HEALTH

Learner’s Materials
UNIT 1

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Health – Grade 3
Learner’s Material
First Edition, 2013
ISBN: 978-971-0468-21-8

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 Table of Contents

Quarter 1 – Nutrition ................................................................. 1

Lesson 1: Good or bad nutrition ......................................... 5

Lesson 2: Are you under eating? ....................................... 7

Lesson 3: Vitamins for life ..................................................... 10

Lesson 4: Minerals for life ..................................................... 13

Lesson 5: Are you overeating? ........................................... 16

Lesson 6: Eat just right........................................................... 18

Lesson 7: Grow with healthy food ...................................... 21

Lesson 8: Healthy with clean and safe food .................... 25

Lesson 9: Maintain a healthy life style ............................... 29

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 QUARTER 1

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 NUTRITION
INTRODUCTION:

Proper nutrition is important for your good health. This module will
help you understand the importance of balanced diet in good
nutrition. It also hopes to enable you to make good food choices
and maintain healthy lifestyle. So now, get ready to learn and be
healthy. Remember, it is important to eat well and live well!

Lesson 1: Good or Bad Malnutrition

Let’s Try! 

Look at the pictures.

   

Picture 1: Rod Picture 2: Lee Picture 3: Romy

Who among the children is healthy? Why?

Who is not healthy? Why?

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 Let’s Do This! 

Compare Rod, Lee and Romy. Fill out the chart.

Lee Rod Romy

How he looks

How you think he feels

What you think he can do

What you think he CAN’T

do

Let’s Remember!
 

Finish the sentence.

Malnutrition is
_____________________________________________________

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 Let’s Check!

What is a healthy child?

Describe a healthy child. Use your own words.

What is malnutrition?
Answer using the word map below:

Lesson 2: Are you under eating?

Let’s Do! 

Activity 1: A Story of Two Children

Read the stories of two children who are both 8 years old: M
and K.
M

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 M does not have appetite to eat; she is thin. She is also the
smallest child in her class. M wakes up late and is always in a hurry
to go to school. She often misses breakfast. It’s a long walk to
school and she arrives in class feeling weak and very tired. She
feels sleepy and cannot understand the lesson. At home, lunch is
rice and water with salt since her family is poor. M got sick. The
doctor at the barangay health center said that M is suffering from
malnutrition.

Answer the following questions:

1. How does M look?
2. How does she feel?
3. What does M eat?
4. What is M suffering from?
5. What does M lack in her diet?

K is suffering from burn and has been in the hospital for

weeks. He and his little brother were playing with matches and
their house caught fire. K cannot eat. He finds it hard to chew and
swallow food. He has lost a lot of weight and is already very thin.

Answer the following questions:

1. How does K look?
2. How does he feel?
3. What can’t K eat?
4. What might happen to K? Why?
 
Activity 2: Draw Me a Picture

Draw a picture of M or K.

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 Let’s Remember!
 

Finish the following sentences under your picture:

1. Protein-energy malnutrition is a kind of _____________________.

2. In protein-energy malnutrition, there is lack of the nutrients
______________ and ________________ in the diet.
3. A child with protein-energy malnutrition
looks
_______________________________________________________.
feels _________________-
_______________________________________.
cannot____________________________________________________
__.

Let’s Check! 

On the space before the number: write True if the statement is

correct, write False if the statement is wrong.

___1. A child who eats too little suffers from over nutrition.
___2. A child who eats too much suffers from malnutrition.
___3. A child who suffers from protein-energy malnutrition is stout.
___4. A child with protein-energy malnutrition does not learn well.
___5. A child with protein-energy malnutrition lacks protein and
carbohydrates in the diet.

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 Lesson 3: Vitamins For Life?

Let’s Do! 

Activity 1
Study the pictures below.
Describe the children.

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Activity 2: Know Your Vitamins
Match the deficiencies in column A with the vitamin a person
needs in column B.
Draw a line to connect them.

A B

1. Scurvy A. Vitamin A

2. Beri-beri B. Vitamin B

3. Rickets C. Vitamin C

4. Night blindness D. Vitamin D

E. Vitamin E

Let’s Remember!
 

