School: CAMANTANGAN ES Grade Level: VI

GRADES 1 to 12 Name of Teacher GALLAND LEAR M. MURING Learning Area: SCIENCE

DAILY LESSON LOG Teaching Dates and Time: SEPT. 29 – OCT. 3, 2025 (WEEK 6) Quarter: Second

OBJECTIVES Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

A. Content The learners The learners The learners The learners The learners
Standard demonstrate the demonstrate the demonstrate the demonstrate the demonstrate the
different characteristics different different different different
of vertebrates and characteristics of characteristics of characteristics of characteristics of
invertebrates. vertebrates and vertebrates and vertebrates and vertebrates and
invertebrates. invertebrates. invertebrates. invertebrates.
B. 1. make an inventory of 1. make an inventory 1. make an inventory 1. make an inventory 1. make an inventory
Performance vertebrates and of of of of
Standard invertebrates that are vertebrates and vertebrates and vertebrates and vertebrates and
commonly seen in the invertebrates that are invertebrates that invertebrates that are invertebrates that are
community commonly seen in the are commonly seen in the commonly seen in the
2. practice ways of community commonly seen in community community
caring and protecting 2. practice ways of the community 2. practice ways of 2. practice ways of
animals caring and protecting 2. practice ways of caring and protecting caring and protecting
animals caring and protecting animals animals
animals
C. Learning Discuss the interactions Discuss the Discuss the Discuss the Discuss the
among living things and interactions among interactions among interactions among interactions among
Competency/ non-living things in living things and non- living things and non- living things and non- living things and non-
Objectives tropical rainforests, living things in living things in living things in living things in
coral reefs, and tropical rainforests, tropical rainforests, tropical rainforests, tropical rainforests,
Write the LC mangrove swamps coral reefs, and coral reefs, and coral reefs, and coral reefs, and
code for each. (S6MT-Iii-j-5) mangrove swamps mangrove swamps mangrove swamps mangrove swamps
(S6MT-Iii-j-5) (S6MT-Iii-j-5) (S6MT-Iii-j-5) (S6MT-Iii-j-5)

II. CONTENT Interactions Among Interactions Among Ecosystem: Ecosystem: Tropical Ecosystem:
Organisms Organisms Tropical Rainforests, Tropical
Rainforests, Coral Reefs and Rainforests,
Coral Reefs and Mangrove Coral Reefs and
Mangrove Swamps Mangrove
Swamps Swamps
III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
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1. Teacher’s
Guide
Pages
2. Learner’s
Materials
pages
3. Textbook
pages
4. Additional
Materials from
Learning
Resource (LR)
portal
B. Other
Learning
Resource
III.
PROCEDURES
A. Reviewing Animals Around Us What have you What are the What are the layers of What are the
previous Directions: Inside the learned in our different interactions the rainforest? categories of coral
lesson or box are names of previous lesson? among living things reefs?
presenting the vertebrates and that you have
new lesson invertebrates. Classify learned in our
them previous lesson?
according to the place
they live and write
them in the appropriate
column.

B. Establishing Observe the pictures Directions: Read

a purpose for below. Identify what each item carefully
the organisms are harmed, and choose the letter
lesson benefited, of the best
or not affected in each answer. Write your
of the following answer on your
interactions. Write your answer sheet.
answers in the 1. What are the The picture shows a
table. The first item is things needed by Can you identify what mangrove swamp.
done for you. plants to make their is on the picture? What organisms do
own food? What animals live you think that live in
a. water, chemicals with corals? a mangrove swamps?
and oxygen
b. oxygen and A coral reef is rich A mangrove swamp is
carbon dioxide with marine life. It is a a home to a diverse
c. oxygen and marine biome. It is living and non-living
chemicals composed of non- things.
d. carbon dioxide, living things and Different species of
soil and sunlight living things. The animals like
2. What kind of living part composed crustaceans, fish and
interaction is shown of mollusk compose the
when worms live in different species like living part of
the guts and flesh of fish, sea grass, corals, mangrove ecosystem.
a fish? sponges and other Mangrove plants are
a. mutualism marine the main organism
b. commensalism animals. that dominates this
c. predation ecosystem. How do
d. parasitism living and non-living
3. What kind of things interact with
interaction is shown each other in this
when monkeys in environment?
tropical rainforest
compete for food
with other animals?
a. mutualism
b. commensalism
c. competition
d. predation

