WE ALL admire the resilience of the bamboo grass. Junior Ecologists from Alabel National Science High School joined the Riverbank Rehabilitation Program at Sitio Upper Datal As, Malandag, Malungon, Sarangani Province and, together with the different stakeholders, we planted 200 bamboo along the banks of Buayan River. The Riverbank…
Tree Growing on Rizal Day
AS OUR way of celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of our National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, our Supreme Student Government (SSG) organized a tree-growing activity along the school’s perimeter on June 17, 2011. The students, teachers, and staff planted mahogany trees, which were solicited from the DENR. When I visited…
Why does the Moon appear Red during a Lunar Eclipse?
WE EXPERIENCED a lunar eclipse last night, June 15, 2011. Unfortunately, due to cloudy skies, we failed to witness the moon turn into a reddish glowing sphere in the night sky. It should have been an amazing spectacle. But why does the moon look red during a lunar eclipse?…
The Physics Teacher as Environmental Education Teacher
WE CELEBRATE the month of June as Environment Month and we usually hold activities such as tree-planting, coastal cleanups, and forums and symposiums about critical global issues such as climate change. Aside from that, teachers also integrate environmental education in their lessons. Usually, we leave this task to Earth Science…
The Bottle School Project: A Tool for Teaching
MY WHOLE family listened to my interview on Bombo Radyo GenSan last Sunday. When I returned home, my Nanay told me, “I never thought your project is this big.” I knew what my mother meant. She did not expect us to go to great lengths in terms of promotion and…
We’re Building a Classroom from Plastic Bottles
And We Need Your Help! INSPIRED BY the bottle classroom building initiated by Hug-It-Forward in Guatemala and by My Shelter Foundation here in the Philippines, we have planned to replicate this project in our own campus. We have two major reasons: 1) we don’t have enough classrooms for our incoming…
Discovering Students’ Learning Attitudes Through an Essay Question
INFLUENCED BY my classmate and friend, Leann, I have become interested about prying into the students’ epistemological beliefs and their relationship to the students’ academic performance in physics. So I tried I little experiment about it in the student’s final exam. They answered an exam composed of 85% conceptual questions…
Sarangani holds Consultation on Enhanced K+12 Curriculum
THE DEPED Division of Sarangani gathered its stakeholders for a consultation on the Enhanced K+12 Curriculum at the Sarangani Provincial Gymnasium today. The goal of the said consultation was to present the salient features of the Department of Education’s Enhanced K+12 Curriculum to principals, teachers, parents, community leaders, and…
Join the Earth Hour 2011 on March 26
EVERY YEAR, as the global population continues to increase and as societies become more dependent on electricity, the demand for energy skyrockets. At present, the world is largely dependent on petroleum products as source of energy, which we know is the major culprit for air pollution and for the increase…
Choosing a Graduation Song
AS WE inch closer to Graduation Day, one of the concerns of graduating students is choosing a song to best remember their school life by. Sometimes, students are caught in a dilemma of picking the right graduation song that the whole batch will like. When I was in kindergarten (1993),…
