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Health
Quarter 1
Community and Environmental
Health
Lesson 3

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Health – Grade 9
Quarter 1: Community and Environmental Health

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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Health 9 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on The Community
and Environmental Health.

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators both
from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping
the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming
their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their
needs and circumstances.

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For the learner:
Welcome to the Health 9 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Environmental
Problems in the Philipines.
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to
process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.
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What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

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skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

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 What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank
sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process that you learned from the lesson.

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What I Can Do
will help you transfer your new
knowledge or skill into real life situations
or concerns.

This is a task which aims to evaluate

Assessment
your level of master in achieving the
learning competency.

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Additional Activities
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tends retention of learned concepts

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Answer Key
the module.

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References
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 What I Need to Know

The Philippines is presently facing a lot of environmental concerns. If you look

at the environment around us, you can see that there are a number of issues that really
affect our lives.. The current environmental concerns represent a considerable
measure of danger to the well-being of people and creatures.

Our environment is constantly changing. people need to be aware of what types of

environmental problems our country is facing. Current environmental problems make us
vulnerable to disasters and tragedies, now and in the future.

This module will help you understand concepts and enjoy different activities .
At the end of this module you are expected to:

1. Discusses the nature of environmental issues.

What I Know

TRY THIS!
Direction : From the given words inside the box choose the most pressing problems
of environment today and write them inside the shape.
.

earthquake , deforestation, flash floods , typhoon , soil erosion ,

drug abuse, ‘ coral reef degradation , oil spill , illegal mining, pollution ,
food sanitation, water supply,

Environmental Problems

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DO THIS!
Direction: Look around you. Imagine the places in your locality. List down the
environmental problems that they encountered.

What’s In

Activity : Memory Check!

Direction 1.:Look at the picture below . What are the effects of this type of environmental
condition on human’s life? Choose the letter of you answer.

https://www.businessinsider.com/types-of-pollution-health-effects-2019-3

A. It promotes healthy living and stress free way of life.

B. People in the community are suffering from different physical and mental
illnesses.
C. People have to spend most of their earnings on curing and treating these
dangerous diseases.
D. People will not be able to work properly.
E. The amount of disease increases.

2. What type of environmental problem is in the picture?___________________

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 What’s New

Activity1. Picture Recognition:

Direction: Match the given pictures to the correct descriptions. Select the word of
your answer from the box and write it on the blank below the picture.

Pollution Flash Flood Illegal Mining

Oil Spill Coral Reef Degradation Deforestation
air pollution Soil Erosion

1. 3.

https://www.change.org/p/denr-stop-the-cruel-act-of-deforestation https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50913965

_____________________________________ _____________________________________

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https://hosbeg.com/effects-soil-erosion/ https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/13/losing-our-coral-reefs/

______________________ _____________________

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5. 7.

https://www.cnn.ph/regional/2019/3/8/davao-del-norte-oil-spill.html https://philippineslifestyle.com/plastic-pollution-philippines/

___________________________________ _______________________________

6.

https://www.bworldonline.com/miners-seek-elbow-room-open-pit-mining/

_______________________________

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 What is It

Lesson
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN
2 THE PHILIPPINES

The Most Pressing Environmental Problems in the Philippines

1.DEFORESTATION is the destruction of big areas of forests.

2. FLASH FLOOD is a sudden flood of great volume, usually caused by a heavy

rain.

3. ILLEGAL MINING is defined as the extraction of valuable minerals or other

geological materials from the earth from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, or reef,
which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner in the
absence of land rights, mining license, exploration or mineral transportation
permit or of any document that could legitimate the on-going operations.

4. SOIL EROSION happens when soil and rock are moved from one place to
another by wind , water, and gravity.

Causes of Soil Erosion

 Deforestation
 Building of Roads
 Agriculture
 Urbanization
 Mining
 from oil tankers with equipment faults
 from nature and human activities on land
 from water sports
 from drilling works carried out in the sea

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5. CORAL REEF DEGRADATION is a significant problem throughout the world. It
has been acknowledged that 27 % of the world’s reefs have been affected.

