UNIVERSITY OF CAGAYAN VALLEY

(Formerly Cagayan Colleges Tuguegarao)

Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND TEACHER EDUCATION

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN
TEACHING SCIENCE IN ELEMENTARY GRADES 2

DIRECTION: Write all your answers in a separate sheet of paper.

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following is/are characteristics of a learner that is considered relevant to Science teaching?
A. Learners grow through the same predictable stages but at different rates
B. Learners learn best through active involvement with concrete experiences.
C. Learners have different learning styles.
D. All of the above.

2. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. A teacher must present science as a way of finding out rather than as a body of facts to be memorized.
B. In teaching, learning by doing must be emphasized.
C. Teachers must adapt science experiences to the learners’ developmental levels.
D. A teacher must use only one approach/strategy in teaching science.

3. Teacher Ann lets his students do hands-on activities related to their discussion on gas laws. According to
Bruner's three stages of representations, in what level can we categorized this?
A. Enactive
B. Iconic
C. Symbolic
D. Discovery

4. The 5-E Learning Cycle is a model that promotes scientific inquiry. Each “E” represents part of the process of
helping students sequence their learning experiences to develop a connection between prior knowledge and
new concepts. Which of the following is the correct sequence of the 5 E's?
A. Engage, Explore, Elaborate, Explain, Evaluate
B. Engage, Explain, Explore, Elaborate, Evaluate
C. Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate
D. Engage, Explain, Elaborate, Explore, Evaluate

5. What are the ways in which we can carry-out reflective teaching?

A. Journal Writing
B. Portfolio
C. Self-analysis
D. All of the above

6. This principle emphasizes that the success or failure of the group depends on the success or failure of each
member. Thus, each member of the group learns to share and work together to attain the shared goal.
A. Positive Interdependence
B. Individual Accountability
C. Equal Participation
D. Simultaneous Interaction

7. Which the following best describes simulation as a teaching strategy?

A. It can be used to dramatize the situations
B. Pupils are placed in a situation that models a real life phenomenon.
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C. Provide the opportunity for hands- on, real world experiences, improved quality of education, motivation
and development of positive attitude towards the subject, improvement of the socialization between
students as well as development of rapport between teachers and students
D. Employed to develop connections among concepts in the unit.

8. In one her class, Teacher Mary creates small groups through which students work together to maximize their
own and each other’s learning. What strategy did she use?
A. Cooperative Teaching
B. Discovery Learning
C. Roleplaying
D. Field Trips

9. Which of the following situations does NOT show gratification in learning?

A. Teacher Reiner lets his students play billiards to develop functional understanding about momentum.
B. Teacher Sasha grouped his students into four and facilitated the Angry Bird game as a contest which will
help students use their prior idea on projectile motion.
C. Teacher Connie plays card with his students in his free time.
D. Teacher Levi plays basketball with his students to deliver the concept of motion in physics.

10. Teaching scientific hypothesis is best accomplished by attempting to

A. Call it a theory
B. Prove the hypothesis
C. Falsify the hypothesis
D. Select good evidence that proves the hypothesis

11. Once scientific theory has withstood numerous tests and accurately predicted future observations it may be
elevated to the level of
A. An idea
B. A hypothesis
C. A natural law
D. An example of deductive reasoning

12. When one talks about scientific knowledge it is very common to think about basic teaching concepts like
A. Scientific content
B. Science process skills
C. Scientific attitude
D. All of the above

13. The following are scientific ways except

A. Science relies on evidence from natural world.
B. It is always a work in progress and always tries to correct itself.
C. Scientific process is guided with observation as its only parameter.
D. Evidences are logical examined and interpreted by scientists using reasoning.

14. Which among the following statements is correct about scientific principles.
A. Scientific claims are accepted once observed once.
B. Scientific claims does not need peer review and replication.
C. Science does not need tests evidence from natural world.
D. Science assumes that we can learn about the world by gathering data.

15. Scientific knowledge includes:

A. Understanding and applying scientific knowledge.
B. Demonstrating scientific inquiry skills.
C. Developing and demonstrating scientific attitudes and values.
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Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines
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D. All of the above.

16. It is a branch of science that deals with the structure of matter and how the fundamental constituents of the
universe interact.
A. Chemistry
B. Biology
C. Physics
D. Astronomy

17. It is the distance in given direction.

A. Displacement
B. Origin
C. Speed
D. Rate

18. It is the rate of change of distance.

A. Displacement
B. Speed
C. Velocity
D. Acceleration

19. It is the rate of change of displacement.

A. Distance
B. Speed
C. Velocity
D. Acceleration

20. It is the rate of change in velocity.

A. Displacement
A. Speed
B. Velocity
C. Acceleration

21. Take this scenario: (The two people will be the same distance from the middle) A small boy is sitting on one end
of a seesaw. If a really fat man jumps on the other side, what would happen to the child?
A. He would stay in the same place,
B. He would be propelled into space!
C. He would move downwards.
D. He would move upwards.

22-25. Given the problem answer the following:

A motorist on a motorway journey with 50 km distance traveled the first 30km in exactly 20 minutes and
completes the rest of the journey at a constant speed of 100km/hr.

22. Calculate the average speed of motorists in meters per second over the first 30 km journey
A. 50 m/s
B. 25 m/s
C. 10 m/s
D. 5 m/s

23. Calculate the time taken, in seconds for the second part of the journey.
A. 705 seconds
B. 710 seconds
C. 715 seconds
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D. 720 seconds

24. Calculate the average speed in meters per second for the whole journey.
A. 25 m/s
B. 26 m/s
C. 27m/s
D. 28 m/s

25. How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 km/hr?
A. 3.38 hrs
B. 4.38 hrs
C. 3.48 hrs
D. 4.48 hrs

26. How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 m/s?
A. 1,008 m
B. 1,018 m
C. 1,800 m
D. 1,080 m

27. A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8 km/s in 0.03 seconds. What is the acceleration of the
meteoroid?
A. 26.7 km/s2
B. 27.6 km/s2
C. 25.6 km/s2
D. 26.5 km/s2

28. A ball rolls down a ramp for 15 seconds. If the initial velocity of the ball was 0.8 m/sec and the final velocity was
7 m/sec, what was the acceleration of the ball?
A. 1.413m/s2
B. 0.413 m/s2
C. 1.023 m/s2
D. 0.023 m/s2

State the number of significant digits in each measurement.

1) 2804 m 2) 2.84 km 3) 5.029 m

4) 0.003068 m 5) 4.6 x 105 m 6) 4.06 x 10-5 m

7) 751 m 8) 75 m 9) 75.00 m

10) 75,000.0 m

II. DEFINITION: In your own words define the following in terms of teaching science:

1. Think
2. Experience
3. Challenge
4. Assess
5. Harness

III. ESSAY: Explain the steps in scientific process briefly and concisely (10 pts)