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WESTERN MINDANAO STATE

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF
TEACHER EDUCATION
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LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE 8

Student Teachers Balahim, Tetyana S. Description Title: Chemistry

Grade Level and

Grade 8- Date:
Section
Prerequisite  Subatomic
Estimated Time 40 minutes
Knowledge Particles
 Atoms

I. OBJECTIVES
A. CONTENT STANDARD B. PERFORMANCE STANDARD
The learners demonstrate an understanding The learners shall be able to:
of… N/A
a. The periodic table of elements as an
organizing tool to determine the chemical
properties of elements.

C. LEARNING COMPETENCY D. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

The learners shall be able to: At the end of the lesson the students shall be
a. Trace the development of the Periodic able to:
Table from observations (S8MT-IIIgh- a) Breakdown the history of the
11); and development of the periodic table of
b. Explain the basis of arranging the elements;
elements in the modern periodic table b) Realize that the periodic table is a way
to sort elements; and
c) Label a period and a group on the
periodic table.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

a. Topic The Development of the Periodic Table & Arrangement of the
Elements in the Modern Periodic Table
Science Quarter 3 Week 5: The Development of the Periodic Table &
b. References Arrangement of the Elements in the Modern Periodic Table

III. TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCEDURES

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

I. PREPARATORY ACTIVITY

a. Setting of Mood

Good afternoon class!

Please pick up the pieces of paper under your chair Good afternoon, Ma’am!
and check the alignment of your chairs.

 Reminders of Do’s and Don’ts during

the class

I would like everyone to be reminded of the Do’s and

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Don’ts during our class.

Do’s
 Be on time
 Be clean
 Keep the classroom clean
 Be polite and respectful
 Listen when someone is speaking
 Raise your hand if you want to speak
Don’ts
 Don’t make noise
 Don’t shout answers
 Don’t come late class
 Don’t break school rules
 Don’t eat in class
 Don’t use any electronics unless instructed or
necessary

Any questions or clarifications about our classroom

rules?
No Ma’am.
Is everyone ready to listen and learn?

Yes Ma’am!
A. ENGAGE
 The teacher will show the students pictures of
maps and sites.

Are these logos familiar to you?

Okay, can you name them?

Very good! These apps require GPS and the internet.

Is there something you can use that has the same use
that doesn’t need any internet access?

Correct! We use maps before these apps existed. Can Yes Ma’am!
anyone tell the class what their function is? What are Yes Ma’am.
these maps used for? Apple Maps, Waze, and Google
Maps.
Yes (name of the student)

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 Yes Ma’am, tangible maps.

(Student raise their hand)

Ma’am maps are used as guide when

we want to go somewhere that is
unfamiliar to us.

Linking Statement:
Very good, it is a drawing of all or part of Earth's
surface. It serves as a guide. As what we can see here,
maps are labeled and organized in a way it is easy for
us to identify and locate the places. Similar with map
is the periodic table of elements. It is arranged in a
way it is easy for us to identify elements and find the
information that we need.

B. EXPLORE
Today I have these variety of papers, with different
shapes, colors, and sizes. I want you to picture a
scenario wherein we are being invaded by the aliens.
The aliens have found our planet and your task is to
show and introduce to them the elements that we have
by presenting them the periodic table of elements. We
will assume that these papers are elements. We will
organize these elements in a way that it will be easy
for aliens to understand the periodic table of elements.

Now, let’s have a brainstorm. I want everyone to

think of how we can organize and arrange these
elements to make a periodic table. I will go first, my
idea is to arrange these in columns and rows. Now its
your turn to share your ideas. Anyone?

Yes name of the student?

Very good! What else?

Very good. Now that we have these ideas, we can

arrange our elements and present to the aliens.

How do you relate our activity earlier to the periodic

table?

Very good! The chemical elements are arranged in

order of increasing atomic number. Elements in the
same group have similar chemical properties.
(Student raise their hand)
C. EXPLAIN
Just like how we arranged the chemical elements for Ma’am, we can arrange them by their
our periodic table, there are scientists who attempted similarities in color.
to arrange these elements. Now let us look back to the
history of the development of the periodic table. We By sizes and shapes Ma’am.

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will be discussing about how these 5 scientists
attempted to sort out the elements and how these
attempts contributed to the development of the
modern periodic table of elements. I will be grouping
you into 5 groups, as we discuss about these scientists
I will be asking you questions. Your task is to Like how we sort and arranged the
collaborate with each other to answer each question, papers, periodic table of elements are
therefore, in order for you to answer my questions I also arranged based on their
will need you to listen attentively. Am I understood? similarities.

Any questions or clarifications?

Okay if there are none, I will be grouping you by

counts off.

Go to your groups as quiet as possible.

What we have on our board in the incentive chart.

Each group has their own lulu lemon, in order for lulu
lemon to create her power which is chemical bomb,
you will need to help her collect chemical elements as
much as possible. In order to collect these chemical
elements, the group must participate and well
behaved. Each time your group participate in our
discussion, you will gain an incentive point from me.
However, you need to be careful because each time a
member from your group creates unnecessary noises
and roam around or stands up, your lulu lemon will
have a one step back therefore, losing an element. For
short, I want everyone to participate and behave
during the discussion.

