LESSON PLANS

Lesson Plan 1: Understanding Work, Energy And Power (Inquiry Learning Model)

Subject: Physics

Class: Form 4 Kindi

Date: 1 November 2010

Time: 8.00 am – 8.40 am (40 minutes)

No. of students: 25 students

Learning Area : Forces and Motion

Learning Objective: Understanding work, energy and power

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the lesson, a student is able to:

A Master content knowledge

a. State that Power is inversely proportional to the time taken.

b. State that work is directly proportional to the force and displacement.
c. Construct the formula P=W/t from both the relationships (a) and (b) above, where P is the power, W
is the work done and t is the time taken.
d. Solve one numerical problem involving the equation P=W/t .
 B Master Scientific Skills/TSTS

a. Carry out an activity to find the relationship between power and work given books, stopwatch,
marker pen and white board.

C Demonstrate Scientific Attitudes and Noble Values

a. Actively participate in carrying out the activity based on agreed upon procedures as a team.

b. Appreciate the value of time by carrying out the activity briskly and being on task all the time.

Scientific Concepts:

Power is.

a. Decrease with time at the same amount of work.

b. Increase with work at the same amount of time taken.

Materials, equipments and resource materials:

Books – 10 units

Stopwatch – 2 units

Marker pen – 1 unit

White board – 1 unit

PowerPoint slides
Consideration of Safety Precautions:

None

Prior Knowledge:

Students have already learned the operational definition of power, P=W/t, and have applied it in solving problems involving
power and work.

Phase Content Teaching and Learning Activities Notes

Teacher Activities Student Activities

Introduction/ Definition of power, Make connection to students’ prior Students respond to

Eliciting P=W/t knowledge on power by asking teacher’s questions
Ideas questions elicit students’ ideas Strategy/Technique:
based on daily life, teacher asks
(5 minutes) students which one has more Whole class Q&A
power, superman or power rangers. Visual picture

Structuring/ Power is Ask two central guiding question:

Restructurin
g of Ideas a. is directly 1. What is the relationship between Strategy/Technique:
proportional to work work and power?
(20 minutes) b. is inversely Interactive
proportional to time 2. How to derive the question demonstration by
taken P=W/t? student
c. can be written
as P=W/t

Teacher selects two students: Students make

prediction, inference,
 student A and student B. Both observation and
students required to come in front conclusion
of the class with more than 5
identical books for each of them.
a. Students make
hypotheses, give
b. Activity 1: suggestions on the
design of an experiment
All books are putting on the floor. and state all the
The distance from the floor (start
variables involved.
point) to table (end point) is 2 An inquiry activity in
meter. Student A and B are require groups.
to pick up the books on to the desk
in 5 seconds. Then students carry out
the activity to answer
the central guiding
c. Activity 2: questions.
All books are putting back on the
floor. The distance from the floor
(start point) to table (end point) is 2
meter. Student A and B are require
to pick up all 5 books on to the desk
in their own time. Teacher will Students make
record the time taken by student A conclusion and construct
and student B to pick up all 5 P=W/t
books.

Guide students to construct the

equation P=W/t from the two
relationships

Application 1. The more books are Show problems on slides Students solve problems
of Ideas picked up, the more in groups Strategy/Techniques
power of system.
(10 minutes)
2. The less time is
taken to pick up the Students present their Group discussion
books, the more power solutions followed by group
of system presentation

3. One problem Resources: PP slides

involving the use of
P=W/t

Reflection/ Power is Assess students’ understanding by Students discuss in

giving a crossword of power and groups when answering
Closure a. is directly work. crossword. Strategy/Techniques
proportional to work
(5 minutes) Create enthusiasm by having Students conclude the Whole class Q&A
b. is inversely
students compete in groups. lesson by verbally Resources: PP slides
proportional to time
taken can be written stating the main ideas
Show summary of main ideas on and relating to their
as P=W/t
slides initial ideas
Write problem solving using
P=W/t in exercise book