Vitamins are nutrients that help regulate body functions. A

person who lacks vitamins in the body will suffer nutritional
deficiencies.

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 Let’s Check! 

What will happen if we don’t get enough vitamins?

Name the vitamins needed for each situation.

1. Jane finds it hard to read her favorite book. Her eyes are
itching and burning.
____________________________________________________

2. Francis has dry and scaly skin. He gets tired easily and has
muscle pains.

____________________________________________________

3. Leah often has nose and gum bleeding. Her wounds also
do not heal easily.

_____________________________________________________

4. Greg cannot walk and stand properly. He has weak bones

and muscles.

_____________________________________________________

Choose one vitamin. Make a slogan on how to prevent vitamin

deficiency.

Content: 5 points

Structure: 3 points

Creativity: 2 points

10 points

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 Lesson 4: Minerals For Life

Let’s Check! 

I. Identify the signs and symptoms for each deficiency.

Write in the appropriate column.

Dizziness Joint pains Slow growth

Paleness Brittle nails Difficult swallowing
Cramps Sleeplessness Slow mental growth

Iron- Deficiency Iodine- Deficiency Calcium- Deficiency

Anemia

II. What minerals do these foods contain?

A. Write your answers on the blank.

S se

milk seaweeds cheese

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 fish Malunggay leaves chicken

Mussels

shrimps crabs clams

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III. Match the deficiency in Column A to the healthy foods in
Column B. Draw a line to connect.

A B

Rickets

Iron-deficiency anemia

Goiter

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Lesson 5: Are you overeating?

Let’s Do! 

Activity 1: A Letter For My Friend

Read the letter below.

Dear Friend,

How are you doing? You have been absent in school for a
week now. I called your house. Your father told me that you get
easily tired and you find it hard to breathe. I asked if we can play
after school but he said you cannot. Your father said you do not
also want to go to school because you are afraid to be teased as
a fat kid. Please call me so I can tell you our homework. Come to
school again soon.

Love, Your Friend

Answer the following questions:

1. Why is the friend not going to school?
2. How does the friend look like?
3. What is the friend suffering from?
4. What foods did the friend eat that made him fat?

Activity 2: Eat all you can!

Draw your favorite food.

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 Let’s Remember!
 

Finish the following sentences under your picture:

1. Obesity is a kind of _____________________.

2. In obesity, there is lack of ______________ and excess
________________ in the diet.
3. A child with obesity
looks___________________________________________.
feels______________________________________________________.
cannot___________________________________________________.

Let’s Check! 

On the space before the number: write True is the statement is

correct, write False if the statement is wrong.

___1. A child who eats too much suffers from under nutrition.
___2. A child who eats too much suffers from obesity.
___3. A child who suffers from obesity is skinny.
___4. A child with obesity performs limited physical activities only.
___5. A child with obesity lacks protein and carbohydrates in the
diet.

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Lesson 6: Eat Just Right!

Let’s Try! 

What are your favorite foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
Draw on the plates below.

Breakfast Lunch

Dinner

Are these healthy?

Is it okay to eat too much or too less? Why?

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 Let’s Do! 

Activity 2: Create Your Own Menu!

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 Let’s Check! 

I. Use the Food Pyramid Guide to plan a balanced breakfast,

lunch and dinner.

Write inside the notepads.

Breakfast Lunch

Dinner

II. Complete the sentences below.

If I eat too less, I may

________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________

If I eat too much, I may

________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________

If I eat just right, I may

________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
____

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Lesson 7: Grow with Healthy Food

Let’s Try! 
Can you find the hidden names of nutritious foods?
Find these and write on your notebook.

P E C H A Y X V
A Q S Q U A S H
P U B E N M E W
A C A S S A V A
Y F N G U A V A
A B A M I L K H
K A N G K O N G
D M A N G O K U
C A M O T E R N
L B A N A N A Y

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 Let’s Do! 

Activity 1: Match Me!

What do we get from eating nutritious food?

Match the picture to the correct word.

 
Carbohydrates 
 

 
Calcium 

Picture of root crops (kamote, 
cassava, corn) 
 
Vitamins 

Minerals 

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 Activity 2: My Everyday Maze

What are other foods that we need to eat more everyday?

START Draw a carbohydrate-

rich food.

