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Region VI – Western Visayas

Schools Division of Iloilo City

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Iloilo City
Summer 2019 Activity

K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum for the Alternative Learning System (ALS – K to 12)
Science for Everyday Life
Name: __________________________________________ Date: ________________________
Grade & Section/Time: ____________________________ Group No.: ___________________
SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF SOLVING A PROBLEM
Activity No.: ______

I. Objectives:
1. To be able to identify the science process skills applied in the given situation of a problem.
2. To analyze whether the process of solving a problem follows the steps of scientific method.
3. To be able to present the results of the problem mathematically by using graphs and apply the four
basic mathematical operations.

Learning Strand 2: Scientific Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills

Content Standard: Application of Scientific Ways of Thinking in Daily Lives
Performance Standard: Demonstrate scientific values and desirable attitudes in dealing with various
life situations

II. Materials:
Ball pen Activity paper/sheets Calculator Graphing paper

III. Procedure:
1. Read the story or situation below and determine what science processes are being applied into it.
2. After a thorough reading of the story, try to answer the succeeding questions in Part IV of this activity
sheet.

Farmer’s Way of Solving a Problem

Once upon a time in a serene and a verdant farm there was an ambitious farmer who is having
a problem on how to raise pigs which will grow faster and heavier so that he can gain much profit
from it. In this way, he will be able to buy his dream car.

Long before that he is not yet dreaming to buy a car; he raised his pigs by just giving them some
kitchen residues mixed with some vegetable peelings or wastes and rice bran or “lintok” from rice
mill and adding some amount of water. But with this kind of feeding practices, he had observed that
some of his pigs are experiencing LBM and quite losing their appetite and eventually resulted to the
stunted growth of his pigs. Thus, he is losing in his piggery business.

