{ "$comment": [ "The MATATAG learning areas, in the shape a build can consume.", "", "Prose, reasoning and sources live in docs/research/learning-areas.md — this file", "holds only what a program needs. The two must agree; test/deploy.test.js checks", "the parts it can.", "", "EVERY FACT CARRIES A TIER. Only tier A is safe to build on unchecked:", " A quoted from a primary document held in docs/research/source/", " B corroborated by two or more independent secondary sources", " C a single secondary source or a search-engine summary", " D this repository's own inference", "", "No curriculum guide for any area other than Mathematics has been read. An earlier", "Grade 1-10 Mathematics spine built from tier C evidence was wrong in seven of ten", "rows. Treat every tier C content claim as a lead to verify, never as a fact.", "", "To promote an area to tier A: obtain its curriculum guide (see `documents` below),", "commit it to docs/research/source/, then follow docs/templates/NEW-LEARNING-AREA.md." ], "keyStages": { "$tier": "A", "$source": "MATATAG Mathematics CG 2023, p.70, quoting DO 8 s.2015 and DO 21 s.2019", "1": { "grades": [ 1, 2, 3 ], "alsoIncludes": "Kindergarten" }, "2": { "grades": [ 4, 5, 6 ] }, "3": { "grades": [ 7, 8, 9, 10 ] }, "4": { "grades": [ 11, 12 ], "note": "Senior High School — out of scope for this repository" } }, "organizers": { "$comment": "The eight parts every MATATAG curriculum guide is assembled from. A new learning area does not need a new document structure — it needs its own values for these.", "$tier": "A", "$source": "MATATAG Mathematics CG 2023 p.70 AND MATATAG Science CG 2023 glossary — two independent curriculum guides, both citing DO 8 s.2015 and DO 21 s.2019. No longer an inference from one document.", "list": [ "Standard", "Key Stage", "Key Stage Standard", "Grade Level Standard", "Content Domain", "Content Standard", "Learning Competency", "Performance Standard" ] }, "areas": [ { "id": "language", "name": "Language", "grades": [ 1 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "languages", "successor": "filipino+english", "built": false, "notes": "Grade 1 only. Develops oral language in the learner's first language (L1)." }, { "id": "reading-literacy", "name": "Reading and Literacy", "grades": [ 1 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "languages", "successor": "filipino+english", "built": false, "notes": "Grade 1 only. Foundational reading skills in L1." }, { "id": "filipino", "name": "Filipino", "grades": [ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "languages", "predecessor": "language+reading-literacy", "built": false, "domains": { "$comment": "Five macro skills. Panonood (viewing) is the one an English-trained eye misses, and it is a real strand.", "$tier": "B", "list": [ "Pakikinig", "Pagsasalita", "Pagbasa", "Pagsulat", "Panonood" ], "stableAcrossGrades": true }, "mediumOfInstruction": { "$tier": "B", "all": "fil" }, "englishVariant": false, "englishVariantNote": "Do not generate one. For Filipino as a subject the language is the content, not the medium — an English copy of a Filipino grammar lesson is a different artifact teaching a different thing.", "notes": "Grade 9 is Noli Me Tangere, Grade 10 is El Filibusterismo (tier C) — the only per-grade content this dossier states with reasonable confidence." }, { "id": "english", "name": "English", "grades": [ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "languages", "predecessor": "language+reading-literacy", "built": false, "domains": { "$comment": "Four macro skills under a literacy domain. The eight subdomains are the Key Stage 1 set.", "$tier": "B/C", "macroSkills": [ "Speaking", "Listening", "Reading", "Writing" ], "keyStage1Subdomains": [ "Oral Language", "Phonological Awareness", "Phonics", "Word Study", "Grammar Awareness", "Vocabulary", "Comprehending and Analyzing Texts", "Creating and Composing Texts" ], "stableAcrossGrades": null }, "mediumOfInstruction": { "$comment": "English at EVERY grade including 2 and 3, where every other area is mother-tongue. This is the one legitimate exception to the Key Stage 1 Filipino rule, and the current test asserts that rule per key stage — it will fail a correctly-written English Grade 2 artifact until it gains the area axis.", "$tier": "B", "all": "en" }, "conflict": "Sources describe this guide's key stages as ending at Grade 6 (KS1) and Grade 10 (KS2), contradicting the tier A DepEd-wide definition. Tier A wins, but resolve it before writing a standards section." }, { "id": "math", "name": "Mathematics", "grades": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "A", "strand": "stem", "built": true, "domains": { "$tier": "A", "$source": "MATATAG