S5FE IVa 1 LM
S5FE IVa 1 LM
Day 1
Activity 1 – “How Rocks turn into soil?”
Objectives:
What to do:
1. Form a group and choose among your group who will act as leader and presenter.
2. Watch attentively to the video.
3. Write down important notes to gather information.
4. After the viewing, the leader will get the materials from your teacher to be used in the
next activity.
5. Go to the working place assigned to each group.
6. Brainstorm ideas about how rocks turn into soil that you have watched from the video.
7. Follow the instruction given.
8. Give your yell if you’re done.
9. Post your work and present your output.
Describe how rock turn into soil in this picture
Guide Questions:
1. 1. How rocks turn into soil?
2. How does natural process break down rocks into soil?
Remember These:
Lichens (LYK-uhnz) or tiny plantlike living things, grow on the outsides of the rocks. They
slowly break down rock to get nutrients.
Temperature changes, wind, and water also slowly break the rock apart. Small plants
can grow in the cracks. Plant roots continue to break the rock apart.
Wind and water move bits of weathered rocks to new places. Later, the bits are part of
the well-developed soil.
Day 2
Activity 2: “Whether you believe it or not?”
What to do:
1. The leader will get the materials from your teacher to be used in the activity.
2. Study and share ideas about the pictures provided to your group..
3. Paste your I believe sticker if the picture show forces that break down rocks and I
don’t believe sticker if not.
4. Place all the pictures in the cartolina provided.
5. Label each picture the kind of forces that break down rocks.
6. As soon as you are done with your activity, post your work on the board and report
your output.
Guide Questions:
What are natural forces that break down rocks?
What does each picture show?
Name some places where the natural forces that break down rocks happens?
Remember These:
Day 3
Activity 3 – “Breaking Down Rocks”
What you need:
A mineral water bottle with cap
Water
Cartolina
Marking pen
What to do:
1. Do this activity ahead of time.
2. The leader will get the materials from your teacher to be used in the activity.
3. Fill the bottle with water up to the brim and screw the cap.
4. Observe the water-filled bottle before doing step 3.
5. Place the bottle inside the freezer overnight.
6. Observe the set up the following morning.
7. Enter your observations in the table provided.
8. Examine the setup again.
9. Think about how water causes the plastic bottle to break.
10. Relate the observation with what is happening to rocks in nature.
Guide Questions:
1. What happens to the plastic bottle with water when placed inside the freezer overnight?
2. How does water cause the breakdown of rocks in nature?
Remember These:
Day 1
Activity 1 – “How soil is formed through weathering?”
Objectives:
Pictures
diagram meta cards
aluminum tray
soil
plants
water
What to do:
Guide Questions:
What is weathering?
How soil is formed through weathering?
Remember These: