Activity 2

1. What other government projects and programs are available for

science education in the Philippines?

 S&T Manpower Development Programs

 Capability Building in Research & Manpower Assessment
 Strengthening Institutional Capabilities
 Promotion of S&T Culture

2. Are there private schools with outstanding science education

programs? Identify and compare their science education programs with
public science schools.

Public and Private is very different from each other. Private schools have
more complete facilities and technologies that they can practice in their
laboratory compared to public science schools that they have inadequate
facilities.

3. What is your understanding of indigenous science?

Indigenous studies aims to study the various traditions and intellectual

traditions of indigenous peoples. It is also focused on the development of
knowledge and skills in these areas.

4. What are examples of indigenous science practices?

 Prediction of weather - an example of this is predicting weather through

the sun, red sunset or rainbow. Repeated sounding of goat is related to
landslides.  
 Use of herbal medicine - herbolarios
 Preserving foods - example: preservation of meat in cordillera known as
etag
 Classifying plants and animals
 Selecting good seeds to plant
 Classifying soil for planting
 Wine production for fruits
 Local Irrigation and agriculture -rice terraces in Banaue
 Building of  huts
 Use of hunting tools

5. Why do some people believe in indigenous science?

 Others believe in it because of their culture. For them, the preservation of
their culture is a way of life that is valued.

6. Do you think indigenous science should be considered science?

Yes, because Science is a broad term that refers to the study of the
physical world through observation and experiments.

7. What is the role of indigenous science in the development of science

and technology?

Some of the indigenous science is using herbal medicine and it is very

helpful to modern science to innovate the herbal medicine into a capsule or
tablet.

8. How do you describe your school.

I will describe my school in just 1 word and it is motivating. Motivating

because this school is the only accepted me as a late enrollee.

9. Is there any projects of your school that involves society and

technology? Give us an explanation.

The projects that involve society and technology that I know is NSTP
because they are volunteering community service to improve the society.

10. What Science school you want to go to and why?

Science school that I want to go is Philippine Science High School

System (PSHSS) because it is one of competitive school of sciences.
1. Narrate the science-related issues and problems in the country

 Climate Change
 Natural Disaster
 Persistent Poverty

2. Identify science and technology policies that could be adapted or

implemented in the Philippines.

 Paradigm shift: Towards an evergreen revolution

 Investment in agriculture, agricultural sciences, and research and

technology development

 Pro-poor science development and technology transfer: science with a

human face

 Science-led agricultural diversification

 Building bridges for science: strategic partnerships and regulatory

framework

 Globalization and liberalization: the role of science

 Linking science, nutrition, and development

3. Identify Filipino indigenous knowledge.

Local and indigenous knowledge refers to the understandings, skills and

philosophies developed by societies with long histories of interaction with
their natural surroundings. For rural and indigenous peoples, local knowledge
informs decision-making about fundamental aspects of day-to-day life.
This knowledge is integral to a cultural complex that also encompasses
language, systems of classification, resource use practices, social
interactions, ritual and spirituality.
These unique ways of knowing are important facets of the world’s cultural
diversity, and provide a foundation for locally-appropriate sustainable
development.

4. Research on the connection of indigenous knowledge to science and

technology.

Indigenous knowledge, like modern technology, is primarily based in

rules of thumb and what works. As with modern technology, the explanations
given are often at variance with scientific findings but they work, so that is
how things are done.

A prevailing myth of modern technology is that it is strongly based in

science. That is an exaggeration, at least. New technologies do evolve from
scientific findings but the process of development rests more on what has
been found to work than on scientific research itself.

Likewise, some indigenous understanding has been based on systematic

research but it is not science in the narrow sense because it does not
generally seek to isolate the influences of single variables. Mostly it is based
more in sheer volume of global data - in other words, long experience - and
chance discovery.

There is not as big a gap as is generally supposed in the patronizing view

of technocrats who champion “science and technology” like priests or ancient
witch doctors seeking to make their kind of science and their technologies
look like the basis of all that is good in modern society, and want to cast
indigenous knowledge as inferior ways inapplicable today.

5. Make a poster about the indigenous knowledge connection to

science and technology.