PERFORMANCE TASK

1ST QUARTER

Performance Standard:

At the end of Senior High School, the learners should have gained skills in obtaining
scientific and technological information from varied sources about global issues that have
impact on the country. They should have acquired scientific attitudes that will allow them to
innovate and/ or create products useful to the community or country. They should be able to
process information to get relevant data for a problem at hand. In addition, learners should
have made plans related to their interests and expertise, with consideration for the need of
their community and the country- to pursue employment, entrepreneurship or higher
education.

Culminating Performance Standard:

Learning Competencies:

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Performance Checks:

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Engaging Scenario for the Performance Tasks:

You are a resident engineer in a company, which celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. As a leading
science toy store, your company specializes and spearheads on science toy creations and innovations.
Through an outreach activity, you will be introducing improvised science toys to remote areas. You and
your team were tasked by your supervisor to design and build a catapult that can launch pingpong ball that
weighs 2.7 grams. Your aim is to build a catapult that can launch a Ping-Pong ball to attain the longest
range and to be able to shot at different angles. The catapult should be made of household materials only
(recyclable). The senior engineers of your company will assess your mechanical design and engineer skills.
You also need to submit a written plan of your design. Your output will be evaluated based on planning,
effectiveness, flexibility of product, cooperation of team members.

Goal
Role
Audience
Situation
Product
Standard Rubrics Criteria Excellent (4) Satisfactory Fair (2) Needs
(3) Improvement
(1)
Plan (x2) All the All the All the materials It is evident that
materials materials needed were the team did not
needed were needed were listed, but the plan what
listed and the listed but the goals in materials to be
procedures procedure building the used and how
were detailed. missed some catapult were to build the
It is evident that details. not taken in catapult.
the team had consideration.
the best plan to
reach the goals
in the building
the catapult.
Effectiveness The team The team The team The team was
of the Product produced an produced a produced a not able to
(x3) excellent, good working working produce a
improvised, catapult and catapult and working
working met the size does not meet catapult and
catapult and requirements. the size does not meet
met the size requirements. the size
requirements. requirements.
Flexibility of At least five Four angles Three angles One or two
the Product different angles were tried to were tried to angles were
(x2) were tried to determine the determine the tried to
determine the effect of angle effect of angle determine the
effect of angle on the on the effect of angle
on the horizontal horizontal on the
horizontal distance or distance or horizontal
distance or range that the range that the distance or
range that the projectile projectile range that the
projectile travels. travels. projectile
travels. travels.
Cooperation All the Majority of Mostly of the The team
(x1) members of the members of the members of the needs to be
team worked team worked team worked redirected to
together to together to together in continue the
finish the tasks finish the tasks building the tasks most of
without the without the catapult only. the time.
need to be need to be The team
redirected. redirected. needs to be
redirected to
continue the
tasks.