Draw a vitamin-rich
food.

Draw a mineral-rich
food.

TIME OUT!
Let’s Drink a glass of
milk

Draw a glass of milk

A Healthy and
Balanced You

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 Let’s Check! 

Why do we need to eat protein-rich foods?

Why do we need to avoid salty and fatty foods?
Write the reasons below.

Yes to Protein! 
If I eat protein‐rich foods, I will 
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________

No to Salt and Fat! 
If I eat too salty and fatty foods, I will 
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________

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Lesson 8: Healthy with Clean and Safe Food

Let’s Try! 

Sing the song to the tune of “Row, row, row your boat”

Eat clean and safe food

Do it everyday
Happily, happily, happily, happily
We will be healthy

Let’s Do! 

Activity 1: What’s wrong?

Study the picture.

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Activity 2: Choose and Tell

Decide whether the picture shows proper ways to have clean and
safe food.
If not write what must be done in your notebook.

 
1  

1 2

3 4

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Activity 3: Agree or Disagree?
Which of the following practices do you like or dislike?
Check ( √) the column.

Agree Practices Disgaree

I will keep cabinets and other

food storage areas clean and
dry.

I will wash vegetables and fruits

with soap and water.

I will leave utensils in the sink after

using these.

I will reheat leftover foods.

I will serve food in clean dishes.

I will eat lunch by the road.

I will eat expired foods.

I will use clean pots in cooking.

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 Let’s Check! 

A. Provide the missing word on the blank. Use the picture to

guide you.

Wash _______________ , and __________

before and after eating.

Store_______________________ in a

cool and dry place .

_______________ food to avoid germs carried

by _________. .

B. Complete the phrases below:

1. I will not eat uncovered leftover food

because_____________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
________

2. I will wash fruits and vegetables before cooking or eating

to________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
____________

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Lesson 9: Maintain A Healthy Life Style

Let’s Do! 

Activity 1
Read the story assigned to your group.
Story A
Kuya Ramon is always drinking beer at the sari-sari store.
After drinking, he often stumbles and falls when going home.
Sometimes he gets into a fight. Sometimes other people don’t
want to drink with him. His family fears him when he is drunk
because he gets angry and sometimes beat his children. He has
also grown thinner since he doesn’t eat well and prefers beer.
Answer the following questions:
1. What can you say about Kuya Ramon?
2. Is this lifestyle of drinking often healthy? Why or why
not?
3. What should Kuya Ramon do?
Story B

Susan’s father smokes cigarettes. He smokes inside the

house. He thinks the children will not be affected since he smokes
when the children are not around. Susan has a cough that
doesn’t seem to heal and is always coming back after a few days.
When Susan was brought to the doctor, the doctor asked if
someone smokes in the family. Susan’s mother explained that the
children are not harmed by her husband’s smoking if they are not
around. The doctor explained about third-hand smoke. Smoke
from cigarettes gets trapped in the curtains and furniture in the
house. Hence, the children will still breathe the polluted air from
the trapped smoke’s chemicals.
Answer the following questions:

1. What can you say about Susan’s father?

2. Is this lifestyle of smoking healthy? Why or why not?
3. What should Susan’s father do?

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Activity 2
Choose the healthy foods and activities.
Write your answer in your notebook.

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 Let’s us Check! 

Copy and check on the column that corresponds to your answer.

Activities Often Seldom Never

1. Drink milk daily.

2. Eat breakfast regularly.

3. Eat junk food for snacks.

4. Watch television all day.

5. Drink three bottles of soda a day.

6. Drink a lot of natural fruit juices.

7. Drink 8 – 10 glasses of water daily.

8. Stay close to a smoking person.

9. Play active games with friends on

Saturdays.

10. Play computer games until late

at night.

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 Let’s Do this at Home 

What makes a healthy lifestyle?

Provide the missing letters to form the word being described.

1. Eating the right kind and right amount of food

B L N D

D E

2. Doing this will help your body to be strong and you will not easily
get sick, you will control your weight and have fun.

R G L R

E R C S

3. It can cause lung cancer and infection, allergies and asthma.

S M K N G

4. Unhealthy beverages that commonly leads to malnutrition and

vitamin deficiencies

L C H L

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