One of the most interesting subject matter in school is Social Studies (Araling Panlipunan). Interesting in the sense that once a learner really gets into the study, real-life adventures will come into view. It is like getting into the history of the past civilization under the lens of a microscope.
The K to 12 Curriculum makes it possible for students not only to have a glimpse of history as it was before. Today’s educational approach in social studies has become an encompassing treasure of both knowledge and understanding that will prepare learners to know their identity, race, and culture. Aside from that, the process will help them better appreciate as to why the civilization of the past affects the ways of people as of present.
The whole experience in being submerged in the vast and broad spectrum of social studies is a learning which an individual can hold dear, since he or she will be aware of what has transpired in man’s quest of what we know of today.
Significantly, it will serve as ready tool of prudence in one’s decision-making that will prove useful when needed. It is so, for the logical reason that social studies is about the study of different ways of life of the entire human race. The oceans, seas, mountains, rivers, streams, valleys, and plains are part of man’s natural habitat that greatly influenced man’s way of life.
The leaves, stones, metal, fire, and even the discovery of gun powder are things of helpful use which the men of the past utilized in their way to building societies. The mores on how they think, believe, behave, and act are social and economic developments to life. The cadence of time took so many years to trod and discover. Extending from one place to another, region to another region, and one continent after another are milestones of time which make men as to who and what they are in the survival of the fittest.
There are still the century old trees of the past which we see in the environment. They are still stand there not only for a reason, but for a testimonial purpose; to tell us that the treasures of history are there waiting to be unearthed and explored beneath the mind’s historical microscope.
By: MICHELLE A. MACALINTAL | TEACHER II | Bataan National High School | Balanga, Bataan
