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FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS
Microteaching Lesson Plan 2014
Instructor: Alicia Akira Lpez Hernndez
Date: October
25th 2014
Grade: 9th
Competence: Appreciates the role of the digestive system in breaking down food and
providing essential nutrients to the body, through making an experiment.
Rationale: There are so many illnesses around the world; we need to becareful about what
we eat. Its important to eat better; we also need to know our body and how it works.
Lesson Content: Digestive system puzzle-Presentation-Experiment-Worksheet-MatchingTalk for a minute- Assign homework.
Instructional Procedures
a. Warm-up: The class will be divided in three. Each group will be given a
digestive system puzzle, made of foamy, that they need to match.
b. Teaching procedures
Presentation: T will introduce the parts of the digestive system and explain the
function of each part using a digestive system made of foam, and posters.
Controlled practice: Experiment: How is food broken down? What is an
enzyme? T introduces the blender as a model stomach and what it does to
prepare food to be absorbed in the small intestine. T conducts the experiment by
having food chopped into smaller portions and moistened by water (saliva).Ss
list healthy food. Ss list food that is easy to process.
T puts food into the blender and start the blender on slow for a few seconds,
then stop and add orange juice (acid) and a couple drops of water (enzymes). T
starts up the blender on a faster speed that turns food into a thick liquid and stop
blender. Summative: T will evaluate if Ss are paying attention, and if they are
participating.
Semi controlled practice: Worksheet: answer the first part of the worksheet in
your groups. Formative check: Writing rubric.
TIME
5 min.
10min.
2 min
Materials and Aids: Digestive systems made of foamy, used in groups. A big digestive
system made of foam. posters, blender, different food, orange juice, water, whiteboard,
worksheets.
2min