Parts of a Whole: Emerging Pattern eo Lesson ‘Through this lesson, you will understand the emergence of trends and patterns. After the lesson, the learners will be able to derive an idea from instances. Further, you are expected to: identify parts of a whole; identify and explain an emerging pattern; and identify causes and consequences. Learning Task 1: During the first month of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), one would see people in the social media planting vegetables in their own backyard. Halfway through July, most people shifted from planting vegetables to ornamental plants. Discuss the causes of such shift and its consequences. Do this in your notebook. © Learning Task 2: Do a simple recall of the following concepts. Describe them based on your own understanding. Do this in your notebook. 1. Parts of the whole 2. Emerging Pattern of trends 3. Principle of causality Part _of The Whole In order to understand things better, there is anced to dig deeper trying to identify the parts of the whole. A trend is characterized by many asa elaborate thing that makes the whole idea of the trend working and producing an emerging pattern. Just as the totality of the person is being examined, there is also a need to lock at the small segments of every event or situation that keeps it progressing to develop trends. Early thinkers like Plato and Aristotle made a considerable discussion about parts of the whole. Their ideas were later re-examined and intensified by later thinkers. For Karl Marx, “the overall strategy of scientific knowledge, as it develops in any given period, is determined to a significant extent by the particular treatment of the categories of the part and the whole and the specific interpretation of the related question of wholeness.” Understanding the parts of the whole is very important as it gives a clear view of the basic elements that make up a whole A wrong connotation of its part may mislead a decision maker and could encourage him/her to question and not adapt the emerging trends. For example, if one looks at the approaches used by different countries in addressing the pandemic, one may find a strategy that works in a country while failing in another. In this case, there is a need to look at the totality of the strategy surrounding the implementation. That includes considerations like political, economic, social factors, culture, etc. because they are the parts that make up the whole system.Emerging Patterns Emerging patterns refer to items in which frequency are changing overtime. They are important indicators that set the progressive movement of data to understand the distinctive direction to where the trend is heading. For research and businesses, it is an important basis that manifests the practicability of the new sets of action. For example, data of spread of COVID -19 shows that infection is increasing in the workplace rather than in the community. The Department of Health (DOH), using the emerging pattern of spread of the infection, can adopt anew strategy for containing the virus and preventing further transmission. Most patterns are presented in graphs or charts to make it easier for people to understand the pattern. Data patterns of trends can be classified as follows: A. Linear. It follows a straight line in graphical presentation which could indicate an upward or downward direction. B. Exponential. It is a trend represented by a line that that may rise or fall shortly at a given time unsteadily. Data change overtime caused by different factors that may affect progression. ©. Damped. This shows that values rise and fall initially and then stop the rise and fall for sometime and then rise or fall again. Causality It is a generally accepted principle that there is the cause for everything that happens. That is the principle that every cause produces a consequence. It influences an event, process or state which is the cause that contributes to the production of another event, process or state which is an effect or consequence. The cause is partly responsible for the consequences and the consequences are partly dependent on the causes. What causes the emergence of the trends should be taken and examined as a whole considering its smallest element or parts. That causes may be intensified by intervening factors to produce a desirable progress that characterizes a progressing or failing trends. The resulting changes is the effect or the consequences. The emerging trend for online learning is beginning to develop caused by the pandemic brought by the COVID-19. Educators, students and school administrators will design strategies to make learning more effective. The trend may suddenly be stopped when the government adopts the face-to-face learning modality when the vaccine for COVID-19 becomes available. Learning Task 3: Read, analyze and illustrate the given case. Then, answer the question that follows. Do this in your notebook. ‘A worker from Manila came home to his barangay in Batangas City. In five (5) days, his elder with and asthma experienced body pain and sore throat, his mother had fever. In three (3) weeks, there were 150 cases of COVID 19 inthe whole barangay. How did it spread that fast? Using the part of a whole premise, why did the virus spread too fast in that community?© Learning Task 4: If you were the barangay captain of a community suffering from a fatal virus, how would you prevent the spread of that virus? Write your answer in your notebook. Learning Task 5: Identify the possible causes and effects of the continuous spread of COVID-19. Then, answer the question that follows. Do this in your notebook. Example: returning home - bringing the virus Causes Effects Asa member of the community, what is your role in preventing the emerging pattern of COVID -19 infection?