Daily Lesson Plans for Grade 3 Science, Term 2, one Word file per lesson day, for Term 2, Weeks 5–7 of the national DepEd Budget of Work (BoW), and pre-dated to the Budget Course Outlay (BCO) of the DepEd Schools Division of Negros Occidental: October 12–29, 2026.

Learning competencies (verbatim from the BCO)

• Identify the basic needs of all living things, such as air, food, water, and shelter.
• Observe examples and explain how living things depend on one another and on the environment to meet their basic needs.
• Recognize that there is a need to protect and conserve the environment for living things to survive.

Files in this bundle (13 items)

• DLP 1 · October 12: The Basic Needs of Living Things (Word, 8 pages)
• DLP 2 · October 13: Why Living Things Need Air, Food, Water (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 3 · October 14: Basic Needs of Plants and Animals (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 4 · October 15: Basic Needs in Everyday Life (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 5 · October 19: Living Things That Depend on Other Living (Word, 8 pages)
• DLP 6 · October 20: What the Environment Gives Us (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 7 · October 21: Plants, Animals and Humans Depend on One (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 8 · October 22: Connected! Showing How Living Things (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 9 · October 26: Components of the Environment (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 10 · October 27: Human Activities That Help or Harm (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 11 · October 28: Why We Must Protect and Conserve (Word, 9 pages)
• DLP 12 · October 29: Ways to Protect and Conserve (Word, 9 pages)
• 0 READ FIRST (terms of use, Word, 1 page)

What every plan contains

• ILAW lesson plan template (Intentions, Learning Experience, Assessing Learning, Ways Forward; DO 16, s. 2026), with Term and BCO week, date, references and the Declaration of AI use (DO 3, s. 2026 Annex A).
• Intentions: the competency and the day’s objective VERBATIM from the BCO, the content and performance standards VERBATIM from the DepEd Grade 3 Budget of Work, cognitive, affective, psychomotor and SEL objectives with success criteria, and the learner context.
• Learning Experience: pre-lesson set-up and a 45-minute flow in the MATATAG lesson parts (activating prior knowledge, lesson purpose, developing and deepening, generalization, application, evaluation and reflection): drill and well-being check, review, motivation, unlocking of difficulties, presentation and modeling (I do, we do), group activity with roles and a success checklist, class reporting, guided practice, generalization, real-life application and evaluation, each with expected answers.
• SEL integration (CASEL’s five competencies, rotated lesson by lesson): an SEL objective, a mood check-in, group roles, a feeling and value question, “two stars and a wish” peer feedback and the “Kaya Ko Na Ba?” exit reflection.
• Assessing Learning: formative checks with accommodations, and a ready-to-print test with an answer key.
• Ways Forward: home task, reflection lines, and Prepared by / Checked by / Noted by signature lines.

Written in English. Fully editable in Word, WPS or Google Docs. Slides, activity sheets and quizzes for the same weeks are sold separately as Weekly Lesson Plan Packs.

Prepared with the help of AI and checked by the author. As DO 16, s. 2026 requires, please review, adapt and sign each plan before use. Licensed to one teacher for their own classes; do not resell or share.