Kidapawan City National High School

Senior High school Program

Self-Learning Module in Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Quarter 1/ Midterm Period/ Week 4 (September ______, 2020)
Name:_________________________________________ GRADE & SECTION:________________
Subject Teacher:_________________________________ LRN_______________ Score: _________
I. Objective
1. Analyze the significance of cultural, social, political and economic symbols and practices (UCSP11/12HBSIe-
12, UCSP11/12HBS- If-13, UCSP11/12HBS- If-14)

II. Subject Matter:

Lesson 3 Looking back at Human Biocultural and Social Evolution

1. The human origins and the capacity for culture
2. The role of culture in human adaptation

III. Learning Resources:

References 1. Teacher’s Guide Page/s:___ 2. Learner’s Materials Pages: _____ 3. Textbook Pages:_____ 4.
Additional Materials from Learning Resources (LR) portals:_____
BOOKS • Textbook – UCSP by Ederlina D. Balena, Dolores M. Lucero, Arnel M. Peralta of Educational
Resources Corporation
• Curriculum Guide/Learning Materials
• Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs Guide)
• Media at Internet Sources/Powerpoints
Other Learning TEXTBOOKS, HANDOUTS, MODULES, Smartphone, Laptop, Wifi Broadband
Resources

IV. Procedure/Learning Activities:

V.
What I know?
Review/Activating prior Knowledge:
• Direction: This activity aims to know how students react to the facts and theories discussed in the previous
lesson. Read each statement and decide whether you agree or disagree with it. Put an x in the column of
your answer. Provide a brief explanation for your choice of answer.
Agree Statement Disagree
Characteristics of life forms are immutable and could not change.
Explanation for past events should be sought in the long-term action of
ordinary geological forces that still operate today.
Evolution works as the process of natural selection takes advantage of the
variety that is already present in a population.
Evolution through natural selection continues today.
Human populations adapt genetically in response to environmental forces.

Process Questions
1. How does natural selection work?
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2. How does the study of genetics explain the process of natural selection?
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Sample Rubrics for Essay

CRITERIA POINTS
Comprehensive/Analytical Essay (Outstanding content, full of information, clear and focused, 5
and neatly presented
Well written/includes some analysis (Strong content, clear and focused, and neatly 4
presented.
Well written but lacks analysis (Adequate content, somewhat clear and focused, and neatly 3
presented.
Weak essay / lack organization / no analysis (limited content, somewhat unclear but has a 2
discemible focused.

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Kidapawan City National High School
Isidro Jr. B. Andea, Jennelyn C. Clarito,
Office Address: Roxas St., Poblacion, Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, Philippines Amelita P. Estimo, & Marilyn B. Tugnao
Telephone Number: (064)521-0435, E-mail Address: ilovekcnhs@yahoo.com Grade 11 & 12 Understanding Culture, Society & Politics
 What’s In?
Activity Picture Analysis
Directions: OPTIC. In this activity, the learners are expected to demonstrate the five steps in analyzing the picture. As
they view the graphic, they may participate in the discussion, write a paragraph or chart to record the information.
Teachers may instruct the learners to follow the following format of visual analysis:
O – overview, P – parts, T – title, I– interrelationship, C – conclusion

A. Overview:
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B. Parts (Important parts or details):
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C. Title (Event being shown):
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D. Interrelationships (main idea connecting the parts in the picture):
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E. Conclusion:
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Note: Use sample rubrics for your essay (refer to first page)
What’s New?
Activity 1 Key Concepts: Read the following key concepts

To study and understand the processes of becoming human, it is important that we look back to the
past. Anthropology offers two methods of doing this study. One is through the close examination of the
material remains that early humans had left behind. The other is through the study of the genetic codes that
were passed on across several generations. Through these approaches, the story of human evolution can be
told. It will be seen that humans evolved as they made use of their peculiar biological features in harnessing
the natural environment and in propagating themselves widely across the planet as social beings.

