Schools often ask when a drone session fits best. This page lists the exact DepEd MATATAG grade, subject, quarter and week where it connects to what learners are already studying, for Grades 3 to 11.
Use the free teaching packs on your own, or invite the Lumipad team for a free half-day workshop. Many schools do both: a workshop first, then the packs to keep going.
Download a pack for your grade band. Each one has a teaching deck, student workbook, teacher guide, answer key and a simulator activity book, so any Science or Math teacher can run the lessons.
We come to your school for one morning or afternoon and run the lesson, simulator missions, toy-drone challenges and a team brainstorm with your students. We bring everything.
Pick a core week and hold the drone session during it or just after. Related weeks are good extras. Quarters and weeks follow the MATATAG lesson sequence.
19 MATATAG lessons connect, 11 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 3 (3 core weeks).
Area with square tiles; a farm field split into squares is how a mapping drone covers it.
Area of rectangles in sq m; how much field a spray drone covers.
Lines, rays, parallel and perpendicular lines; straight flight lines and turns.
Measure how far and how high a drone travels in cm and m; predict where it lands.
Comparing and measuring mass; heavier drones need more thrust.
Grams and kilograms; reading a drone weight and payload limit.
Capacity in mL and L; a spray tank.
Wings and flight in birds and insects are the natural starting point for why things fly and how drones copy nature.
Drones help watch forests, rivers and coasts for pollution and damage.
Tables and bar graphs of flight results (landings, lap times).
Wind and pushes move objects; a spinning propeller makes its own wind to push the drone up.
Choosing a scale for a bar graph of flight data.
Size, shape and heaviness change how things move; position words (left, above, behind) are how a pilot describes where the drone is.
Likely and unlikely outcomes; will the weather let us fly?
Measure change in position from a reference point; the same idea as the drone home point.
Sending messages with light and sound patterns leads into drone lights and radio control signals.
Observing and predicting weather is the first pre-flight check.
Strong wind, rain and thunderstorms are no-fly conditions; safety rules for pilots.
Sunlight for farming and stars for navigation connect to crop drones and GPS.
25 MATATAG lessons connect, 17 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 3 (6 core weeks).
Right, acute and obtuse angles; turning the drone and tilting the camera.
Inventions and their impact; the drone as a modern invention that Filipinos build and use.
Perimeter; flying the boundary of a field or plot.
Perimeter of composite shapes; a flight path around an L-shaped farm.
Using science to solve local environmental problems; drones as a survey tool.
Environmental surveys; aerial surveys collect the same data from above.
Converting length, mass and capacity units on drone specs.
Rice fields, seashores and mangroves are places drones map and monitor.
Elapsed time; flight time per battery.
Fractions of a battery remaining.
Force as a push or pull with a direction arrow: thrust pushes up, weight pulls down.
Magnets exert force at a distance; every drone motor is built around magnets.
Forces start, stop and change speed and direction; more thrust makes the drone climb.
Distance, time and speed; timing a drone across a measured course.
Distance-time graphs of a drone flight; steeper line means faster.
Energy transformation chains: battery (chemical) to electrical to motion and sound.
Sound energy and vibration; why propellers buzz.
Line symmetry; a quadcopter is symmetric so it balances.
Single line graphs with time; battery level over a flight.
Soil types and plant growth; farm drones check soil and crops.
Weather characteristics that matter to pilots: wind, rain, cloud.
Weather instruments (improvised wind vane and anemometer) for a pre-flight wind check.
Reading forecasts to decide whether to fly.
Extreme weather and safety; drones assess damage after typhoons and floods.
Comparing decimals such as battery voltages (3.7 V, 4.2 V).
29 MATATAG lessons connect, 16 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 3 (7 core weeks).
24-hour time used in flight logs.
Time zones and longitude; the start of GPS coordinates.
Volume in liters and mL; sizing a spray drone tank.
Area of parallelograms, triangles and trapezoids; irregular farm plots.
Steps of a scientific investigation, used for simple drone flight tests.
