Group Activity: Lesson 8

1. Teaching with Contrived
Experiences
“We teach through a re-arrangement of the
raw reality: a specimen, a manageable
sample of a whole… when the direct
experience cannot be used properly in its
natural setting.” –Edgar Dale

2. Group Activity
•Group yourselves into 5
• Read the following and do what is
asked of you.

3. Group 1
• An atom is invisible to the naked eye and
so your Science teacher in the grades
made use of a model which showed the
neutrons, the protons and the electrons.
Visualize the model of an atom that he/she
used. Or do you remember it to be the
project you submitted in science?
Help each other describe the
model

4. Group 2
• When you studied the rotation of the earth
on its axis and its revolution around the
sun, with which was the planet earth
represented?
Was there no better
representation of the earth?

5. Group 3
• Recall the instructional material that
your teacher used to demonstrate the
revolution of the planets around the
sun.
Describe the material. Name
it.

6. Group 4
• A school wanted its students to learn the electoral
process in action. So they did election of class
officers and officers of the Supreme Student
Council in a way similar to the way local and
national elections are conducted in the Philippines.
Rules on qualifications of candidates, manner of
campaign, duration of campaign period,
canvassing of votes were laid down by a
“COMELEC”. There were also printed election
ballots.
Do you like it? Why?

7. Group 5
• A teacher once said: “How can you claim
Biology is the study of living things, when
all you study are specimens preserved in
formalin?”
Do you agree/disagree with the
teacher? Why?