Name: John Mark Peramide

Activity: Teaching Approaches and Strategies in Teaching Science

Inquiry Approach

1. "Inquiry is desirable because it encourages divergent thinking, freedom to explore and originality and
creativity." Do these outcomes jibe with the way our children are brought up at home?
- Students can also strengthen their relationships with their classmates, enhance their communication
skills, and gain confidence in their own ideas and abilities to participate in the classroom through
inquiry-based learning.
Inquiry-based learning allows students to connect what they've learned on their own. Instead of
remembering and recalling rules, ideas, or formulae, their curiosity helps them engage and achieve a
deeper knowledge of topics and content. The skills and knowledge they get from school will be also
applied inside the house the way they approach and ask things about anything.

2. Have you experienced this strategy when you were still in your lower years? Would you use the inquiry
approach to if you will be teaching science? Justify your answer.
- Yes, If I will be the teacher and I will be teaching science I would definitely use inquiry based approach.
Inquiry raises the level of rigor and cognitive burden. Inquiry-based learning encourages students to go
beyond memorizing or remembering facts and instead apply what they've learned in new contexts,
make connections between concepts, evaluate or challenge them, and perhaps create something
entirely new. Inquiry approach will be beneficial in teaching science as it involves scientific explanation
and knowledge.

PROBLEM SOLVING

3. Students were tasked to observe the effect of sunlight on the growth of a seedling for a week. It happened
that sunlight was not available on the last 2 days. But still they submitted a conclusion. Explain your reaction
as their teacher.
- If I will be the teacher i am not convinced with their submission as it is very impossible that the growth
of the seedlings have sunlight effect even there is no sunlight for the past two days. So maybe they are
just pretending that the video that they presenting is from their own but maybe they only get it
through youtube or online. It could be very possible from that situation, so it should not be accepted.

4. Is it advisable to strictly follow the steps of problem solving? Defend your answer.
- Yes, it is true that we should follow the steps in solving problems. It is because without you plans the
process on how you can solve the problem you will not achieve your goals. So in order to achieve in
solving your problem we should follow the steps in resolving problems.

EXPERIMENTING

5. Describe your experience and feelings while observing your assigned activity the other week. What are
your honest learning after using this methodology.
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6. In performing an experiment why should the students test the effect of only one variable at a time? How
can it be done?
 - In performing an experiment the student should test only one variable at a time, it is because for them
to be able to focus to one phase only and can successfully achieved their goals in experimentation.
DEMONSTRATION

7. How can you lessen the number of passive observers during a demonstration?
- To lessen the number of passive observer during a demonstration, you should only focus to your task
in demonstrating, to be able to not to be influenced by the others who will be observing you by your
demonstration.

8. Time is up and the demonstration was not yet completed. What will you do? Describe the reaction of the
class. What important step was missed?
. I think if I will be the student my reaction to the demonstrator if he did not finish the demonstration within
the given time, for us students we will be left hanging on how we can connect the entire lesson. But with our
learnings from the duration time of the demonstration we still be able to grasp idea about what is being
discussed by the teacher. And from that the thing that forgot by the demonstrator was to evaluate the
students from what they have learn from your discussion, and that is very important matter.

PROJECTS

9. A student submits a well-designed project to you at the completion of the unit. You ask how it works and
what principle is being demonstrated. The student cannot explain and confess that it was his father who did
everything. What will you do?
- For me as a teacher I will not be mad with that situation, maybe the children cannot do it on their own.
But on the other hand it should not be tolerated by the parents which it should not to be practiced by
the students. I will suggest that next time you should do it on their own, but If you cannot do it on your
own. You can ask help from any of the members of the family.
10. How can you encourage students to do than ask others to do it for them?
- I will encourage them by study so that they will be able achieved the given time for their task.
INTEREST LEARNING CENTERS

11. Would the use of interest learning centers test the originality and resourcefulness of the science teacher?
- In classrooms, new technologies can assist pupils in understanding science and bringing ideas that
were previously confined to the pages of books to life. Technology, without a doubt, makes learning
more participatory, and thus more intriguing and remembered. Technology test the originality and the
resourcefulness of the teachers, it is because we are not in a physical classroom so from that they able
to try another resources in the delivery of the lessons.
VISITING COMMUNITY RESOURCES

12. What values and attitudes are developed through this methodology?
- The values and attitude that should be develop, is that we should become motivator active motivated
tro achieved things