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Diss Activity Sheets
Diss Activity Sheets
Activities
in
Discipline and Ideas in
the Social Sciences
Submitted by:
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Submitted to:
Direction: Identify the appropriate discipline applicable in the given situation. Explain
your answer.
ACTIVITY 2
Creating an Imaginary Nation
Instructions: Create a physical map of an imaginary nation. Write the name of the country on the top of
the map. You should include at least five different land or water forms in the map and give a unique name
(e.g., The Shadow Mountain). You should also include atleast five major cities, including a capital
designated by a star). The cities will be designated by a large black dot and these must be named. Neatly
color the maps with colored pencils or crayons. Explain how your imaginary nation is conducive to a
productive and develop society.
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ACTIVITY 3
Use of Historical Evidence: Personal History
Instructions: Describe yourself to the future generation by providing clues as to your personality,
character, values, and ideas. Paste five pieces of evidence that best represent you. Only one can be a
description of yourself and explain why the evidence provided describes you as a person.
Reflection Question: Explain the statement “You cannot change the past but you can
change history”
ACTIVITY 4
Crime and Punishment
If you have been a victim of the following crimes, state whether or not you will inform the police,
and why.
(Yes/No)
Vandalism
Robbery
Blackmail
Assault
Car theft
Cyber bullying
ACTIVITY 5
Review of Knowledge and Skills
Chart Completion: Compare and contrast the different social sciences disciplines by completing the
chart below.
Anthropology
Economics
Geography
History
Linguistics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Demography
ACTIVITY 6
Under Pressure
Instruction: Read the scenario below and answer the questions that follow using the worksheet (Under
Pressure) provided.
Here is a scenario. You are on your way to an important job interview that is given only to
shortlisted applicants which include you. You have waited long for this job interview and prepared for it.
To miss the interview is to miss a very good chance at a job opportunity that you have dreamed of since
you were a kid. You are very excited and hopeful that you will get hired. You are on your way to the job
interview when suddenly you received a call from your younger sister/brother asking for your help Your
sister/brother seems confused and sounds unintelligible over the phone, and you are worried! To add to
your dilemma, your sister/brother is a person with disability (PWD).
Your questions: What will you do? Would you rush to your sister/brother and forget about the job
interview? Or would you ignore the distress call and proceed to the interview and pretend you never
received the call? Or do you have any other options?
To help you answer the questions, please fill out the worksheet (Under Pressure) below. Each
quadrant (A, B, C, and D) represents a situation wherein you need to assess your options (strategies and
alternatives) and make a choice or decision (action). Analyze and write the advantages (benefits) and
disadvantages (risks or cost) of each pair of options in each quadrant. Make sure that you also analyze
the implications of each option to your preferences, and ultimately, to your goal. Once you complete the
table, you should be able to make a choice or decision.
Worksheet 1 (Under Pressure)
Rush to your A B
sister/brother
Processing Questions Share your output to your classmates. Did you make the
same choice or decision? Why or why not?
ACTIVITY 7
Experiment 101
Instruction: You are required to do a simple experiment with three of your close friends. Ask them to help
you out with your school project. Once you are assembled as a group, start asking each one of them to
complete a part of your research project. Please make sure that you vary your approach to each of your
friends.
With Friend #1, you should appear and sound so warm and friendly. With Friend #2, you should
act like you are commanding her to do the task for you. With Friend #3, you pretend to ignore her after
you make your request. Observe your friends’ reactions or responses, and answer the following questions
in the following worksheet.
How did your friends Who among your Who do you think your
react? (Single words or friends helped you out friend helped you out?
adjectives only) with your research or did not help you
project? Please put a out?
(√) or (x) mark.
Friend #1
Friend #2
Friend #3
Processing Questions: Do you think your manner of approaching each one of them, that is, your
way of asking/requesting for help mattered to each one of them? Please
explain your answer.
Would you get the same results if you approach each one of them in the
same manner? Please elaborate answer.
ACTIVITY 8
I Swear
Instruction: Below lists a number of scenarios that put you in various “crisis” situations or dilemmas.
Each poses a temptation that you can either resist or give in to. The question is, what will you do when
faced with that dilemma? Please write and explain you answers in the worksheet provided below.
How did you feel while thinking about what will you do?
Has any of these situations happened already in the past? Did you
take the same action? Why or why not?