Teacher: Shaynamae B.

Ybanez Learning Area: Science (Biology)

Grade Level: Grade 8

I – LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The learners demonstrate an understanding of:

A. Content Standard • the one-way flow of energy and the cycling of materials in
an ecosystem.

The learners should be able to:

B. Performance
• make a poster comparing food choices based on the
Standard
trophic levels

C. Learning Explain how materials cycle in an ecosystem.

Competencies
II – LEARNING CONTENT

A. Subject Matter Hydrological (Water) Cycle

III – LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References

1. Teacher’s Guide
Pages
2. Learner’s Guide K to 12 - Grade 8 Science Learner Module (p. 286)
Pages
3. Textbook Pages
4. Additional
Instructional
Materials for
teaching &
Learning
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle-kids-int.html
http://stmarystimsbury.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Water-
Cycle-comprehension.pdf
B. Other Learning https://authoring.concord.org/sequences/98/activities/438/pages
Resources /2785/7129b7de-2a84-4188-81a1-a99e24553444
https://www.studystack.com/flashcard-2234946
https://www.groundwater.org/get-
informed/basics/hydrocycle.html
C. Concept
Water is essential to all life on Earth. We value it so much that
when we search for life on other planets, the first thing we look for
is liquid water. Water accounts for 60 to 70 percent of all living
matter, and humans cannot survive for more than a week without
drinking water. The water cycle, also known as the hydrologic
cycle, distributes fresh water across the earth's surface. However,
water is not always a liquid on Earth; it can also be a gas or a solid
as part of the water cycle.

D. Skills
✓ Identifying

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 ✓ Explaining
✓ Understanding
✓ Tracing

E. Values Integration It will allow the students to understand and appreciate how
important water is here on earth.

IV – LEARNING STRATEGIES
Facilitator’s Activity Learner’s Activity
A. ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

A pleasant day to all of you my dear

1. Prayer students. To start off, I will give you 1
minute to say your own prayer. (1 minute of Silence)

2. Checking of Okay class, please say “present” as I

Attendance call your name.

For our entire session this day class, I

want to remind you of our House Rules.

1. Mute your microphone unless you

have something to say.
2. Stay attentive. Pay attention to your
3. Reading of the teacher or classmates when they are
House Rules speaking.
3. If you want to answer, state your last
name.
4. Monitor for the Day:

That’s all class. Do you have any None so far, ma’am.

questions?

Now class, who can still remember our Last meeting, we were
topic last lesson? able to discuss the
transfer of energy in the
ecosystem.

That's correct. I've got a picture here. It reminds me of the

What does this remind you of in relation Energy Pyramid,
4. Reviewing of the to our last meeting's lesson? ma’am.
Past Lesson

Very good. Now, who among you here

knows what an energy pyramid is? I have an idea, ma’am!

Would you mind sharing it to everyone?

So, an energy pyramid
is a model that shows
the flow of energy from

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 one trophic level to the
next in an ecosystem.
Thank you for your answer, and that’s
correct. It is a graphical representation
between various organisms in an
ecosystem. The pyramid is composed of
several bars. Each bar has a different
trophic level to represent. The order of
these bars is based on who feeds on
whom. It represents the energy flow in
the ecosystem.

(The teacher will then ask the students

to label each tropic level.)

For this meeting, our objectives are:

1. Identify the different stages of the

5. Reading of the hydrologic cycle.
Objectives 2. Explain what happens in each
stage.
3. Appreciate the importance of
hydrologic cycle.

Now, let us talk about water.

The first thing I want you to do, class, is

to list the reasons as to why Water is (The students will
important to your health. I will give you answer.)
three minutes to think, and then I will
6. Springboard/Moti call somebody to tell everyone his/her
vation reasons.
(Establishing a
purpose for the Okay. Thank you for your answers.
lesson) Now, do you think that the Earth can No, ma’am.
survive in the absence of water?

Exactly. Water is the liquid that makes

life on Earth possible. We humans
cannot survive for more than a week
without drinking water.

B. PRESENTATION AND MODELLING

Class, how many percent of water 70% ma’am.

comprises the earth?
1. Presentation of the
Yes, thank you. That’s correct.
Lesson
About 70%. There may be a lot of
water on Earth, but not all of this
water is available for us to use.

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 In this picture class, it shows the
distribution of Earth's water.

How many percent of all Earth's We only have 2.5% of

water is considered as fresh fresh water, ma’am.
water?

That’s right. Only 2.5% of all Earth's

water is fresh water. Nearly 70% of
all the fresh water is locked up in
glaciers and icecaps.

That would leave us of all Earth's

water which is easily accessible –
from
underground aquifers, lakes, rivers,
and streams – That would leave us
with only 1% of the Earth's water
that is easily accessible as fresh
water for human consumption.

Since time immemorial, human Because of the

beings used water for their Hydrologic Cycle,
everyday lives. How come we ma’am.
never ran out of water?

Very good. Earth’s water is in Hydrogen, ma’am.

constant motion. The hydrologic
cycle shows how water moves
throughout the Earth system. Now
class, what comes into your mind
when you hear the word
Hydrologic?

Yes, maybe you’ve learned in

your past lessons the chemical
composition of water is Hydrogen
and Oxygen.

Hydrology is the scientific study of

the movement, distribution, and
management of water on Earth.

With this said class, our topic for

this meeting will revolve all about
the Hydrologic or the Water Cycle
here on Earth.

Question class, what provides the It is the Sun, ma’am.

energy to power the water cycle?

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 Very good. The Sun provides the
energy to power the water cycle.

Aside from the fact that water is

very important here on earth, it is
also the only substance on Earth
that is present in all three states of
matter – as a solid, liquid or gas.
I n those changes, the total
number of water particles remains
the same.

