LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS

Grade 12 – Inquiries, Immersion, and Investigation

Name: ___________________________ Date: _________ Rating / Score: ______

BRAINSTORMING FOR RESEARCH TOPICS

ACTIVITY 1. Preparing Your Research Plan
DIRECTIONS: Choose a research topic listed inside the box and complete the table
below. You may also select your own topic.

Topics to choose from:

• Gender and cultural gaps in the classroom
• Population rate in Metro Manila in the next 20 years
• COVID-19 Vaccination in the Philippines

(Identify a particular problem / issue / concern that you would like to focus
on. Write a brief rationale of the importance of solving this problem)

RESEARCH
TOPIC

(Based on your chosen research topic, list down at least three (3) specific
problems that you would like to solve and focus on. Be clear and straight
to the point in describing your problems.)

SPECIFIC
RESEARCH
PROBLEMS

(What are the current status regarding how these problems are being
solved? Write the description of the literature you have read. Cite your
sources properly.)

CURRENT
STATUS

1 Specific Week: 1 (LAS 1)

Target Competency: Prepares a plan and a focus on issues and ideas in their respective field.
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(Indicate the current initiatives that you can identify from your literature.
Which of their solutions are currently working? Cite your sources
properly.)

CURRENT
SOLUTION

(Indicate the current issues / concerns that you can identify from your
literature. Which of the proposed solutions are not enough or not
working? Why is this so? Cite your sources properly.)

PRESSING
CONCERNS

(What can still be done to address the specific research problems that
you have identified? Be specific in your discussion of what you want to
do. Provide as many details as you can. You may create your own
solution or you may improve the current initiatives that you have read in
your sources.)

WHAT CAN
YOU DO?

2 Specific Week: 1 (LAS 1)

Target Competency: Prepares a plan and a focus on issues and ideas in their respective field.
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ACTIVITY 2. Narrowing Research Topic

DIRECTIONS: Accomplish the diagram below. By doing so, you would be able to
describe specific details that you need in drafting your research plan.

Broad Topic (ex. distance learning, pollution, game addiction, etc.)

Time / Duration / When? (ex. 1990’s, adolescence age, etc.)

Place / Location / Where? (ex. Philippines, Davao City, school, at home, etc.)

Event / Type / What? (ex. pandemic, school activities, protests, etc.)

Person / Who? (ex. Filipinos, SHS students, indigenous people, etc.)

YOUR NEW AND NARROW TOPIC

3 Specific Week: 1 (LAS 1)

Target Competency: Prepares a plan and a focus on issues and ideas in their respective field.
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ACTIVITY 3. Listing Your Journal Articles
DIRECTIONS: This is a reading and writing exercise. Follow the directions below and
answer the guide questions. Do this individually.

1. Find a published journal article (you may use Google Scholar) related to your
topic of interest. Choose an article published from 2015 up to present. Write the
following details found in your journal article:
Title:
______________________________________________________________
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Author/s:
______________________________________________________________
Date of publication:
______________________________________________________________
Title of publication:
______________________________________________________________

2. Provide a brief summary of the journal article.

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3. Identify at least three (3) research questions in your chosen article. Are these
research questions clearly stated? Briefly explain the three questions you have
searched.
______________________________________________________________
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4. Identify the type of research if quantitative, qualitative, or mixed research. Why

did you say so?
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5. Discuss the type of approach or methods used to answer the questions you
identified in number 2.
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6. Briefly explain why your chosen journal article will be helpful to your group in
drafting your research plan?
______________________________________________________________
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4 Specific Week: 1 (LAS 1)

Target Competency: Prepares a plan and a focus on issues and ideas in their respective field.
(This is a Government Property. Not for Sale.)