I want each group to prepare one whole sheet of Yes Ma’am.

paper. Write your group number and names. I will be
giving only 2 minutes to write your names. None Ma’am.

Are my instructions clear?

Okay now let’s start with our discussion.

The story of the periodic system for classifying the

elements can be traced over 200 years ago. It has been
changed and improved as science has progressed and
as new elements have been discovered.

1. The first scientist is Johann Dobereiner. He is a

German chemist who formed the Law of Triads of
Elements. In 1917, he pointed out that many
elements could be arranged by their similarities
into groups of three, which he called triads. He
was the first one to make a link between atomic
weight and the properties of elements.

An example is a triad of calcium (Ca), barium

(Ba), and strontium (Sr). These three have similar
properties are all alkaline earth metals.

Yes Ma’am!

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 1. The contribution of Johann
Dobereiner is his discovery of
Dobereiner’s Triads.

In the figure we have here, groups of three chemically

similar elements or triad labeled by color in which the
atomic weight of the middle element could be
inferred as approximately equal to the average of the
lighter and heavier ones. This is not true for all
elements today, but at that time, it was a striking
discovery.

Okay question number one,

“What is the contribution of Johann Dobereiner?”

Write your answers on your one whole sheet of paper.

Answer as brief as you can.

2. John Newlands is an English chemist who is

known for establishing the Law of Octaves.
In 1863, he suggested that when the elements
were arranged in order of atomic weight,
similar properties could be noted for every He is known for establishing the Law
eighth (8th) element. The eighth (8th ) element of Octaves.
has similarities with the eighth (8th) element
ahead of it as well as the eighth (8th) element
behind it.

He was the first one to arrange the elements

based on increasing atomic weight – which
serves as on of the bases of out modern
version of the periodic table.

As what we can observe in this figure, when

elements are arranged in increasing order of
their atomic weight, elements on every 8th
element interval can be similar in both
physical and chemical properties. In today’s
periodic table, such elements in an interval of
eight belong to the same group or family. Ma’am atomic weight is the average
of the atomic mass of all natural
Again what is John Newlands known for? isotopes of an element.

Very good! Now for our second question; True Ma’am.

“How did John Newlands arranged the elements?”

3. Lothar Meyer is a German chemist who was

one of the first chemists who developed the
first periodic table of elements. His 1968 Because he noted that if elements are
version of the periodic table is based on the arranged in order of atomic weights,
work of John Newlands. He noted that if they belong to group of similar
physical and chemical properties

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 elements are arranged in order of atomic repeated at periodic intervals.
weights, they belong to groups of similar
physical and chemical properties repeated at
periodic intervals. Though he was able to do
this, he failed to classify all the elements
correctly.

Can anyone define what atomic weight is?

Okay, true or false. Lothar Meyer based his work on

the work of a previous scientist that arranged the
elements in order of atomic weights named John
Newlands.

Very good! Now third question, why did Lothar

Meyer arranged the elements based on the atomic
weights?

4. Dmitri Mendeleev is a Russian chemist who

also made on of the early versions of the
periodic table of elements. He is known as the
Father of the Modern Periodic Table.
Surprisingly, his work in 1869 has similarities
with that of Meyer although they do not know
each other and have never met. He designed
his periodic table in such a way that it can
predict several new elements and their
properties based on the similar arrangements
of elements that are increasing atomic weight
but this time, “periodically”. Both Meyer and
Mendeleev designed their tables with blank
spaces to be filled with elements yet to be
discovered. He called his table matrix “The
Periodic System”.

Below are the summarized His discovery/observation succeeded

concepts/observation of Mendeleev’s Periodic because he followed the ordering of
Table: elements by their atomic number.
 Increasing atomic weight
 Grouping of elements with similar It is important to study the
physical and chemical properties development of the Periodic Table of
 Periodicity of elements or the recurring Elements in order for us to understand
trends in element’s properties with how the periodic table of elements
increasing atomic number. works based o

5. Henry Moseley is an English physicist whose

observation of elements led to the
development of Modern Periodic Law.
Based on his experiment in 1914, the order of
the X-ray frequencies emitted by elements
follow the ordering of elements by their
atomic number. This led to the idea of the
Modern Periodic Law which states that the
properties of elements vary periodically with
atomic number. With this development, the
arrangement of elements in the periodic table
shifter to increasing atomic number instead of
atomic weights.

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Again, why did Henry Moseley’s observation
succeed?

Very good! So for the last question “Why do we

need to study the development of the Periodic
Table of Elements?”

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Okay class, time’s up! I hope you have chosen you
presenter/presenters already. We’ll start with the first
group, please present your work.

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Okay good job everyone! Give yourselves around of
applause.

Are there any questions or clarifications about the

development of the periodic table of the elements?

Okay if none, that is our lesson for today. I hope you

have learned something and enjoyed today’s lesson.
For next meeting, please bring crayons with you.
Good bye class!