Trends,Networks, and

Critical Thinking in the

21st Century
Quarter 1– Module 17:
Your Actions Affect the Lives of
others and the Environment
Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 17: Your Actions Affect the Lives of others and the Environment

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 Trends,Networks, and
Critical Thinking in the
21st Century
Quarter 1– Module 17:
Your Actions Affect the Lives of
others and the Environment
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century Grade
11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Your Actions affect the Lives of
the others and the Environment.

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators

both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in
helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while
overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration
their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century

Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Your Actions affect the Lives of the
others and the Environment.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be
enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or
skill into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

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 Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given
to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of
the lesson learned. This also tends
retention of learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in

developing this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of
the skills or competencies you are expected to learn in the module.

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the nature of Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century.
The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students.
The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you
are now using.

The module is about to examining the learner understanding the consequences of

personal and local action to global climate change. ( MELC week 6 )

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Identify various consequence affects the environment.

2. Justify that one’s action affect the lives and the environment.

3. Create a mind map how human activities affect the environment.

4. Explain the advantages of multidisciplinary studies in solving environmental

problems.

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 What I Know
This part includes an activity that aims to check what you already
know about the lesson to take. If you get all the answers correct
(100%), you may decide to skip this module.

Directions: Directions: Read each items carefully and shade the circle that
corresponds to the correct answer.

1. The major of air pollution is the result of __________ ?

A. Human activities
B. Carbon dioxide
C. Deforestation
D. Weather condition
2. It refers to a model of an evolutionary transition from a pre- modern or
traditional to a modern society?
A. Globalization
B. Climate change
C. Modernization
D. Global warming

3. Clearing by cutting down and burning of trees and plant growth in an area for
cultivation purposes. ?
A. Kaingin
B. Globalization
C. Modernization
D. Deforestation

4. Clearcutting or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land

which is then converted to a non-forest use.?
A. Globalization.
B. Climate change
C. Modernization
D. Deforestation

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5. It is the spread of product, technology, information, and jobs across national
borders and cultures?
A. Modernization
B. Globalization
C. Deforestation
D. Kaingin

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 What’s In
This is a brief drill or review to help you link the current lesson with
the previous one.

REMEMBERING THE PREVIOUS LESSON

Directions: Make a list of the disasters that have happened in the world in the
past ten years brought by climate change. Illustrate inside the box the devastation
you can recall

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 What’s New
In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to you in various
ways such as a story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an activity
or a situation.

Directions: Read and analyze this quotation below.

What particular line/s has/have stricken you MOST and WHY?

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Notes to the Teacher

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 What is It
This section provides a brief discussion of the lesson. This aims to
help you discover and understand new concepts and skills

In this part of your journey, we provided something for you to read to deepen your
understanding about the topic.

Please read with comprehension to discover knowledge that will help you out in
dealing with the next phase of your quest.

What is Human behavior?

How does Human behavior influence our Life and the environment?

According to Shai human behavior is simply the attitude of an individual

towards living and non-living things. Each one of us has a unique behavior as we
born and raised in a different environment with different morals and values
instilled to us as we grow up. As we grow though, our behavior changes because we
learn new things each day

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 We all grew up hearing “like father like son “ “ like mother like daughter”
greets. It is because we all agree that our parents were our first educators and that
our attitudes will reflect on how well we are brought up by our parents. Our
attitude will depend on how we were raised and guided as a child.

During our early stage, we learned through enculturation but as we grow up,
meet different people, visit different places and learned through our school
instructions, we learn through acculturation also known as second-culture
learning.

Acculturation happens when we get introduced in anew culture. For

instance, here in the Philippine. We were colonized by Spain for hundred years
followed by Japan and the United States, so it is not surprising that we have
adapted their culture and traditions somehow which is evident until now.
Globalization is beneficial to us for modernization purposes but what’s at
stake is our environment. Ever since each nation had become developed, their
environment changes drastically as well. Trees in forest are cut down in exchange
of building high rise establishment. Natural resources are being exploited by greedy
businessmen who merely want earn profit.

Globalization is not really bad things because we somehow need to be

modernized. The problem with this is us, humans. Human by nature tend to
become selfish in order to survive. Oftentimes, we forget that we also need to take
care of our environment not thinking negative effects if we keep on neglecting our
environment. The effects of climate change are becoming more and more apparent
today.

