Abstract
This study aimed to develop LEARNjoying Philosophy in Teaching Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences and to assess its level of effectiveness in increasing the academic performance of the student-respondents of San Guillermo Integrated School in Morong, Rizal during the School Year 2021-2022. The respondents of the study were selected 70 Grade 11 students under Humanities and Social Sciences Strand. The respondents were chosen purposively through a fish bowl technique to safely choose who would be exposed to the develop material and not. The study made use of the experimental design utilizing the pretest and posttest administered to two groups of respondents. The developed LEARNjoying Philosophy in Teaching Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences was found to be an effective learning tool based on the mean gain percentage in terms of objectives, content, learning activities, presentation and organization, and usefulness, the developed educational games was found to be very acceptable by the experts. On the level of performance of experimental and control groups as revealed by the pretest and posttest in the different lessons of Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences, the experimental group gained a very high performance as compared to the control group. Hence, the developed educational games in Teaching Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences improved the level of performance of the students and the experts found it as an effective instructional material useful in teaching-learning.
