CONSUELO NATIONAL HIGHSCHOOL

CONSUELO SAN FRANCISCO, CEBU

Grade: 10 Subject: SCIENCE

Quarter/Semester: FIRST Week No: 1 Day 3
I. OBJECTIVES
Content Standard The learners demonstrate an understanding of the
relationship among the locations of volcanoes, earthquake
epicenters, and mountain ranges.
Performance Standard The learners shall be able to demonstrate ways to ensure
disaster preparedness during earthquakes, tsunamis, and
volcanic eruptions.
Learning Competencies The learners should be able to describe the distribution of
active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and major
mountain belts.
S10ES –Iaj-36.1
Knowledge Describe epicenters of an earthquake and its relationship to
plate tectonics
Skills Calculate the locations of the epicenter of an earthquake
using triangulation method
Attitude Familiarize the seismic stations that are available in the
country through Philippine Seismic Network of the DOST-
PHILVOLCS
II. CONTENT FIND THE CENTER: INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION
III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
References Grade 10 Science Learner’s Material pp 7-10
Grade 10 Science Teacher’s Guide pp 7-9
Other Learning Resources http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS7BKqHRhs
https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph
Self-Learning Kit, Quarter 1, Week 1-3.b
IV. PROCEDURES
A. Preparatory Activities Let the students watch again the video on “Locating the
Epicenter of an Earthquake” to attain mastery of the lesson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS7BKqHRhs
This video was given as an assignment in the previous day.
B. Motivation The teacher will present
to the class the picture
on the side. The
students will name the
label of the printed
arrows based on the
choices.

-plate -epicenter
-focus -seismic waves
 https://earthquakesvolcannoes.blogspot.com/

The teacher will ask the learners to describe or give the

meaning of each terminologies before giving the scientific
meaning of each term.
Plate - rigid sections of the lithosphere that move as a unit
Epicenter – the point directly above the focus
Focus - the place inside Earth's crust where
an earthquake originates.
Seismic waves - are the waves of energy caused by the
sudden breaking of rock within the earth or an explosion.
C. Activity The teacher will ask the students to simulate how
triangulation method is being done.
(See attachment A)
D. Analysis The teacher will ask volunteers from the class to share their
answers. The teacher will ask the following questions:
1. How did you determine the time difference between
the arrival of the P-wave and S-wave to the seismic
station?
(Ans.: By determining the time of arrival of the P-
wave and S-wave in their respective seismic station)
2. How will you determine the location of an
earthquake using triangulation method?
(Ans. Based on the map, form a circle from each of
the seismic station just like what had been shown in
the video)
3. What is the relationship of the velocities of the
waves in locating the epicenter of an earthquake?
(Ans. The longer the time difference between the P-
wave and the S-wave, the farther is the epicenter
from the seismic station)
E. Abstraction The vibration that you feel during an earthquake is caused
by seismic waves. For any distance from the epicenter, the
P-waves arrive first at seismic facilities. When waves travel
at greater distances, the time of separation between the
curves for the P-wave and the S-wave also increases. This
simply means that waves recorded on seismograms from
more distant facilities are farther apart from those recorded
at stations. This distance is called the epicentral distance.

Note that the distance between an earthquake’s epicenter

and a single seismic station will not provide the exact
location of the epicenter. This means that the epicenter
could be in any direction from the station. You only know
that the epicenter is located somewhere on a circle centered
on the seismic station. The radius of this circle is the
epicentral distance. If the distances between three or more
seismic stations and an earthquake’s epicenter are known,
the exact location of the earthquake can be known.
F. Application The teacher will present the Philippines Seismic Network of
 the Philippines in the Year 2020 from
https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/earthquake/eart
hquake-monitoring
See attachment B
G. Practical Applications Let the learners study the map presented by the teachers
of Concepts and and ask them what can they infer about the presence of
Skills in Daily Living seismic stations in the country. Ask them the following
questions:
1. How many seismic stations do we have in the
country? (98)
2. How many of them are manned? (68)
3. How about unmanned? (29)
Note to the teacher, please refer to the attached map.
H. Generalization In the advancement of science and technology, our country
is capable of measuring the location of an earthquake as
immediate as they can, the agency in-charge during this
phenomenon is the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology (PHILVOLCS) under the Department of Science
and Technology. They take charge of the geological events
that are happening in our country including earthquake and
other volcanic activities.

With the use of seismograph, scientist can determine the

location of an earthquake and other related data such as
magnitude and record the number of aftershocks.
I. Evaluation The activity conducted on simulating the location of the
earthquake will serve as the learners evaluation.
J. Additional activities No assignment will be given to the learners, instead they
for application or should be reminded to conduct self-study in preparation for
remediation the weekly test next meeting.
(assignment)
V. REMARKS
VI. REFLECTION
No. of learners who
earned 80% in the
evaluation
No. of learners who
continue to require
remediation
Did the remedial lesson
work? No. of learners
who caught up the
lesson
No. of learners who
require remediation
Which of my teaching
strategies worked well?
Why did these work?
 What difficulties did I
encounter which
principal and supervisor
can help or solve?
What innovation or
localized did I
use/discover which I
wish to share?

Prepared by:

Name: Mariamy S. Gersalia School : Consuelo National High School

Designation: Teacher 1 Division: Cebu Province
Contact Number: 09123418274 Email Address: Mariamy.gersalia@deped.gov.ph

Checked by:

Marilyn D. Limpio
T3 TIC

ATTACHMENT A

Name of Student: _________________________ Grade: _____________ Score: _____________

Objectives : To simulate how triangulation method is being done.

Materials : Paper, Copy of the Table as shown below, Stop watch, School Map

Procedure :
1. The teacher will ask three volunteers from the learners that will serve as the three seismic
stations.
2. Also the teacher will ask six volunteers from the class that will serve as the seismic waves.
3. They will be divided into three pairs and one will act as the P-waves while the other as the
S-waves. The rest of the classmates will observe and record the necessary data.
4. Let the six learners stay in one place and assign the three learners acting as the seismic
stations to be far-distantly located in the school grounds.
5. In a cue of the teacher, the pair of P-wave and S-wave will run towards the assigned
seismic stations.
6. The learner assigned in the seismic station must record the time of arrival of the assigned
P-wave and S-wave.
7. The learner will complete a table of data driven from the activity.
 Recording Station Time difference of P-wave Distance of epicenter from
and S-wave (seconds) the station (meters)
Student-Station A
Student-Station B
Student-Station C

8. Using the map of the school, determine the location of the epicenter using triangulation
method.
(Note to the teacher: See to it that the location of the three seismic stations are determined
or plotted on the map before giving to the students. The student needs to determine the
Time difference in every station and determine its distance to the epicenter using the
formula)

Guide Questions:

1. How did you determined the time difference of P-wave and S-wave in every seismic station?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
2. Based on your computation and using the map of your school, where did the earthquake
originate?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
3. How will you relate the movement of the waves to the distance or location of the epicenter
of an earthquake?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
(Note to the teacher: Answers to this activity will depend on the setting of your school)

ATTACHMENT B https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/earthquake/earthquake-monitoring