Capacity Building for Mentors on the Higher Order Thinking Skills

Professional Learning Packages (HOTS-PLPs) for Science, Mathematics and English/Reading

Name: Division: Worksheet No. 4A

Position: Region: Plenary Session No. 7
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Item 1
Competency Stem Question Acceptable Answer Rationalization

Create and The motion of a battery-operated toy car is Unistructural: 20 m The question assesses basic
interpret measured and presented in the graph What distance has the car understanding and skills
visual below. travelled after 4 seconds? including that a learner can
representation identify data points in a
of the motion graph.
of objects
such as tape
charts and
motion
graphs.
(Grade 7)
(S7FE-IIIb3)

This HOTS Professional Learning Packages was developed through the Philippine National Research Center 1
for Teacher Quality (RCTQ), a partnership between the Philippine Normal University and the SiMERR
National Research Centre--University of New England, with support from the Australian Government.
 Capacity Building for Mentors on the Higher Order Thinking Skills
Professional Learning Packages (HOTS-PLPs) for Science, Mathematics and English/Reading

Item 2
Competency Stem Question Answer Rationalization

Recognize different
Chemical compounds may be either Multistructural: Sodium chloride is an The question requires recall
types of
ionic or covalent. Give an example of an ionic ionic compound. It is of two separate items (the
compounds (ionic
and a covalent compound. made from a metal and a properties of both ionic and
or covalent) based
List three properties of non-metal. It has a high covalent compounds) and
on their properties
each type of compound. melting point. It is soluble therefore correct answers in
such as melting
in water, and it conducts SOLO terms could be
point, hardness,
electricity. Carbon dioxide described as at the
polarity, and
is a covalent compound. multistructural level.
electrical and
It may be a solid liquid or
thermal
a gas. It is formed by two
conductivity
non-metals. It is not
(Grade 9)(S
readily soluble in water. It
does not conduct
electricity.

9MT-IIb14)

This HOTS Professional Learning Packages was developed through the Philippine National Research Center 2
for Teacher Quality (RCTQ), a partnership between the Philippine Normal University and the SiMERR
National Research Centre--University of New England, with support from the Australian Government.
 Capacity Building for Mentors on the Higher Order Thinking Skills
Professional Learning Packages (HOTS-PLPs) for Science, Mathematics and English/Reading

Item 5
Competency Stem Question Answer Rationalization
Explain the Dispersion of light through a glass Relational: How are The color of light with the Although some students may
hierarchy of colors prism frequency and wavelength shortest wavelength is demonstrate unistructural
in relation to the This diagram shows that when white related? violet and so that bends and multistructural
energy of visible visible light passes through a the most. Red has the responses, there are multiple
light (Grade 8) triangular prism at the right angle, it is longest wavelength and ways students can
(S8FE-If-27) refracted into its component colors. so that bends the least. demonstrate relational
The colors display in thinking, potentially
order of increasing providing the teacher with a
frequency and so are red, lot of diagnostic information.
orange, yellow green,
blue and violet. The order
of increasing energy is
the reverse of that and so
is violet, blue, green,
yellow orange and red.

This HOTS Professional Learning Packages was developed through the Philippine National Research Center 3
for Teacher Quality (RCTQ), a partnership between the Philippine Normal University and the SiMERR
National Research Centre--University of New England, with support from the Australian Government.