Mary Jean Ocampo BSED3-C PHYSICS

Connectivity, ACTIVITY!

AVEISSA CAPATAYAN and the CLUSTER 4 MEMBERS

Life no matter what

It was that kind of morning that was all new to me. The cold front touches my skin and the eerie silence greets everyone is different way back home. I opened my eyes and looked around me. I am standing on a cake of mud that threatens to submerge anyone thrice my weight. All around me, etched on the faces of my group mates is absolute glee and wonder. Like wow, we are actually standing on a mangrove sanctuary.

Green, branchy leafy mangroves planted in random ways and roots sprouting everywhere. I touched one smooth leaf and examined it. My classmates did the same.

Mangroves are like other trees. The only difference is that, mangroves may not be as promising as it looks with its thin branches, small fruits, and tiny flowers, but it is a tree naturally laden with a lot of purpose.

I thought of how those perfectly arranged roots can prevent the erosion of the shore and how many fishes and crabs had explored the same spot where I was. Cool wind blew and, and all of the sudden a mangrove fruit fell to the spot where my foot was three seconds ago.

I stared at it knowing that years ahead, where I am standing right now will be the exact place where a new important life had started.

~ STEPHAN JADE NAVARRO

Plant a tree!

"What does he plant who plants a tree?

He plants the friend of sun and sky;

He plants the flag of breezes free;

The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven a nigh.

For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard The treble of heaven's harmony.

These things he plants who plants a tree."

~Brian Colocar BSED 3-C PHYSICAL SCIENCES

It ain't by choice, We were called!

I cannot always find a good reason why I became a teacher. It’s always about, because I have no choice and because this is what I think is easy. No passion, just a simple college student who wanted to earn a degree. My life was like a blank paper, no meaning and color. Suddenly, like magic, everything changed. It’s because of my one week stay in Guimaras, one house with thirty five different personalities, different characters, different likes, all is different but as every day goes by, the beauty behind those differences appears. ~Myla Jane Damasco.

LGU on site!

CLUSTER 2 CARTOON STRIP

The Unheard-of Life of Guimaras

LEARN from this EXPERIENCE

Vignette

Plant Mangroves, Guard the shoreline!

Insights about Mangrove and Fisher Folks at Buenavista, Guimaras

Mangrove Forest is the meeting of land and sea is a hostile habitat, in which it is impossible for many plants and animals to survive, but the 70 species of mangrove trees and shrubs have overcome the obstacles. They provide one of the most important ecosystems on Earth, home to a multitude of endemic and endangered species . Mangroves are also one of the most endangered habitats globally, second only to terrestrial rainforests. ” http://www.zsl.org/conservation/regions/asia/mangrove-philippines/”

Our ever exciting escapade in Guimaras which is the Community Immersion makes a big hall mark in our lives. Learning is not just in school but it was extended to the community with several fisher folks and cooperative officials are involved.
One of the scheduled activities was the Mangrove Planting at the shoreline of Brgy. Avila, Buenavista Guimaras. Strong effort and cooperation of the Brgy. officials and its people, we planted numbers of mangroves with different species in their shoreline. And those avtivities ended up SUCCESS.Striving for the additional information about the people we conducted an interview to the fisher’s folks to earn information about the connection of mangroves to their everyday lives. Toto, the person we interviewed, mentioned that,” mangrove is a great help to us people living here because it is the habitat of the fishes and it prevents the land from the erosion”. Waves in oceans and other large bodies of water produce coastal erosion. The power of oceanic waves is awesome, large storm waves can produce 2000 pounds of pressure per square foot. The pure energy of waves along with the chemical content of the water is what erodes the rock of the coastline. Erosion of sand is much easier for the waves and sometimes, there's an annual cycle where sand is removed from a beach during one season, only to be returned by waves in another. http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/erosion.htmOver all The mangroves and the fisher folks will be consider as the mutualism in the symbiotic relationship since it need each other to get equal benefits. But we cannot hide the fact that mangroves provide great help to all the people in the world.

 ~Wilma Torilla BSED3-C BIOLOGY CLUSTER 1

LEARNING outside the so-called CLASSROOM

by: Jerah Billones Espinosa

"Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process."

Learning is not always to be inside the classroom, the most traditional way of learning I've ever known. In this way, the child really can't enjoy sometimes discussions. When we had our Community Immersion, we had that most awesome activity called i-SPELL in East Valencia National High School. The students really had a chance to observe different enjoyable science experiments which brought to the next level of fun and exciting science discussions. I really saw that the students (in the depictions) did ENJOY these different experiments we had prepared. we had that Edible DNA, Milk color changing experiment, Burning bubbles, and many more. So as teachers, we should expose the students to enough situations where in the students will become curious enough to take learning into their own hands.

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

  --  Aristotle

At the end, we felt that they really enjoyed our little fun science experiments. And on our part, we are really grateful because indeed it was all worth it!