CURRICULUM MAP
First Quarter
1. Scientific ways of acquiring
knowledge and solving
problems.
2. Substances as elements or
compounds.
3. Properties of substances
that distinguish them from
mixtures.
4. Important properties of
solutions.
Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter
1. Relation of Geographical
1. Parts and Function of
1. Motion in One Dimension. Location of the Philippines to
Compound Microscope.
its Environment.
2. Different levels of Biological 2. Waves as Carriers of 2. Different Phenomena that
Organization. Energy. occur in the Atmosphere.
3. Relationship of the seasons
3. Difference between Animal
3. Characteristics of Light. and the position of the Sun in
and Plant Cells.
the sky.
4. Reproduction being both
4. How Heat is transferred. 4. The Occurrence of eclipses.
Asexual and Sexual.
5. Organisms interacting with
5. Charges and the different
each other and with their
charging processes.
environment to survive.
 First Quarter
1. Newton’s Three Laws of
Motion
2. Work using Constant
Force, Power, Gravitational
Potential Energy, Kinetic
Energy and Elastic Potential
Energy.
3. Propagation of Sound
through Solid, Liquid and
Gas.
4. Properties and
Characteristics of Visible
Light.
5. Heat and Temperature, and
the effects of heat on the body
6. Current-Voltage-Resistance
relationship, electric power,
electric energy and home
circuitry
Second Quarter Third Quarter
1. The particle nature of
matter as basis for explaining
1. Relationship between faults
properties, physical changes
and earthquakes.
and structure of substances
and mixture
2. Formation of typhoons and 2. Identity of a substance
their movement within the according to its atomic
PAR. structure.
3. The Periodic table of
3. Characteristics of Comets, elements as an organizing
Meteors and Asteroids. tool to determine the chemical new cells
properties of elements.
Fourth Quarter
1. The Digestive System and
its interaction with the
Circulatory, Respiratory and
Excretory Systems in
providing the body with
nutrients for energy.
2. Diseases that result from
nutrient deficiency and
ingestion of harmful
substances and their
prevention and treatment.
3. How cells divide to produce
4. Meiosis as one of the
processes producing genetic
variations of the Mendelian
Pattern of Inheritance.
5. The concept of a species.
6. The species as being
further classified into a
Hierarchical Taxonomic
System
7. One-way flow of energy and

First Quarter
1. How the different
structures of the Circulatory
and Respiratory systems work
together to transport oxygen-
rich blood and nutrients to
the different parts of the
body.
2. The prevention, detection
and treatment of diseases
affecting the Circulatory and
Respiratory Systems.
3. How Genetic information is
organized in genes on
chromosomes.
4. The different patterns of
inheritance.
Second Quarter
1. Development of atomic
models that led to the
description of the behavior of
electrons within atoms.
2. How atoms combine with
other atoms by transferring or
by sharing electrons.
3. Forces that hold metals
together.
4. The type of bonds that
carbon forms that results in
the diversity of carbon
compounds.
Third Quarter
1. Volcanoes found in the
Philippines.
2. Factors that affect climate,
and the effects of changing
climate and how to adapt
accordingly.
3. The relationship between
the visible constellations in
the sky and earth’s position
along its orbit.
the cycling of materials in an
ecosystem
Fourth Quarter
1. Projectile motion, impulse
and momentum and
conservation of linear
momentum.
2. Conservation of mechanical
energy
3. The relationship among
heat, work, and efficiency.
4. Generation, transmission,
and distribution of electrical
energy from power plants
(hydroelectric, geothermal,
wind, nuclear) to home.
 5. The Unit, mole, that
5. How changes in the
quantitatively measures the
environment may affect
number of every small
species extinction.
particle of matter.
6. The structure and function
of plant parts and organelles
involved in photosynthesis.
7. The structure and function
of mitochondrion as the main
organelle involved is
respiration