Day 1
I and III
1. How much science does a science teacher need to know?
A. No matter how much science a teacher studies and learn, it will
never be enough
B. The teacher should be abreast with all the latest developments in
the scientific world
C. The more science the teacher teaches, the less there is to learn
D. The science teacher should have just enough knowledge to answer
the students’ queries
2. True regarding difficulties a science teacher needs to overcome
I. Scientific knowledge that is considered factual today may become
obsolete in the future.
II. Scientific conceptualization changes with time.
III. The amount of science known today is far too large for any one
person to be able to know it all
IV. Science is absolute and precise with a very slim margin of error.
A. All are true
B. Only I and II are true
C. Only III and IV are true
D. All are true except IV
3. Through DepEd Order 24 s 2022, this has become the medium term
plan for the DepEd covering all formal education as well as nonformal
education
A. Philippine Professional Standards for Teacher
B. Basic Education Development Plan 2030
C. Revised Basic Education Curriculum
D. K to 12 Basic Education Program
4. Which of the following most closely describes the performance of
Filipino students in Math and Science?
I. In the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA), which evaluated the performance of 15-year-olds in reading,
mathematics and science, the Philippines took the second-lowest spot
in science and mathematics.
II. In the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS), which evaluated the performance of Grade Four students in
math and science proficiency the Philippines ranked the lowest among
the 58 countries that were included in the study.
III. In the 2019 Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM),
which measured the capacity of Grade 5 students in reading, writing
and mathematics, the Philippines performed below the regional
average in all three areas.
A. All are correct
B. Only III is correct
C. I and III are correct
D. II and III are correct
5. Which of the following statements is most correct about teaching
science?
A. Science teachers need to have vast subject matter content
knowledge to be effective teachers.
B. Subject matter content knowledge is much more important than
pedagogical content knowledge
C. Teachers need to know how to teach children learn science and not
how children learn science
D. What a teacher does and how she does it in the classroom is far
more important than what a teacher knows or the curriculum she uses
6. Which of the following exemplifies an inquisitive mind in a child
learning science?
I. Being able to observe what others have not observed
II. Asking questions no one has thought to ask and focusing less on
right answers and more on sensible answers.
III. Trying things no one has thought to try
IV. Making inferences no one has thought to make and sorting things
in ways no one has sorted them
A. I, II and III
B.
C. II and IV
D. I, II, III and IV
7. No two people, when exposed to the same stimulus, perceive it in
the same way. Why is this so?
A. People use different sense organs to perceive the same stimulus.
B. Different messages are understood by people depending on what
type of learner they are.
C. People have different previous experiences, of different strengths,
that influence how they perceive things.
D. Similar mental images are formed when information is received
through the senses
8. To encourage children’s ownership of their own thoughts, which of
the following questions should be asked?
I. “Which part makes food for the plant?”
II. “Which part holds the plant up?”
III. “What do plants need in order to live?”
IV. “Do plants grow better in the light or in the dark?”
A. I, II and III
B. IV only
C. I, III and IV
D. I, II, III and IV
9. Which of the following unique characteristics of science should be
embraced by students?
A. Most scientific works are done to prove existing hypothesis.
B. Scientists publish their research findings and encourage others to
accept these experiments as theories.
C. Science accepts supernatural explanations as primary explanations
for observed phenomena.
D. Science is skeptical and rejects the notion that it is possible to
attain absolute truth.
10. When teaching science, the teacher aims to impart to students
the following principles EXCEPT
A. Science is parsimonious.
B. It is possible to attain absolute truth.
C. The simpler explanation is preferred to the more complex
explanation.
D. Science presumes that the things and events in the natural world
occur in consistent patterns.
11. A fact is a piece of information that has actual existence and
usually is concrete and observable. Which of the following notions are
considered as facts?
I. The earth rotates on its axis once about every 24 hours.
II. Seventy-six percent of all animal species are insects.
III. Green plants contain chlorophyll in the cells of their leaves.
IV. Water molecules are made of hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
A. I and II
B. III and IV
C. I, II and III
D. I, II, III and IV
12. Scientific concepts are ideas that combine several facts or
observations. Which of the following is least likely to be a concept?
I. Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius.
II. Green plants bend toward light.
III. The human body uses food for energy and growth.
IV. It takes more force to slide a book on sandpaper than on smooth
paper.
A. I
B. I and II
C. III and IV
D. I, II, III, and IV
13. Scientific theories are developed to explain concepts or other
observed regularities. Theories appear to be true but cannot be
proved. Which of the following are considered as theories?
I. The atom contains a dense nucleus made of protons and neutrons
and a vast external space filled by rapidly moving electrons.
II. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
III. Species adapt to their environments, and those that are most fit
survive.
IV. The outer shell of the earth consists of several moving plates on
which the oceans and continents lie.
A. I and II
B. I, II, and III
C. I, III and IV
D. I, II, III, and IV
14. Scientific laws are theories that appear to be so true that it is
believed they can never be disproved. They are generalizations or
universal relationships that are related to the way in which some
aspect of the natural world would behave under certain conditions.
Which of the following are considered as scientific laws?
I. For every force, there is an equal and opposite force.
II. All objects attract all other objects with a force that depends on
their masses and the distance between them.
III. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
IV. During reproduction, the two factors that control each trait
separate (segregate), with one factor from each pair being passed to
the offspring.
A. I and II
B. I, II, and III
C. I, III and IV
D. I, II, III, and IV
15. In developing the skill of observation, children learn to use all their
senses to attend to stimuli that will be recorded in the sensory register
and, from there, will move on for processing. Which of the following
hold true regarding the process of observation?
I. There are only five basic senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and
touch.
II. Connections with the memory bank in the long-term memory help
people recognize stimuli, making it easier for them to make perceptual
sense.
III. Because children do not have the wealth of experience that older
children and adults have, it is important for them to begin obtaining
this experiential base.
IV. The more observation activities they perform, the more
experiences they will add to their long-term memory stores, thus
becoming better able to make connections with new things they
observe.
A. I and II
B. I, II, and III
C. II, III and IV
D. I, II, III, and IV
16. An experimenter shows a preoperational child 20 wooden beads,
including 17 brown ones and 3 white ones. The child is asked, “Can
you make a longer necklace with the brown beads or the wooden
beads?” The preoperational child typically replies “brown beads,”
unable to recognize that each bead has two attributes—its color and
the material it is made of. Which developmental characteristic is
shown here?
A. Preoperational children can deal with only one attribute at a time.
B. Preoperational children do not have the capacity for higher order
thinking skills.
C. Preoperational children are unable to understand the point of view
of others.
D. Preoperational children believe that inanimate objects have life-like
qualities.
17. Classifying objects by considering relationships that are
subordinate to a larger group as a whole is called class inclusion.
Which of the following is true about the skill of classifying?
A. This skill is learned during the early preoperational stage of
cognitive development.
B. When children are ready, they are able to start sorting things into
two groups that have mutually exclusive attributes using class
inclusion skills.
C. The ability to sort (or classify) comes spontaneously to children
even without exposure to the phenomenon.
D. Children of sensorimotor age must be encouraged to do many
sorting activities using many different kinds of things to gain
experience in the skill of classification.
18. The leaf classification system below shows multiple groupings of
hierarchical systems of classification. At what stage of development is
this skill expected?
A. Early Preoperational
B. Late Preoperational
C. Early Concrete Operational
D. Late Concrete Operational
19. Teachers teach children to replicate the measurements during an
experiment. The main reason for doing this is to
A. estimate the experimental error
B. list the data in a tabulation
C. change the experimental conditions
D. find out if the equipment is working
20. When water is poured from a tall, thin glass into a large tank
young children perceive that there is less water because it occupies
less depth in the tank than in the glass. What does this show about
preoperational children?
A. Preoperational children have difficulty in conserving volume.
B. Preoperational children have the tendency for animism.
C. Preoperational children have difficulty in deductive reasoning.
D. Preoperational children have intuitive thought.
21. A method of determining the volume of an irregularly shaped
object is by placing it in a container of a known volume of water and
then measuring the apparent increase in the volume of water when
the object is immersed in the water. Why does a fifth-grade child have
difficulty with this concept?
