METRO MANILA COLLEGE

U-Site Brgy. Kaligayahan, Novaliches, Quezon City

BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Senior High School
1ST SEMESTER S.Y. 2021 - 2022
FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTION LEARNING PLAN (FILP)
September 20 – October 1, 2021

OBJECTIVES
What am I learning?
Identify the key features of Earth that made it habitable and compare these characteristics to other planets.
Why am I learning it?
Internalize the value of taking active participation in doing small things that help save our planet by
taking care of the environment and realize that the pressing issue on our planet affects everyone and we
must all commit to saving our planet from destruction.
How will I know when I have learned it?
Make a presentation of the list of characteristics that made our planet a habitable place and the man-made
activities that destroy these characteristics.
TOPIC/S
Origin and Structure of the Earth
LEARNING RESOURCES
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/
https://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Habitat/habitablezone.htm
http://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/climate/index.html
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/geophysical/chapter/distribution-of-earths-water/
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/jeff-bezos-space-elon-musk
CONNECTION
How do you feel today?
https://www.menti.com/cb64huckxk

👉 Ask a few students who can share how they feel.

FOCUS ACTIVITY
Breakout Session – Spark Your Interest
Google Jamboard
Imagine yourself as a member of an astronaut team travelling in space. A small part of your spaceship
scraped an asteroid passing by. The spaceship suffers mechanical damages and you would need to assess
the damages and mend them, so you need to do a crash landing very soon. In the space provided below
each space rocket, list down at least four of the characteristics of a planet you will most likely crash land
into and explain briefly why so you can make repairs and rest.
Jamboard link will be automatically generated from the google meet with each class.

👉 Students will present their outputs in class

PROCEDURES

SYNCHRONOUS (M-W-F)

Monday
1. Making Connections activity
2. Weekly lesson breakdown
Week 1
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Making
Connections
Planetary Fact
Weekly Lesson Discussion –
Sheet
Breakdown + No Task No task Atmosphere and
module overview Hydrosphere
Earth Subsystems
Interstellar Crash
Landing

Week 2
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Chart Completion
Discussion –
(energy flow Applying the Generalization /
Geosphere and No Task
across Concepts Concept Map
Biosphere
subsystems)

3. Focus Activity

Wednesday
1. Compare Venus, Earth, and Mars (Venn Diagram)
 Planetary fact sheet: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planetfact_notes.html#mass

Answer the following questions: (answers will be shared in class)

1. How did you determine which characteristics are shared by the planets?

2. There are characteristics that are shared by Earth with Venus, Earth and Mars and Venus and Mars, and
characteristics shared by all three. Why do you think only Earth has the capability (now) to support life?

👉 Introduce the concept of Goldilocks’ Zone, characteristics wherein everything is “just right.”

👉 Introduce Concepts of earth systems: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.

Friday
The Atmosphere is referred to as the gaseous envelope of the planet. This contains the air we breathe,
traps the heat from the sun, and plays an important role into maintaining the weather system of the planet.
This regulates our climate and helps keep the earth’s temperature to support life. Between each layer is
boundaries called pauses to which a significant change between the “spheres” occurs.
 Troposphere →Tropopause
 Stratosphere →Stratopause
 Mesosphere → Mesopause
 Thermosphere → Thermopause
The Hydrosphere consists of all the waters on Earth. It is noteworthy that by following the hydrologic
cycle (you know this the water cycle) we can see how energy from the sun is harnessed by the planet to
sustain its life-supporting activities. Furthermore, Earth is a unique planet to support life because all the
states water exists in our planet – gas (water vapor), liquid (oceans, lakes, streams, etc.) and solid as ice,
also known as the cryosphere. The ability of the water molecule to exist in all three states in our planet
helps regulate its ability to support life.

Water vapor in the form of gas condenses in the atmosphere that soon precipitates into rain. This action
allows to distribute water through different continental landmasses. Water in the form of ice acts as
insulator for heat and plays a role in the climate of the earth. Lastly, liquid water is essential to life
because it acts as medium for metabolic activities.

Monday
The Geosphere makes up the solid portion of Earth – from landmasses present on the continents to the
layers of Earth. The term geosphere came from the Latin word geo which means ground. This subsystem
includes the interior layers of the earth and how each layer plays a vital role for the benefit of the entire
planet.

Lastly, the Biosphere is the component of the earth that involves all the living things. The biosphere
inhabits all the other systems – land, air, and water. The biosphere is shaped by the processes within the
other subsystems while the process in the biosphere also shapes the other subsystems.
Wednesday

Chart completion:

How the biosphere shaped the How the other subsystems How the other subsystem
other subsystems shape the biosphere shapes each other
Evolution of the oxygen- Tectonic plate movement Major volcanic activities release
producing plants resulted in the resulted in dispersion of species CO2 in the atmosphere
presence of oxygen in the resulting to the variation among deliberately changing the
atmosphere. species. atmospheric climate.
Fossil fuels developed over Excess in oxygen in the Following the activities in the
millions of years from the death atmosphere made way for the hydrologic cycle, water moves
of earlier organisms – bacteria, complex gas exchange between nutrients from the soil
plants, animals. animals and plants elsewhere.

