Date: February 3,2022 Code: S5LT-Ii-j-10

Content: Reasons to Protect and Conserve Estuaries and

Performance Standard: The learners should be able to

Learning Competency: Explain the reasons why we need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal zones

Content standards: Understanding of the interactions for survival among living and non-living things that take place in
estuaries and intertidal zones

I.OBJECTIVES

1.Explain the need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal zones

II.TOPIC:

Reasons why we need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal zones

A.Key knowledge: An estuary is the body of water where a river meets the ocean while intertidal zone is the area that is
submerged with water during high tide and exposed to the air during low tide or the area between tide marks.

B.Instructional Materials Needed: Pictures,laptop,powerpoint presentation

C.Reference:CG p. 32 Science Beyond Boarders 5 pp.

D.Science Skills: Observing, Comparing, Inferring, Communicating.

E.Values Integration: Accomplish work at a given time.

III.Learning Task

A.Engagement

1.Review the pupils in the previous lessons learned.

2.Ask: Answer the riddle:

I am a habitat where salty water and

fresh water meet. What am I?

I am a kind of habitat where four zones meet. What am I?

I. Problem: What are the reasons why we need to protect and conserve estuaries and
intertidal zones?

II. Materials: Pictures of damaged estuaries and intertidal zones

III. Procedures:

1. Use the picture provided to complete the table below.

2. Infer the reasons why we need to protect and conserve the estuaries and

intertidal zones.

3. Record your answers in the table below.

Questions:

1.What are the causes of environmental destruction in estuaries and intertidal zone?

2.What are the effects of damaged estuaries and intertidal zone?

3.What are the reasons why we need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal zones?

C. Explanation:

After doing their activity let the pupils report their findings or discovering about the activity
they made.

What are the causes of environmental destruction in estuaries and intertidal zone?

(Urban Development/cities, agricultural activities, boating, structures like seawall, bridges,

What are the effects of damaged estuaries and intertidal zone?

(Urban development can change the environment, agricultural activities can affect the health
of estuaries, industries like fishing can impact the water quality and over

-fishing reduces the number of fish in the ocean and disrupts the food chains,

structures like seawall can damage the passage of water, pollution and erosion can reduce the
amount of food sources and the available habitats for marine life and wildlife to live in.

Natural Disasters can disturb the homes and lives of the organisms.)

What are the reasons why we need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal zones?
(Human lives depend to some extent on the abundant resources of estuaries. Humans, therefore, need
to live in harmony with every component of an ecosystem like estuary and intertidal zone. Every
individual has a duty to use wisely and preserve the resources that we find and enjoy on every part of
our planet.)

D. Integration/Elaboration:

In our English lesson we have learned that inference clue is a kind of context clue. In an inference clue,
information is given in the sentence to help you figure out the meaning of the unfamiliar word.

Direction: Complete the Venn diagram by giving the reasons why we need to protect and conserve
estuaries and intertidal zones.

Reasons why we need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal zones.

Estuaries Intertidal Zone

BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS

Human lives depend to some extent on the abundant resources of estuaries. Humans, therefore,
need to live in harmony with every component of an ecosystem like estuary and intertidal zone. Every
individual has a duty to use wisely and preserve the resources that we find and enjoy on every part of
our planet. We must realize that we do not own it.The time for action to protect and restore the estuary
and intertidal zone is now for tomorrow might be too late every individual should take active role in the
implementation of conservation programs to identify and address water quality, pollution, and
habitat problems within estuaries. It is the responsibility of the people to examine their everyday
activities and think about how they might be contributing to the pollution problem.Here are some
suggestions oh how the people, including you, can make a difference in the protection of the habitat of
organisms:

Be informed and get involved

The people should be aware that estuaries are sensitive habitat areas

They should get involved in dealing with habitat issues that affect the community in which they
live or work
For pupils they can join tree

–planting programs, clean –up drive in school and community

Why do we need to protect and conserve estuaries and intertidal Zone

Take full responsibility for one’s own backyard

Minimize the application of fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides in your yard

Use environment

–friendly products such as organic fertilizers and biocontrols in place of pesticides to safeguard
the entry of harmful substances into the waters and end up in estuaries

Conserve water in your daily life to reduce runoff that may find its way into the estuaries

Preserve existing trees and plant new trees and shrubs to help prevent erosion

Dispose your yard wastes and chemicals properly

Practice good housekeeping at all times

In every household, each person is encouraged to keep all forms of garbage out of street

gutters and storm drains

Install water

-saving devices in shower heads and toilet bowls

Replace any dripping faucets of leaky pipes

Don’t dispose toxic wastes and chemicals down your toilet bowl

Buy and use non

-toxic household products

Practice 5Rs: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REPAIR, and RECOVER

Always follow label instructions for the use and disposal of household

Give due respect and great concern to estuary

When you enter an estuary riding a hired boat, be careful not to touch or hurt the organisms

there. Better still, avoid entering sensitive habitat areas such as estuaries

Make sure you keep all waste produced during picnics in a safe bag and disposed properly
when you’re back on land

Avoid dumping any chemicals like gasoline and oil products, or heavy metal into the waters of the
estuary
IV. EVALUATION:

Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is incorrect.

1. The wild animals will no longer have shelter.

2. The wild animals will be in extinct.

3. The ecosystem will be affected.

4. The reproduction of wild animals will be affected.

5. The ecosystem will be the same

V. ASSIGNMENT:

Interview your parents about their opinion in protecting natural resources.

BEM JAZZEL D. CAMON

Teacher II

MA. LUISA G. SAGUBAN

MT-II