A. This concept is difficult for children to understand.
B. Many fifth-grade children do not yet have the level of conservation
reasoning required to understand displacement.
C. It is inappropriate to ask them to compare volumes of different
materials or to do activities that require them to recognize that the
volume of a material does not change when its shape does.
D. They do not understand that the amount of material in something
does not change when the shape changes.
22. Weight is the pull of gravity on something, and mass is the
amount of material in that something. Which statement is true based
on this concept?
A. Weight depends more on the mass rather than on the strength of
gravity.
B. Gravity on earth is about 1/6 of the gravity on the moon, so things
weigh about 1/6 as much on earth as they do on the moon.
C. People can jump higher and hop farther on earth than they can on
the moon because there is less gravity to hold them down.
D. People have the same amount of mass (material) in them whether
they are on the earth or on the moon.
23. Which of the following is most helpful to a teacher teaching
measurement of mass to young children?
A. The concept of kilograms should be taught early on to young
children.
B. Young children should be taught to weigh things in terms of grams
or ounces or pounds.
C. Young children should be encouraged to weigh things in terms of
small plastic toys, paper clips, blocks, and the like.
D. Children should not be taught to compare weights of similar things
relative to each other such as small rocks versus small rocks.
24. Temperature is an abstract concept that young children have A. Height of anthurium plant in both plots.
difficulty understanding. Which of the following would be the best B. Length of growing time in both plots.
way to introduce this concept to young children? C. Size of anthurium flower in both plots.
A. Let the children use multisensory modalities to observe a D. Amount of fish bone in both plots.
thermometer. 32. Safety in the laboratory is of utmost importance, which warning
B. Encourage children to compare temperatures of objects with their label indicates a chemical property of the material being labelled?
own body temperature. A. Fragile
C. Teach children early regarding the concept of heat and metabolism. B. Handle with care
D. Start with scales of Celsius and Fahrenheit to orient them with C. Shake well
measurements. D. Flammable
25. As children grow older, they learn to read the thermometer and 33. Which of the following relationships is CORRECT?
this may require interpolation (inferring numbers that are not printed A. A meter < a kilometer.
on the scales). What particular higher order skill may be needed to B. A second > a minute.
interpolate? C. A centigram = a milligram.
A. Computation D. A decimeter > a decameter.
B. Predicting 34. Matter is anything that has _______.
C. Inferring A. weight and volume
D. Estimation B. mass and volume
26. A class of second-grade students recorded sunrise and sunset data C. weight and mass
every day for 10 school days. Then, they made a graph of this data D. mass and shape
and, from their graph, predicted the times the sun would rise and set 35. When the solid particles of a mixture do not settle and instead
the next school day. Which of the following should the teacher remain suspended, this is called
emphasize to the children regarding prediction? A. Colloid
I. Children should not be encouraged to predict before they test B. Solution
because this elicits in them a certain bias. C. Suspension
II. Children learn to compare what actually happens with what they D. Alloy
thought would happen rather than merely accepting what happened 36. Alloy, which is composed of a metal and another element is most
without thinking about it. correctly classified as
III. When predictions are not accurate, the real opportunity for A. Element
scientific investigation presents itself. B. Compound
A. I and II C. Homogeneous mixture
B. I and III D. Heterogeneous mixture
C. II and III 37. Which of the following is an element?
D. I, II and III A. Water
27. In contrast with prediction, which is a person’s best guess as to B. Ethanol
what will happen next, inference is C. Neon
A. A person’s best preparation to future events. D. Crude Oil
B. A person’s best guess as to why something happened. 38. When an object undergoes change in the shape or size this is
C. A person’s estimation of the amount of change that will happen. classified as ________.
D. A person’s fair judgment of events or situations. A. mechanical change
28. The process of comparing one quantity with the corresponding B. physical change
standard is called ________. C. nuclear change
A. Measurement D. chemical change
B. Formulation 39. All of the following are physical changes EXCEPT
C. Interpolation A. Melting of candle
D. Extrapolation B. Rusting of iron
29. Two groups are doing their experiments with both using the same C. Dissolving sugar
kind of materials, same amount of different liquids, and same place D. Boiling of water
where they performed their experiment. What is the variable in the 40. When water condenses, it changes into which of the following
experiment? states?
