(i) The lesson plan is for a 6th grade science class about investigating force and energy through analyzing friction. It involves showing students videos and pictures to understand friction's advantages like staying stationary and disadvantages like wearing things out. (ii) Students will do activities like observing a ball not moving on a table due to friction, an eraser wearing out, and the difficulty of pushing a heavy object. They will also list friction's advantages and disadvantages. (iii) The lesson concludes by having students summarize in their worksheets and mind maps what they learned about friction's advantages like walking without slipping and disadvantages like the need for more effort to move objects.

1. Lesson Plan
Subject : Science
Year / Class : 6
No. of Students : 1
Date :
Time :
Duration : 1 hour
Theme : Investigating Force and Energy
Learning Area : Force
Learning Objectives : 2.3 Analysing friction
Learning Outcomes : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
(i) state advantages of friction
(ii) state disadvantages of friction
Prior Knowledge : Pupils know effects of friction
Science Process Skills : Observing, communicating, predicting
Critical Thinking : Comparing and contrasting, generating ideas, making
conclusions
Scientific Attitudes
& Noble Values : Being thankful to God, thinking rationally,
being cooperative, having critical and analytical
thinking, being confident
Teaching -Learning
Resources : Laptop, LCD projector, pictures, worksheets

2. Phases / Time Contents Teaching - learning Activities Remarks
Orientation
(5 minutes)
• Friction is higher in rough surfaces and
less in smoother surfaces.
• Teacher shows a video song about friction
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXAJHitPAY
• Teacher asks the students:
- What is friction?
- Why the man in the video could not push the
box?
- In this case, is the friction helpful to him?
- Why the tyres have patterns? Is it beneficial to
the driver?
• Teacher introduces the topic to the student.
Teaching aids
• Laptop, LCD projector
Science process skills
• Observing
Thinking skills
• Comparing and contrasting
Scientific attitudes / Noble
value
• Being thankful to God
Elicitation of
Ideas
(15 minutes)
• Friction has both advantage and
disadvantage.
Activity 1
• Teacher shows slides where a man pulling a baggage
without aid of any roller and another man pulling his
son using a roller.
• Student compare both situation and infer that friction
causes disadvantage.
• Teacher asks the student what would happen if the
shoes do not have patterns? What would happen to
the vehicles if the tyres do not have patterns?
Student thinks and infers advantages of friction.
Teaching aids
• Slides
Science process skills
• Observing
• Infering
Thinking skills
• Comparing & contrasting
• Relating
Scientific attitudes / Noble
value.
• Thinking rationally.

3. • Having critical and
analytical thinking
Restructuring
of Ideas
(15 minutes)
• Advantages of friction
- we can walk and run
- moving and stopping a car
- an object stay stationary
- lighting a match
- we can climb
- we can write
• Disadvantages of friction
- Need more effort
- causes things to wear out
- causes machines to slow down
- causes heat in machine
Activity 2
• Teacher shows some pictures of advantages of
friction and disadvantages.
• Student explains the type of friction showed in the
pictures in the slides.
• Student lists down and summarize advantages and
disadvantages of friction in mind map.
Teaching aids
• slides
Science process skills
• Observing
• Communicating
Thinking skill
• Comparing and contrasting
Scientific attitudes / Noble
value
• Having critical and
analytical thinking
• Thinking rationally
• Being confident
Application
(20 minutes)
• Advantages and disadvantages of friction
1. Advantage: causes things stay
stationary
2. Disadvantage: causes things to wear
out
3. Disadvantage: need more effort to
move an object
4. Advantage: We can walk without
slipping or fall.
Activity 3
• Student conducts 4 activities:
1. Student put a ball on centre of table and observe
why it’s never move.
2. student use an eraser and explain why it’s wear
out
3. student push a heavy object on floor and explain
why it is difficult to be pushed.
4. observe pattern on slipping mate and shoes and
Teaching aids
• ball, eraser, slipping mate,
new shoes with pattern,
heavy object, ruler, match
Science process skills
• Communicating
• infering

4. 5. Disadvantage: waste of energy (heat)
6. Advantage: we get fire.
compare with those wore out.
5. student rub a ruler on the table and feel the heat
produced by the ruler.
6. lighting a match
• Student infers and states advantages and
disadvantages of friction in manila card.
Thinking skill
• Relating
Scientific attitudes / Noble
value
• Thinking rationally
• Being confident
Reflection
(5 minutes)
• Conclusion about friction • With aid of pictures and mind map student
summarize advantages and disadvantages of friction
• Worksheet
Teaching aids
• Worksheets, mind map,
pictures
Thinking skill
• Making conclusion
• Visualising
Scientific attitudes / Noble
value
• Thinking rationally
• Being confident
Download:
Orientation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXAJHitPAY
activity 3: Materials: Ball, Eraser, Heavy object (cupboard), Slipping mate and shoes, Ruler
Activity 1 and 2 : Slides
Worksheet (Reflection)
Advantages of frictionAdvantages of friction Disadvantages of frictionDisadvantages of friction