Learning Area Science

Learning Delivery Modality Face-to-Face

School Bayambang Central Grade Level
4
School
LESSON Teacher Lyssete C. Tagulao Learning Area Science
EXEMPLAR Teaching Date Quarter First Quarter
Teaching Time No. of Days 1

I. OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson, learners are expected to:

a. identify the changes in materials whether useful or harmful to one’s
environment
b. describe the harmful effects of changes in the materials to the
environment
c. suggest some ways of preventing/minimizing the harmful effects of the
changes in the materials to the environment
A. Content Standards The learners demonstrate understanding of changes that materials undergo when
exposed to certain conditions.
B. Performance Standards The learners should be able to evaluate whether changes in materials are useful or
harmful to one’s environment.
C. Most Essential Learning Identify the changes in materials whether useful or harmful to one’s environment.
Competencies (MELC) –MELC 4
D. Enabling Competencies Identify the processes involve in changing the materials.
Differentiate the useful and harmful effects of changes in materials.
II. CONTENT Changes that Materials Undergo:
- Changes that are useful
- Changes that are harmful

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References
a. Teacher’s Guide Pages pp. 61-67
b. Learner’s Material Pages pp. 49-56
c. Textbook Pages
d. Additional Materials
from Learning Resources
B. List of Learning Resources
for Development and
Engagement Activities
IV. PROCEDURES
A. Introduction Introduce the lesson to the learners with the following objective:

At the end of the lesson, you are expected to identify changes in the
materials that are useful or harmful to the environment.

You learned from your previous lessons that you can change the materials
when bent, pressed, hammered, cut and when exposed to certain conditions such
as temperature or when mixed with other materials. In this lesson, you are going
to identify changes in materials that are useful or harmful to one’s environment.

Review:
Observe the following pictures. Describe the processes used to change the
materials.

1. 2. 3.
 4. 5.

What situations above do you think are useful to us?

What situations above do you think are harmful to us?

B. Development What I Know?

Learners will answer the initial assessment

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter in your Science
notebook.

1. In the following situations, what change in materials is useful to the

environment?
a. Burning of garbage
b. Throwing of kerosene and detergents into the sea
c. Shaping pieces of wood into chair
d. Burning of plastics

2. In what way cutting down of trees is harmful to the environment?

a. It can be made into chairs and tables.
b. It can be used in cooking.
c. It can affect the quality of air we breathe.
d. It can be used in making houses.

3. Some changes in the materials are harmful to the environment. Which situations
shows changes that is harmful to the environment?
a. Cutting of fabric to be made into clothes.
b. Shaping woods to make beds.
c. Changing wood into charcoal for cooking.
d. Burning old tires and plastics to reduce wastes.

4. How is burning of garbage such as plastic materials, rubber and other wastes
considered harmful to the environment?
a. It helps clean the air we breathe.
b. It releases dangerous toxic chemicals when burned.
c. It contributes to reduce the greenhouse effect and global warming.
d. It can cause skin cancer.

5. Which help reduce water pollution?

a. People dumping garbage into the river.
b. Factories throwing their wastes into the river.
c. Farmers using fertilizers and pesticides near rivers and lakes.
d. People practicing proper garbage disposal in their community.
What’s New?

Activity 1: What are the changes in the materials that are useful or harmful to
one’s environment?

Materials: piece of paper, ruler, pen

Procedures:

Identify whether such changes in the materials are useful or harmful to the
environment by putting a check mark (/) on the proper column.

Effect of the changes in the materials

to the environment
Changes in the Materials
Useful Harmful

1. pressing of dough to make breads

2. burning of old tires and plastics

3. throwing garbage into the river

4. cutting down of trees in the forest

5. cutting and shaping pieces of wood into bed

6. changing wood into charcoal for cooking

7. cutting a piece of cloth to be made into face
mask
8. cutting of garbage bags to be made into PPE
(personal protective equipment)

What is it?

1. What are the changes in the materials that are useful to the environment? Write
your answers in the graphic organizer.
 What made them useful to the environment?

2. What are the changes in the materials that are harmful to the environment?
Write your answers inside petals of the flower.

What made them harmful to the environment?

C. Engagement
What’s More?

What is the result and effect of the changes in materials to one’s environment?
A while ago, you have learned the useful and harmful changes in materials in the
environment. How does this changes affects the people and the environment?

Activity 2: Give me the result and effect

How are these changes in materials affects us and the environment? What are the
result of these changes that happened to the materials?

Result of action in Effects of the result in

Changes in Materials
changes in materials changes in materials
Example: Use in making breads Useful effect
Pressing of dough
Burning of old tires
and plastics
 throwing garbage into
the river
cutting and shaping
pieces of wood
changing wood into
charcoal
cutting of fabric

Can you give other ways of changing of materials and its effect?
What can you do to help prevent/minimize the harmful effects of changes in
materials to the environment?

Activity 3: Let’s save the environment!

Study the pictures that shows changes in the materials. Describe what is shown in
each of the given pictures and its effect to the environment. Enumerate some ways
of preventing/minimizing its effect to the environment.

What can you do to

Pictures showing What is the effect
What does this prevent/minimize
changes in the to the
picture shows? its harmful effect to
environment environment?
the environment?

D. Assimilation Based from the activity you just performed, what changes in materials are
useful? How do these change useful to people?
What changes in materials are harmful? What made them harmful to the
environment?
What are the ways to prevent/minimize the harmful effect of changes in
materials to the environment?

Concept Learned:
1. Some changes in the materials are useful to the environment, while
others are harmful.
2. Some changes in the materials are harmful to the environment. It
pollutes land, water and air. To keep our surroundings clean and to
 prevent or minimize pollution in our environment, people are
encouraged to do 5R’s
(Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle, Repair, Rot).

What I Can Do
Tara, Let’s Segregate!
A.
1. Go around your house and look for garbage.
2. Get garbage bags or empty rice sacks.
3. Segregate the garbage into biodegradable (left over foods, fruits and
vegetable peelings); non-biodegradable (plastic bottles, cans, boxes) and
residuals (like empty sachets of shampoo, soap, soy sauce, cooking oil,
biscuits)
4. List down the garbage that you segregated in each garbage bags and write a
reflection about the importance of proper segregation of garbage.

B. Reminder in doing the garbage segregation: Ask help from your parents or
any older member of the family, use gloves when touching the garbage, and
don’t forget to wash your hands with soap after segregating the garbage.

What I Can Achieve

Learners will answer 10-item summative test in the module and check their
answers using the key at the back part of the module.

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter in your Science
notebook.
1. What change in materials is harmful to the environment?
a. Cutting of wood to make chairs
b. Pressing of dough to make breads
c. Cutting pieces of cloth to make face masks
d. Burning of plastics
2. Why is burning of plastics and tires harmful to us?
a. It can be used in cooking.
b. It can be used in making houses.
c. It can be made into chairs and tables.
d. It can pollute the air we breathe.
3. Some changes in the materials are useful to the environment. Which
situation shows changes in the environment is NOT useful?
a. Burning old tires and plastics to reduce wastes.
b. Shaping woods to make beds.
c. Cutting of fabric to be made into clothes.
d. Changing wood into charcoal for cooking.
4. Why is cutting of trees harmful to the environment?
a. It can cause skin cancer.
 b. It can cause floods and landslides during rainy weather.
c. It helps clean the air we breathe.
d. It releases dangerous toxic chemicals when cut.
5. What will you do to help reduce the pollution in the environment?
a. I will cut the trees in the forest.
b. I will throw garbage into the river.
c. I will practice proper segregation of garbage.
d. I will burn the garbage in the vacant lot.
6. In the following situations, what change in materials is useful to the
environment?
a. Burning of plastics
b. Burning of old tires
c. Cutting of cloth to make face masks
d. Throwing of kerosene and detergents into the sea
7. In what way pressing of dough useful to the environment?
a. It can be made into houses.
b. It can be made into chairs.
c. It can be made into breads.
d. It can be made into handkerchiefs.
8. How will you prevent/minimize pollution in our environment?
a. Do the 5R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Rot).
b. Burn the garbage and other wastes.
c. Cut down all the trees.
d. Dumping garbage in the river.
9. Which is NOT an effect of water pollution?
a. Polluted water carries diseases.
b. Pollutes water kills plants and animals.
c. Polluted water helps plants make their own food.
d. Polluted water decreases the amount of oxygen in the water.
10. How is proper waste segregation important?
a. It helps minimize the pollution in the environment.
b. It makes people sick.
c. It produces floods and landslides.
d. It becomes breeding places of pests.

Additional Activity:
1. Draw three large garbage bins in a short bond paper and label each bin. List
down names of garbage you’re going to put inside each bin.
2. Describe your drawing by writing a sentence about it.

V. REFLECTION The learners, in their notebook, journal portfolio will write their personal insights
about the lesson using the prompts below.
I understand that ________________________.
I learned that ___________________________