A biology lesson plan - COMENIUS project "I Feel Good- Well-Being in the Contemporary World" (2013-2015)

1. COMENIUS PROJECT
“I FEEL GOOD –WELL-BEING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD”
(2013-2015)
Participants:
 Teacher – Idilija Zasčiurinskaitė
 Students:
 Dominykas Petrošius
 Vytautė Žuravliovaitė
 Karolina Sragauskaitė
 Monika Vaitkevičiūtė
Aims:
1. To find out more about biorhythms, types of them, benefits of using biorhytms and their
significance to the body.
2. To present received information to the Lithuanian students in our school.
3. To introduce work results to the other „Comenius“ project participants.
Tasks:
1. Talk to a psychologist and use other sources to get information about biorhythms.
2. Make an abstract of received information.
3. Make a presentation about biorhythms.
4. Make a few lessons to introduce biorhytms to students.
5. To find out students‘ opinion, experience and knowledge of the lesson.
6. Compare the objectives and our work results.
7. Participate in further stages of the project.

2. Plan of the lesson
1. Subject: Biology
2. Classes: 8b, 11B, 9d, 9f
3. Lesson‘s topic: Around the clock: Biological rhythms of life
4. Task: Using slides‘ information and the knowledge given by a psychologist, work individually,
also in the groups to find out what biorhythms are. Be able to appoint types and merits of
Biorythms and their importance to your body.
5. Tools and resources: slides, schemes, tasks for students, videos.
6. Teaching methods: explanation, discussion, image analysis, reading texts and implementing the
tasks.
7. Evaluation: Informal
TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS
To arise the interest of the students, find out their experience, to give the task Duration
Comenius project is presented to the students. As well as the topic of the lesson.
A clock is shown to the students. They are asked what does the clock mean to them?
Students answer and express their opinions.
Then, the students are asked whether they ever heard of the concept of biorhythms.
Distribution of the sheets of paper. The teacher ask the students to draw their vision
of biorhythms. Drawing task :2min.
After collection of the leaflets, the task outcomes are presented.
5 min.

3. Teaching and learning activity Duration
Presentation of the theory of biorhythms:
Biorythms‘ chart is shown. Explanation of the chart.
Detailed information about biorhythms is presented: their meaning, types and benefit.
Introduction of sleep biorhythms. A short film is shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4XkEeAWE4
The importance of sleep and its meaning is revealed.
Explanation of daily biorhythms. A description of the importance of each hour and
functions.
Students are divided into 5 groups according to hours (Annex 1).
Students are assigned to analyze „Daily biorythms“. The statements received had to
be sticked to the statement matching hour(Annex 2 and annex 3). 10 minutes for the
task.
After the task, it is examined how students performed it. Correction. Each group tells
how many mistakes they have made.
25 min.
Summary: evaluation, self-assessment, reflection Duration
Each student receives a sheet of paper with the description of a certain hour. Students 15 min.

4. must identify what hour it is and stick the sheet to the clockto a certain hour which
description is on the sheet.
Correction.
Teachers summarize the lesson. Return to the lesson task. What was the lesson’s aims
and how this was achieved.
Students individually fill in the self-assessment sheets. (Annex 4)
Reflection.
Sheets are distributed with incomplete sentences (Annex 5):
Reflection sheets filled anonymously.
Few sheets of reflection are taken and read outloud.
Teacher’s recommendations and homework assignement.
When Students receive the booklets they were offered to calculate their biorhythms
and invigilate their body changes.

5. Conclusion: we and other students, who were informed about biorhythms noticed that
biorhythms are very important in our daily life. While students were working individually
they were learning about biorhythms, their types, benefits and trying to understand their
importance to their bodies. While working in groups they were learning communication
and collaburation among classmates. In conclusion, we could say we achieved our
objectives.

6. Annex 1
06.00 09.00
12.00 15.00
18.00 21.00

7. Annex 2
Daily biorhythms
Match received sentences to the certain hour.
01.00 13.00
02.00 14.00
03.00 15.00
04.00 16.00
05.00 17.00
06.00 18.00
07.00 19.00
08.00 20.00
09.00 21.00
10.00 22.00
11.00 23.00
12.00 24.00

8. Annex 4
Self-assessment
My contribution in a group work:
1..............................................................................................................................................................
2..............................................................................................................................................................
Two important things that I learned in this lesson::
1..............................................................................................................................................................
2..............................................................................................................................................................
1-2 things, I should study more:
1..............................................................................................................................................................
2..............................................................................................................................................................
How many correct answers in total (the task) is collected by your group?
How many answers from the correct ones you would dedicate for yourself. Why? .....................,
because.............................................................................................................................
...........................................................................................................................................................
Name, Last Name
..........................................................................................................................................

9. Annex 5
In the lesson was interesting..............................................................................................
I would like to learn more about....................................................................................................