Mathematics CG 2023, p.70 footnote", "stableAcrossGrades": true, "list": [ "Number and Algebra", "Measurement and Geometry", "Data and Probability" ] }, "notes": "The only learning area present in all ten grades, and the reason it is this repository's spine. See docs/templates/ARTIFACT-SPEC.md §1." }, { "id": "science", "name": "Science", "grades": [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "A", "strand": "stem", "built": true, "domains": { "$comment": "TWO axes. The three CONTENT STRANDS are what the learner does and are integrated throughout; the DISCIPLINE-ORIENTED DOMAINS are what they study. Both phrases are the guide's own.", "$tier": "A", "$source": "MATATAG Science CG 2023 Grades 3-10, held at docs/research/source/", "contentStrands": [ "Performing scientific inquiry skills", "Understanding and applying scientific knowledge", "Developing and demonstrating scientific attitudes and values" ], "disciplineDomains": { "3-6": [ "Materials", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Living things", "Earth and space" ], "7-10": [ "Science of Materials", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Life Science", "Earth and Space Science" ] }, "stableAcrossGrades": false }, "mediumOfInstruction": { "$comment": "Grade 3 is the last MTB-MLE year, so the language boundary sits inside this area.", "$tier": "B", "3": "fil", "4": "en", "5": "en", "6": "en", "7": "en", "8": "en", "9": "en", "10": "en" }, "notes": "Guide held and ALL EIGHT GRADES BUILT. Grade 3 shipped first: it is the only Science grade at Key Stage 1, so it is the one that exercises the mother-tongue rule, and getting it wrong later would have meant redoing the language plumbing for eight grades. Grades 4-10 followed in order, in English. Every structural HTML artifact is emitted by tools/science.mjs from data/science/gNN.json, so the eight grades share one game engine, one slide runner and one class record rather than eight copies; only the five markdown documents per grade are hand-written. The build procedure, spine and week mapping are in docs/research/science-spine.md; the Tier A curriculum extract is in data/science-cg.json; the visual system is docs/templates/DESIGN-FOUR-DOMAINS.md.", "quarterMap": { "$comment": "Each quarter IS a domain — the guide's phrase is 'domain quarters'. Grades 3-6 hold one fixed order. Grades 7-10 are a 4x4 LATIN SQUARE: read any quarter column across the four grades and each domain appears exactly once. Assuming Q1 is Materials throughout is true for five grades and WRONG for three — the same reasoning that put seven wrong rows in the Mathematics spine.", "$tier": "A", "$source": "MATATAG Science CG 2023 Grades 3-10, held at docs/research/source/", "3": [ "Materials", "Living Things", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Earth and Space" ], "4": [ "Materials", "Living Things", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Earth and Space" ], "5": [ "Materials", "Living Things", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Earth and Space" ], "6": [ "Materials", "Living Things", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Earth and Space" ], "7": [ "Science of Materials", "Life Science", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Earth and Space Science" ], "8": [ "Life Science", "Science of Materials", "Earth and Space Science", "Force, Motion, and Energy" ], "9": [ "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Earth and Space Science", "Life Science", "Science of Materials" ], "10": [ "Earth and Space Science", "Force, Motion, and Energy", "Science of Materials", "Life Science" ] }, "quarter1Content": { "$tier": "A", "$source": "MATATAG Science CG 2023 Grades 3-10, held at docs/research/source/", "3": [ "Science in our daily life", "Science processes", "Materials and their uses" ], "4": [ "Science inventions", "Materials and their uses", "Gathering scientific information" ], "5": [ "Matter in daily life", "Matter and the three states", "Scientific investigation" ], "6": [ "Diagrams and flowcharts", "Processes of changes of state", "Physical and chemical change", "Mixtures and separation techniques" ], "7": [ "Use of models", "The Particle model and changes of state", "Planning, following, and recording scientific investigations", "Solutions, solubility, and concentration" ], "8": [ "Organ systems working together", "Heredity", "Taxonomic classification", "Photosynthesis, respiration and cycles in nature" ], "9": [ "Newton's Laws", "Force and energy", "Electric current", "Electrical circuits", "Interpreting patterns in data", "Electromagnetic