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BED_12
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Effective Date 20 February 19
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QUARTER: 4th Quarter SUBJECT: SCIENCE

GRADE LEVEL: 8
CONTENT CONTENT PERFORMANCE LEARNING NO. NO. REFFERENCE/S
STANDARD STANDARD COMPETENCIES OF OF
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The learners The l earners should The l earners should be able
1. Structures and demonstrate an be able to: to…
Functions: Focus on the understanding of:
Digestive System
1.1Organs of the 1. the digestive system present an analysis of 1. explain ingestion,
digestive system and its interaction with the data gathered on absorption, assimilation, and
and their the circulatory, diseases resulting from excretion;
interaction with respiratory, and nutrient deficiency 2. explain how diseases of the
organs of the excretory systems in digestive system are
respiratory, providing the body prevented, detected, and
circulatory, and with nutrients for treated;
excretory systems energy 3. identify healthful practices
1.2 Changes in food that affect the digestive
as it undergoes physical 2. diseases that result system;
and chemical digestion from nutrient
1.3 Diseases deficiency and
resulting from nutrient ingestion of harmful
deficiency and ingestion substances, and their
of harmful substances prevention and
1.4 Prevention, treatment
detection, and treatment
of diseases of the
digestive system
2. Heredity: Inheritance
and Variation of Traits

2.1 Stages of mitosis 1. How cells divide to present an analysis of 4. compare mitosis and
2.2 Stages of meiosis produce new cells 2. the data gathered on meiosis, and their role in the
2.3 Mendelian Genetics meiosis as one of the diseases resulting from cell-division cycle
processes producing nutrient deficiency 5. explain the significance of
genetic variations of meiosis in maintaining the
the Mendelian Pattern report on the chromosome number;
of Inheritance importance of 6. predict phenotypic
variation in plant and expressions of traits following
animal breeding simple patterns of inheritance;

3. Biodiversity
1. the concept of a report (e.g., through a 7. explain the concept of a
3.1 Species diversity species travelogue) on the species;
3.2 Hierarchical activities that 8. classify organisms using
taxonomic system of 2. the species as being communities engage the hierarchical taxonomic
classification further classified into in to protect and system;
3.3 Protection and a hierarchical conserve endangered 9. explain the advantage of
conservation of taxonomic system and economically high biodiversity in
endangered and important species maintaining the stability of an
economically important ecosystem;
species

4. Ecosystems

4.1 Transfer of Energy the one-way flow of make a poster 10. describe the transfer of
in Trophic Levels energy and the cycling comparing food energy through the trophic
4.2 Cycling of materials of materials in an choices based on the levels
in the ecosystem ecosystem trophic levels’ 11. analyze the roles of
4.2.1Water cycle organisms in the cycling of
4.2.2Oxygen-carbon materials;
cycle 4.2.3Nitrogen 12. explain how materials
cycle 4.3 Impact of cycle in an ecosystem; and
human activities in an 13. suggest ways to minimize
ecosystem human impact on the
environment.

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PREPARED BY: CHECKED BY:

MELISSA G. MORENO, LPT MS. IRENE TONEL
Subject Teacher Assistant Principal