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MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN GENERAL EDUCATION 7

(Science, Technology, and Society)
BEED 1
SY 2020-2021 Second Semester

NAME: MA. NIǸA CHAN

COURSE/YEAR/SECTION: BEEd-1

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Shade the letter and the words of the correct answer. Please make it bold and shade it with red
color.

1. How can science be defined as a body of knowledge?

a. Science includes ideas, theories, and observations that can better explain the natural
and physical world.
b. Science is a subject or a discipline that deals with the process of learning about natural and
physical world.
c. Science is an activity done by human beings to develop better understanding of the world
around them.
d. Science involves systematic observation and experimentation of the natural and physical world.

2. This period gives way to the emergence or birth of modern science as a result of the developments in
the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Biology, and Chemistry.
a. Metal Age Period c. Scientific Revolution
b. Renaissance Period d. Stone Age Period

3. Why does Scientific Revolution started in Europe?

a. Because this is where the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Biology, and Chemistry
begin to flourish.
b. Because the blooming intellectual activities and the invention of printing press is
done in various places of Europe.
c. Because Science is a foreign idea transported from other areas of the globe.
d. Because some rulers and religious leaders are prominent in this place.

4. What drives scientists to explore the physical and natural world and have revolutionary ideas?
a. The clamor for honor and publicity drives the scientists to build revolutionary ideas and to
explore the physical and natural world.
b. Scientists are driven by their curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity to explore
the physical and natural world.
c. Scientists want the community to honor them as one of the revolutionary thinkers that helps the
society.
d. Scientists are driven by their deep passion to know and discover.

5. Who among the notable scientists is being banned by Catholic Church and was ignored by Rome for
the rest of the 16th century because of his model of the universe.
a. Charles Darwin c. Nicolaus Copernicus
b. Charles Copernicus d. Sigmund Freud

6. Which of the following model is being proposed by Sigmund Freud?

a. Method of Psychoanalysis c. Evolution Model
b. Model of the Universe d. Origin of Species

7. The following describes the civilization of the Incas EXCEPT ___________________________

a. This civilization develops technologies for growing different crops and building elaborate cities
using ordinary machineries and tools.
b. The people in this civilization made advanced scientific ideas considering their
limitations as an old civilization.
c. They have stone buildings that surmounted earthquakes and other disasters.
 d. The first suspension bridge is being built by this civilization.

8. What influences the development of Science and Technology in the Philippines?

a. Economic Activities and Economic Demands c. Foreign Colonizers
b. Influences Internal and External d. Cultural Influences

9. What are the significant contributions of Spaniards to the development of science and technology?
a. Spaniards established schools for boys and girls and introduced the concept of subjects and
disciplines.
b. Spaniards reorganized the learning of science and introduced it in public and private schools.
c. Spaniards established a modern research university and created more public hospitals.
d. Spaniards improves the engineering works and the health conditions of the people.

10. What Government policy is being implemented for Biological Sciences, Agriculture, and Forestry?
a. Harnessing science and technology as an independent mover of the development.
b. Protecting and conserving biodiversity by full implementation of existing laws.
c. Developing school infrastructure and providing for ICT broadband.
d. Legislating a law supporting human genome projects.

11. The development of policies in science and technology is shaped or influenced by following variables
EXCEPT one. Choose the exception.
a. National Goals and International Treaty c. Issues and Problems
b. Legal Frameworks and Social Needs d. Programs and Projects

12. What inventions/innovations/discoveries did Lourdes Jansuy Cruz did for her to known as one of the
Filipino Scientists?
a. She is well known internationally in the field of electrical engineering thus, elected as officer in
the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
b. She contributed to the understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from
the venom of fish-hunting Conus marine snails.
c. She developed the first volume of the Encyclopedia of Common Medicinal Plants of the
Philippines.
d. She invents way to induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel and potassium nitrate.

13. Who among the following Filipino scientists are recognized here and abroad for his/her contribution in
the field of Marine Science?
a. Angel Panganiban Ruiz c. Josefino Alcala
b. Angel Alcala d. Josefino Saloma

14. Why do our government proposed projects and programs for Science Education to prosper in the
Philippines?
a. To improve and promote the state of Science Education in the country.
b. To promote and develop science and technology in the country.
c. To help the public develop science literacy.
d. To nurture the student's gifted potential in science.

15. How will you understand the concept behind Science Education?
a. By developing theories and models to teach scientific concepts and process effectively.
b. By including pedagogies in the teaching-learning process.
c. By teaching, learning, and understanding science.
d. By developing and applying science process skills.

16. How does Tilghman define the importance of Science Education?

a. Science develops citizenry that will meet the goals of science in the society.
b. Science is necessary for a person to live in since it provides skills and knowledge.
c. For Science Education to prosper, teacher should expose their student to the real world and let
them manipulate the things around them.
d. Science will be one of the important subjects in the future.

17. What does the Quezon City Regional Science High School envision their student to become?
a. To develop Filipino Science Scholars with scientific minds and passion for excellence that
enables them to pursue science and technology careers here and abroad.
b. To Foster students’ higher level of learning, creativity, and productivity to prepare in the
research field.
c. To develop Filipino children with scientific and technological knowledge, skills, and values.
d. For science gifted students to develop the spirit of inquiry and creativity.
 18. How does Science Education taught in tertiary level?
a. By embedding process skills, critical thinking skills, and life skills in the lesson.
b. By offering basic sciences courses in the general education curriculum.
c. Through concepts and facts that are related to everyday life.
d. By giving science-related careers in the future.