waves" ], "10": [ "Plate Tectonics", "Global climate", "Global interactions", "Global and local Sustainability" ] }, "startsAtGrade3Because": "The guide states the K-2 grade-level standards 'form part of other curricula, including the English curriculum and the Mathematics curriculum', and that their content is not in the Science curriculum. A Grade 3 Science artifact should expect prior learning this guide does not show.", "builtGrades": [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ] }, { "id": "makabansa", "name": "Makabansa", "grades": [ 1, 2, 3 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "social", "successor": "araling-panlipunan", "built": false, "notes": "NOT a merger. DepEd has stated Makabansa is 'a distinct and foundational learning area for Key Stage 1 ... not a combination or merger of Araling Panlipunan and MAPEH', using a holistic, transdisciplinary approach. Do not model it as a container of components." }, { "id": "araling-panlipunan", "name": "Araling Panlipunan", "grades": [ 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "social", "predecessor": "makabansa", "built": false, "domains": { "$comment": "Seven themes across four quarters, so they RECUR rather than partition — the opposite of EPP/TLE's exclusive rotation.", "$tier": "C", "list": [ "People, Society and Environment", "Time, Continuity and Change", "Culture, Identity and Nationhood", "Rights, Responsibility and Citizenship", "Power, Authority and Governance", "Production, Distribution and Consumption", "Regional and International Relations" ], "stableAcrossGrades": true }, "mediumOfInstruction": { "$tier": "B", "all": "fil" }, "gradeFocus": { "$comment": "MATATAG CHANGED THE SEQUENCE. The old K-12 AP ran Asya / Daigdig / Ekonomiks / Kontemporaryong Isyu at Grades 7-10. Grade 7 is the row that proves the check was worth applying: it is no longer Asian Studies.", "$tier": "C", "5": "Philippine history and civic duty", "7": "Ang Pilipinas sa Timog-Silangang Asya — replaces Asian Studies", "8": "The relations of Asia and the world", "9": "Economics, toward sustainable development", "10": "Contemporary issues and social challenges, local and global" } }, { "id": "epp", "name": "Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan", "abbr": "EPP", "nameTier": "A", "nameSource": "MATATAG Mathematics CG 2023, p.11", "grades": [ 4, 5, 6 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "stem", "successor": "tle", "built": false, "mediumOfInstruction": { "$comment": "The medium belongs to the learning area, not only to the key stage. A Grade 4 EPP artifact is Filipino; a Grade 4 Mathematics artifact is English. Derive locale from (area, grade).", "$tier": "B", "4": "fil", "5": "fil", "6": "en" }, "components": { "$comment": "FOUR, and the quarter IS the component — they rotate, they do not co-exist. Entrepreneurship is NOT a component; it is integrated into every competency. 'Home Economics' is the legacy K-12 name for FCS — do not use it.", "$tier": "B", "list": [ "Information and Communications Technology", "Agriculture and Fishery Arts", "Family and Consumer Science", "Industrial Arts" ], "quarterRotation": [ "ICT", "AFA", "FCS", "IA" ], "spiralAxis": "component-column", "spiralNote": "The progression runs G4Q1 -> G5Q1 -> G6Q1 within a component, NOT G5Q1 -> G5Q2. Prerequisites and revision follow the column, not the row." }, "safetyCritical": true, "notes": "Knives, hot oil, hot irons, garden tools. No generated activity may instruct work on an energised circuit." }, { "id": "tle", "name": "Technology and Livelihood Education", "abbr": "TLE", "nameTier": "A", "nameSource": "MATATAG Mathematics CG 2023, p.11", "grades": [ 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "stem", "predecessor": "epp", "built": false, "notes": "One of the three STEM learning areas in DepEd's own framework, alongside Science and Mathematics (Mathematics CG p.13, tier A)." }, { "id": "mapeh", "name": "Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health", "abbr": "MAPEH", "grades": [ 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "arts-pe", "built": false, "components": { "$comment": "TWO components under MATATAG, not four. Each is graded separately and the two are averaged. Modelling MAPEH as four components would repeat the Mathematics error — four is the pre-MATATAG structure.", "$tier": "B", "list": [ "Music and Arts", "Physical Education and Health" ], "separatelyGraded": true, "passRule": "The learner passes on the average of the two components, even having failed one.", "passRuleTier": "C", "minuteSplit": null, "minuteSplitNote": "Not specified by DepEd — appears to be the school's