DETAILED LESSON PLAN

I. OBJECTIVES

a. Label the parts of the tongue.

b. Identify the parts of the tongue that senses different tastes.
c. Show that the taste buds cover the tongue.

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

The Tongue and the Different Tastes

A. Concepts
1. The tongue senses different tastes.
2. Tastes areas are sensitive to bitter taste, sour taste, salty
taste, and sweet taste.
3. The tongue covered the taste buds.
4. The nerve connected to the taste buds send messages to the
brain.

B. References:

Science 3 Textbook page 53;

C. Materials:

Picture of tongue with label, candy, ampalaya, vinegar or

kalamansi, salt, mirror, popsicle sticks

III. PROCEDURE:

A. Preparatory Activities

1. Prayer

2. Checking of Attendance

Who is absent today class?

3. Health inspection

Before we start our lesson, let’s first have our health

inspection.

May I request your classroom leader to help me

check or inspect your finger nails?

Class why is it important for us to check or inspect

our finger nails and other parts of our body?

What else?

What is the best thing that we should do everyday?

B. Motivation

Class when you eat and chew the food you eat, what helps
you tell the taste of that food?

C. Lesson Proper

1. What helps you tell the taste of the food you eat?

2. Have the pupils examine their tongue in a mirror and with

the use of a popsicle stick . Let them describe what they see;
pink color, tiny bumps.

Ask: How do you think the tongue can distinguish sweet

from sour taste, salty from bitter?

3. Present pictures of food.

Conduct a taste test. Blindfold several pupils and ask them
to identify the tastes by doing the following:

a. Taste the candy, ampalaya, vinegar and salt.

b. Ask some pupils to taste one food and tell its taste

Ask:
How do you taste food?

What do you use for testing the taste of different foods?

4. Present the map of tongue showing the areas where in the

different taste are sensed.

Ask:

1. What are the different tastes of food?

2. Which part of the tongue has the taste buds sensitive to
sweet food? Sour? Bitter? Salty?
IV. EVALUATION:
1. The surface of the (tongue, nose, eyes, ears ) has taste buds.
2. The sweet taste is recognized on the (tip, back, side, near
tip) of the tongue.
3. The bitterness of ampalaya can be identified by the (tip,
back, side, near back) of the tongue.
4. The salty bagoong can be tasted through the (tip, back, side,
near back) of the tounge.
5. Maria ate tamarid candy. The sour taste can be recognized
by by the (tip, near back, back, at the middle ) of the
tongue.

V. ASSIGNMENT:
Complete the table using the four areas of the tongue. Put a check ( /
).

Parts of the tongue

Taste Side near

tip back

the tip the back

Bitter

Salty

Sour

Sweet