Researching a topic
Enabling competencies
• Predict the gist of the material viewed
based on the title, pictures, and excerpts
of the material viewed.
• Draw similarities and differences of
the featured selections in relation to the
theme
Researching about While information is
a specific topic can literally
be tough everywhere, it is
responsibility essential that one
when you do not knows how to select
know where to get possible or potential
all the information of useful
you need. information.
Researching A Topic
• It is considered as one of the most active
volcanoes in the Philippines.
• Also, it is usually called as volcano with the
most perfect cone.
Using your background knowledge,
provide other description about Mount
Mayon. Do you know how and why
volcanic eruption occurs?
If you do have sufficient knowledge
about this volcano, what resources or
materials will you use to help you in
gaining more and other useful information
about it?
Learning task 1:
Using the given scenario above, choose
at least three (3) materials listed below
that you will most likely use in
researching for: additional information.
Then, provide short explanations why
you choose them. Do this in your answer
sheets.
newspaper websites video clips images
podcasts magazines interviews speeches
periodicals books
What will you most Why did you choose
likely use? this material?
Learning task 2:
Identify if the given item is a primary or
tertiary source. Write your answer in
your answer sheets.
_________1. textbook
_________2. court record
_________3. surveys
_________4. dictionaries
_________5. studies published academic
journals
_________6. magazine
_________7. abstracts
_________8. indices
_________9. newspapers
_________10. diaries
Sources Of Information
When Researching A
Topic
Print-based materials
Electronic sources
Primary sources
Primary sources of information include
firsthand accounts, raw data, and other
original materials on which other
researches are based. This means that
primary sources are authentic materials
and have not been subjected to
evaluation or assessment.
Primary sources
This classification includes original works
likes poem, diaries, court records,
interviews, surveys, and original
research and research published in
scholarly and / or academic journals.
Secondary sources
Sources of information are classified as
secondary sources whey they describe,
interpret or analyzed primary sources.
These are often information written or
presented by authors who did not
personally witness an event or occurrence.
Secondary sources
Common examples of secondary
sources including materials like
textbook, magazines, article, book,
reviews, commentaries and almanacs.
Tertiary sources
Source of information are
considered tertiary sources when
they are used to organize and
locate primary and secondary
sources
Tertiary sources
This classification includes indexes,
abstracts, bibliographies,
dictionaries and data based.
Information should always be accurate,
reliable, up-to-date, consistent, relevant
and unique.
Learning task 4:
Find information about the characteristic
and main symptoms of Coronavirus Disease
2019 (COVID19) using the three (3) sources of
information whether electronics, non
electronic or print-based materials. Write
your answer in your answer sheets. Use the
table provide.
Source 1 Information Obtained
_________________ _____________________
_________________ _____________________
Source 2 Information obtained
________________ _____________________
________________ _____________________
Learning task 5:
Interview three person ( your parents,
guardians and/or siblings) about the
primary sources of information they use
when they research for a specific topic.
Using the matrix provided, also take notes
of their reason for choosing such materials/
sources of information. Write your answers
in your answer sheets.