With that said, let us do a refresher

activity and identify the various
phase changes of matter.

(The teacher will let the students (The students will

complete the diagram.) answer.)

Very Good. All changes of state

involve the transfer of energy. As
energy is absorbed or released,
the water particles in each state
behave differently.

Which of those phases, class, do Condensation,

you think is caused by a decrease deposition, and
in the heat energy of water freezing ma’am.
particles?

That’s correct. Condensation,

deposition, and freezing are
processes that occur as a result of
a decrease in the heat energy of
water particles.

I want you to remember

everything you’ve learned in this
activity because we will stumble
upon these terms in our lesson for
this meeting.

Now that we’ve learned about

the different phase changes a
water can undergo, let us now
talk about the water cycle. What Evaporation, ma’am.
do you think is the first step?

That’s right. What is evaporation It is the process by

again class? which water changes
from a liquid to a gas.

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 Thank you for sharing your
thoughts. That’s right class. As sun
heats up the liquid water here on
Earth’s land, it will turn into
gaseous water vapor, which we
called as the process of
Evaporation.

Next, water vapor water vapor in Condensation, ma’am.

the air is changed into liquid
water, in a process called?

Correct. Condensation is the

process where water vapor
becomes liquid. As water
vaporizes into water vapor, it rises
up in the atmosphere. These
particles come close together
and form clouds and fogs in the
sky.
It can be in a form of
Now if these clouds accumulate rain, snow, or hail
enough water droplets there is a ma’am.
change in temperature, the water
falls to Earth in the process called
Precipitation. This occurs because
the water droplets combine to
make bigger droplets. What are
the different forms of precipitation
class? I have an idea, ma’am.

That’s correct. Now class, those

three we have mentioned so far
are the three major processes in
the water cycle. This time, let us
now discuss the movement of
water after it has precipitated on
Earth. Runoff is the process
where water runs over
As the water pours down, it leads the surface of the
to runoff. Who have any idea earth.
about the process of runoff?

That’s right. When precipitation

reaches the earth’s surface, some
of it will flow along the surface of
the land and enter surface water
like lakes, streams, and rivers, as
runoff.

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 Some of the water that
precipitates do not runoff into the
rivers. Some of it moves deep into Infiltration is the process
by which water on the
the soil in the process called ground surface enters
infiltration. What is infiltration, the soil.
class?

Excellent. It is a process by which

precipitation or water soaks into
subsurface soils and moves into
rocks through cracks and pore
spaces.

Water in the soil can also be

absorbed by the roots of plants Transpiration, ma’am.
and come out through the plant’s
leaves as water vapor. What do
you call this process class?

Very good. It Is a process where

liquid water is turned into water
vapor by the plants.

Some of the water then moves

down through the soil as
groundwater and is stored in the
aquifer below.

Once the water has joined the I think that the

aquifer, it doesn’t stop there. Do groundwater will slowly
you have any idea as to what will move through the
happen next? spaces and cracks
between the soil
particles on its journey
to lower elevations,
ma’am.

Very good! What your classmate

have just said about the
movement of water underground
is called groundwater flow.

Eventually, after years of

underground movement, the
groundwater comes to a
discharge area where it enters a
lake or stream and becomes
surface water. There, the water will
once again be evaporated and
begin the cycle again.

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Now that you have learned about

the mechanism on how water
cycles here on earth, I want you
to complete the diagram.

(The teacher will give them an

editable document online.)
1. Activity
After 5 minutes class, I will call
anyone to answer our short
activity.

(The teacher will explain the flow

of water cycle once again.)

In addition to that class, I would

just like to mention how important
oceans are in the water cycle.

The ocean plays a key role in this

vital cycle of water. The ocean
holds 97% of the total water on the
planet; 78% of global precipitation
2. Analysis occurs over the ocean, and it is
the source of 86% of global
evaporation.

Who among you here can recall The five oceans from
the names of all ocean here on smallest to largest are:
earth? the Arctic, Southern,
Indian, Atlantic and
Pacific.
That’s correct.

Now we have reach the end of

our lesson.

(The teacher will present scenarios

in daily lives where evaporation,
1. Abstraction
condensation, and precipitation
occur.)

D.

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1. Application This time class, I will show you 3
experiment videos which shows
some resemblance to the three
major processes in the water cycle
I want you to select only one from
the three videos and determine
which process in the water cycle it
resembles.

Using this format, explain your

answers.

E. CLOSURE
Okay class we are reaching the
end of this meeting. At this point, I
will show you a video from
YouTube which will pretty sum up
our discussion for the day.
Generalization and
Concept Formation
(The teacher will let her student (The students will watch
watch a 3-minute video.) the video.)

And that concludes our discussion

for this meeting. Do you have any None, ma’am.
questions before we proceed to
our short quiz?
E. EVALUATION

Now class, I want you to get a

piece of paper and answer the
following Questions:

1. What is the water cycle 1. Sun

powered by?

2. How do plants give off 2. Through transpiration

water? in their leaves.
1. Performance-Based
3. What are the major 3. Evaporation,
Assessment of Learning
processes of Water Cycle? Condensation, and
Outcomes
Precipitation.
4. What does Evaporation
change water to? 4. Water vapor

5. Precipitation falls back to 5. Rain, snow, sleet,

the earth in what forms? and hail.

After you’re done answering the

questions, take a picture of it and
send it to my Gmail account.

V – ASSIGNMENT
1. Enrichment Activities for
remediation

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 For your assignment class, I want
you to answer the Following
Questions:

1. Would it be possible that earth

would run out of fresh water?
Explain why or why not.

2. What are some ways that

humans have affected the
quantity and quality of fresh water
supplies around the world?

You can encode it, or you can

write it on a piece of paper.

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