A. Bottles A. Solid
B. Amount of liquid B. Matter
C. Kind of liquid C. Gaseous
D. Place of experiment D. Liquid
30. What is the importance of control set-up in experimentation? 41. In what state are most matter in the universe?
A. It will identify the variables in the experiment. A. Gas
B. It will provide a basis of comparison between treated and B. Liquid
untreated subjects. C. Solid
C. It will provide a basis for measuring data. D. Plasma
D. It will eliminate mechanical errors in experimentations. 42. A change in state from solid to gas without passing the liquid state
31. A group of children formulated a hypothesis that anthurium is known as
flower will grow larger if fish bone is added to the soil. There were two A. Solidification
experimental plots of anthurium, one with fish bone and the other B. Evaporation
without fish bone. Which data should be collected to support this C. Condensation
hypothesis? D. Sublimation
43. The phase change from gas to solid is known as C. Oxygen
A. Sublimation D. Fluorine
B. Freezing 55. What is usually the total charge of a plasma?
C. Fusion A. Positive
D. Deposition B. Negative
44. Which process occurs when plasma is changed into gas? C. Neutral
A. Evaporation D. Both Negative and Positive
B. Recombination 56. The ability of a material to be stretched into a wire is known as
C. Sublimation A. Ductility
D. Ionization B. Malleability
45. Among the following phases of matter, which has the most C. Elasticity
energetic molecules? D. Plasticity
A. Gases 57. The ability of liquids to rise on fine or hair-like tubes is known as
B. Liquids A. Diffusion
C. Solids B. Capillarity
D. Plasmas C. Surface tension
46. The state of matter that is produced at absolute zero D. Osmosis
temperature? 58. The most commonly used semiconductor is
A. Solid A. Antimony
B. Plasma B. Germanium
C. Gas C. Silicon
D. BEC D. Tellurium
47. The state of matter that is produced at very high temperatures 59. The most inert among the elements are the
and exists at a very highly excitable state. A. Metals
A. Solid B. Metalloids
B. Plasma C. Halogens
C. Gas D. Noble gases
D. BEC 60. . An atom or a group of atoms which has an excess/deficiency of
48. State of matter created when there is very low energy and almost electrons are called ________.
absolute 0 temperature? A. Neutron
A. Plasma B. Proton
B. BEC C. Ion
C. Solid D. Molecules
D. Gas 61. Isotopes are atoms of the same element with different number of
49. Which is the BEST evidence that helium gas is lighter than air? A. Electrons
A. Helium has the lowest boiling point of all elements. B. Protons
B. Helium atoms do not combine with other air atoms. C. Neutrons
C. Helium-filled balloons rise in air. D. Hadrons
D. By volume, helium makes up only 0.0005% of air. 62. When isotopes are unstable, they usually become
50. Which statement best explains why ice is a good refrigerant? A. Inert
A. It cools by evaporation. B. Unreactive
B. It absorbs heat while melting. C. Explosive
C. It conducts heat quickly. D. Radioactive
D. It does not melt inside the refrigerator. 63. Which of the following will be changed when the number of
51. Which is true about metalloids? neutron is changed but the number of protons remain the same?
A. Have properties of both metals and non-metals. A. Molecular weight
B. Conduct electricity better than metals. B. Atomic number
C. Conduct heat better than metals. C. Electronegativity number
D. Conduct heat and electricity less effective than non-metals. D. Atomic mass
52. Which of the following class of elements are best used as 64. . The number of electrons that an atom can give up or accept is
semiconductors? known as its
A. Metals A. Electronegativity number
B. Metalloids B. Valence number
C. Non-metals C. Ionization charge
D. Halogens D. Atomic number
53. Non-metals are generally known to require high amount of energy 65. Positron is the special name given to
to remove their outermost electron and produce a positive ion. This A. Anti-quark
means that they have B. Anti-proton
A. High electronegativity C. Anti-neutron
B. Low electron affinity D. Anti-electron
C. High ionization energy
D. Low conductivity
54. The most electronegative element is
A. Bromine
B. Chlorine