Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VIII
Ormoc City Division
Ormoc City District VIII
DOLORES NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
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SIMPLIFIED MELC-BASED BUDGET OF LESSON IN SCIENCE 10

AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2020

Performance Standards (PS): Demonstrate ways to ensure disaster preparedness during earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions and
suggest ways by which he/she can contribute to the government efforts in reducing damage due to earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic
eruptions.
MELC 1: Describe and relate the distribution of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and major mountain belts to plate tectonic theory;
Duration: 3 weeks (12 hours)
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What is plate tectonics? How is the location of an In an event that an earthquake
 What is listhospheric earthquake epicenter determined? occurs in far greater distance,
plate? What is triangulation method?  Using computed distance how do seismologists determined
 What are the two types of  How to compute the of epicenter from three the location of an earthquake?
lithospheric plates? distance of the epicenter different stations, how do  What is distance-time
 How to they differ from from a station? you locate the exact graph?
each other?  How do you relate the time earthquake epicenter using  How is it used to determine
difference in the arrival a map? the earthquake epicenter?
time of P – wave and S –  What is the importance in
wave with the distance of determining the epicenter
epicenter from the station? of an earthquake?

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How are earthquakes being How are volcanoes being How are mountain ranges What is the basis of the scientist
distributed? distributed? distributed? in dividing Earth’s lithosphere
How do the location of volcanoes How do the locations of mountain into several plates?
 Where are the locations of relate to the location of ranges relate to the locations of  Compare the location of
earthquakes in the map? earthquake epicenters? earthquake epicenters and earthquake epicenters,
 How are they being  Where are the locations of volcanoes? volcanoes, and mountain
distributed? volcanoes in the map?  Where are mountain ranges with the map of
 Where are the places with  How are volcanoes being ranges located? plate boundaries.
no earthquakes? distributed?  How are they being
 What is the important of  Where are the places with distributed?
identifying areas prone to no volcanoes?  Compare the distribution of
earthquakes?  Compare the location of mountain ranges with the
majority of earthquake distribution of earthquake
epicenters with the location epicenters and volcanoes?
of volcanoes in the world?
SEPTEMBER 2020
Performance Standards (PS): Demonstrate ways to ensure disaster preparedness during earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions
MELC 2: Describe the different types of plate boundaries;
Duration: 1 week (4 hours)
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What are the different types of What is divergent boundary? What is transform fault How do the three types of plates
Plate Boundary? boundary? differ from each other?
What is convergent boundary?  Describe the movement of
 Describe the movement of plates that occurs in a  Describe the movement of  Describe the three types of
plates that occurs in a divergent boundary. plates that occurs in a plates.
convergent boundary. transform fault boundary.  Identify the type of
boundaries between
adjacent plates.

SEPTEMBER 2020
MELC 3: Explain the different processes that occur along the plate boundaries;
Duration: 2 week (8 hours)
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Explain the different processes
that occur along convergent
boundary.
 Explain what will happen
when continental plate
collides with oceanic plate.
 What other geologic event
could take place as the
plates continue to collide
each other?
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 Explain what geologic
processes or events will
occur when two oceanic
plates collide?
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 Explain what geologic
processes or events will
occur when two continental
plates collide?
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Explain the different processes
that occur along divergent
boundary.
 Explain what will happen
when two continental
plates tend to move from
each other.
 What are the geologic
processes/events that
occur in the divergence of
two continental plate?

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 Explain what will happen if
the two oceanic plates
moves apart from each
other?
 What are the geologic
processes/events that
occurs in the divergence of
two oceanic plates?
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Explain the different processes
that occur along transform fault
boundary?
 What will happen if two
plate sliding past each
other?
 What are the geologic
processes/events occur in
a transform fault
boundary?
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Explain the possibility of geologic
events occur in the middle of a
plate.
 What is a hotspot?
 Describe how volcanic
mountain chains are
produced by a hotspot?
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Performance Task
How can you help your family
prepare for an impending
emergency?
 Prepare a survival kit.
 Decide what items should
be included in your
survival kit.

SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2020

MELC 4: Describe the possible causes of plate movement;
MELC 5: Enumerate the lines of evidence that support plate movement
Duration: 2 Weeks (8 hours)
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What facilitates the movement of What are the different evidences  Explain how the apparent  Explain how rocks and
the plates? that support plate movement? fit of the edges of mountains and
 What is Plate Tectonic  What is Continental Drift continents and fossils paleoclimate data supports
Theory? Theory? supports the continental the continental drift
 What causes the plates to  What are the different drift theory. theory.
move? evidences enumerated by
 What is convection Alfred Wegener to support
current? his continental drift
theory?
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 What is Sealfloor Spreading  Explain how those findings  What is magnetic reversal? Performance Task
Theory? support the Theory of  How did it strengthen the Make an informative material
 What are the findings that Seafloor Spreading? Theory of Seafloor about ways to mitigate the
support Seafloor Spreading spreading? effects of tectonic activities-
Theory? related disaster.
Prepared by:

CARINA D. CABUGUAS
Master Teacher I
Recommending Approval:

HELEN B. FUENTES
School Head

Approved by:

JULLIET B. MONTEBON
EPS - SCIENCE