Topic The Philippines: Prone to typhoons

Time Allotment / Date 60 mins. January 25, 2023

Prepared by: Fae D\. Resuello
Learning Competency and Objectives
At the end of the cycle the student should be able to:
1. Explain why the Philippines is prone to typhoon
2. Identify and explain some of the powerful typhoon hit the Philippines

ELICIT: 5 mins MATERIALS

LM
Ask the following questions.
What is typhoon?
What are the conditions required for the formation of typhoon?
ENGAGE: 10mins.
Laptop
Show a YouTube video about typhoon in the Philippines. TV
Ask the ff. questions. Video Presentation
1. What have you seen in the video?
2. Do you had an unforgettable experience with typhoons?
3. Have you ever wondered why the Philippines always hit by
a typhoon?

EXPLORE: 25mins. (by group)

The students will be given a big size of local map. (see Activity sheet (local map)
attached local map at the back, or used other precise map) Pen and Paper

Procedure:
1. Using a local map identify the bodies of water that surround
the Philippines
2. Locate the place where typhoons usually start to form.
3. Discuss why the Philippines is prone to typhoons.

Guide Questions
1. What are the bodies of water that surround the Philippines
2. What are the places/province usually hits by a typhoon
3. Enumerate the factors that make typhoons develop in these
areas.

EXPLAIN: 20mins.
Group Presentation: Let the students present their output. Manila paper
Answer the questions in the activity Marker
Big local map
ELABORATE :(15 mins.)
PowerPoint Presentation
The Philippines archipelago lies between 5 degree and Video Presentation
18 degree north latitude, and between 119 degree and 122 Globe
degree E longitude. It Is part of southeast Asia, between the
equator and the tropic of Cancer.
The Philippines is therefore a tropical country, located
very close to the equator. The location of the Philippine on the
globe make it prone to typhoons. It lies on the typhoon belt,
which is general westward path taken by typhoon after they
are formed in the Pacific ocean until they reach mainland
Asia. The Philippines also happen to be in the cured path of
the cold wind ha blow from Siberia to the Southern
Hemisphere from December to February. It also lie in the path
of the warm, humid wind that blow from Australia to the
Northern Hemisphere from June to August.
The Philippines, which lies in the Northwest Pacific Basin,
experiences the assault of violent storms from June to
November. The provinces in Northern and Eastern Luzon and
the Bicol and Eastern Visayas region usually bear the brunt of
Typhoons. At times, typhoons take a more direct westerly
direction, passing over Manila.

According to a study conducted by the Geneva-based United

Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR),
Philippines is the fourth most disaster prone country in the
world. It also revealed that Philippines is one of the top 10
countries with most number of people afflicted by such
disasters--at staggering 130 billion. 
One might be asking, “Why is the Philippines so prone to
natural disasters?” National Geographic listed down the
possible reasons--from geographic location to economic
state--behind the Philippines being the most common subject
to typhoons.
Warm Waters
Philippines is situated above the equator and also, beside the
Western Pacific Ocean. The equatorial, warm weather
combined to water encourage tropical cyclones to form.
Typhoons start to build up at 28°C (82.4°F) and the Western
Pacific is normally at such degrees--hence the recurrent
tropical cyclones in the country.
Coastal Homes
With the Philippines being surrounded by waters, about sixty
per cent of population of the country are living in the low lying,
coastal villages. This makes them the most susceptible to
storm surges that are common (and deadly) during typhoons. 
Ring of Fire
The geographic location of the Philippines lies on the Pacific’s
earthquake and volcano Ring of Fire. Meaning, the drifting of
crust underneath the Pacific Ocean leads to the frequent
tsunamis and earthquakes.

EVALUATE: 15 mins Sheet of paper

Essay ballpen
Explain why the Philippines is prone to typhoon
EXTEND: (30 mins.) Internet
Make a Research : Name and explain some of the powerful Laptop
typhoons hit the Philippines

REFERENCES:

Grade 8-Teachers Guide Breaking Through Science 8 pp.

201-203
Google Geneva-based United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UNISDR),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoons_in_the_Philippines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881_Haiphong_typhoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Bopha  
http://www.shorenewstoday.com/weather/five-deadliest-
philippine-typhoons-cyclones/article_e3fd740e-d2a7-522c-
bdce-0d9c4bad995a.html 
Prepared by:
Raquel M.
Leonardo
SST-
III Balucuc High
School