Base and height in different orientations; reading plots from an aerial photo.
Mass in grams and kilograms; weighing a drone and its payload.
Estimating area on a grid; estimating field area from a drone map.
Using balances to weigh drone parts.
Animal adaptations including flight and migration; nature as a flight designer.
Double bar and line graphs comparing two drones or two propellers.
Contact forces, balanced and unbalanced; landing gear feels the normal force.
Double bar graphs.
Fluid friction is air resistance, the drag a drone must overcome.
Double line graphs: altitude of two flights over time.
Non-contact forces: gravity pulls the drone down; magnetic force spins the motors.
Theoretical probability.
Gravity, free fall, air resistance and drag; the key lesson for why a drone must keep making thrust.
Electric charge basics, leading into current in drone wiring.
Multiplying decimals: litres per hectare times hectares.
Closed and open circuits, conductors and insulators; the drone power circuit.
Circuit parts, switch and load; battery, switch and motor as a simple circuit.
Electromagnets are the heart of an electric motor.
Landforms and bodies of water seen and mapped from the air.
Nets of prisms; designing a drone parcel box.
The water cycle and humidity; rain and moisture harm electronics.
Air pressure and wind; low-pressure areas and typhoons.
PAGASA wind signals as flying limits; drones in storm response.
Clockwise and counterclockwise rotation; neighbouring propellers spin in opposite directions.
28 MATATAG lessons connect, 17 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 3 (6 core weeks).
Tessellations and transformations; overlapping photo tiles in a drone map.
Problem solving with decimals; budgeting battery charge for a mission.
Air is matter with mass that takes up space, so a propeller can push on it.
Winnowing uses a moving air stream, the same downwash a drone makes.
Fair tests (change one variable) for comparing propellers or payloads.
Ratio; thrust-to-weight ratio.
Proportion; map scale and photo scale.
Direct and inverse proportion: more drones, less time to cover a field.
Percent; battery percentage.
Percentage, rate and base; battery used per minute, field sprayed.
Biotic and abiotic factors surveyed by environmental drones.
Capacity units; tank litres.
Levers and turning forces; motor arm length and balance.
Mechanical advantage of wheel and axle; motor shaft and propeller.
The screw is an inclined plane wrapped around a shaft; a propeller is an "airscrew".
Square metres and composite areas; field mapping.
Mechanical advantage of screws; propeller pitch.
Mechanical and electromagnetic waves; radio waves carry drone control signals.
Wavelength and frequency; 2.4 GHz control and 5.8 GHz video.
Electromagnetic waves need no medium, which is why radio reaches the drone through air.
Sound waves, pitch and loudness; propeller noise.
Area of a circle; the propeller disk.
Circumference; propeller tip speed and orbit paths.
Volcano alert levels; drones observe craters safely from a distance.
Volcanic activity and safety; aerial monitoring of Taal and Mayon.
Pie graphs; where battery energy goes.
Data from digital media; reading a drone app screen.
Constellations for navigation, compared with GPS satellites.
34 MATATAG lessons connect, 24 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 3 (6 core weeks).
Polygons; flight patterns shaped as squares, hexagons and more.
Scientific models explain phenomena; the Lumipad simulator is a working model of real flight.
Regular polygons and interior angle sums; planning a polygon flight.
Exterior angles sum to 360 degrees; the turn at each corner of a flight path.
Percentage increase and decrease; battery drain.
Problems and hypotheses for a drone flight investigation.
Independent, dependent and controlled variables in flight tests.
Physical quantities and SI units used on drone spec sheets.
Measurement systems; feet vs metres on drone specs and aviation rules.
Unit conversion; km/h to m/s.
Volume of a cylinder; motors and spray tanks.
Data collection and sampling for flight tests and aerial surveys.
Contact and non-contact forces acting on a drone.
Force vectors and free-body diagrams of thrust, weight, lift and drag; the central diagram of the deck.
Line graphs and stem-and-leaf plots of lap times.
Balanced forces mean hover; unbalanced forces mean climb, descend or move.
