaking down and transporting rocks.
B. Performance By the end of the Quarter, learners relate changes in
standards landforms and earth materials to processes and effects of the
water cycle.
C. Learning Learning Competencies
competencies
and objectives [Link] how soil is formed from rocks and minerals;
[Link] how erosion transports Earth materials;
Learning Objectives:
[Link] chemical and physical weathering
[Link] agents and effects of erosion
[Link] how soil is formed
[Link] each layer of the soil
II. Content
Erosion (agents and effects)
III. Learning resources
A. References ● Feather, R. M. (2005). Earth science. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
● Lutgens, F. K., Tarbuck, E. J., & Tasa, D. G. (2016).
Foundations of earth science (8th ed.). Pearson.
IV. Teaching and learning procedure
Preliminary Students’ activity Teacher’s Guide
activities
A. Reviewing Short Review Teacher: What is
previous lesson or We learned that weathering is the weathering?
presenting the new process by which rocks are broken Student:
lesson down or changed at Earth’s surface Weathering is the
because of water, air, temperature, and process where rocks
chemicals. There are two types of break down or
weathering: physical weathering, which change because of
breaks rocks into smaller pieces water, air, and
without changing what they are made temperature.
of, and chemical weathering, which Teacher: What is
changes the rock’s composition the difference
through reactions with water, air, and between physical
acids. Both types of weathering are and chemical
important because they help form soil weathering?
and shape the land, making it possible Student: Physical
for plants and other living things to weathering breaks
grow. rocks into smaller
pieces, while
chemical weathering
changes what the
rocks are made of.
Teacher: Very good!
Why is weathering
important?
Student: It helps
form soil and shape
the land around us.
Teacher: Excellent!
That means you
understood the
lesson well.
B. Establishing a Student: The soil is
purpose for the being washed away
lesson by rain, and the sand
is being moved by
the wind.
Teacher: Very good.
What process is
causing this
movement of soil
and sand?
Student: It is
Question:
Look at these pictures. What do you erosion.
notice happening to the land? Teacher: Correct!
These pictures show
how water and wind
act as agents of
erosion that move
Earth materials.
C. Presenting Student: They are
examples/instances broken and carried
of the new lesson away by water.
Teacher: Very good.
Where do the rivers
bring these
materials?
Student: The rivers
carry them
Question: downstream.
Look at the diagram. What happens to Teacher: Correct!
the soil and rocks on the mountain And where do the
slopes? sediments finally go?
Student: They are
deposited in deltas
and floodplains.
Teacher: Excellent!
This diagram shows
how erosion moves
Earth materials from
the source to the
sink.
During/lesson proper
D. Discussing new Erosion (Agents, Effects, and How Teacher: What is
concepts and It Transports Earth Materials) erosion?
practicing new skills Erosion is the process by which Student: Erosion is
#1 weathered rocks, soil, and sediments the process where
are moved from one place to another soil and rocks are
by natural forces called agents of carried away from
erosion. Unlike weathering, which
one place to another.
breaks rocks down, erosion carries
these materials away. Teacher: Very good.
Agents of Erosion What are the agents
1. Water – Rain, rivers, and floods of erosion?
wash away soil and carry sand, Student: The agents
pebbles, and mud downstream.
are water, wind, ice
2. Wind – Strong winds lift and
or glaciers, and
move sand and dust, especially in waves.
dry areas.
3. Ice (Glaciers) – Moving ice Teacher: How does
pushes and drags rocks and soil erosion move Earth
over long distances. materials?
4. Waves – Ocean waves carry Student: Water
sand and rocks along the carries soil and rocks
shoreline. in rivers, wind blows
Effects of Erosion sand and dust, ice
1. Loss of fertile soil, making it moves rocks with
harder for plants to grow glaciers, and waves
2. Formation of landforms such as move sand along the
valleys, cliffs, and sand dunes
shore.
3. Changes in riverbanks and
coastlines Teacher: Excellent!
4. Sediment buildup in rivers, lakes, That means erosion
and seas changes the land by
How Erosion Transports Earth transporting Earth
Materials materials to new
Water erosion carries soil and
places.
rocks as rivers flow from high
land to low land.
Wind erosion blows light
materials like sand and dust to
new places.
Glacial erosion moves large
rocks frozen in ice as glaciers
slowly slide.
Wave erosion moves sand and
pebbles back and forth along the
coast.
These materials are eventually
deposited in new areas, forming river
deltas, beaches, and sand dunes.
