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The lesson plan summarizes a 60-minute lesson on DNA structure and function. Students will identify DNA components like nucleotides and bases, explain base pairing rules, and construct an edible DNA model using items like marshmallows and gum. The lesson involves an activity where students build and label DNA models, discusses the importance of DNA, and evaluates students with multiple choice questions to assess their understanding of DNA structure and genetics.

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Lesson Plan in Science

The lesson plan summarizes a 60-minute lesson on DNA structure and function. Students will identify DNA components like nucleotides and bases, explain base pairing rules, and construct an edible DNA model using items like marshmallows and gum. The lesson involves an activity where students build and label DNA models, discusses the importance of DNA, and evaluates students with multiple choice questions to assess their understanding of DNA structure and genetics.

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LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE

Prepared by: Princess Nazarita


Date: April 20, 2015
Duration: 60mins

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson the students should be able to:
a. Identify the structure of a DNA molecule
b. explain the rules of base pairing;
c. construct a model of molecule of DNA;
d. value the importance of DNA.

II. SUBJECT MATTER/CONTENT


a. Topic: DNA: The Genetic Material
B. Reference
Rabago, L. Et.al, (2010). Functional Biology Modular Approach. 2nd ed. Philippines: Vibal
Publishing House.
DepEd. (2014). K-12 Science 9 Teachers Manual, page 14.
C. Concepts:
DNA is composed of chains of nucleotides built on a sugar and phosphate backbone and wrapped around
each other in the form of a double helix.
The backbone supports four bases: guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine.
Guanine and cytosine are complementary, always appearing opposite each other on the helix, as are
adenine and thymine. This is critical in the reproduction of the genetic material, as it allows a strand to
divide and copy itself, since it only needs half of the material in the helix to duplicate successfully.
D. Materials :

Strips of Cartolina with Definitions


Illustrations of Nitrogenous Bases
Student handouts
colored marshmallows
footlong bubble gum
toothpicks

paperclips
masking tape

E. Teaching Strategy: Simulation

III. PROCEDURE
A. Daily Routine
a. Greetings
b. Prayer
c. Setting the Classroom
d. Checking of Attendance
B. Motivation
4 Pics 1 Word
Student will guess the hidden words using the pictures posted on the board.
Words are: Sugar, Phosphate and Nitrogen
C. Unlocking of Difficulties
Nucleotides: the subunits that make up DNA. Each nucleotide is made of three parts: a phosphate
group, a five-carbon sugar molecule, and a nitrogen-containing base.
Deoxyribose: The five-carbon sugar in DNA nucleotides
Base-pair: two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected via
hydrogen bonds.

D. Lesson Proper
a. Introduction
What is DNA?

The teacher will begin class with a discussion about DNA, which DNA contains all of the instructions
necessary to build and operate a living organism and that DNA molecules can be found inside the cells
of all living things.
How DNA looks like?
What is the importance of base pairing in the construction of DNA?

The teacher will show the students a diagram depicting what the DNA molecule looks like by describing
its structural features. Inform students about the four-letter DNA alphabet, A, T, C, and G, and explain
the rules of base pairing. Explain that information is stored within the DNA molecule in the form of a
sequence of chemical bases represented by these four letters.
b. Activity

Have your DNA and Eat it too

Students will group themselves and follow the instructions in the student handout and build their very
own edible model of the DNA molecule.
When students have completed the activity, the teacher will assess their understanding of the
structure of DNA by examining whether or not they have built and labeled their models correctly and
followed the rules of base pairing.
Guide Questions:
What are the common parts of a nucleotide?
What is the one part of the nucleotide that differs among the other different nucleotides?
Is there always going to be an equal number of adenine and thymine nucleotides in molecule?
guanine and cytosine nucleotides? Why?
c. Valuing
Why is DNA important?
How is scientific progress affecting how DNA is used to solve crimes?
How can DNA evidence be used to free innocent people?
d. Summary
Students will give a summary and generalization on the topic.

IV. Evaluation
DIRECTION: Choose the best answer.
1. DNA is a polymer of _______.
a.nucleotides
b.fatty acids
c. phosphate
d.deoxyribose sugars connected by phosphodiester bonds
2. Which of the following are pyrimidines?
a. adenine and cytosine

b .adenine and guanine


c. adenine and thymine
d. cytosine and thymine
3. Which of the following are purines?
a. adenine and cytosine
b. adenine and guanine
c. cytosine and thymine
d. guanine and thymine
4. The DNA instructions are divided into segments called _______.
a. chromatin
b. chromosomes

c. genes
d. nucleotides
5. Watson and Crick determined that a DNA molecule is a ________ a two strands twisted around each other, like a
winding staircase.
a. single helix
b. double helix
c. single stranded DNA
d. double stranded DNA

V. Assignment
Make a research about when and how the structure of the DNA molecule was discovered and by
whom. Print and paste or write your researchers in you big science notebook.

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