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English for Academic and Professional Purposes
Quarter 3 – Module 13: Preparing a Concept Paper: Science
First Edition, 2020

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 English for Academic and
Professional Purposes

Quarter 3
Self-Learning Module13
Preparing a Concept Paper: Science

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Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English for Academic and Professional Purposes: Self-Learning

Module on Preparing Concept Paper: Science!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character 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. Moreover, 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 English for Academic and Professional Purposes: Self-

Learning Module on Preparing a Concept Paper: Science!

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 material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.

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 EXPECTATION

This is your self-instructional learner module in English for Academic and

Professional Purposes. All the activities provided in this lesson will help you learn
and understand: Concept Paper: Science

PRETEST

How much do you know about the following concepts? Put a check under the column
that corresponds to your knowledge about the concept.

Concepts None Not much Much Very Much

Solar panels
Solar-Thermal Power Plants
Steam Turbine
Absorbent’s Plates
Generator

RECAP

We have learned is that a concept paper is presenting samples of brief as well

as full-blown from different areas of knowledge. That each article presents a concept
and builds on the others, that may employ a sequential approach: motivating
learners, informing the students of the objectives, presenting either well-explained
and illustrated information, or guide questions for the lesson proper, providing
learning/practice activities and interesting modes of assessment together with
appreciative feedback, and clinching summaries and reminders.

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 LESSON

WHAT IS SOLAR POWER?

Solar energy is the technology used to harness the sun's energy and make it
useable. As of 2011, the technology produced less than one tenth of one percent of
global energy demand. Many are familiar with so-called photovoltaic cells, or solar
panels, found on things like spacecraft, rooftops, and handheld calculators. The
cells are made of semiconductor materials like those found in computer chips.
When sunlight hits the cells, it knocks electrons loose from their atoms. As the
electrons flow through the cell, they generate electricity.

On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various

techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source. The heat is then used
to boil water to drive a steam turbine that generates electricity in much the same
fashion as coal and nuclear power plants, supplying electricity for thousands of
people. The sun has produced energy for billions of years. Every hour the sun beams
more energy onto Earth than it needs to satisfy global energy needs for an entire
year.

How to Harness Solar Power

In one technique, long troughs of U-shaped mirrors focus sunlight on a pipe

of oil that runs through the middle. The hot oil then boils water for electricity
generation. Another technique uses moveable mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a
collector tower, where a receiver sits. Molten salt flowing through the receiver is
heated to run a generator.

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 Other solar technologies are passive. For example, big windows placed on
the sunny side of a building allow sunlight to heat-absorbent materials on the floor
and walls. These surfaces then release the heat at night to keep the building warm.
Similarly, absorbent plates on a roof can heat liquid in tubes that supply a house
with hot water. Solar energy is lauded as an inexhaustible fuel source that is
pollution- and often noise-free. The technology is also versatile. For example, solar
cells generate energy for far-out places like satellites in Earth orbit and cabins deep
in the Rocky Mountains as easily as they can power downtown buildings and
futuristic cars.

Pitfalls

Solar energy doesn't work at night without a storage device such as a battery,
and cloudy weather can make the technology unreliable during the day. Solar
technologies are also very expensive and require a lot of land area to collect the
sun's energy at rates useful to lots of people.

Despite the drawbacks, solar energy use has surged at about 20 percent a
year over the past 15 years, thanks to rapidly falling prices and gains in efficiency.
Japan, Germany, and the United States are major markets for solar cells. With tax
incentives, and efficient coordination with energy companies, solar electricity can
often pay for itself in five to ten years

Guided Practice
Now, define the following words from the given selection.

Concepts Meanings
1. Solar panels
2. Solar-Thermal Power Plants
3. Steam Turbine
4. Absorbent’s Plates
5. Generator

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 ACTIVITY

Which term is being referred to in the following? Write the letter of your answer on
the space provided in each number.

