Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
: 3-12-2014
Subject
: commerce
Class
: 6th class
Topic
Time
: 30 minutes
Series
: 1of 2
Teachers intention: To enhance their basic understanding of minerals, types of minerals and how
they are extracted from earth.
Specific Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able
1. Write the name, type and method of extraction of three minerals in 3 minutes and
2. Write the differences of metallic and non metallic minerals in the worksheet within 7
minutes.
Prior knowledge: understanding of different minerals.
Material aids: different types of minerals (salt, marble, gemstones, gold ore, copper, iron, tin
silver) and worksheet
step
Content
method
time
Introduction
Warm-up
Expected answers
1. Mountain is made up of
rocks.
2. They give us minerals.
3.iron,oil,gold,gypsum,salt
2min
3. Name some
materials that we
can get from earth?
Introduction
Topic: minerals and
energy resources
Development:
Expected answers
1. Names of materials
Salt
Rock
Marble
Iron
2.They are natural
substances
3. Some are metals and
some are not.
Guided task
The teacher will show
different types of minerals.
She teacher will also keep
metallic and non metallic
minerals separately and ask
the following questions:
1. What is the name of
this material?
2. Are they made by
manmade or a
2
15
min
natural substance?
3. Why we have kept
minerals separately
in two groups?
4. Are there any
differences in these
minerals?
5. When we say an
iron ore, what is an
ore?
Teachers input
The teacher will further
elaborate the minerals and
their types and how they are
extracted by different
methods. The teacher will
3
melted.
ask the following questions:
They have no shine
1 How can you obtain
or luster
minerals from earth?
When hit ,they can
break into pieces
2 Differentiate
They are not hard.
between
mining
Methods of extraction
and quarrying?
1. Minerals can be
obtained by mining,
3 What is drilling?
quarrying and
drilling.
4 What mineral can
Mining is the process of
be extracted by
taking out minerals buried
mining
and
under the earths surface.
quarrying?
Deep holes are dug to
takeout the minerals from
rocks.
Quarrying is the process
of taking out the minerals
that are near the surface of
earth. Open pits are
enlarged and the minerals
are extracted out.
2. Drilling is the
process in which
machines are used
to drill holes in the
ground.oil wells
and water wells are Application
made this way.
The teacher will ask the
students to work in
pairs. she will show
Ans 1 gold, metallic
three different types of
Salt,non metallic
minerals and will ask
Oil,non metallic
the students to:
1. Identify and write
their names and
Ans2.Mining or
types?
quarring,mining,drilling
2. How they are
extracted?
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3. What is the
difference in the
methods of
extraction?
answers to
questions from the
knowledge gained
in the class.
Feed back
The teacher will randomly
ask the students to share
what they have written and
made correction where
necessary
Overall assessment
The teacher will randomly
ask the following questions:
1. What is an ore, give
example?
1. Ore: ore is a rock which
contains the metal that can
be extracted out of it or
mined out. Such as iron
ore, gold ore, copper ore.
2min
Methods of extraction
1. Mining
2. Quarrying
3. drilling
Name of mineral
Date______________________
Name of mineral
Type of mineral
Type of mineral
Method of extraction
Method of extraction
Name of mineral
Type of mineral
Method of extraction