Quarter 3 – Week 2

Weekly Learning Activity Sheet

The Emergence of Trends and Patterns

1
 Development Team

Writer: Mariefe A. Garces

Validators: Rhena Amor P. Dinerman, Carmencita P. Dinerman

Reviewers: Rosell P. Abellana, Avelina C. Duquesa,

Bernie R. Pamplona, Junel M. Anino

Illustrator: Neil J. Arado

Management Team: SDS Romeo O. Aprovechar, CESO V

ASDS Love Emma B. Sudario
CID Chief Rayfrocina T. Abao
 Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
DIVISION OF AGUSAN DEL NORTE

WEEKLY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Name of Learner: ______________________________________ Section:
___________
School: ________________________________________________

Learning Area: Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st

Century

Grade Level: Grade 12

Quarter: Third Quarter

Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC):

1. Identify parts of a whole;

2. Identify and explain an emerging pattern; and

3. Identify causes and consequences;

Code: HUMSS_MCT12-Ia-b-6-8

Month:

Week Covered (specify the dates):

Title of the Activity: Activity 1: Match Me!

Activity 2: Spot the Trend

Activity 3: Stop, Look and Examine

Materials (preferably localized and available at home): Paper, Pencil,

Pen, Ruler

Objective(s): 1. Identify parts of a whole of an emerging pattern;

2. Recognize an emerging pattern of trends; and

3. Examine the causes and consequences of trends.

1
Lesson

Parts of a Whole of an Emerging Pattern

According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, part is one of the often-
indefinite subdivisions into which something is regarded as divided and
which together constitute the whole. On the other hand, whole means
something constituting a complex unity: a coherent system or organization
of parts or working together as whole. It shows the totality of the pieces and
segments that somehow, we consider as parts. We can identify that
something is part of a whole if we know what all is that something about.

Conversely, fads are normally micro-trends that exist under the

umbrella of an actual trend. These are parts of the evolution of creating a
whole trend. However, trends are a bit slower paced but represent something
that is occurring on a much wider scale than a fad.

The entirety is understood by their component consciousness. The

parts, as products of the total division, can only be understood through
understanding of the whole.

Classification of Trends
• Megatrends- A trend that is expected to persist over a long period of
time, have a profound impact on global society, and is visible and well
known to everyone. They have an influence on all the aspects of life. These
events mostly occur as a reaction to the behavior and activities done by
people in the last century but also more recently. Examples of these trends
are demographic changes, urbanization, climate change, and advance in
technology. This kind of tendencies cannot be stopped or influenced easily.

• Macrotrends- Something that has a significant impact on society

over a five to ten-year period and is known and understood by most people.
Social media is an example of a macrotrend.

• Microtrends- An emerging trend that has been around for 3-5 years

and that currently is mostly impacting early adopters. Adaptive learning
could be considered a microtrend.

• Fads-opposite of trends. They only keep for a short period of time

2
 Image Source: https://www.bigsurpartners.com/2017/07/12/mega-trends-their-
impact-2/

Emergence

Is defined in simple ways but is consistent on its context. It means

just beginning to exist, starting to exist and growing and developing,
especially in business.

Pattern

Is a series of data that repeats in a recognizable way. In business

dictionary, pattern is a consistent and recurring characteristic or trait that
helps in the identification of a phenomenon or problem, and serves as an
indicator or model for predicting its future behavior. It can occur within a
downward or upward trend, or they can mark the beginning of a new trend.

Emerging Patterns

Are sets of items whose frequency changes significantly from one

dataset to another. They are useful as a means of discovering distinctions
inherently present amongst a collection dataset and have been shown to be a
powerful method for construction accurate classifiers.

Emergence of Trends
How do we recognize that a trend is starting to emerge? The capacity
to identify emerging trends is rooted in our capacity to recognize patterns.
Our encounter with patterns was facilitated by experience and processed by
the mind through abstraction and generalization.

