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Grade 9 Science.

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10textbooks

250lessons

54DepEd competencies

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Textbook 1Newton’s Laws, Forces, and Everyday Motion

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Inertia and Why Objects Resist Change

Chapter 2

Net Force and Acceleration

Chapter 3

Force, Mass, and Acceleration Relationships

Chapter 4

Action-Reaction Pairs and Force Diagrams

Textbook 2Electricity, Circuits, and Safe Power Use

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Electricity as Electron Flow and Safety

Chapter 2

Current, Voltage, Resistance, and Circuit Investigation

Chapter 3

Drawing and Assembling Series and Parallel Circuits

Chapter 4

Series vs. Parallel Circuits in Real Life

Textbook 3Electromagnetic Waves, Technologies, and Safety

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Electromagnetic Radiation as Transverse Waves

Chapter 2

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Chapter 3

EMR Applications in Communication, Medicine, and Daily Life

Chapter 4

Harmful Effects of EMR and Safety Practices

Textbook 4Continental Drift, Plate Boundaries, and the Philippines

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Evidence That Continents Were Once Joined

Chapter 2

Plate Boundaries Around the Earth

Chapter 3

Philippine Plate Boundary Evidence

Chapter 4

Linking Plate Boundaries to Landforms and Geologic Activity

Textbook 5Geologic Time, Fossils, and Earth’s Interior

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Fossils and Dating Rocks and Sediments

Chapter 2

Relative Dating, Absolute Dating, and Geologic Time

Chapter 3

Seismic Waves and Earth’s Internal Structure

Chapter 4

Scale Models of Earth’s Layers

Textbook 6Solar System Origins, Space Objects, and Space Technologies

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Small Solar System Bodies and What They Reveal

Chapter 2

Meteor Showers and Regular Sky Events

Chapter 3

Telescopes, Space Probes, and Data Collection

Chapter 4

Evidence-Based Models of Solar System Origin

Textbook 7Biodiversity, Endangered Species, and Philippine Ecosystems

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability

Chapter 2

Endangered Species and Conservation Research

Chapter 3

Threats to Biodiversity and Human Impacts

Chapter 4

Philippine Ecosystems and Reducing Human Impact

Textbook 8DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and Mutations

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

DNA Structure and the Double Helix

Chapter 2

Genes, Chromosomes, and Transmission of Traits

Chapter 3

Mutations and Their Causes

Chapter 4

Beneficial, Harmful, and Neutral Effects of Mutations

Textbook 9Chemical Bonding, New Substances, and Compounds

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

New Substances and Chemical Bond Changes

Chapter 2

Valence Electrons and Periodic Table Reasoning

Chapter 3

Ionic Bonds, Ions, and Ionic Compounds

Chapter 4

Covalent Bonds, Molecules, and Compound Formulas

Textbook 10Metallic Bonding, Substance Properties, and Chemical Models

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Metallic Bonds and the Sea of Electrons

Chapter 2

Investigating Properties of Ionic, Covalent, and Metallic Substances

Chapter 3

Comparing Bonding Types and Substance Behavior

Chapter 4

Chemical Bonds Comic Strip and Science Communication

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Every DepEd competency, covered.

The 54 competencies set for Grade 9 Science, and every one has lessons behind it.

Newton's Laws of Motion

5 competencies

Identify inertia as the tendency for an object to stay at rest or in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced net force.
Demonstrate in practical situations and describe that acceleration is a change in speed and/or direction as the result of a net force.
Investigate the relationship among force, acceleration, and mass.
Explain that when any two objects interact, there are equal but opposite forces exerted between them.
Observe and identify action-reaction pairs in everyday situations and draw force diagrams to explain how the pairs affect the motion of objects.

Electric Circuits

4 competencies

Identify that electricity is a flow of electrons and show appreciation for the need to observe safe measures in handling electricity.
Participate in guided investigations to infer the relationship among current, voltage, and resistance in assembled series and parallel circuits with varying number of loads and battery.
Draw diagrams of and assemble series and parallel circuits, showing switch, battery, loads/resistors, ammeter, and voltmeter.
Collaborate in a class discussion to recognize the advantages and limitations of using series or parallel circuits.