E. Discussing Erosion happens after weathering Teacher: What
new concepts breaks rocks into smaller pieces. Once happens to rocks and
and practicing the rocks and soil are loosened, agents soil during erosion?
new skills #2 of erosion such as water, wind, ice, and Student: They are
waves move these materials to new carried away to
places. For example, when it rains another place.
heavily, soil can be washed into rivers
Teacher: What
and carried far away. Strong winds can
agents help move
blow sand and dust across dry lands,
these materials?
while glaciers slowly push large rocks
Student: Water,
as they move.
Erosion can be helpful and harmful. It wind, ice, and waves.
helps create landforms like valleys,
Teacher: Very good!
beaches, and sand dunes. However, too
Why should we care
much erosion can remove fertile soil,
about erosion?
making it difficult for plants to grow
Student: Because it
and causing damage to land and
can change the land
coastlines. That is why people plant
and remove soil that
trees and build barriers to help slow
plants need.
down erosion.
Teacher: Excellent!
You understood the
lesson well.
F. Developing Group Activities Teacher: What
mastery (Leads Group 1 – Picture Sort (Beginning agent of erosion did
to Formative Learners) your group show?
Assessment) Students are given pictures of Student: We
rivers, wind-blown sand, glaciers, showed water
and ocean waves. erosion because the
Task: Sort the pictures by the river carries soil and
agent of erosion and name one rocks.
effect.
Teacher: Very good.
Group 2 – Scenario Match
What effect does this
(Developing Learners)
have on the land?
Students receive short situation
Student: It can
cards (e.g., “Heavy rain washes
change the
soil into a river”).
riverbanks and move
Task: Match each situation to the
soil to other places.
correct agent and explain how
materials are moved. Teacher: Excellent
Group 3 – Mini Model or Drawing work, everyone!
(Advanced Learners)
Students draw a simple scene
showing erosion (river, beach, or
windy area).
Task: Explain which agent is
shown and what happens to the
soil or rocks.
G. Finding Applying the Lesson in Daily Life Teacher: Where can
practical you see erosion in
We can apply what we learned about
applications of your daily life?
erosion by observing our surroundings
concepts and Student: I see
and taking care of the environment.
skills in daily erosion when rain
living When you see soil washing away after washes soil away
heavy rain, that is water erosion. When from the ground.
dust or sand is blown by strong winds,
Teacher: Very good.
that is wind erosion. Understanding
How can we help
erosion helps us know why planting
reduce erosion?
trees, grass, and plants is important
Student: We can
because their roots hold the soil and
plant trees and keep
prevent it from being carried away.
the environment
We can also help reduce erosion at clean.
home and in school by keeping plants
Teacher: Excellent!
in gardens, not throwing trash into
That means we can
rivers, and protecting shorelines. These
help protect the land
simple actions help protect the land,
by applying what we
keep the soil healthy for plants, and
learned.
prevent flooding.
After after/post-lesson
H. Making Question: Student 1: Erosion
generalizations and What did we learn today about erosion is when soil and
abstractions about and how it changes the Earth’s rocks are carried
the lesson surface? away from one place
to another.
Student 2: Water,
wind, ice, and waves
are the agents that
cause erosion.
Student 3: Erosion
can form landforms
but can also remove
fertile soil.
Teacher: Excellent!
Erosion is the
process where
natural forces move
Earth materials,
shaping landforms
and affecting the
environment.
I. Evaluating Directions: Read each question Answer Key:
Learning carefully. Choose the letter of the 1.A
correct answer. 2.B
3.C
[Link] is erosion? 4.B
A. The movement of weathered rocks 5.C
and soil from one place to another
B. The melting of rocks due to heat
C. The breaking of rocks into smaller
pieces
D. The formation of new rocks
[Link] of the following is an
agent of erosion?
A. Sunlight
B. Water
C. Heat
D. Gravity only
[Link] does wind cause erosion?
A. By dissolving rocks with acid
B. By freezing water in rock cracks
C. By lifting and moving sand and dust
D. By melting ice
[Link] is an effect of erosion?
A. Rocks becoming harder
B. Loss of fertile soil
C. Formation of volcanoes
D. Increase in plant growth
[Link] landform can be formed by
deposited materials from erosion?
A. Mountains
B. Earthquakes
C. River deltas and beaches
D. Volcanoes
J. Additional
activities for
application or
remediation
Remarks
Reflection
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