Friday
Generalization – Concept Map and Core Values Integration (Discussion Activity)

Article sharing: https://www.vox.com/recode/22589197/space-travel-tourism-bezos-branson-rockets-

blue-origin-virgin-galactic-spacex
Summary: Controversy on making available space hotels and other out of the world luxury amidst a
dying planet

Professionalism – imbibe the value of science citizenship

Commitment and Loyalty – promote loyalty to our planet by promoting and advocating for
sustainability, as well as committing to action plans that would help collectively to saving our planet
(earth hour, avoiding loitering)
Integrity – To stay true to the goals and objectives of the sustainable development goals and climate
change targets (Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015)
Excellence – Anchor outputs presented in advocating for change and invest in works that can help
promote or solve environmental problems
Teamwork – make leaders and policy makers hold large businesses accountable for their environmental
impact by raising awareness to environmental mismanagement

ASYNCHRONOUS (T – TH)
Tuesdays – no asynchronous task

Thursday
Applying the Concepts
Create your own infographics/poster or letter that will prompt action from the people to take active
participation in doing small things that help save our planet by taking care of the environment and realize
that the pressing issue on our planet affects everyone and we must all commit to saving our planet from
destruction.

CORE VALUES INTEGRATION

Article sharing: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/jeff-bezos-space-elon-musk
Summary: Controversy on making available space hotels and other out of the world luxury amidst a
dying planet

Professionalism – imbibe the value of science citizenship

Commitment and Loyalty – promote loyalty to our planet by promoting and advocating for
sustainability, as well as committing to action plans that would help collectively to saving our planet
(earth hour, avoiding loitering)
Integrity – To stay true to the goals and objectives of the sustainable development goals and climate
change targets (Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015)
Excellence – Anchor outputs presented in advocating for change and invest in works that can help
promote or solve environmental problems
Teamwork – make leaders and policy makers hold large businesses accountable for their environmental
impact by raising awareness to environmental mismanagement

EVALUATION
A. Performance task (Applying the Concepts)
B. Written Works (20 item Quiz)
Quiz 1: Module 1
To be uploaded in silid quiz content.
Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. How old is our Solar System as estimated by the scientists?

4.5 Million years
13.5 Million years
4.5 Billion years
13.5 Billion years
2. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. What do we call the group of planes
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
Jovian planets
Kuiper planets
Rocky planets
Planetoids
3. It is where planets which characteristics does not lie in extremes that can support life?
Habitual zone
Goldilocks zone
Milky Way
Ozone
4. Which of the following elements are major components of the core?
Oxygen and silicon
Iron and silicon
Iron and nickel
Copper and nickel
5. Which of the following Earth’s interior layer does the upper mantle and crust belong to?
Geosphere
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Tectonic sphere
6. Which of the following statements is true about the Biosphere?
It came from the Greek word “bios” which means active
It is said that the eukaryotes are the earliest life forms who survived from oxygen synthesis
It is composed of all the waters on or near the Earth’s surface
It extends from the deepest root systems of trees, to the dark environment of ocean trenches to lush
rainforests and high mountaintops
7. If weather systems happen in the troposphere, choose among the following atmospheric layers hosts the
ozone layer.
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Troposhere
Stratosphere
8. Which Earth subsystem you interact with when you are exploring an underwater cave?
Hydrosphere only
Geosphere only
Hydrosphere and Geosphere
Biosphere and Geosphere
9. Select which spheres are interacting when plants draw out nutrients from the soil.
Atmosphere and geosphere
Geosphere and hydrosphere
Hydrosphere and atmosphere
Biosphere and geosphere
10. Choose the correct option to complete the analogy: Ocean is to Hydrosphere as Glaciers is to
_______________.
Geosphere
Hydrosphere
Cryosphere
Atmosphere
11. When volcanoes erupt, dust and ash particles spread through much of the air blocking the heat from
the Sun. Select the two spheres interacting in this situation.
Hydrosphere and atmosphere
Geosphere and atmosphere
Biosphere and atmosphere
Cryosphere and atmosphere
12. It is a layer of the atmosphere where scattered ions were energized by solar radiation showing a bright
display we know as auroras.
Mesosphere
Troposphere
Thermosphere
Stratosphere
13. It makes up the solid part of the Earth from landmasses on the continents to the layers of the Earth.
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
14. It is a layer of the Earth’s internal structure which churning motion creates the magnetic field which
protects the planet from Sun’s harmful rays.
Crust
Mantle
Inner core
Outer core
15. Which layer of the Earth’s interior is responsible for volcanism and tectonic activities?
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Mantle
Outer core

16. – 20. Give an example of processes as how the other subsystem shapes each other. (5 points for
precise answer, 3 points for fair, 1 point for insufficient thought)

REMINDERS
To offer flexibility in student submission, students are encouraged to comply with the requirements as
soon as they can without strict guidelines on deadline/submission date

Prepared by:

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Earl William P. Ortiz
Checked by:

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ZOILA D. ESPIRITU, Asst. Principal (SHS)

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MA. DOLORES B. SAN MIGUEL, Principal (SHS)