Electromagnetic Waves

4 competencies

Describe electromagnetic radiation as energy created by vibrations of electrically charged particles that travels through materials or space as transverse waves.
Compare the relative wavelengths and frequencies of different types of electromagnetic waves.
Identify practical applications of electromagnetic radiation, such as radio waves used in telecommunications, and x-rays and gamma rays in medicine.
Gather information from secondary sources to explain the harmful effects that EMR can have on living things.

Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

5 competencies

Identify and explain evidence that current continents are separate parts of what was a single continent millions of years ago.
Describe the types of plate boundaries found around the Earth.
Participate in a collaborative group or class task to examine and describe topographical and geological evidence for plate boundaries occurring in the area where the Philippines is located.
Describe types of plate boundaries around the Earth.
Explain Philippine topographical and geological evidence in relation to plate boundaries.

Geologic Time and Rock Dating

3 competencies

Describe how fossils can be used for dating the age of rocks and sediments.
Describe how relative and absolute dating techniques are used to determine the subdivisions of geologic time.
Explain how the geologic time scale helps to recount the history of the Earth.

Earth's Interior

2 competencies

Describe how seismic wave data has been used to develop a model for the internal structure and composition of the Earth.
Create a scale drawing to represent relative thicknesses of Earth’s interior layers, including the crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

Solar System Objects and Space Technology

5 competencies

Distinguish among comets, meteoroids, asteroids, and dwarf planets, and describe how they help us understand the nature and formation of the Earth and the Solar System.
Gather information from secondary sources to discuss the regular occurrence of meteor showers.
Explain how modern research about celestial objects uses new space technologies including telescopes and space probes.
Describe how Solar System objects help us understand the nature and formation of Earth and the Solar System.
Produce a report on space technologies and explain their use in collecting data that contributes to our understanding of the Solar System.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation

7 competencies

Explain the advantage of high biodiversity in maintaining the stability of an ecosystem during difficult conditions, such as food shortages, disease, and climate change.
Use information from secondary resources to classify animals and plants of the Philippines as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable species.
Use information from secondary sources to research how to protect and conserve endangered and/or economically important species in the local community.
Discuss as a class how threats to biodiversity can lead to species extinction.
Use information from secondary sources to describe possible effects of human activities, such as deforestation, pollution, and introduction of invasive species, on living things in an ecosystem.
Describe using labeled diagrams the biotic and abiotic features of tropical rainforests, swamps, estuaries, mangrove forests, and coral reefs.
Plan to conduct a survey to explore possibilities for minimizing the negative impacts of human activities on an ecosystem.

DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and Mutations

4 competencies

Use models and labeled diagrams to represent the double helix structure of DNA.
Explain the role of DNA, genes, and chromosomes in the transmission of traits.
Describe mutations as changes in DNA or chromosomes and discuss factors that cause mutations, such as infectious agents, radiation, and chemicals.
Use information from secondary sources to explain the beneficial, harmful, and neutral effects of mutations.

Chemical Changes

2 competencies

Carry out a valid and reliable scientific investigation to show the formation of a new substance.
Explain that the formation of new bonds or the breaking of existing bonds constitutes a chemical change and the formation of a new substance.

Chemical Bonding

13 competencies

Describe a valence electron as an electron in the outer shell of an atom that can take part in formation of bonds.
Identify the number of valence electrons of oxygen based on its position in the periodic table.
Explain the formation of ions as either the loss or gain of electrons to produce ionic bonds, using examples such as sodium chloride.
Write the chemical formula and chemical names of common ionic compounds, including sodium chloride, magnesium oxide, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride.
Show by using models that ionic compounds form crystalline structures.
Explain the formation of covalent bonds using a molecule of water and a molecule of carbon dioxide.
Write the chemical formula and chemical name of common covalent compounds, including water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia.
Show by using models that covalent compounds form individual molecules.
Explain properties of metals in terms of their structure and metallic bonding, specifically the sea of electrons model.
Investigate the properties of ionic, covalent, and metallic substances, such as melting point, hardness, electrical and thermal conductivity.
Investigate and explain how properties of substances depend on ionic, covalent, or metallic bonding.
Explain properties of metals through metallic bonding.
Create a cartoon or comic strip describing ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds and how they are involved in the formation of compounds.