5. Which of the
following pairs of
organisms shows
commensalism?
a. butterfly sucking
 the flowers
b. ferns attached to a
tree
c. flatworms in coral
reefs
d. snake eating a rat
C. Presenting Let us discover the Let us learn the The following are Directions: The Pick out the animals
examples/ different interactions interactions among found in tropical following are found in that can be found in
instances of among organisms. things and non-living rainforests. Classify coral reefs. Classify mangrove swamps
the new things in tropical them as them as living or ecosystem.
lesson rainforests, coral living or non-living non-living things.
reefs, and mangrove things. Write your Write your answers in
swamps. answers in your your Science Journal.
Science Journal. 1. crab
______________________
2. turtle
______________________
3. fish
______________________
4. sand
______________________
5. water
______________________
D. Discussing Fun with Pics!
new Directions: Observe the
concepts and pictures closely.
practicing new Choose the best picture
skills #1 that matches the
descriptions given.
Write the letter of the
correct answer on the Mangrove swamp
blank ecosystem is
provided before the The Ecosystem is an composed mostly of
Just like in other
number. environment where mangrove plants and
ecosystems, in coral
both living and non- animals like
reefs, organisms
living crustaceans and
interact with
things exist and migratory birds. The
each other. The
interact with one non-living part
producers like sea
another. This composed of
grass, provide food
interaction enables water, sand, mud,
______1. Animals of the and nutrients to the
the
same species fighting survival of living consumers. These rocks and sunlight. It
for food and space. things and affects consumers include is an important
______2. An animal non-living things. sea turtles, crabs, system that allows for
feeding on another Example of manatees (dugong), the
animal. ecosystem fishes and other breeding of fishes
______3. Organisms of is the tropical marine animals. and survival of other
different species work rainforests. Living The factors that marine animals. It is
together benefiting things that can be contribute to the coral also a part of the
each other. found here reef formation are coastal and marine
______4. Interaction of composed of temperature, light ecosystems.
two organisms in which plants and animals. penetration, stable There are varieties of
one is benefited and Non-living things salinity and water marine and terrestrial
the other is neither include soil, air, movement. life living in
harmed nor benefited. humidity, water and There are different mangroves. Animals
______5. Organisms that sunlight. categories of coral like white heron
cooperate with each Rainforest has reefs. Fringing reefs (tagak), and other
other for survival. different layers are reefs birds inhabit the
namely emergent, that hug the shore of mangrove canopy.
canopy, understory continents or islands. Fishes and
and forest floor. Barrier reefs are reefs crustaceans live
Emergent refers to that stand underneath the
trees that are 130 to between the open sea mangrove roots
180 feet tall. and a lagoon. Coral system. Organisms
Canopy, on the atolls are reefs that like oyster,
other hand, has tall enclose a mussels attached
slender trees from a lagoon. themselves to the
dense platform of trunk and lower
vegetation with 60 to branches of the
129 feet of the mangroves.
ground. Animals like monitor
lizard, mudskipper
and crustaceans such
as shrimps and
crabs live in
mangrove swamps.
Also, migratory birds
like pelicans, spoon
bills and
bald eagles are also
found in this habitat.
Some saltwater
 crocodiles can also
live
in Philippine
mangrove swamps.