It really is much pleasant to live in the previous decades than today. Here in
the Philippines, if you want to see clear rivers that can be bathed on, you have to
travel to the province where there is no pollution. People before especially those in

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the province are much more disciples than in the present because they were able to
maintain their natural resources. They are really concerned in the environment and
they live a simple life and they’re very much contented with it. They don’t need all
the latest gadgets and technologies in their lives. Just being able to live simple in
the province with their farms and backyard full of fruits and vegetables.

Kaingin system or deforestation here in the Philippines is very rampant.

There are advantage and disadvantages of deforestation. The residue from the
burnt trees are a natural fertilizer but the most important disadvantage of it that
we have to remember is that, it also contributes to soil erosion. There are more that
20 typhoons that hit Philippines each year. Usually, these typhoons are destructive
and it really leaves our country devastated. Homes are destroy and many people die
from drowning. It wouldn’t have become worse if it wasn’t because our over
exploitation of our natural resources.

Philippines has always been a typhoon prone area, but us locals, noticed
that floods and landslides are more destructive now that before. There aren’t
enough trees to absorb all the waters coming down from the mountains which
eventually flows to cities with drainage system plus our rivers filled with garbage
makes it even harder for the water to subside. What’s worse is that, the flood gets
stagnant for weeks or sometimes even months. Since human behavior is shaped by
our life experiences and environment, it is expected to still change or grow as the
years pass by because there are so many things that we could still encounter
overtime.

Technology really does affect the way we think. We used to live a simple life
and be contented about it but now, we couldn’t live a day without our
smartphones. Let us remind ourselves that changes is good, but it doesn’t mean
that we have to use and abuse all our natural resources and for once not just think
for ourselves but to the betterment of all as well.

Source: http:www.utros.org> human-behavior influence our life and the environment

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 What’s More This comprises activities for independent
practice to solidify your understanding and skills of the topic. You
may check the answers to the exercises using the Answer Key at
the end of the module.

Directions : What does each item refers to? Choose the answer from the terms
inside the box below and write in the space provided.

___________________1. Allows humans to study and evolve the physical elements

that are present in their lives.

___________________2. Minerals, forests, water, and fertilize land that occur in

nature and can be used for economic gain called ________

___________________3. It is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air.

___________________4. It is a large community of living organisms (plants, animals,

and microbes) in a particular area.

___________________5. The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a

culture or group by a person, another culture.

Air pollution Enculturation

Technology Natural resources Ecosystem

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 What I Have Learned This includes questions or
blank sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process what you
learned from the lesson

Directions: Explain the advantages of multidisciplinary studies in solving

environmental problems. Write your answer inside the dialog box.

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 What I Can Do This section provides an activity which
will help you transfer your new knowledge or skill into real life
situations or concerns.

The Second Station is for you to

state the reason whether your
Directions:
family can or cannot afford to State the different ways on how consequences of one’s action affect the
support your dream profession.
lives of others and the environment.

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 Assessment
This is a task which aims to evaluate your
level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Directions: FACT or BLUFF. Write the word FACT if the statement is correct and
the word BLUFF if the statement is incorrect. Write your answer on the space
provided for it.

_____________1. Conservation is the care and protection of the resources so that

they can persist to future generations.

_____________2. Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species,

number of matter how small, all have an important role.

_____________3. Population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a

population.

____________4. Environment hazard decrease the risk of cancer, heat disease,

asthma and other illnesses.

____________5. Global warming a global phenomenon of climate transformation

characterized by the changes in the usual climate of the planet.

____________6. Philippines is a country that lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, it is

prone to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

____________7. Plastic bags are one of the most damaging sources of everyday
pollution.

___________8. Implementing recycling habits into our daily life is one of the most
effective ways to help lessen landfill waste and slow down global warming.

___________9. Highest carbon footprints are most common in low income countries.

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___________10.The rise in global temperature is also causing glacier to melt,
releasing water that causes sea levels to rise and threaten coastal communities and
economies that rely on coastal resources.

Additional Activities

In this portion, another activity will be given to you to enrich your knowledge or
skill of the lesson learned. This also tends

Directions: Creating a Mind Map.

Human activities affect others and the environment

ENVIRONMEN
T

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What I Know What's More Assessment
A TECHNOLOGY FACT
FACT
C NATURAL RESOUCES FACT
A AIR POLLUTION BLUFF
BLUFF
D ECOSYSTEM FACT
FACT
B ENCULTURATION FACT
BLUFF
FACT
Answer Key
References

Books:
Source: Gladys P. Mangiduyos, Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century

Websites:

Source: http:www.utros.org> human-behavior influence our life and the environment

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