Integers on a number line; altitude above and below the take-off point.
Distance vs displacement on a flight path back to home.
Adding and subtracting integers; altitude changes.
Speed and velocity; drones fly with a speed and a heading.
Distance-time graphs from flight logs.
Conductors and insulators; wire insulation and heat.
Absolute value as distance from home.
Convection and thermals; motor and battery cooling.
Evaluating expressions such as d = vt and flight time.
Earthquakes and tsunami; drones map damage.
Using formulas: flight time = battery capacity / current.
Preparedness; search-and-rescue drones.
Literal equations: rearranging d = vt for v or t.
The atmosphere; air thins with altitude so propellers work harder.
Monsoon winds (amihan, habagat) and clouds; seasonal flying conditions.
Probability of simple events.
Scientific notation; 2.4 x 10^9 Hz radio frequency.
Uneven heating makes sea and land breezes that pilots feel near the coast.
25 MATATAG lessons connect, 16 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 4 (6 core weeks).
Mean, median and mode of flight times.
Photosynthesis and leaf colour are what multispectral crop-health cameras measure.
Sequences; waypoint and survey-line patterns.
The Cartesian plane; waypoints as coordinates.
Distance and midpoint between waypoints.
Volume of cones and spheres; hoppers and spray nozzles.
Pythagorean theorem; straight-line distance from home and slant range.
Linear equations in two variables; distance vs time.
Conditions that form storms.
Equation of a line; battery voltage falling over a flight.
Typhoon structure and wind categories as flying limits.
Systems of linear equations; when two drones meet.
Before, during and after a typhoon; drones in damage assessment and relief.
Linear inequalities; drone + payload must stay under maximum take-off weight.
Variability; how consistent a pilot is.
Acceleration; unbalanced thrust accelerates the drone.
Displacement-time and velocity-time graphs of a flight.
Primary data from flight tests.
Uniform circular motion; propeller rpm, period, and orbit flights around a point.
Work and power; watts needed to lift and hover.
Kinetic and potential energy of a flying drone.
Counting principle; combinations of drone parts.
Conservation of energy: battery to motor to air; where energy is lost as heat.
Reflection; obstacle sensors and camera mirrors.
Refraction; how the camera lens forms an image.
29 MATATAG lessons connect, 21 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 1 (8 core weeks).
Newton 1: a hovering drone has balanced forces; inertia when stopping.
Parallel lines and transversals; survey flight lines.
Newton 2 (F = ma): thrust-to-weight ratio and acceleration.
Newton 3: propellers push air down, air pushes the drone up; the core thrust lesson.
Relations and functions; altitude as a function of time.
Current and Ohm law; motor current draw.
Series circuits; LiPo cells in series (3S, 4S) add voltage.
Dependent and independent variables in drone data.
Parallel circuits; ESCs share one power bus.
Linear functions and slope; rate of climb.
The EM spectrum: radio control, video links, GPS, infrared.
Linear models such as service fees: base plus rate per hectare.
Uses of EM radiation; thermal cameras for search and rescue.
Kites and parallelograms; X-frame drone geometry.
Satellites and space technology; GPS positioning and satellite remote sensing (PhilSA).
Quadratic functions and parabolas; the path of a dropped payload.
Graphing a parabola of a drop.
Biodiversity surveys from the air.
Quadratic formula; when the payload reaches the ground.
Protecting threatened species; wildlife counts and anti-poaching patrols.
Similar triangles; camera footprint and ground scale.
Direct and inverse variation; flight time vs current, image detail vs altitude.
Mitigation plans using drone mapping and reforestation.
Trigonometric ratios.
Solving right triangles for height and distance.
Angles of elevation and depression; camera tilt and finding drone height.
Misleading data; reading drone marketing claims.
Designing a reliable investigation for a drone experiment.
Compound probability; mission risk.
27 MATATAG lessons connect, 15 of them core. Best fit: Science, Quarter 2 (6 core weeks).
Law of sines; locating a drone from two observers.
Law of cosines; wind triangle and course correction.