SET
a. technology- the science or 1. The shipbuilding and ____________ trades are
study of the practical or active and advancing.
industrial arts, applied sciences. 2. As I have pointed out, ____________ may in fact
b. engineering- The science have limits, but we do not know what they are.
concerned with putting scientific
knowledge to practical uses,
divided into different branches,
as civil, electrical, mechanical,
and chemical.
a. geothermal –relating to the 3. A private organization intended to build dams
heat of the earth’s interior to be able to tap ____ power
b. hydroelectric –relating to 4. and also a plant that will tap ____ energy to
production of electricity by produce 10,000 megawatts of electricity.
waterpower
a. Energy – something with a 5.The latest batch includes _______________
usable capacity for doing work equipped with deployable sun shades designed to
b. satellite- a manufactured
minimize sunlight reflecting off bright surfaces.
object or vehicle intended to
6.some of the power needs of the house are
orbit the earth, the moon, or
provided by ______________.
another celestial body.

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 WRAP UP

The two things I realized in today’s lesson are …

1. _______________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________

VALUING

Solar energy is a major renewable energy source with the potential to meet
many of the challenges facing the world. There are many reasons to promote its share
in the energy market. This power source is increasing in popularity because it is
versatile with many benefits to people and the environment.

POSTTEST

A. Complete the following outline based on the article that you have read.

I. Solar energy
a. ______________________________________________________
II. Photovoltaic Cells
b.________________________________________________________
c. ________________________________________________________
III. ______________________________
d. In one technique, long troughs of U-shaped mirrors focus sunlight on
a pipe of oil that runs through the middle.
e. __________________________________________________________
f. __________________________________________________________
g. __________________________________________________________
h. _________________________________________________________

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 IV. Pitpalls

i._________________________________________________________
j. _________________________________________________________

B. Make your own concept paper out of the article, ‘What is a Solar Power based on
the outline provided in the previous activity

Rubric for Assessment of Concept Paper

Criteria Score
INTRODUCTION 10%
Background/History
Thesis Statement

MAIN POINTS 10%

Body Paragraphs
ORGANIZATION 25.
Structure
Transitions
STYLE 20
Sentence flow, variety
Diction
MECHANICS 25
Spelling, punctuation, capitalization

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Pretest Activity Posttest
Answer may vary B I. Solar energy
A a. the technology used to harness the sun's energy
B and make it useable
A II. Photovoltaic Cells
B
b. or solar panels, found on things like spacecraft,
rooftops, and handheld calculators
c. The cells are made of semiconductor materials
like those found in computer chips.
III. How to Harness Solar Power
d. In one technique, long troughs of U-shaped
mirrors focus sunlight on a pipe of oil that runs
through the middle.
e. Another technique uses moveable mirrors to
focus the sun's rays on a collector tower, where a
receiver sits. Molten salt flowing through the
receiver is heated to run a generator.
f. Other solar technologies are passive. For
example, big windows placed on the sunny side
of a building allow sunlight to heat-absorbent
materials on the floor and walls. These surfaces
then release the heat at night to keep the
building warm.
g. Absorbent plates on a roof can heat liquid in
tubes that supply a house with hot water. Solar
energy is lauded as an inexhaustible fuel
source that is pollution- and often noise-free.
h. For example, solar cells generate energy for far-
out places like satellites in Earth orbit and
cabins deep in the Rocky Mountains as easily as
they can power downtown buildings and
futuristic cars.
IV. Pitpalls
i. Solar energy doesn't work at night without a
storage device such as a battery, and cloudy
weather can make the technology unreliable
during the day.
j. Solar technologies are also very expensive and
require a lot of land area to collect the sun's
energy at rates useful to lots of people.
KEY TO CORRECTION
 R E F E R E N CE

“Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America's Most-Trusted Online Dictionary.”

Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Accessed July 5, 2020.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/.

Imboden, Photograph by Otis. “Solar Power Has Benefits as a Source of

Alternative Energy.” Solar Power Information and Facts, September 15,
2017. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-
warming/solar-power/.

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