A complicated engineering feat was achieved by the natives of the Cordilleras when they built rice terraces by hand.

Through there terraces, the people were able to cultivate crops on the mountainsides in cold temperatures.

They incorporated an irrigation system that uses water from the forests and mountain tops to achieve an elaborate farming system.

Show the innovative and indigenous way of the natives to survive in an otherwise unfriendly environment.

Metal Age Influence

Established schools and introduced the concepts of subjects and disciplines.

__ focuses on understanding different concepts related to the human body, plants, animals and bodies.

__ focuses on using and developing house tools

Life during the this era became modernized

Filipinos replicated technology brought by the Spaniards using indigenous materials.

Medicine and advanced science were introduced in formal colleges and universities.

The __ was a government monopoly. Only two galleons were used: One sailed from Acapulco to Manila with some __ pesos worth of goods, spending __ days at sea; the other sailed from Manila to Acapulco with some __ pesos worth of goods spending __ days at sea.

The country became one of the centers of global trade in SEA.

One of the most developed places in the region.

Superstitious beliefs and Catholic doctrines and practices halted the growth of science in the country.

Public education system

Improved engineering works and health of the people

Mineral resources were explored and exploited "Americanize" the Filipinos

Reorganized the learning of science

In basic education, science education focuses on nature studies and science and sanitation.

Filipinos learned the value of cleanliness, proper hygiene, and healthy practices

Hospitals, clinics, health centers were established including public hospitals for lepers.

Americans built roads, streets and bridges

The new infrastructure helped make the movement of products and services more efficient.

Boulevards, zone districts, and center of leisure were also established.

The country had a difficult time to rebuild itself from the ruins of the war.

The human spirit to survive and to rebuild the country may be strong but the capacity of the country to bring back what was destroyed was limited.

Focusing on using its limited resources in improving S&T capability.

Use of Overseas Development Allocation to improve scientific productivity and technological capability.

Human resource development

Development of S&T in the Philippines Internal Influence 1-3 External 4-6

DOST

NRCP

ASEAN

FOUR CLUSTERS OF NRCP:

Integrating ASEAN awareness in basic education without adding the curriculum

Teaching in mother tongue

Developing school infrastructure and providing ICT broadband

Local food security

Emphasizing degrees, licenses, and employment opportunities

Outright grants for peer monitoring

Review of R.A.9184

Ensuring compliance of drug manufacturing firms with ASEAN harmonized standards by full administration of FDA

Creating an education council dedicated to standardization of pharmaceutical services

Empowering food and drug agencies to conduct evidence based research as pool of information.

Allocating 2 percent of GDP to research Legislating a law supporting human genome project.

Protecting and conserving biodiversity by full implementation of existing law

Use of biosafety and standard model by ASEAN countries

Promoting indigenous knowledge system and indigenous people's conservation.

Formulation of common food and safety standards.