E. Discussing An ecosystem is The complex The understory is The symbiotic

new concepts composed of living and interactions for about 59 feet and interaction found in a
and nonliving things. The survival among living below and consists of mangrove ecosystem
practicing new living part of an things and nonliving trunks of includes
skills #2 ecosystem consists of things that take place canopy, shrubs, trees many organisms that
the different species of in tropical rainforests, and small plants. The depend on mangrove
organisms. Each coral reefs, and forest floor is home for survival. Animals
species is a part of the mangrove swamps to animals like oysters,
ecosystem’s include: mutualism, like jaguars, tigers mollusks and
population. The commensalism, and cassowaries barnacles are
nonliving components predation, which thrive in a dependent on
of an ecosystem are: competition, deep shade part of mangrove for their
the soil, the type of cooperation, and the forest where source of food
climate (temperature, parasitism. plant life is thin. This and habitat.
light, water or is because only a Commensalism is
moisture, wind) and small percent of shown when
location. The different sunlight gets through barnacles and oysters
populations make up a the thick canopy and attach
community. The understory and themselves to the
different populations in reaches the roots of mangroves.
the ecosystem interact forest floor. Fishes stay in the
with each other and Organisms like fungi, mangroves during a
their environment. insects, worms and particular stage of
Producers are green litter from taller trees their life to grow and
plants, algae or that fall on the forest develop into a mature
microorganisms that floor can be found fish.
are capable of making here. Mutualism is shown
their own food. when animals like
Consumers get their crabs and mollusks
energy help break down
by feeding on plants plant litter in a
and other organisms. mangrove ecosystem
Decomposers get through grazing.
energy by breaking White heron (tagak)
down Producers provide eating a fish shows
dead organisms and food for the predation in this kind
 their wastes. A food consumers which of ecosystem.
chain is a sequence of include
organisms which starts herbivores-plant
from producers and eating animals and
ends with carnivores-flesh
decomposers. A food eating Mangrove swamp
web is a combination of animals. Herbivores ecosystem is
multiple provide food to the important for they
food chains. In food carnivores. Producers serve as
chains, we get to know include trees, shrubs breeding and nesting
how organisms are and other plant life in grounds of animal
connected to each the forest. species. The
other. Feeding relationships mangrove
like food chain and shelter is used as
food web occur shelter by fishes as
among species in the breeding and nursing
forest ecosystem. grounds before
Food chain starts heading to the open
with ocean. Mangroves are
producer, a series of also
consumers and important habitat of
decomposers. Food organisms. Numerous
web animal species find
results from the protection and
interconnected food abundant food in this
chains. environment. It also
acts as
natural barrier and
flood defense as they
defend coast lines
from
flooding and erosion.
Lastly, mangrove is
an important source
of
livelihood of people
living in coastal
areas.
F. Developing Living things like Explain the concept Directions: Answer Directions: Identify
mastery (leads animals and plants can further. the following and discuss the
to Formative interact with the non- questions. Write your interaction between
Assessment 3) living environment, Directions: Identify answers in your living
including the soil, the type of interaction Science journal. and non-living things
climate and water, to described. Choose 1. What are the living in a mangrove swamp
cause effects on each your answer from the and non-living things ecosystem. Write
other that can be box and write it on found in the coral your answers in your
positive, the space provided reefs? Science Journal.
negative or neutral. For before the number. 2. How do they 1. oyster and
example, animals interact with each mangrove
benefit from a non- other? 2. white heron and
