Topic 4: The Human Person Flourishing in terms of

Science and Technology

Learning Objectives

After successful completion of this module, you should be able to:

analyze the steps in the scientific method;

explain the concepts of human flourishing and their importance for the “common good” and present
examples;

enumerate some career jobs related to science and technology that lead to human flourishing.

Presentation of Contents

Problems that you encounter could be solved in simple ways. Maria could have solved her problem if
she tried to approach it systematically. This lesson will introduce you to the scientific method. The
scientific method is a logical and systematic way of solving a problem.

Making Observation and Stating the Problem

Different things happen around you. As you notice these, you take a mental note of what you see, hear,
feel, smell or taste. These mental notes are your observations. On the space below, write five things that
you can observe around you right now.

1. My room is neat.

2. The food that I cooked smells delicious.

3. My sister is having a bad day.

4. The kid is enjoying.

5. The rice is less cooked.

Choose one observation from your list above. Choose the most interesting and from that, compose your
statement of the problem.

Statement of the problem:

(My sister is having a bad day)

1. Why does my sister having a bad day?

Formulating the Hypothesis

Your statement of the problem must have an answer. But at this point, you still do not have a definite
one, so you formulate your hypothesis. A hypothesis is a logical guess that answers the question or
problem. It could be correct or incorrect, which is what you will find out in the next step. You could have
more than one hypothesis, but you will consider them one at a time in the succeeding steps.

Answer your statement of the problem by formulating three hypotheses.

1. My sister must be having a headache.

2. My sister must be scolded by my parents.

3. My sister couldn't finish her activity.

Testing the Hypothesis with experiment

After proposing a possible answer to the problem, you should prove whether your hypotheses are true
or not. This could be through experiments, test, or research. You need to plan how you would test your
hypothesis by logically writing down the steps that you will do.

Since you will be writing down steps of a procedure, your methodology should be numbered and
logically arranged. It should contain practical procedures, which are significant to the study being
conducted.

Choose one among the hypotheses you formulated. On the space below, write the procedure on how
you will test the hypothesis.

1. Will I make her happy by buying her ice cream?

2. Will I ask her if she wants to borrow my cell phone so that she can play games?

3. Will I take her to the river to watch the sunset?

Stating the Conclusion

At this point, you now know if your hypothesis answered your question. If it did, you just restate your
hypothesis as your conclusion. If it did not, then you need to test other hypotheses.

=According to my observation around me, I, therefore, conclude that my sister is having a bad day
because she is having menstruation.a