◆ Materials · Quarter 1
Science 4 — What It Can Do, Not Just What It Looks Like
A physical property is what a material is like. A chemical property is what it can become. You can see that a nail is grey and hard by looking; you only find out that it rusts by leaving it in water for a week. The whole week turns on that difference — and on the fact that a change you can undo is not the same as a change you cannot.
The set for this week
Every item is one file. It opens with a double-click, works with the Wi-Fi off, and copies to a phone or a USB stick.
Course Syllabus
For the teacher. The full year on the three-term calendar. All 33 CG competencies across four domain quarters, with the quarter's required performance task given its own week rather than folded into the end-of-term block.
Lesson Plan — ILAW
For the teacher. The whole five-day week in the format DepEd prescribes for filing. Day 4 sets up a rusting-nail investigation that runs into the following week, which is the only honest way to teach a chemical property.
Lesson Plan — Lesson Exemplar
For the teacher. Day 1 at teaching depth. Two identical nails go into two jars in minute six and the class is told they will not know the answer today. Seven anticipated misconceptions.
Assessment Pack
For the teacher. A Table of Specifications, two tests with keys, a weekly check, and rubrics for all four quarterly performance tasks — which the Science guide requires rather than suggests.
Class Record
For the teacher. Raw scores in, grade out, at 20 / 50 / 30 under DO 015 s. 2026. Transmutation is a year switch, not a constant. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent.
Slides
For the class. Fifteen slides. Violet means Materials on every Science artifact in every grade, and it is glyphed and labelled as well as coloured, so the deck survives a photocopy.
Will It Change?
For the class. Three rounds of escalating demand. Round 3 is the one that matters: it takes on the belief that the word chemical means artificial, which is a science misconception and a shopping misconception at once.
Offline Activities
For the teacher. Three individual and two group activities needing nothing but nails, jars, water and things from a kitchen. Every group member has a named role, and both group activities work in a class of 45.
Learner Worksheet
For the class. One A4 page per learner. The last item cannot be completed mechanically: it asks what would have to happen for the learner to change their mind.
One Change at a Time
For the class. A different route to the same competency, not a shorter one. Four tasks, each with a worked example above it, starting from things the learner has watched happen rather than from the words.
Wall Chart
For the class. A4 landscape, printable and laminatable. Four panels, legible after a black-and-white photocopy, and it stays up for the whole quarter.
Also in this grade
Further materials, listed here so they are not missed.
+Week Planner
For the teacher. All 33 weeks of the year, with the curriculum guide competency for each.
+Common Misconceptions
For the teacher. 7 misconceptions this week, and what to do about each.
+Observation Card
For the teacher. Eight slips to cut apart — one per learner — for recording their exact words.
+What Good Work Looks Like
For the class. The standard, stated to the learner before the task rather than after.
+One Change at a Time — Science 4
For the class. Science 4, Term 1 · Week 3. A4, photocopy-safe, answer key screen-only.
+Ten Minutes at Home: The Two Nails — Science 4
For home. A one-page home activity for Science 4, using ordinary household objects, with what to say, what to avoid, and how to tell it is working.