LESSON PLAN FOR WEEK ONE (1) 15TH – 19TH SEPTEMBER 2025
PERIODS TOPIC REFERENCES INSTRUCTIONAL
AID
CELL Kehinde FI et; al (2022) Basic science Printed well labelled
SUB-TOPICS made easier for Nigerian Junior diagrams of plant
1th; 1th; 7th; Definition, types, components/ Secondary Schools 1. Pg: and animal cells
parts and function
8th – 9th; Comparisms between the types
5th – 6th; of cell
3rd – 4th
PERIOD 1
CLASS: JS2
DAY: Monday; Monday; Tuesday
DATE: 15/09/25; 15/09/25; 16/09/25
DURATION: 7:40 – 8:20; 7:40 – 8:20; 12:00 – 12:40
SUBTOPIC: Definition, types, components/ parts and function
BEHAVIOURAL OBJECTIVES: By the end of these periods, the students should be able to:
i. Define cell
ii. State the types of cell
iii. List the parts of cells
iv. Identify the functions of the parts of cells
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: The students have earlier studied living things and thus should know that cells are the basic
unit of life.
CONTENTS:
CELL: This is the smallest structural and functional unit of life. The body of an organism is built on cells. Thus, they are
regarded as the foundation or the building block of an organism.
TYPES OF CELLS
There are two main types of cells. These are:
1. Plant cell; 2. Animal cell
THE COMPONENTS/ PARTS OF A CELL
1. NUCLEUS (P & A): It controls the activities of the cell.
2. NUCLEOLUS (P & A): the location for ribosome formation. It serves as the brain of the nucleus
3. CYTOPLASM (P & A): This is the largest part of the cell. It contains the nucleus, vacuole, plastids, etc. It
maintains the pressure of the cell, ensuring that the cell does not shrink or burst.
4. FOOD VACUOLE (P & A): This is a structure where the digestion and absorption of food takes place. Stores
waste, water and nutrients
5. CRYSTAL IDIOBLASTS within the vacuole stores calcium oxalate
Plant cells have only one large food vacuole, but animals could have many but smaller ones.
6. CELL MEMBRANES (P & A): It is a semi-permeable membrane, i.e. it only allows some substances such as water,
salt, some proteins to pass in and out of it, while some substances are not allowed. It is the outer-most covering
of an animal cell, but forms an inner covering in a plant cell. It allows, etc. to pass in and out of it.
7. CELLULOSE CELL WALL (P): Helps to give rigidity to the outermost part of the plant cell. It is the outermost
covering in plant cells. It allows only a few things to pass in and out of the cell.
8. PLASTIDS (P): These give colours to plants and sometimes aid the digestion or making of food. Eg,
chloroplast. Amyloplasts store starch in long term.
9. RIBOSOMES (P & A): the site for protein synthesis
10. ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM (P & A): transports molecules within the cell.
i. Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum: Synthesis of protein
ii. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum: Synthesis of lipids
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11. LYSOSOMES (A): It is the digestive system of the cell. Thus, they eject waste products from the food vacuole
and excrete them out the cell.
12. CENTROSOMES(A): aids in mitotic cell division by moving the chromosome to the opposite sides of the cell.
13. GOLGI BODIES (P&A): sorts (modification, packaging protein into vesicles)
14. VESICLES (P & A): smaller vacuoles which function for transport of materials in/out of the cell.
15. MITOCHONDRIA (P&A): The main energy source / the power house of the cell
16. CYTOSKELETON (A): They give structural support and maintain the shape of the cell.
17. PEROXISOMES: or fatty acid breakdown, cholesterol and bile acid synthesis, detoxification (neutralizing
harmful hydrogen peroxide)
PRESENTATION STEPS
i. The students are asked to define cell
ii. The students are asked to identify the types of cells
iii. The students are asked list the parts of cells
iv. The students are asked suggest the functions of the cell parts
v. The teacher gives detailed explanation of the subtopic using the printed labelled diagram of the cells
EVALUATION: define cell, State the types of cell, List the parts of cells, identify the functions of the parts of cells
ASSIGNMENT: Give at least five differences and similarities between the animal and plant cells
LESSON 2
DAY: Wednesday; Friday
DATE: 17/09/25; 17/09/25; 19/09/25
DURATION: 80min
PEROID: 12:50 – 1: - 2: 10; 10:40 – 12:00; 8: 40 - 9:40
SUBTOPIC: Comparisms between the types of cells
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: The
BEHAVIOURAL OBJECTIVES: By the end of this period, the students should be able to:
i. Describe the two types of cells
ii. List the parts of the cells
iii. identify the parts that are peculiar to each type of the cell
iv. spot out the parts that are common to the two types of cells
CONTENTS
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Fig. 1: Diagram of a typical animal cell
Fig. 2: Diagram of a typical plant cell
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS
PLANT CELL ANIMAL CELL
1 Plant cell has a rigid shape. Animal cell has flexible shape.
2 Plant cell has a cellulose cell wall. Animal cell does not have a cellulose cell wall.
3 Plant cell has green pigment(chlorophyll) which Animal cell does not have chlorophyll.
helps plants to manufacture their own food.
4 Food is stored as starch granules and oil in a plant Food is stored as glycogen granules and fat in an animal cell.
cell.
5 A plant cell has only one large vacuole. An animal cell may have small food vacuoles or it may be
absent.
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PLANT AND ANIMAL CELL
1. They both have cytoplasm.
2. They both have nucleus.
3. They both have cell membrane.
4. They both have mitochondrion
5. They both have vacuole
6. They both have nucleolus
7. They both have vesicle
8. They both have ribosome
9. They both have Golgi bodies
PRESENTATION STEPS
i. The students are asked to name the two types of cells
ii. The students are asked to give at least five parts of the cells
iii. The students are asked to pinpoint the parts that are common the two cells
iv. The students are asked to identify the parts that are peculiar to each of the cells.
v. The teacher uses the printed diagrams of both plant and animal cells to summarize the lesson and supervises the
students to copy their note.
EVALUATION: Describe the two types of cells, List the parts of the cells, identify the parts that are peculiar to each type
of the cell,
spot out the parts that are common to the two types of cells from the diagrams.
CONCLUSION: The teacher gives detailed explanation of the subtopic using the printed diagram to point out the
differences and similarities between the parts and animal cells and gives weekly test.
ASSIGNMENT: Explain the cell theory
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