LEARNING COMPETENCIES

Explain the major events and its

contribution that led the emergence
of the social science discipline.
 REVIEW:

•How do you plan your budget for today?

•Have you already planned how to
manage it wisely?
To interpret the fields, areas of inquiry and
methods of Geography and History
 Complete the Analogy

•Scientist : Test Tube

•Teacher : Chalk
•Historian : ______________
•What is the connection between word-
pairs?
•What is the tool of a historian?
•Why is a historian like a detective?
•What is Historiography?
•Differentiate
primary sources from secondary sources.
 Historiography
•Is the study of the methods of historians
in developing history as an academic
discipline, and by extension is any body
of historical work on a particular subject.
•The writing of history
 Primary & Secondary Sources
• Primary Sources
• Convey 1st-hand experience of the event or time period
you’re studying.
• Secondary Sources
• Convey the experiences of other, or 2nd-hand
information; they often synthesize a collection of
primary sources.
 GROUP ACTIVITY: SOUNDS LIKE

• The learners will be grouped into five.

• Each group will be given a chance to pick a set of
words that sound like specific geographic features
through their group representative.
• Each group will describe the completed set of
words, then present it to the class.
• 10 minutes time will be given for this activity
 Mt. Apo

Mouth – Awe - Pooh

What went wrong and what went right in the
conduct of your activity?
 Fields, areas of inquiry and methods of
Geography

• Geography comes from the Greek word, “geographia”

literally means “earth description”.
• It is a field of science devoted to the study of lands,
features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and
planets.
Fields, areas of inquiry and methods of
Geography

• The first person who used the

word “geographia” was
Eratosthenes (276-194 BC).
Branches of Geography
• 1. PHYSIOGRAPHY –
• or physical geography, focuses on geography as an Earth
science.
• It aims to understand the physical problems and the
issues of lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere,
pedosphere, and global flora and fauna patterns
(biosphere).
• Physical Geography is the study of earth’s seasons,
climate, atmosphere, soil streams, landforms, and
oceans.
 2. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY

• concerned with the description of the spatial

interactions between humans and the natural
world.
• It requires an understanding of the traditional
aspects of physical and human geography.
 3. Human Geography

• The branch of geography dealing with how

human activity affects or is influenced by the
earth’s surface
 4. GEOMATICS

• is concerned with the application of computers

to the traditional spatial techniques used in
cartography and topography.
• Geomatics emerged from the qualitative
revolution in geography in the mid-1950s.
 5. REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

• a branch which is concerned with the description of

the unique characteristics of the earth’s surface,
resulting in each area from the combination of its
complete natural or elements, as of physical and
human environment.
 Fields, areas of inquiry and methods of
History

• History comes from Greek word “historia,”

meaning inquiry, knowledge acquired by
investigation.
• History is the study of the past.
• Events occurring before the invention of writing
systems are considered prehistory.
• History is the umbrella term
that relates to past events as
well as the memory, discovery,
collection, organization,
presentation, and
interpretation of information
about these events.
• Persons who focus on history
are called historians.
• Herodotus is considered to be
the father of history.
• History also includes the academic discipline which
uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and
analyze a sequence of past events, investigate the
patterns of cause and effect that are related to
them.
• Historians seek to understand and represent the
past through initiatives.
• They often debate which narrative best explains an
event, as well as the significance of different causes
and effects.
“How does your environment affect your way of
living?

“Do you find History useful to your daily lives?

Why did you say so?
 Complete the Sentence
• 1.History is the study of __________________.
• 2. Geography is the study of _________________.
• 3. ______________ is considered to be the father of
history.
• 4. The first person who used the word
_____________ was Eratosthenes .
• 5. ____________ is the study of earth’s seasons,
climate, atmosphere, soil streams, landforms, and
oceans.