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San Juan National High School

RESEARCH 2 GRADE 8 SY: 2020-2021 WEEK 1: ________________

GRADE 8 RESEACH POCKET LESSON

Hi there my dear student! Today, you and your classmates will begin a new week of distance learning. We are all physically
away from each other do not think that you are alone in this learning journey. There are other students learning with you too. And also I
will closely guide and assist you in your lessons. Please be guided of the following:

• This study guide will help you with the flow of the activity and the lesson.
• Answer the activities on a separate sheet of paper. (Please take care and do not write anything on your module
and other activity sheets.)
• If you see this icon you are free to reach me if you need my assistance.
• My contact no. is here: 09202047231. (You can also reach me out through social media platforms via fb messenger)
• Expect to receive a phone call or text message or PM via fb messenger from me for the follow up.
• Compile all your answer sheets at the end of the week and wait for the announcement when to submit them .
TIME ALLOTMENT: 4 HOURS/WEEK
What do you expect to learn in this topic?
At the end of the week you should be able to:
a. define what research is;
b. understand the characteristics of research;
c. explain why research is important to our daily lives;
d. make a write up based on the specified weekly topic;

Lesson: THE RESEARCH PROCESS

What is Research?
Before proceeding to the next page, let us check if we still remember what we’ve studied back in Research I. Fill up
this K-W-L chart to gauge yourself on your prior knowledge on this. Give at least 5 items for each column.

What I Already KNOW What I WANT to know What I have LEARNED

Research is careful and detailed into a specific problem, concern, or issue using scientific
method. Think science fair projects. Now, research is the formal and structured version of
that when you try and learn something by performing an experiment. This is best
accomplished by turning into a question, with the intent of the research to answer the
Learning from books, question.
papers, news, reports, The word research stems from two syllables, re (as prefix, “again”) and search (a word
professors, anything that that means to examine closely and carefully, to test and try, or to probe). Putting these
can be learned, by two together, gives us “re-search”, to search again and again, which is why research is
definition, is not research. considered as continuous process.
Searching online is not
research. (Lu, May 2016)
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Research
continuously
improves our
understanding
of the natural
world and the
environment
around us.
Through
scientific
breakthroughs,
humans have
been
developing the
way we live and
experience life
as we know it.

The COVID-19
pandemic has
haphazardly
accelerated our
need for good
quality
research
notably in the
fields of
medicine and
health care. The
recent months
had really
highlighted the
importance of
research more
than ever.

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Things to Ponder!

Rubrics:
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