LESSON

2 Parts of a Whole: Emerging Pattern

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 a short bond paper.
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Part of The Whole

In order to understand things better, there is a need to dig deeper trying
to identify the parts of the whole. A trend is characterized by many as a
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 look at the small segments of every event or situation
that keeps it progressing to develop trends.

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 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
a new 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.
C. Damped. This shows that values rise and fall initially and then stop the rise
and fall for sometime and then rise or fall again.

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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 2: Read, analyze and illustrate the given case. Then, answer the
question that follows. Do this in a short bond paper.

A worker from Manila came home to his barangay in San Fernando City. In
five (5) days, his elder with asthma experienced body pain and sore throat,
and his mother had fever. In three (3) weeks, there were 150 cases of COVID-
19 in the 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?
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Learning Task 3: 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 a short bond paper.

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Learning Task 4: Identify the possible causes and effects of the continuous spread of
COVID-19. Then, answer the question that follows. Do this in a short bond paper.

Example: returning home - bringing the virus

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As a member of the community, what is your role in preventing the emerging

pattern of COVID -19 infection?
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