living environment with Discuss the water
plenty of water and air _______________1. An relationship or 3. crab and mud
because these are interaction between interaction between: 4. mangrove and bird
essential for survival. If organisms or species 3. Big fish and small
a living organism in which fish
cannot adapt to its non- both the organisms or 4. Worm in the flesh
living surroundings species are harmed. and guts of fish
Directions: Read
(such as a lack of _______________2. A 5. Are these
carefully and answer
sunlight or too hot or type of interaction interactions
the following items.
cold where organisms important? Why?
Write your answers
temperature) or cannot cooperate with each in your Science
get what it needs from other for their Journal.
these surroundings survival. • What are the
(such as water), then _______________3. An interactions that
the living organism will interaction wherein exist among living
have problems one animal consumes things and non-living
surviving and thus will another. things in the tropical
be negatively affected. _______________4. A rainforest?
In type of interaction • Discuss interaction
addition, living that occurs between between plants and
organisms in an two species in sunlight in a
environment without which one organism tropical rainforest
sufficient non-living benefits while the ecosystem.
resources may other organism is • What will happen if
have trouble getting neither benefited nor producers will
what they need for harmed. decrease in a
survival due to _______________5. A rainforest
competition for those relationship where ecosystem?
resources. one organism is • Are the interactions
Some examples on benefited while the among living things
interactions between other one is harmed. and non-living
non-living and living
 things include _______________6. A things important?
plants getting their type of interaction Why?
minerals from the soil when two organisms
and making food using of different species
sunlight, animals "work together," each
needing a specific benefiting from the
temperature range for relationship.
their body processes to
function properly and
sea creatures needing
either saltwater or
freshwater.
G. Finding Directions: Using the Directions: Match the Read the paragraph Read the paragraph The YES-O members
practical box below, draw a different types of and answer the and answer the of Bago City, Negros
application of poster on how you can interactions in questions that follow. questions that follow. Occidental
concepts and help protect and Column A with its Write your answer in Write participated
skills in daily conserve our corresponding your Science Journal. it in your Science in the conduct of
living ecosystems following examples in Column Living things and Journal. mangrove planting
the elements of arts B. Write your answer non-living things Living things and non- and clean-up drive at
(Color, Space, Shape, on the blank provided interact with each living things interact Purok Batad,
Form, Value, Line, and before the number. other in a Tropical with each other in a Brgy. Sampinit, Bago
Texture. Choose only Rainforest Coral City.
one ecosystem from Ecosystem. This reef ecosystem. Coral
the three interaction enables reef is composed of
types discussed. The the survival of living non-living
given rubric will be things and components such as
used in giving points of affects non-living water and sand. It
your output. things. Can you serves as breeding
identify the living place for fish, During the mangrove
and non-living things crustaceans, planting, pupils were
in a mollusks, asked identify
Tropical Rainforest? cnidarians, sponges the different factors
Discuss their and echinoderms. that would ensure the
interaction. Their interaction survival of plants
Example: Plants and enables the survival and other living
carbon-dioxide - of living things and things in the
Plants need carbon affects non-living mangrove ecosystem.
dioxide for food- things. Can you Directions: Identify
making, identify the living and the living and non-
in return, it releases non-living things in living things in the
oxygen during the Coral Reef
 process of Ecosystem? Discuss mangrove ecosystem
photosynthesis. their interaction. and discuss how they
interact.