19. How can our country develop a scientifically cultured and literate citizenry?
a. Teach the students scientific process and concept effectively through various pedagogical
theories and models.
b. Prosper and promote Science education in every School of the Philippines.
c. Offer scholarships that will encourage students to enroll in science courses.
d. Establish science schools in various parts of the country.

20. How does Cajete define Indigenous Science?

a. Indigenous Science develops diverse structures and contents through interplay between the
society and environment.
b. Indigenous Science includes everything, from metaphysics to philosophy and
various practical technologies.
c. Indigenous Science provides the basics of astronomy, pharmacology, food technology, and
metallurgy.
d. Indigenous Science is collectively lived in and experienced by the people of a given culture.

21. What is the role of indigenous in the development of science and technology?
a. Indigenous Science serves as a historical and valuable contribution to science and technology.
b. Indigenous Science develops diverse structures and contents for science and technology to
prosper.
c. Indigenous Science gave birth to the development of science and technology as a field and a
discipline.
d. Indigenous Science develops positive values toward learning thus bringing science and
technology in a personal level.

22. This person developed a simple framework for understanding indigenous science.
a. Pawilen c. Johnston
b. Cajete d. Ogawa

23. Which of the following serves as a foundation of indigenous science?

a. Indigenous Knowledge c. Indigenous Beliefs
b. Indigenous Knowledge System d. Traditional Knowledge

TEST II. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is being described in each sentence. Write your answer after each
statement and make it bold for emphasis.
Aztec Ayurveda Africa
Indigenous beliefs China
Traditional Ibn Sina Science Process Skills
Generation Gap Asia

24. This civilization uses antispasmodic medication that prevents muscle spasms and relaxes muscles.
Aztec
25. The home of many ancient civilizations because it is considered as the biggest continent in the world.
Asia
26. The system of traditional medicine that is still practiced as a form of alternative medicine. Ayurveda
27. This civilization is famous for inventing compass, papermaking, gunpowder and printing tools. China
28. Physician in the Middle East civilization that pioneers the discovery of the contagious nature of
infectious diseases. Ibn sina (Avicenna)
29. Properties, production and purification of metals are known in this civilization during ancient times.
Africa
30. Skills that are being used to attain indigenous science. Science Process Skills
31. Indigenous farming methods and folk astronomy is considered to be what type of knowledge?
Traditional knowledge
32. It develops desirable values that are relevant or consistent to scientific attitudes. Indigenous beliefs
TEST III. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE. Write your name if the statement is TRUE. If the statement is false,
write the name of the one who inspire you, then underline what word/words make the statement false. After knowing
what made the statement false, write the corresponding correct answer. Write your answer after each statement.

FAMILY 33. During Neolithic Period our ancestors began using fire to cook, develop tools from stones and
began to sharpen stones for better way of hunting. Stone Age

FAMILY 34. Gathering as much products as possible is the main goal of our ancestors before Common Era.
Foods

NIǸA 35. It is inferred that our ancestors carve figurines known as Venus Figure to describe the female
anatomy.

NIǸA 36. Anthropocene extinction is the extinction of several species that is cause by human activity.

NIǸA 37. Technologies will always improve the human condition.

NIǸA 38. Plato believed that change is confusing and it can only make sense if there are world of forms and
world of matter.

NIǸA 39. According to Stoics, we can be truly happy if we can satisfy our pleasures in life hence, we should
live life to the fullest.

FAMILY40. Man is constantly in pursuit of the contented life. Unsatisfied

NIǸA 41. Man is the captain of his own ship is what humanists strongly believe in.

NIǸA 42. When an action benefits a great number of people, said action is deemed ethical

NIǸA 43. In the world of matter, the entities are only copies of the ideal and the models.

NIǸA 44. The Greatest Happiness Principle states that an action is right as far as it minimizes the attainment
of happiness for the greatest number of people.

TEST IV. GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

Directions: a. Choose any kinds of graphic organizer to explain Human Flourishing.
b. In your graphic organizer, it should include the following: (5 points)
 Relationship of Science, Technology, and Human Flourishing
 Science as Methods and Results (Verification and Falsification Theory)
 Science as Social Endeavor
 Science and Results
 Science as Education
c. Explain the graphic organizer that you make. (6 points)
 common good
stewwardship of
creation

PRINCIPLES subsidarity participation

Dignity of
human person promotion of peace

Chinese confusionsystem
HUMAN Eastern
Japanese Bushido
CONCEPTIONS
FLOURISHING
More focused on individual
western Aristotelian view
Human flourishing as an end

Hedonistic absence of pain

view

WHAT IS pursuit of becoming a better

Eudaimonia person
HAPPINESS?

flood of hormones released in

neurologist the brain

The human Person Flourishing in terms of Science & Technology has it’s definition what does
flourishing means in a different view. Its conceptions and principles. From the eastern perception they
believe that sacrificing your own happiness for the greatest number of people you can gain the real
happiness. While in western view it was more focused on the individual. Human flourishing has also
its different principles. Science, technology and human flourishing referred to every discovery and
innovations that contribute to the human knowledge. Elicit our idea of self- importance. Technology is
a human activity we excel in as a result of achieving science. They say, good is inherently related to
the truth.

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KIESHA DAME E. SALIWAN

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