To harness the environment, humans produced tools and organized themselves socially into diverse
and hierarchical groups in many cases. These acts are by themselves cultural process that marks the
characteristics of being human. Human tendencies to relate socially can be tracked to human anatomical
features right down from childbirth. Human anatomy, in particular the female pelvis evolved in consideration of
the ability of humans to walk upright, the comparatively big brain size of human babies, and the difficulty
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 that these babies go through in negotiating a complicated birth canal during birth (Kottak 2013: 73). These
anatomical features and birthing process are not widely shared with other primates, the genetic order to which
humans belong. Due to complicated anatomy and birthing processes, humans evolved by requiring assistance
from fellow humans. Such requisite for human existence establishes the biological basis of the establishment of
social relations guided by cultural processes. In other words, humans are social and cultural as a matter of
biological necessity.

The long process of human evolution, the uniqueness of human anatomical features resulting from
evolution, and the human material remains such as fossils and artifacts that have been gathered and kept in
museums and universities for further studies illustrates the complex relationships of human biology and culture.
The interaction of human biological and cultural processes played significant roles in being and becoming
human. Moreover, how humans evolved to become what they are implicates our understanding of race and
racial issues, class and discrimination, fairness and oppression, and so on. When humans are understood from
biological evolutionary and transformative cultural point of view, the question of race, class distinction and
discrimination, and oppression, are not by themselves natural features of human life.

Species Characteristics
>> Species with a brain of a Broca’s area which is associated with speech in modern humans
Homo habilis and was the first to make stone tools. The ability to make and use tools is a unique quality to
humans such that the species is recognized to be the first true human. The species name
means “Handy Man” Lived about 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago scavenging for food.
Homo erectus >> The species name means “Upright Man” with body proportions similar to that of modern
humans. Lived 1.89 to 143,000 years ago; adapted to hot climate and mostly spread in Africa.
They were the first hunters with improvised tools such as axes and knives, and were the first
to produce fire.
Homo >>The species name means “Wise Man” that appeared form 200,000 years ago. The present
sapiens human race belongs to this species.

Homo >>Subspieces with short yet stocky in body build adapted to . The winter climates especially in
sapiens icy cold places in Europe and Asia. The subspecies, also known as “Neanderthal Man”, is the
neanderthale closest relative of modern humans. The first to practice burial of their dead, hunting and
nsis gathering food, and sewing clothes from animal skin using bone needles. They lived about
200,000 to 28, 000 years ago

Guide Questions:
1. What makes human beings an important component in the development of early society?
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2. How do early societies differ from one another? Explain.
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3. What makes us human?

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4. How did humans evolve biologically and culturally?
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5. What can the study of human and cultural evolution tell us about transformations of society and political
institutions?
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Note: Use rubrics for answering essay or guide questions.(refer to first page)

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 What is it?

A. Activity 1 Analysis Chart

Directions: In this activity, the learners identify the biological characteristics and the capacity for culture of
selected species of hominin in the process of human biocultural evolution. Cite the biological characteristics and
cultural adaptation of the selected hominins necessary in the evolution process.

Significant Biological Cultural Means of

Hominin or Hominid
Characteristics Adaptation
Homo habilis

Homo erectus

Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Australopithecus
anamensis

Australopithecus afarensis

Australopithecus boisei

B. Activity 2 Direction: Based from the previous activities, answer the following questions briefly.
1. What is the role of cultural adaptation in human evolution?
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2. How did early humans adapt to their environment?
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3. How is cultural adaptation of early hominins relevant to modern humans?
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Sample Rubrics for Essay
CRITERIA POINTS
Comprehensive/Analytical Essay (Outstanding content, full of information, clear and focused, 5
and neatly presented
Well written/includes some analysis (Strong content, clear and focused, and neatly 4
presented.
Well written but lacks analysis (Adequate content, somewhat clear and focused, and neatly 3
presented.
Weak essay / lack organization / no analysis (limited content, somewhat unclear but has a 2
discemible focused.