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The whole year, lesson by lesson.

Textbook 1Newton’s Laws, Forces, and Everyday Motion

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Inertia and Why Objects Resist Change

Chapter 2

Net Force and Acceleration

Chapter 3

Force, Mass, and Acceleration Relationships

Chapter 4

Action-Reaction Pairs and Force Diagrams

Textbook 2Electricity, Circuits, and Safe Power Use

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Electricity as Electron Flow and Safety

Chapter 2

Current, Voltage, Resistance, and Circuit Investigation

Chapter 3

Drawing and Assembling Series and Parallel Circuits

Chapter 4

Series vs. Parallel Circuits in Real Life

Textbook 3Electromagnetic Waves, Technologies, and Safety

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Electromagnetic Radiation as Transverse Waves

Chapter 2

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Chapter 3

EMR Applications in Communication, Medicine, and Daily Life

Chapter 4

Harmful Effects of EMR and Safety Practices

Textbook 4Continental Drift, Plate Boundaries, and the Philippines

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Evidence That Continents Were Once Joined

Chapter 2

Plate Boundaries Around the Earth

Chapter 3

Philippine Plate Boundary Evidence

Chapter 4

Linking Plate Boundaries to Landforms and Geologic Activity

Textbook 5Geologic Time, Fossils, and Earth’s Interior

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Fossils and Dating Rocks and Sediments

Chapter 2

Relative Dating, Absolute Dating, and Geologic Time

Chapter 3

Seismic Waves and Earth’s Internal Structure

Chapter 4

Scale Models of Earth’s Layers

Textbook 6Solar System Origins, Space Objects, and Space Technologies

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Small Solar System Bodies and What They Reveal

Chapter 2

Meteor Showers and Regular Sky Events

Chapter 3

Telescopes, Space Probes, and Data Collection

Chapter 4

Evidence-Based Models of Solar System Origin

Textbook 7Biodiversity, Endangered Species, and Philippine Ecosystems

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability

Chapter 2

Endangered Species and Conservation Research

Chapter 3

Threats to Biodiversity and Human Impacts

Chapter 4

Philippine Ecosystems and Reducing Human Impact

Textbook 8DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and Mutations

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

DNA Structure and the Double Helix

Chapter 2

Genes, Chromosomes, and Transmission of Traits

Chapter 3

Mutations and Their Causes

Chapter 4

Beneficial, Harmful, and Neutral Effects of Mutations

Textbook 9Chemical Bonding, New Substances, and Compounds

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

New Substances and Chemical Bond Changes

Chapter 2

Valence Electrons and Periodic Table Reasoning

Chapter 3

Ionic Bonds, Ions, and Ionic Compounds

Chapter 4

Covalent Bonds, Molecules, and Compound Formulas

Textbook 10Metallic Bonding, Substance Properties, and Chemical Models

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Metallic Bonds and the Sea of Electrons

Chapter 2

Investigating Properties of Ionic, Covalent, and Metallic Substances

Chapter 3

Comparing Bonding Types and Substance Behavior

Chapter 4

Chemical Bonds Comic Strip and Science Communication

Every DepEd competency, covered.

The 54 competencies set for Grade 9 Science, and every one has lessons behind it.

Newton's Laws of Motion

5 competencies

Identify inertia as the tendency for an object to stay at rest or in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced net force.
Demonstrate in practical situations and describe that acceleration is a change in speed and/or direction as the result of a net force.
Investigate the relationship among force, acceleration, and mass.
Explain that when any two objects interact, there are equal but opposite forces exerted between them.
Observe and identify action-reaction pairs in everyday situations and draw force diagrams to explain how the pairs affect the motion of objects.

Electric Circuits

4 competencies

Identify that electricity is a flow of electrons and show appreciation for the need to observe safe measures in handling electricity.
Participate in guided investigations to infer the relationship among current, voltage, and resistance in assembled series and parallel circuits with varying number of loads and battery.
Draw diagrams of and assemble series and parallel circuits, showing switch, battery, loads/resistors, ammeter, and voltmeter.
Collaborate in a class discussion to recognize the advantages and limitations of using series or parallel circuits.

