Sci102 Science Framework For Philippine Basic Education
Sci102 Science Framework For Philippine Basic Education
Sci102 Science Framework For Philippine Basic Education
FRAMEWORK FOR
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EDUCATION
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INTRODUCTION
Science is important to everyone. School science education should
support the development of scientific literacy in all students as
well as motivate them to pursue careers in science, technology,
and engineering.
These statements were drawn from a series of consultation
meetings and focus group discussions with different sectors of
society held in 2006: industry, university, scientists, parents,
teachers, school administrators, community leaders, media,
students, and many others.
IMPORTANCE OF THE SCHOOL
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Science is useful because of its links to technology and industry,
which, from a national perspective, are areas of high priority for
development.
Science provides ways of making sense of the world systematically.
It develops students’ scientific inquiry skills, values and attitudes,
such as objectivity, curiosity, and honesty and habits of mind including
critical thinking. All these are useful to the individual student for his
own personal development, future career, and life in general.
These skills, values, attitudes, and dispositions are likewise useful to
student belongs to, and are further useful to the country that the
community that an individual lives in.
IMPORTANCE OF THE SCHOOL
SCIENCE EDUCATION
The learning of science is also important for the nation’s
cultural development and preservation of its cultural
identity.
Science is most useful to a nation when it is utilized to solve
its own problems and challenges, keeping a nation's cultural
uniqueness and peculiarities intact.
Thus in many countries, science teaching and learning is
linked with culture.
CHALLENGES IN SCIENCE
EDUCATION: PHILIPPINES CONTEXT
Instructional Materials
Administrative Support
Science is for
School science should everyone.
recognize that science Science is both
and technology reflect, content and
influence, and shape our
culture process.
The Guiding
Principles Of School science
School science should Science should emphasize
promote the strong link Curriculum depth rather
between science and
Framework breadth.
technology, including
indigenous technology
• Science content and science process are intertwined. The value of science
processes is to advance content or the body of knowledge. Without
content, students will have difficulty utilizing the science process skills.
Science processes cannot exist in a vacuum. They are learned in context.
Purpose:
It enables students to
progress smoothly through It provides the basis for
the grade levels and avoids continuity and
the major disjunctions consistency in the
between stages of students’ basic education.
schooling.
SCIENCE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
(BASIC EDUCATION)
Three
Overarching
Themes
CURRICULUM
COMPONENTS
Many people think that creativity resides only in artists. But anyone
can be creative, no matter which field he is in, so long as he is able to
c. Creativity use his imagination. A creative person is someone who is always
trying to cook up something new or different.
COMPONENT 2: SCIENTIFIC
ATTITUDES
d. Intellectual Being honest means being truthful. Thus, being intellectually honest means not
copying someone else’s work and claiming it to be one’s own. It means recording
Honesty each and every observation and not selecting only those that support one’s
hypothesis.
Participating in discussions with other people is one way of learning new things.
h. Active But in a discussion people are often interested only in expressing their own
Listening views, neglecting to give the other person the chance to be heard and understood.
QUESTION?