H. Making What have you learned What have you Complete the Complete the Complete every
generalizations in this lesson? learned in this lesson? paragraph below. paragraph. Choose statement by
and I learned that. . . I learned that. . . Choose your your answer from the supplying the blank
abstractions (Tropical rainforests, answer from the words given inside with a word or group
about the Mangrove swamps, (Commensalism, words inside the box. the box below. of words from the box
lesson Coral reefs) are very Cooperation, below.
dense, Competition) is an
warm, and wet forest interaction between I learned that…….
located in the band of organisms or species The is an I learned that …
the equator. Coral reefs in which both the environment where I learned that …. Ecosystem is
are large organisms or species both living and non- The serve as a composed mostly of
underwater structures are harmed. A living breeding ground of mangrove plants
composed of the relationship where things exist and marine life. and animals like
skeletons of colonial one organism is interact with one The factors that crustaceans and
marine invertebrates benefited while the another. contribute to the reef migratory birds.
called (corals, crabs, other one is harmed is The different layers formation are light Mangroves are
shrimp). called (cooperation, of the rainforest are penetration, important because,
(Coral reefs, Mangrove mutualism, _________,________ , , stable salinity and . they serve as
swamps, Tropical parasitism). __________ and The , and are breeding and nesting
rainforests) are smaller (Cooperation, __________ . categories of coral grounds of animal
aquatic ecosystems Predation, __________is a series reefs. _____ is an species,_______ ,_____
where mangrove trees Parasitism) is the of feeding interaction where ___, a source of
abound. term used when relationship, while organisms live livelihood of people
Mutualism is a type of referring to _________ is together without living in coastal
interaction when two interactions among an inter-connected harming one another, areas.
organisms of different organisms that food chain. for In this kind of
species cooperate with each ________is an example, barnacles ecosystem,_______ is
work together, each other. interaction where attached on skin of shown when animals
(benefited, harmed, not organisms live turtles without like crabs and
affected) from the together harming them. In mollusks help break
relationship. without harming one both organisms down
(Commensalism, another, for benefit in the plant litter in a
Competition, Predation) example, the orchids relationship. For mangrove ecosystem
 is an interaction are example, the corals through grazing.
wherein one animal attached to the trunk receive ___________ is shown
consumes another. of a tree without oxygen from the when white heron
(Commensalism, harming it. In _______, algae; the algae get (tagak) ate fishes.
Competition, Predation) both organisms protection from them.
is a type of benefit in the is a kind
interaction that occurs relationship. of interaction where
between two species in __________is a kind of one organism, the
which one organism interaction in which parasite, depends on
benefits while one organism kills another
the other organism is smaller organisms organism for food,
neither harmed nor for food. production and
benefited. reproduction. is a kind
of
interaction in which
one organism kills
smaller organisms for
food. An
example of this is
when a big fish eats a
small fish.
I. Evaluating Directions: Read each Directions: The table Directions: Identify Directions: Choose
learning item carefully. Encircle below shows the the interaction the letter of the best
the letter of the correct different interactions between the given answer. Write your
answer. in a pair of organisms in chosen answer on a
1. In a coral reef tropical rainforest. column A and its separate sheet.
ecosystem, clown Choose the correct interaction in column 1. Which group of
fishes and sea organism that shows B. organisms can be
anemones live the found in the
together. kind of interaction in mangrove
What type of a given ecosystem. ecosystem?
relationships do they a. mussels, fish,
have? corals
A. Commensalism b. worm, rat, fish
B. Mutualism c. butterfly, snake,
C. Parasitism bird
D. Predation d. mangrove trees,
2. Colonies of ants fiddler crab, fish
work together for 2. What are the
survival, what do things needed by
you call this plants to make their
interaction? own food?
A. Mutualism a. water, chemicals
B. Parasitism and oxygen
C. Cooperation b. oxygen and carbon
D. Commensalism dioxide
3. Which organisms c. oxygen and
show chemicals
commensalism? d. carbon dioxide, soil
A. Fish living on corals and sunlight
B. Sea urchin eating 3. Which of the
corals following describes a
C. Barnacle living on a canopy of the
whale rainforest?
D. Clownfish living on a a. composed of trees
sea anemone that are 130 to 180
4. Which phrase best feet tall
describes b. about 59 feet and
mutualism? consists of trunk of
A. It is a predator-prey canopy, shrubs, small
relationship plants and trees
B. an interaction when c. consists mostly of
one is benefited and fungi, insects, worms
the other is harmed and litter from taller
C. an interaction when trees
two organisms of d. has slender trees
different species work from a dense
together platform of
benefiting each other vegetation with 60
D. a relationship that to 129 feet.
occurs between two 4. What kind of
species in which one interaction is shown
organism when one organism
benefits while the other kills another
organism is neither organism for food?
benefited nor harmed a. mutualism
5. From what you b. commensalism
have learned in the c. parasitism
discussion, how will d. predation
you describe 5. It is an
predation? environment where
A. an interaction both living and non-
wherein one animal living things exist
consumes another. and interact with one
B. an interaction when another.
one is benefited and a. ecology
the other is harmed. b. ecosystem
C. an interaction when c. community
two organisms of d. population
different species work 6. One example of
together. competition in
D. a type of interaction tropical rainforest is
where organisms when the
cooperate with each shrubs and trees are
other for their growing together in
survival. one area. What do
they
compete for?
a. sunlight and soil
nutrients.
b. oxygen and carbon
dioxide.
c. chemicals and
oxygen.
d. water and
chemicals.
7. _________ results
from the
interconnected food
chains.
a. consumer
b. producer
c. food web
d. biotic component
8. Why is the
relationship between
the corals and the
algae in the
coral reefs considered
mutualistic?
a. The corals benefit
in the interaction and
not the algae.
 b. The corals receive
oxygen from algae,
the algae get
protection
from corals.
c. The corals receive
oxygen from algae
while the algae are
harmed.
d. The corals and
algae live together
without harming each
other.
9. What kind of
interaction is shown
when animals like
crabs and
mollusks help break
down plant litter in a
mangrove ecosystem
through grazing?
a. competition
b. commensalism
c. parasitism
d. mutualism
10. Why is producer
important in an
ecosystem?
a. It is the source of
food to the
consumers.
b. It is an organism
that eats plants.
c. It breaks down
organism into smaller
particles.
d. It is a series of
feeding relationship.
J. Additional
activities for
application or
remediation
IV. REMARKS
V. REFLECTION