Electromagnetic Waves

4 competencies

Describe electromagnetic radiation as energy created by vibrations of electrically charged particles that travels through materials or space as transverse waves.
Compare the relative wavelengths and frequencies of different types of electromagnetic waves.
Identify practical applications of electromagnetic radiation, such as radio waves used in telecommunications, and x-rays and gamma rays in medicine.
Gather information from secondary sources to explain the harmful effects that EMR can have on living things.

Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

5 competencies

Identify and explain evidence that current continents are separate parts of what was a single continent millions of years ago.
Describe the types of plate boundaries found around the Earth.
Participate in a collaborative group or class task to examine and describe topographical and geological evidence for plate boundaries occurring in the area where the Philippines is located.
Describe types of plate boundaries around the Earth.
Explain Philippine topographical and geological evidence in relation to plate boundaries.

Geologic Time and Rock Dating

3 competencies

Describe how fossils can be used for dating the age of rocks and sediments.
Describe how relative and absolute dating techniques are used to determine the subdivisions of geologic time.
Explain how the geologic time scale helps to recount the history of the Earth.

Earth's Interior

2 competencies

Describe how seismic wave data has been used to develop a model for the internal structure and composition of the Earth.
Create a scale drawing to represent relative thicknesses of Earth’s interior layers, including the crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

Solar System Objects and Space Technology

5 competencies

Distinguish among comets, meteoroids, asteroids, and dwarf planets, and describe how they help us understand the nature and formation of the Earth and the Solar System.
Gather information from secondary sources to discuss the regular occurrence of meteor showers.
Explain how modern research about celestial objects uses new space technologies including telescopes and space probes.
Describe how Solar System objects help us understand the nature and formation of Earth and the Solar System.
Produce a report on space technologies and explain their use in collecting data that contributes to our understanding of the Solar System.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation

7 competencies

Explain the advantage of high biodiversity in maintaining the stability of an ecosystem during difficult conditions, such as food shortages, disease, and climate change.
Use information from secondary resources to classify animals and plants of the Philippines as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable species.
Use information from secondary sources to research how to protect and conserve endangered and/or economically important species in the local community.
Discuss as a class how threats to biodiversity can lead to species extinction.
Use information from secondary sources to describe possible effects of human activities, such as deforestation, pollution, and introduction of invasive species, on living things in an ecosystem.
Describe using labeled diagrams the biotic and abiotic features of tropical rainforests, swamps, estuaries, mangrove forests, and coral reefs.
Plan to conduct a survey to explore possibilities for minimizing the negative impacts of human activities on an ecosystem.

DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and Mutations

4 competencies

Use models and labeled diagrams to represent the double helix structure of DNA.
Explain the role of DNA, genes, and chromosomes in the transmission of traits.
Describe mutations as changes in DNA or chromosomes and discuss factors that cause mutations, such as infectious agents, radiation, and chemicals.
Use information from secondary sources to explain the beneficial, harmful, and neutral effects of mutations.

Chemical Changes

2 competencies

Carry out a valid and reliable scientific investigation to show the formation of a new substance.
Explain that the formation of new bonds or the breaking of existing bonds constitutes a chemical change and the formation of a new substance.

Chemical Bonding

13 competencies

Describe a valence electron as an electron in the outer shell of an atom that can take part in formation of bonds.
Identify the number of valence electrons of oxygen based on its position in the periodic table.
Explain the formation of ions as either the loss or gain of electrons to produce ionic bonds, using examples such as sodium chloride.
Write the chemical formula and chemical names of common ionic compounds, including sodium chloride, magnesium oxide, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride.
Show by using models that ionic compounds form crystalline structures.
Explain the formation of covalent bonds using a molecule of water and a molecule of carbon dioxide.
Write the chemical formula and chemical name of common covalent compounds, including water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia.
Show by using models that covalent compounds form individual molecules.
Explain properties of metals in terms of their structure and metallic bonding, specifically the sea of electrons model.
Investigate the properties of ionic, covalent, and metallic substances, such as melting point, hardness, electrical and thermal conductivity.
Investigate and explain how properties of substances depend on ionic, covalent, or metallic bonding.
Explain properties of metals through metallic bonding.
Create a cartoon or comic strip describing ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds and how they are involved in the formation of compounds.