decision. Do not present a split as policy." }, "quarterStructure": { "$comment": "Physical Education and Health only. The four quarters are a fixed widening circle of wellness, and every quarter PAIRS a health topic with a movement category in one content standard — the guide refuses to separate them, so the atomic unit is a pair, not a competency.", "$tier": "B", "peAndHealth": [ "Personal wellness", "Family wellness", "Community wellness", "Societal wellness" ], "musicAndArts": null, "musicAndArtsNote": "Not established at any grade. Organises by expanding cultural scope — own locality, Philippine history, Southeast Asia, Asia, World, Philippine Creative Industries — which is a history-and-culture axis, not a skills axis." }, "notes": "Published as two curriculum guides, not one. The hardest fit for this repository's template. The most useful artifact here is not a game — it is a printable one-page class observation grid for the 60% that is watched, not written. See docs/research/learning-areas.md." }, { "id": "gmrc", "name": "Good Manners and Right Conduct", "abbr": "GMRC", "grades": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "values", "successor": "values-education", "built": false, "statute": "Republic Act 11476 — the GMRC and Values Education Act (2020)", "statuteRequires": { "$comment": "The law is unusually prescriptive about pedagogy, and names these methods directly. A screen-based artifact is not what it foregrounds — for this area the offline pack is the flagship and the screen is the accessory.", "$tier": "B", "separateSubject": true, "timeAllotment": "the same time allotment as the other core subjects", "namedMethods": [ "role playing in the classroom", "community immersion activities", "teacher-parent collaborative learning activities", "school-initiated values formation activities", "simulated activities", "other forms of experiential learning" ] }, "scoredGameAppropriate": false, "scoredGameNote": "A scored browser game is the wrong artifact for this area: what it would score is a child's character, and a dilemma with a marked correct answer teaches that the skill is guessing which answer the adult wants. Auto-check conventions and concepts only. Never auto-check judgement, disposition, behaviour, or anything in the faith strand." }, { "id": "values-education", "name": "Values Education", "grades": [ 7, 8, 9, 10 ], "gradesTier": "B", "strand": "values", "predecessor": "gmrc", "built": false, "statute": "Republic Act 11476 — the GMRC and Values Education Act (2020)", "notes": "Shares one curriculum guide with GMRC, covering Grades 1-10." } ], "assessmentWeights": { "$comment": "Grades 4-10. The weights are NOT uniform across learning areas — EPP/TLE and MAPEH are performance-weighted. This repository currently applies 20/50/30 everywhere, which is correct for the first group and wrong for the second. Confirm against DO 015 before building either.", "$tier": "C", "$source": "DepEd Order No. 015, s. 2026", "$corroboration": "The shape continues DO 8 s.2015, where MAPEH and EPP/TLE were also the performance-weighted exception.", "groups": [ { "areas": [ "english", "filipino", "math", "science", "araling-panlipunan", "gmrc", "values-education" ], "writtenWorks": 20, "performanceTasks": 50, "examinations": 30 }, { "areas": [ "epp", "tle", "mapeh" ], "writtenWorks": 20, "performanceTasks": 60, "examinations": 20 } ], "examinationsSplit": { "$tier": "C", "summativeTest1": 30, "summativeTest2": 30, "termExamination": 40 }, "keyStage1": { "$comment": "Descriptive, with narrative feedback — no numerical grade. This repository currently applies that to Grade 1 only; DO 015 is reported to extend it through Grade 3. BREAKING if true. Do not act on tier C here — see docs/research/learning-areas.md §9.2.", "$tier": "C", "numerical": false, "repositoryPosition": "Grade 1 descriptive; Grades 2-3 numerical with teacher-entered weights" } }, "timeAllotment": { "$comment": "Under the DO 12 s.2024 flexible option, DAYS PER WEEK DIFFER BY LEARNING AREA. This repository's lesson plans are all five-day weeks, which is one day too many for the four-day areas.", "$tier": "C", "$source": "DepEd Order No. 12, s. 2024", "baseline": { "minutesPerDay": 45, "daysPerWeek": 5, "grades1to3MinutesPerDay": "40-45" }, "flexibleMinuteOptions": [ 50, 55, 60 ], "daysPerWeek": { "5": [ "english", "math", "science", "gmrc", "values-education" ], "4": [ "filipino", "araling-panlipunan", "epp", "tle", "mapeh" ], "1": [ "homeroom-guidance" ] } }, "documents": { "$comment": "The shopping list. Attaching any one of these moves an entire learning area from tier C to tier A. Filenames vary between