While many people were actively engaged in the midterm elections, over two thousand teenagers and young professionals in Sarangani Province chose to dedicate their time, talent, and energy in volunteer work, helping young children learn how to read. For six years now Quality Education for Sarangani Today (QUEST), an education development program under the office of the governor, has been initiating a summer reading camp for non-readers and frustration readers. Dubbed as Sarangani Big Brother (SBB)—after the TV show that [...]

IT’S ALWAYS good to see my students working their brains out to use what they have learned in the classroom to build something. After we have discussed rotational motion, and work, power, and energy, I asked my students to build a compound machine, with three things in mind: a) functionality, b) build, and c) mechanical advantage. To be be able to guide my students through this project, I asked them to submit a plan, which includes a detailed sketch, measurements [...]

HERE ARE the lists of pupils who qualified to the INTERVIEW PHASE of the 2013 AlSci Entrance Examination. The names who appear in the lists below should attend the INTERVIEW & ENROLMENT on February 9, 2012 at the AlSci Campus.   QUALIFIERS FROM SCHOOLS WITHIN SARANGANI OUTSIDE SARANGANI For more information, please call (083) 508-2228 and look for Ma’am Rendon or visit our school beside the Provincial Capitol Complex, Alabel, Sarangani Province. Did you like this? Share it:TweetLet others know about [...]

AS WE conclude our lessons on electricity, I asked my students to come up with an infographic on the enrichment topics, electrical safety and electricity economics. I created this infographic below, which summarizes the mechanics of the project. With this project, I aim to integrate ICT in learning physics. Students can practice what they have learned in their ICT classes to produce the infographic. This will also allow the students to develop their artistic skills, their skills in organizing data [...]

ONE OF my favorite sources of learning materials online is PhET, which is run Colorado University. Here is another activity I designed using a simulation available on the PhET website in teaching basic circuits. Electricity is one interesting topic in Physics because it is a phenomenon that students encounter everyday but they don’t fully understand yet. A lot of them even has fears about dealing with electrical equipment. In this activity, students will build basic circuits in their computers. They [...]

ANOTHER INTERESTING topic in physics is projectile motion. It is a little more challenging than horizontal motion and free fall, because, in fact, it involves both. Projectiles move vertically and horizontally at the same time. If we look around, a lot of things move that way. Understanding of this type of motion has resulted to a lot of applications like in sports, and sad to say, warfare. If you have been playing the recent mobile game craze, Angry Birds, you [...]

JULY IS the National Disaster Consciousness Month in the Philippines. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council work with other agencies in promoting awareness on emergencies and disasters. The efforts are usually focused on typhoons and flashfloods. Earthquakes, too, are a potential hazard to our locality, what with the Philippines being in the ring of fire. So, I thought of an activity that will raise consciousness among the students about how their learnings in physics can be used to understand [...]

WHEN I hear feedback from my students that I don’t explain my lessons thoroughly in the classroom, I don’t feel bad. In fact, I feel glad about it. I really intend not to give explanations to my students. I prefer that they themselves seek answers to their questions. Let me cite what happened in my class today. While they were performing a group task, one student asked, Student: Sir, what is the unit for Q? Me: What does it stand [...]

IT’S THE start of the school year again. It won’t hurt if we make a plan before we embark on a new journey. In fact, I find it very important to set clear goals in order to see better where we are headed. Personally, I make plans for myself. I used to just keep them in mind. I realized later that writing them down allows you to easily review your implementation. Someone said, “a dream becomes a goal  when you [...]

NINETY-NINE teachers from Regions IX and XII and ARMM attended the Tudlo Mindanao English Language Camp (ELC) at the Batangas Country Club, Batangas City, May 11-20, 2012. The 10-day intensive training aimed to increase the competence of teachers in using English and ICT for professional and technical purposes; to train teachers in employing teaching methodologies in the classroom; and to enhance the teacher’s skills in implementing relevant and interactive teacher-training activities. Do you need custom research paper? Tudlo Mindanao is an [...]