6.POLLUTION means any alteration of the physical, chemical, and biological

properties of water, air and /or land resources.
Air Pollution means any alteration of the physical , chemical , and biological
properties of the atmospheric air.
Water Pollution means any alteration of the physical , chemical , and
biological or radiological properties of a body of water resulting in the
impairment of its purity or quality.
Noise Pollution is the excessive sound that causes hearing loss, stress,
fatigue, irritability , tension, headaches, and high blood pressure.
Soil Pollution is chiefly caused by chemicals in pesticides, such as poisons
that are used to kill agricultural pests like insects and herbicides that are
used to get rid of weeds.

7. OIL SPILL is an accidental release of oil into a body of water, as from a tanker,
offshore drilling rig, or underwater pipeline, often presenting a hazard to
marine life and the environment.

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 What’s More

Activity: Picture Analysis

Direction: Look at the picture below, find the different environmental problems and
write them on the spaces below.

https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Seven_Biggest_Environmental_Threats

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

In your community or place do you have that kind of environmental problem?_____

If there is write it on the blank ___________________________________________

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 What I Have Learned

I have learned that_______________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

What I can do

Activity: I am an Earth Saver

Direction: What can you do in the given situations?

1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_Pollution_in_Ghana.jpg

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

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2.

https://ecology.wa.gov/Air-Climate/Air-quality/Smoke-fire/Outdoor-residential-burning

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

Assessment

Directions: Give what is described in each item by writing the letter of the correct
answer before each number,

___1. The destruction of big areas of forests

A. illegal mining C. flash flood
B. deforestation D. soil erosion
____2. A sudden flood of great volume, usually caused by a heavy rain
A. illegal mining C. flash flood
B. deforestation D. soil erosion
____3. It happens when soil and rock are moved from one place to another by wind
water, and gravity.
A. illegal mining C. flash flood
B. deforestation D. soil erosion

____4. It is an accidental release of oil into a body of water, as from a tanker,

offshore drilling rig, or underwater pipeline, often presenting a hazard to
marine life and the environment.

A. illegal mining C. oil spill

B. deforestation D. soil erosion

____5.It is the alteration of the physical, chemical, and biological

properties of water, air and /or land resources.

A. pollution C. oil spill

B. deforestation D. soil erosion

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 Additional Activities
Direction : Match the descriptions on the right to the environmental problems on
the left. Write the letter of your answer on the blank before each number
Environmental
Problems
___1. DEFORESTATION
___2. FLASH FLOOD
___3. ILLEGAL MINING
___4. SOIL EROSION
___5.. CORAL REEF
DEGRADATION
___6. P0LLUTION
___7. OIL SPILL
Descriptions
A. The extraction of valuable minerals or other
geological materials from the earth from an
ore
body, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms
the
mineralized package of economic interest to
the
miner in the absence of land rights, mining
license, exploration or mineral transportation
permit or of any document that could legitimate
the on-going operations.
B. It happens when soil and rock are moved from
one place to another by wind , water, and
gravity.
C. The destruction of big areas of forests
D. A significant problem throughout the world. It
has been acknowledged that 27 % of the
world’s reefs have been affected.
E. A sudden flood of great volume, usually caused
by a heavy rain.
F. Any alteration of the physical , chemical, and
biological properties of water, air and/or land
resources
G. An accidental release of oil into a body of
water,
as from a tanker.
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 Answer key

What I Know What ‘s in What’s new

Try this! 1.B, C, D, E 1. deforestation
Deforestation 2. soil erosion
Flash flood 2. POLLUTION 3. flash flood
Soil erosion 4. coral reef degradation
Coral reef degradation 5.oil spill
Oil spill 6. illegal mining
Pollution
7. pollution
Illegal mining

Do this (answers may vary)

What’s more What I have learned What I can do

Answers may vary Answers may vary Answers may vary
Assessment Additional Activity
1. B 1. C
2.C 2.E
3.D 3.A
4. C 4.B
5. A 5.D
6.F
7.G

References

1.Physical Education and Health – Grade 9 Learner’s Material pages 243-246

2. https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/top-25-environmental-concerns.php

3.https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/15-current-environmental-problems.php

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