According to Philosopher John Locke, there are no innate ideas. All of

the ideas that we have are derived from experience and that every complex
idea we have in our minds can be traced back to a simple idea. It means that
experience is comprised of sensation and reflection. Locke points out that all
active mental process such as analyzing, criticizing, evaluating, and judging
form part of the reflection of experience.

Stages of an Emerging Pattern

According to Duin and Pekalska (2007), pattern recognition is
characterized by three stages, namely. representation, generalization and
evaluation. Adaptation, which serves as an intermediary stage is also
involved in the process.

1. Representation – real world objects have to be represented in a formal

way in order to be examined and associated. Representation is an essential
aspect of pattern recognition and is different from classification. It largely
influences the success of the stages to come.

3
2. Adaptation is an intermediate stage between representation and
generalization, in which representations, learning methodology or problem
statement are adapted or extended in order to enhance the final recognition.
It may reduce or simplify the representation, or it may enrich it by
emphasizing particular aspects. Exploratory data analysis may be used to
guide the choices of suitable learning strategies.

3. Generalization or Inference – in this stage we learn a concept from a

training set, the set of known and appropriately represented examples, in
such a way that prediction can be made in some unknown properties of new
examples. The most common property is the class of pattern it belongs to,
which is the above mention classification task.

4. Evaluation – in this stage we estimate how our (pattern recognition

process) performs on known training and validation data. If the results are
unsatisfactory, then the previous steps have to be considered.

Types of Data Emerging Pattern

A. Trend
1. Linear Trend is a continuous decrease or increase in numbers over time.
a. Upward Trend is the increase in the quantity or price.

Image
Source: https://www.sixsigmadaily.com/run-chart-trends/

b. Downward Trend is the decrease in the quantity or price.

4
 Image Source: https://tinyurl.com/109896rm

2. Exponential Trend are non-linear curved lines where the data rises or
falls not at a steady rate, but at a higher rate. Thus, instead of a straight line
pointing diagonally up, the graph will show a curved line where the last
point in later years is higher than the first year, if the trend is up.

Image Source: https://tinyurl.com/1riwj7bi

3. Damped Trend - is a curved line that shows data values rise or fall
initially, and then suddenly stops rising or falling.

Image Source: https://tinyurl.com/1riwj7bi

B. Seasonal – it is when fluctuations repeat over fixed periods of time and

are hence predictable and do not extend beyond a year.

Seasonality may be caused by various factors, such as weather, vacation,

and holidays and usually consists of periodic, repetitive, and generally
regular and predictable patterns

5
 Image Source: https://tinyurl.com/1riwj7bi

C. Cyclical – is when fluctuations do not repeat over fixed periods of time

and are hence unpredictable and extend beyond a year.

In a recession, for example, employment, production and many other

business and economic series are below the long-term trend lines.
Conversely, in periods of rise they are above their long-term trend lines.

Image Source: https://tinyurl.com/1riwj7bi

D. Random or Irregular or Error - are fluctuations in time series that are

short induration, erratic in nature and follow no regularity in the occurrence
pattern.

In prediction, the objective is to “model” all the components to some

trend patterns to the point that the only component that remains
unexplained is the random component.

6
 Image Source: https://tinyurl.com/1riwj7bi

Causes and Consequences of a Trend

Merriam Webster defines cause as a reason for an action or condition,
and or something that brings about an effect or a result. In the contrary,
consequence means something that is produced by a cause or necessarily
following from a set of condition. It is a result or conclusion.

It appears, that many of the things that we experienced in the world

are characterized by the cause and effect. This is also crucial for us in
identifying patterns. Interestingly, cause and effect can be useful in
recognizing patterns. Example, change in oil prices can cause changes in the
price of commodities as their consequences. From this, we can say that the
pattern or trend is: high oil prices = high prices of commodities whereas low
oil prices = low prices of commodities. This relationship between cause and
consequences and the emergence of trend or pattern have proven to be very
useful to us in many occasions.

