Lesson Guide in Earth and Life Science

I. OBJECTIVES

A. Content Standards Seafloor Spreading

B. Performance Using maps, diagrams, models predict what could happen in the future
Standards as the tectonic plates continue to move.

At the end of the session, students are expected to:

C. Learning
Competencies/
1. explain how the seafloor spreads
Objectives
2. describe the seafloor
3. appreciate the importance of sea’s to human being.

Seafloor Spreading, effect and events that takes place in the movement
II. CONTENT
of the crust.
.
III. LEARNING RESOURCES
A. References
1. Teacher’s Guide
pages
2. Learner’s Manual
pages
Earth and Life Science by Teresita F. Religioso and Lilia G. Vengco,
3. Textbook pages
Phoenix Publishing House, 2016 pages 124 – 129
4. Additional
Materials from Clay, newspaper, paper
Learning Resource
(LR) portal
Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEo5vGvnz-c
B. Other Learning
Videoclip on seafloor spreading
Resources

IV. PROCEDURES
A. Reviewing previous
Review on the continental drift theory
lesson or presenting
1. Why did Alfred Wegener theory was not accepted?
new lesson
(REVIEW)

Divide the class into 3 groups.Let the students relate the previous
B. Establishing a purpose lectures on the Earth’s internal and external processes to the present
of the lesson lesson by doing the seafloor spreading activity.
(MOTIVATION)
Video Clip on seafloor spreading
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEo5vGvnz-c
Picture seafloor

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C. Presenting
examples/instances of
the new lesson
(PRE-ACTIVITY)

Guide Question:

Ask the following Guide Questions to the students:

1. What happens as you pull apart the paper on the opposite direction?
2. What did you observe as the paper strips moved away from the
center?
3. what do you think does slit represents? How about the paper? How
about the pattern of the paper?
4. As the movement progresses what will happen to the ocean floor?

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D. Discussing new Show video that describes the evolution of ocean basin and relate it to
concepts and the sea floor spreading theory.
practicing new skills 1
(ACTIVITY PROPER)
Discuss the characteristics of different parts of the ocean basin.

E. Discussing new Picture analysis of seafloor.

concepts and
practicing new skills 2
(DEEPENING)
F. Developing mastery
(POST-ACTIVITY Ask the students to simulate the movement of the crust based on the

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 concept of sea floor using clay that will show formation of folds, faults,
trenches, volcanoes and rift valleys and mountain ranges.

The teacher will stress the relationship of sea floor and plate tectonics
theory to the formation of different land forms. Recall the principle of the
plate tectonic

G. Finding practical What is the importance of sea’s to human being.

applications of
concepts and skills in
daily living
(APPLICATION)
H. Making generalizations Based from our discussion explain seafloor spreading
and abstractions about
the lesson
(GENERALIZATION)
Essay

Questions:
I. Evaluating learning
(ASSESSMENT) 1. Expalain seafloor spreading.

J. Additional activities for Research some volcanic eruption happen in the Philippines. Cite the
application or effects of this eruption to the community and people on that place.
remediation
(AGREEMENT)