Oblique triangle problems in navigation.
Transformations on the plane; moving a flight plan.
Quadratic inequalities; time a payload is above a height.
Climate impacts that drones monitor: floods, coastlines, crops.
Climate action; seed-dropping drones for reforestation and mangroves.
Projectile motion of a payload dropped from a moving drone.
Release speed, height and air resistance decide where a drop lands (simulator delivery missions).
Graphs of data.
Momentum and impulse; thrust as the momentum pushed into the air each second.
Collisions; crash safety and prop guards.
Conservation of momentum explains how a rotor produces thrust.
Motors and electromagnetic induction; brushless drone motors.
Power generation; solar charging for field teams.
Energy = power x time; battery watt-hours, flight time and charging cost.
Equation of a circle; geofence and radio range.
Center and radius; orbit around a point of interest.
Coordinate geometry problems with circles.
Conditional probability; reliability of parts.
Depreciation; running a drone service business.
Compound interest; financing a drone.
Negative feedback; the flight controller constantly corrects the drone, the way the body keeps balance.
Tangents and secants; smooth turning paths.
Secant-tangent theorem; distance to the horizon and radio line of sight.
Sectors; camera field of view and spray swath.
Shaded regions; overlap between coverage areas.
14 MATATAG lessons connect, 10 of them core.
Grade 11 follows semester course guides rather than quarter weeks. Schedule the drone session while the course below covers the matching topic.
Quadratic models for projectile motion, trigonometry, polar coordinates (competencies 3, 26-31).
Rates of change, related rates and optimisation (competencies 13-14).
Linear programming for fleet and payload planning (competencies 12-16).
Graph theory, Euler and Hamilton paths, search algorithms for delivery routes (competencies 8-15).
Equations of lines and circles for real situations (competencies 1-5).
Aerodynamics of wings with unequal air speeds and pressures (competency 4); rotational motion (competency 3).
Monitoring Philippine water resources.
Satellite imagery and remote sensing for disaster response with PhilSA (competencies 8-12).
Hazard maps, geospatial data and community disaster risk assessment (competencies 4-10).
IoT systems and AI applications (competencies 10-17).
Kinematics, vectors, Newton laws, work and power, momentum, torque and rotational motion; competency 9 names aircraft navigation.
Fluids and the Bernoulli principle with aviation applications (competency 8); gravitation and satellites.
Circuits, Ohm law, capacitors, magnetic force, electric motors and induction (competency 18).
Waves, light, optical sensors (competency 8) and the Doppler effect.
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The teacher guide shows which pack session to teach in each of these weeks.
One half-day session at your school, in a morning or an afternoon. We bring all materials, equipment and instructors. The school provides a classroom and students. Everything is free.
For safety, the only drones flown at a Lumipad workshop are small toy drones. We never fly real drones at a workshop.
Find your grade below and choose a core week. Schedule the drone session in that week or just after it.
Fill in the workshop request form. Tell us the weeks that suit you and whether a morning or an afternoon works best.
We get in touch to confirm the date and adapt the content to your students' level.
We bring everything and run the half-day session. Teachers get the free packs to continue in class.
Something else? Email hello@lumipaddrones.com.
No. A drone session works any time. The weeks listed here are where it connects most closely to what learners are already studying, so it reinforces the lesson instead of taking extra time. Quarters and weeks follow the MATATAG lesson sequence; if your school calendar differs, match by lesson title.
In a core week the drone session builds directly on the MATATAG lesson, so schedule it during or right after that week. A related week is a good hook or example, but the session does not depend on it.
No. Students fly the free Lumipad simulator and, at workshops, small toy drones indoors under instructor supervision. No real drones are flown at our workshops, by students or by staff, so no workshop activity falls under CAAP drone regulations.
Yes. The teaching packs are free to print, adapt and share, and the workshops are free for schools. We cover all materials, equipment and instructor time.
Yes. Every pack is written so a Science or Math teacher can run it alone. Start with the teacher guide.
Found your week? Teach it yourself or let us run it with your students.