mirrors (numeric prefixes, spaces vs hyphens) — search on the title. None of these could be opened from this environment; every document host refuses the egress proxy's CONNECT.", "$tier": "B", "held": [ { "title": "FINAL MATATAG Mathematics CG 2023 Grades 1-10", "areas": [ "math" ], "grades": "1-10", "path": "docs/research/source/MATATAG-Mathematics-CG-2023-Grades1-10.pdf" }, { "title": "FINAL MATATAG Science CG 2023 Grades 3-10", "areas": [ "science" ], "grades": "3-10", "path": "docs/research/source/MATATAG-Science-CG-2023-Grades3-10.pdf", "pages": 72 } ], "wanted": [ { "priority": 1, "title": "FINAL MATATAG English CG 2023 Grades 2-10 (withAppendices)", "areas": [ "english" ], "grades": "2-10", "urls": [ "https://www.scribd.com/document/711035020/FINAL-MATATAG-English-CG-2023-Grades-2-10-WithAppendices" ] }, { "priority": 2, "title": "FINAL MATATAG FILIPINO CG 2023 Grades 2-10", "areas": [ "filipino" ], "grades": "2-10", "urls": [ "https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/final-matatag-filipino-cg-2023-grades-2-10-pdf/272028394" ] }, { "priority": 3, "title": "FINAL MATATAG Araling Panlipunan CG 2023 Grades 4-10", "areas": [ "araling-panlipunan" ], "grades": "4-10", "urls": [ "https://www.academ-e.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Araling-Panlipunan-CG-2023.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 4, "title": "FINAL MATATAG EPP_TLE CG 2023 Grades 4-10", "areas": [ "epp", "tle" ], "grades": "4-10", "urls": [ "https://eduksama.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FINAL-MATATAG-EPP_TLE-CG-2023-Grades-4-10.pdf", "https://www.deped.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/MATATAG-EPP_TLE-CG-2023-Grades-4-10-1.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 5, "title": "FINAL MATATAG GMRC and VE CG 2023 Grades 1-10", "areas": [ "gmrc", "values-education" ], "grades": "1-10", "urls": [ "https://www.academ-e.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GMRC-and-VE-CG-2023.pdf", "https://philippinecompanies.com/matatag/GMRC-VE%201-10.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 6, "title": "FINAL MATATAG PE and Health CG 2023 Grades 4-10", "areas": [ "mapeh" ], "grades": "4-10", "urls": [ "https://www.depedlacarlotacity.com/uploads/1/5/2/4/152491467/final_matatag_pe_and_health_cg_2023_grades_4-10.pdf", "https://www.academ-e.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PE-and-HEALTH-CG-2023.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 6, "title": "FINAL MATATAG Music and Arts CG 2023", "areas": [ "mapeh" ], "grades": "4-10", "urls": [ "https://www.depedlacarlotacity.com/uploads/1/5/2/4/152491467/final_matatag_music_and_arts_cg_2023_grades_4-10.pdf", "https://www.academ-e.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MUSIC-and-ARTS_CG-2023.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 7, "title": "FINAL MATATAG Makabansa CG 2023 Grades 1-3", "areas": [ "makabansa" ], "grades": "1-3", "urls": [ "https://eduksama.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FINAL-MATATAG-Makabansa-CG-2023-Grades-1-3.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 8, "title": "FINAL MATATAG LANGUAGE CG 2023 Grade 1", "areas": [ "language" ], "grades": "1", "urls": [ "https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/final-matatag-language-cg-2023-grade-1-pdf/270417267" ] }, { "priority": 8, "title": "FINAL MATATAG Reading and Literacy CG 2023 G1", "areas": [ "reading-literacy" ], "grades": "1", "urls": [ "https://www.deped.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/MATATAG-Reading-and-Literacy-CG.pdf", "https://matatagcurriculum.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MATATAG-Curriculum-Grade-1-Reading-and-Literacy.pdf" ] }, { "priority": 0, "title": "GENERAL SHAPING PAPER 2023", "areas": [ "*" ], "grades": "K-10", "note": "The document behind all the others. Would answer the cross-area questions this dossier leaves at tier C. Get this one if the goal is structure rather than a single area's competencies.", "urls": [ "https://sites.google.com/deped.gov.ph/deped-lrportal/revised-k-10-lms" ] } ], "$canonicalSource": "DepEd LR Portal, Revised K-10 LMs — https://sites.google.com/deped.gov.ph/deped-lrportal/revised-k-10-lms", "$urlWarning": "None of these URLs was opened — every host refuses this environment's egress proxy, so they are leads from search results, not verified links. Two traps: several areas were published TWICE, an initial rollout slice (Grades 4 and 7 only, or Grades 1/4/7) and the full range — always check the grade range in the title; and mirrors rename files, so search the title rather than pasting a path." } }