Since he is having some troubles in deciding on what kind of feeds he is going to give to his pigs
to make it grow faster, heavier, and healthier and making it more profitable, he tried to read some
books and journals about feeding of pigs and he tried also to ask some of the successful pig raisers on
what to feed to his pigs. From the information gathered by this farmer, he was able to decide to use
the commercial feeds which are quite expensive compared to local rice bran or “lintok” per sack. But
the main objective of this farmer is to gain more profit from his pigs, so he decided to mix the
“lintok” with commercial feeds at different levels of concentrations to find out which among of the
concentrations can give him more profit. To find out the effect of his feeding concentrations, he
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decided to make the following feeding schemes or experiment as shown in Table I below:
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 Table I. Feeding Schemes for each Group of Pigs in a Cage
Cage A Cage B Cage C Cage D Cage E
10 Pigs 10 Pigs 10 Pigs 10 Pigs 10 Pigs
Pure Lintok or Pure 25% Commercial 50% Commercial 75%
Rice Bran Feeds Commercial Feeds + 75% Feeds + 50% Lintok Commercial
+ 10 L H2O per Feeds + 10 L H2O Lintok + 10 L H2O + 10 L H2O per day Feeds + 25%
day per day per day Lintok + 10 L
H2O per day
Note: Amount of feeds for all Cages is the same but it is adjusted as the pigs grow bigger. Total feeds consumption is shown in Table III.
From the start of his experiment, this farmer recorded the average growth rate of each group
of pigs based on their average weight gained in every 14 days. After 140 days (almost 4 ½ months) of
study, the record showed the following data (refer to Table II):
Table II. Average Weight (in Kg) of Pigs in every 14 days of feeding
Days Cage A Cage B Cage C Cage D Cage E
st
1 14 days 15.50 20.30 17.00 18.00 19.30
2nd 14 days 20.30 27.00 21.50 22.30 25.00
rd
3 14 days 26.80 34.50 27.50 29.00 32.00
th
4 14 days 30.10 40.00 31.50 32.30 35.50
th
5 14 days 33.30 46.50 34.50 36.50 41.50
th
6 14 days 37.00 50.00 38.50 39.50 48.30
7th 14 days 39.50 54.00 41.50 43.00 52.00
th
8 14 days 42.00 59.00 45.00 47.00 58.00
th
9 14 days 45.80 65.00 49.50 56.00 61.00
th
10 14 days 47.20 69.10 54.70 62.50 66.80
(Assume the initial average weight of pigs in all groups is equals to 10 kilograms)
The weight, average weight, total feed consumption and total feed cost were also obtained and
computed properly as shown in the data in Table III
Table III. Data Showing Weight, Average Weight, Total Feed Consumption, and Total Feed Cost of Pigs
after 140 days of study.
Pig Number Cage A Cage B Cage C Cage D Cage E
1 49 kg 68 kg 58 kg 64 kg 68 kg
2 47 kg 70 kg 59 kg 64 kg 67 kg
3 46 kg 72 kg 55 kg 65 kg 68 kg
4 49 kg 70 kg 50 kg 60 kg 65 kg
5 50 kg 69 kg 52 kg 62 kg 66 kg
6 47 kg 68 kg 53 kg 64 kg 66 kg
7 48 kg 70 kg 55 kg 60 kg 65 kg
8 46 kg 68 kg 55 kg 60 kg 69 kg
9 45 kg 68 kg 54 kg 63 kg 67 kg
10 45 kg 68 kg 56 kg 63 kg 67 kg
Total Weight 472 kg 691 kg 547 kg 625 kg 668 kg
Average Weight 47.20 69.10 54.70 62.50 66.80
Total Feeds
40 sacks 40 sacks 40 sacks 40 sacks 40 sacks
Consumption
Total Feed Cost PhP 8,000.00 PhP 10,000.00 PhP 8,400.00 PhP 8,800.00 PhP 9,200.00
Total Revenue
PhP 60.00/Kg
(Answer to
X 472 Kg
Question #5)
Profit (Total
Revenue – Feed PhP 20,320.00
Cost)
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IV. Questions:
1. Which group of pigs has the highest average weight? ______________
2. Which group of pigs has the lowest average weight? _______________
3. Which group of pigs has consumed the most expensive feed cost? ________________
4. Which group of pigs has consumed the cheapest feed cost? ____________________
5. If the live pig cost PhP 60.00 per kilogram in the market, how much each group of pigs will cost?
___________________
6. In which group of pigs will the farmer gain more profit? ________________________
7. If the current price of live pig in the market is PhP 120.00/Kg, how much will be the cost of the
heaviest pig in Table III? ______________________________
8. Which of the following statement is considered as an analyzing and interpreting data?
A. Feeding the pigs
B. Getting and comparing the average weight of each group of pigs
C. Mixing the feeds at different levels of concentrations
9. What is the main problem of the farmer in the story?
A. To buy his dream car
B. To more profit from his pigs
C. To find out what type of feeds is best to make his pigs grow faster and heavier
10. What would be the best hypothesis can you make based on the story?
A. There is no significant difference in the effects of feeds at different levels of concentration
B. There is a significant solution to the problem
C. There is no significant difference in the amount of feeds consumption in each group of pigs
11. Give an example of a statement or a sentence found in the story which is considered as an
observation. ________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
12. Using your graphing paper, based on Table II, construct a line graph or a bar graph showing the
average weight gained by each group of pigs in every 14 days of study. Choose 3 groups of pigs only
for presentation. (If you like Cages A, B, and C, construct a line graph or bar graph for Cages A, B, and
C only. Use different colors of ball pen, color pencil, or crayon for your lines and bars.)
13. Make 2 or 3 inferences from the story or study. ___________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
14. What activities or situations wherein a science process “MEASURING” is applied?
__________________________________________________________________________________
15. Which of the following statement is considered as “identifying or controlling variables”?
A. Raising the pigs at varied average weight at the start of the study
B. Raising the pigs at the same average weight in all groups at the start of the study
C. Raising the pigs with a variety of feeds given to them every day.
16. Based on the result of the study or experiment, what conclusion can you formulate or draw?
__________________________________________________________________________________
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 17. Did the farmer apply the steps of scientific method in solving his problem (YES/NO)? Explain your
answer.
__________________________________________________________________________________
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18. Give 2 recommendations to further improve the farmer’s experiment.
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
19. Explain in 2 or 3 sentences why Scientific Method of Solving a Problem is important in our everyday
life._______________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
20. Science process skills include recording, analyzing and interpreting data, inferring, measuring,
observing, etc… Observing is best utilized by what? ________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Prepared by:
GARRY C. CANTO
T – III, Science
ICNHS, Molo, Iloilo City

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