- 1. Are you like Ted? Or the distractive selfish humans?
2. What about the schools where the youth are known as the hope,
are they trained to develop and nourish their surroundings? 3.
Indeed! Its a big YES! 4. because the Department of Education in
Ilocos Norte is conducting a contest regarding nature which is 5.
the Bio-Intensive Gardening (in short BIG). 6. Bio-Intensive
Gardening: Its Effects in the Top 5 Elementary Schools in Ilocos
Norte RESEARCH TITLE: 7. * *Bio-intensive gardening focuses a lot
on the quality of the soil. *Gardener loosen up the soil at least
twice as deep as normal gardening preparation. This way, their
plants roots can penetrate through the soil deeper and get more
nutrients and water from deep underground. By Kathleen Mierzejewski
8. BIO-INTENSIVE GARDENING IN THE PHILIPPINES 9. SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE STUDY Future teachers (like us) can have a brief knowledge
regarding BIG and how it can help the school and most specially the
pupils love in nature (gardening) and fresh vegetables. Future
teachers can also have knowledge on the activities to be conducted
regarding BIG, on the plants to be planted, on the people to be
involved and most specially the different unique ways of preserving
and sustaining BIG. 10. PROBLEMS 1. What are the significance and
effects of BIG to the top 5 elementary schools in Ilocos Norte? 2.
How does BIG help the top 5 elementary schools and the pupils? 3.
What are their programs conducted related to BIG? 4. What are the
plants-planted in their BIG? 11. 5. Who are the people involved in
making their school as one of the top 5 elementary schools in
Ilocos Norte? 6. What are their unique ways of preserving and
sustaining their BIG? 7. (As a teacher of the school) How are these
programs and activities help develop their pupils love of nature?
12. RESEARCH DESIGN Library and Internet Research Survey Research
Formulation Of the Research Topic Confirmation Of the Research
Topic Requesting For the Top 5 Elementary School in Ilocos Norte
Conclusion And Recommendation 13. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
RESPONDENTS The respondents are chosen via request of the Top 5
Elementary Schools regarding Bio-Intensive Gardening from the
DepEd, Division Office of Ilocos Norte. 14. THE TOP 5 ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS IN ILOCOS NORTE 15. TUBBURAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BACARRA ,
ILOCOS NORTE It is located away from the center of their town thus,
it is near the mountain. The ambiance of the school is so
refreshing because of the plants around it. 16. BENIGNO CAYETANO
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL -BATAC, ILOCOS NORTE It is also located away from
the town proper because it is located within the feet of a
mountain. Thus, the school environment is so eco-friendly. The
school have exquisite landscape. 17. BIMMANGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-
CURRIMAO, ILOCOS NORTE It is located away from the town proper of
Currimao near the solar plantation. The teachers of this school are
very hospitable thus, their pupils are also like them. 18. PARANG
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL- SARRAT, ILOCOS NORTE It is located away from the
town proper but, along the national highway. It is eco-friendly
because of the several plants around it. 19. CAYETANO BUMANGLAG
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL- SAN NICOLAS, ILOCOS NORTE The school is very
clean, green and beautiful because of the supportive people. This
school is also a title holder regarding BIG in their town. 20. Most
of the Top 5 Elementary Schools are located away from their town
proper. 21. METHODOLOGY The study is an analytical research that
presents the different aspects of the research topic. There are two
research strategies utilized, the library research and the survey
research. 22. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Table 1. The Significance and
Effects of BIG in The Top 5 Elementary Schools in Ilocos Norte 23.
Moreover, they also revealed that the benefits of the school from
BIG are: acquire extra income in the school that serves as Income
Generating Project or resources of the school specially school
needs from BIG.; beautifies the surrounding and supports the clean
and green program of the DepEd; 24. prevents soil erosion in our
school and maintains the fertility of soil through the use of
non-toxic fertilizers; promotes the consumption of nutritious foods
like vegetables; also eliminates the use of chemical pesticides
which may be harmful to the pupil and makes the school more
productive in terms of agriculture aspects and more useful in terms
of vacant land in the school. 25. In addition, the benefits the
pupils can get from BIG are: it will train them to be responsible,
Caring, loving and serves as the first hand training of the pupils
for them to realize the importance of BIG, to love vegetables and
of course our mother nature. 26. Activities Conducted by the Top 5
Elementary School in Ilocos Norte 27. The plants-planted in the BIG
of the Top 5 Elementary Schools in Ilocos Norte 28. They also
included: Dragon fruit Kamote Katuday Cabbage upo 29. Moreover,
they revealed their unique ways of preserving and sustaining their
BIG which are: making fences to protect their plants against astray
animals; usage of organic fertilizers, involving the parents,
volunteers, pupils 30. Municipal Agriculture Office; watering and
weeding the plants regularly; improving the soils physical
condition; crop rotation; pupils are providing manure; and using
madre de cacao extract as pesticides. 31. Finally, they publicize
the benefits of the programs and activities to the pupils love of
nature like: pupils love towards nature; interest regarding BIG is
arouses and develop; they learn that BIG helps the preservation of
our mother nature; they realize the importance of BIG that could
help them in their future life; they develop their planting skills;
32. develop the habit of dealing to plants; soil conservation and
preservation of the environment are promoted; they will realize
that they can yield crops in an environment friendly way; they
learn that they can do this without the use of commercial
fertilizer which is so detrimental the health of the soil. 33.
CONCLUSION We therefore conclude that BIG is very important to the
pupils within the school because it helps them to know about BIG
and love their environment. This will also make the school
personnel healthy because of the fresh air it provides and green
colors which are good in our eyes. It will also train the pupils
regarding farm crop planting that will lead them to be a role model
in their respective homes. The only disadvantage we found out is
that it consumes the time allotted for classes. This research also
proved that through BIG teachers and pupils will be environmentally
friendly and will possess what Ted has in the movie narrated in the
introduction. 34. RECOMMENDATION We recommend you future teachers
to engage BIG in your future designated school and if possible in
your respective homes to have a cleaner, greener, healthier and
fresher environment for your own sake. We also recommend that the
time in working BIG is during free hour or vacant time and during
TLE subject ( If the lesson is related to gardening) or they may
come during weekends to sustain quality education. 35.
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