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 What’s more
Activity Read the key concept below

#INFOBOX
The history of the human past was unearthed through paleo-anthropological field excavation of human fossil remains and
the things that early humankind had produced. It goes on to explain how these remains were further analyzed through the study of
changing environment in the ancient world, early human tools, diet, and other forms of material culture in what could be ancient
camping remains of the first humans
The reading also explains how the various techniques used in dating human remains and early human tools.
Furthermore, the reading presents the processes of biological and social evolution beginning with the appearance of archaic
forms of humans known as the hominins, the taxonomic classification that marked the great split of the primate order into apes
and humans about 5.8 million years ago.
Furthermore, the reading tracks the further evolution of humans into older forms of the genus homo about 2 million
years ago and the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens or anatomically modern humans (AMH) between 300,000 and
150,000 years ago in Africa. A critical aspect that links biological and cultural dimensions of human evolution are the material
cultures that were produced alongside these interlinked processes.

What I have learned?

Process questions:
1. What are the key human attributes that scientists use in identifying certain fossils as early
hominins?
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2. Has any of the hominins been able to spread out and populate a larger part of the world? If
so, what made this possible?
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What I can do?
Activity Compare and Contrast Diagram
Direction: Students will compare and contrast the physical traits of australopithecines and the archaic
Homo. How was the Homo habilis different from the australopithecine? Explain the comparison using the
diagram below:

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 V. ASSESSMENT : Analyze the significance of cultural, social, political and economic symbols and
practices. (UCSP11/12HBSIe-12, UCSP11/12HBS- If-13, UCSP11/12HBS- If-14)
A. Choose the correct answer and write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before the number.
__________1. These are the species with a brain of a Broca’s area which is associated with speech in modern
humans and was the first to make stone tools.
a. Homo erectus b. Homo habilis c. Homo sapiens d. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
__________2. The subspecies, also known as “Neanderthal Man”, is the closest relative of modern humans and the
first to practice burial of their dead, hunting and gathering food, and sewing clothes from animal skin using bone
needles.
a. Homo erectus b. Homo habilis c. Homo sapiens d. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
__________3. The species name known as the “Wise Man” that appeared form 200,000 years ago. The present
human race belongs to this species.
a. Homo erectus b. Homo habilis c. Homo sapiens d. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
__________4. The species name means “Upright Man” with body proportions similar to that of modern humans.
Lived 1.89 to 143,000 years ago; adapted to hot climate and mostly spread in Africa. They were the first hunters with
improvised tools such as axes and knives, and were the first to produce fire.
a. Homo erectus b. Homo habilis c. Homo sapiens d. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
___________5. To study and understand the processes of becoming human, it is important that we look back to
the past. Anthropology offers two methods of doing this study. “One is through the close examination of the
material remains that early humans had left behind while the other is through the study of the genetic codes that
were passed on across several generations”. What do you think about these two statements?
a. true b. false c. maybe d. not at all
B. Essay: Discuss the following questions briefly. Use the back page or another sheet of paper for your answers (5
points each).
1. Discuss how society sustains itself across generations.
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2. Explain the significance of culture, society, politics and economics symbols and practices to the human
evolutionary advancements.
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Criteria: Content – 2points, Organization – 1 point, Style/Structure – 1 point, Mechanics/Grammar – 1 point
VI. Agreement /Enrichment:
A. Choose two questions only:
1. Identify norms and values to be observed in interacting with others in society, and the
consequences of ignoring these rules.
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2. Assess the rules of social interaction to maintain stability of everyday life and the role of innovation
in response to problems and challenges.
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3. Recognize the value of human rights and promote the common good.
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following the rubrics
questions may vary

Noted By: ________________________________________

Answer for guide

Name and Signature of Parent/Guardian

Date: __________________________
for essay

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 Grade 11 & 12 Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
Week 4

Answer key for evaluation

Part A Multiple Choice

Answer key:
1. B
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. A

Part B Essay

Answer may vary

Criteria:
Content – 2 points ,
Organization – 1 point,
Style/Structure – 1 point, Mechanics/Grammar
– 1 point
Total = 5 points

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