Trends Causes Consequences

Technology  Able to talk to  Children get
our friends and addicted to online
relatives who are games
living far from  Creating rivalry
us between best
 Learn new friends and
things and couples
online courses
Education  (Mobile  Integration and
Learning) connectivity
Demand for  Modular, hence it
efficient and is flexible
quality learning
Social Media  A place to  Encourages
connect with freedom of
your friends expression
 Opportunity for  Cyber-bullying
businesses  Helps hone
networking skills
Fashion  Fashion changes  Discrimination
occur because of  Negative self-
a mix of image
historical,
psychological
and sociological
reasons

Procedure / Activities:

7
Activity 1. Let’s Categorize!

Direction. Identify the trends below if it is megatrend, macrotrend,

microtrend or a fad. Write the letter of the correct answer.

A. Megatrend
B. Macrotrend
C. Microtrend
D. Fad

______ 1. Tiktok ______ 6. Smartphone

______ 2. Urbanization ______ 7. Wearing of Face Mask
______ 3. Facebook ______ 8. Alcohol / Disinfectant
______ 4. Bicycle ______ 9. Laptop
______ 5. Climate Change ______ 10. Leather Jacket

Activity 2. A. Match Me!

Direction: Match the following terms in column A to its corresponding

pictures to column B. Write the letter on the space provided before the
number.

A B

A.

_____ 1. Random

_____ 2. Downward

_____ 3. Exponential

_____ 4. Seasonal B.

_____ 5. Cyclical

C.

8
 D.

E.

B. Spot the Trend

Direction: Read and understand the situation below. Identify the type of data
emerging pattern by underlining the correct letter. Then, explain your
answer.

1. Consider this data on babies per woman in India from 1960-2010:

Year Babies per woman

1960 5.91
1970 5.59
1980 4.83
1990 4.05
2000 3.31
2010 2.60
This is a ____________ trend.
a. upward b. downward c. exponential d. seasonal
Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

9
2. Now consider this data about US life expectancy from 1920-2000:

Year Life expectancy

1920 55.38
1930 59.57
1940 63.24
1950 68.07
1960 69.86
1970 70.86
1980 73.91
1990 75.4
2000 76.9
So, this is an __________ trend.
a. upward b. downward c. exponential d. seasonal
Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

3. This Google Analytics chart shows the page views for AP Statistics course
from October 2017 through June 2018.

What trends are apparent in the chart above from January 2018 to June
2018?

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Activity 3. Stop, Look, and Examine!

Direction. Give the causes and consequences of the following examples of
trends.

Trends Causes Consequences

1. Mobile Phone

2. Make-up

10
3. Facebook

4. Online selling and

buying

5. Tattered / Ripped
Jeans

Reflection:
Direction: Which among these items do you like most? Rank by putting 1 as
your most like and 5 as your least like in the blanks.

1. Face App __________

2. Physical Appearance __________

3. Food __________

4. Fashion __________

5. Gadgets __________

Review and reflect your answer.

1. Discuss why you like it most and the least that you like.
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
2. Who influenced your passion and interest?

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

3. Why do you think this trend have become part of your lifestyle?
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

11
References:

Mangiduyos, Gladys P. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st

Century. Manila, Philippines: Rex Book Store Inc., 2017.

Otañes, Lucille C. Trends, Networks, and critical Thinking in the 21st Century.

Self-Learning Module, Quarter 1 – Module 3. DepEd – SOCCSKSARGEN

Region, Philippines, 2020.

Rullin, Mariel H. Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21 st

Century, Quarter 1 – Module 2. DepEd Region 10, Philippines, 2020.

Answer Key:

Activity 1. Let’s Categorize

1. D 6. B
2. A 7. D
3. A 8. D
4. C 9. A
5. A 10. A
Activity 2. A. Match Me
1. C
2. E
3. A
4. B
5. D
Activity 2. B. Spot the Trend
1. B. Downward
In this case, the numbers are steadily decreasing decade by
decade, so this is a downward trend.

2. A. Upward 12
In this case, the numbers are steadily increasing decade by
13