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Health
Quarter 1, Wk. 5 - Module 5
Prevention and Management of Environmental
Health Issues

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

Health - Grade 9
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Quarter 1, Wk.5 - Module 5: Prevention and Management of Environmental Health
Issues
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 Health
Quarter 1, Wk. 5 - Module 5
Prevention and Management of Environmental
Health Issues

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About.................................................................................................i

What I Need to Know..........................................................................................................ii
How to Learn from this Module..........................................................................................ii
Icons of this Module...........................................................................................................iii

What I Know..................................................................................................................... iii

Lesson 1:

Prevention and Management of Environmental Health Issues

What’s I Need to Know...............................................................................

What In.......................................................................................................
What’s New .............................................................................................
What Is It....................................................................................................
What’s More ..............................................................................................
What I Have Learned..................................................................................
What I Can Do............................................................................................

Summary
Assessment: (Post-Test)

Key to Answers..............................................................................................................

References.....................................................................................................................
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What This Module is About

Are we enjoying a quality life nowadays? Quality of life depends on the condition
of the environment in which we are dwelling. The environment condition we are referring
to can be described as air, water and land are free from pollution, the supply of natural
resources is sustained, both biodiversity and balance of nature do not fall to its critical
level. Moreover, people are free from any environmental hazards like enhanced
greenhouse effect, floods due to climate change, and most importantly, people are free
from all kinds of diseases.

How are we going to attain this quality of life? To attain such quality of life
mentioned above solely depends on how we value and take care of our environment.
Each one of us should think about how to make things sustainable and be responsible in
our roles in maintaining a healthy environment. Let us always remember that a healthy
environment is also our greatest source of good health and well-being.

This module will help you learn more about different ways on how to prevent and
manage the environment health issues we are facing nowadays, and involves you in
hands-on activities on protecting our environment like reducing waste, reusing materials
instead of throwing them away, recycling, composting, participating in cleanup drives and,
conserving natural resources through tree planting. It will help us to know more about our
environmental commitment and be able to appreciate the value of having a healthy
environment, and its importance to us living things and nature. Through which, it helps
us slowly develop concern and behavior or practices that are pro-environment and by
doing so it would be already easier for us to commit ourselves to protect our environment.

What I Need to Know

There are no easy or quick solutions to environmental problems, and
preserving the quality of life on earth and its ecosystems may require more than
small changes in people’s lifestyles. However, if each one of us tries to take a step
and begins to take an action in protecting our environment from all negative human
activities, then achieving a healthy environment is not totally impossible. Therefore,
as a learner, think about how you could help start one. Your actions can make a
difference.

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

Suggest ways to prevent and manage environmental health issues

(H9CE-Ie-f-13)
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How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that

Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
knowledge
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and situations.
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What I Know
Multiple Choice. Read each of the following statement and choose the best answer.
Write the letter on the space provided.

_____1. Which way below helps prevent air and water pollution?

A. garbage segregation

B. excessive use of pesticides

C. use of organic fertilizers

D. tree planting

_____2. What human activity below may contribute to decrease biodiversity?

A. cutting of trees

B. bird hunting

C. mining activity

D. All of these.

_____3. Why do planting trees help to slow climate change?

A. Trees absorb Carbon dioxide from the air during food making or photosynthesis.

B. Trees release a large amount of oxygen into the atmosphere.

C. Trees absorb water to prevent soil erosion.

D. Trees minimize air pollution.

_____4. How will you prevent decreasing biodiversity in a river ecosystem?

A. avoid the use of very fine fish net

 B. prohibition of dynamite fishing method

C. avoid dumping garbage on rivers

D. All of the above.

_____5. Listed below are ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic EXCEPT?

A. wearing of face mask

B. social distancing

C. garbage segregation

D. constant washing of hands

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Prevention and Management

of Environmental Health
Lesson Issues
1

What I Need to Know

Our planet Earth is made up of many different natural resources, and we use these
things to survive or satisfy our needs. However, we can not also deny the fact that as we use
these natural resources, some of our activities also gradually destroy our natural resources.
and through which, the balance of nature is disturbed and environmental problems appear.

So how would we be able to prevent all of these from its worst or critical state before
it’s too late? What solutions or actions should we take in order to protect our environment
and maintain the sustainability of these natural resources? This module gives the learner an
 insight as to why should we consider and take serious actions in solving not only local
environmental problems but also global.The knowledge and skills acquired in this module
will help you become not just a responsible citizen but also an environmentally committed
individual so that you can help prevent our mountains from being mined, forests from being
denuded, and natural resources from being abused.

What’s In

The previous lesson identifies some environmental issues or problems we are facing
nowadays, and its effect on people’s health. Here is an activity that will assess what you
have learned from the previous lesson and at the same time you are tasked to suggest some
ways on how to prevent or manage these environmental issues/problems.

Activity 1. Environmental Issues, Its Effect on Human Health and Prevention

Complete the table below by describing how the given environmental issues affect the
human health and suggest ways to prevent or manage these environmental
issues/problems.
WAYS TO PREVENT/ MANAGE
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT/S ON
THE ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUE/ PROBLEM HUMAN HEALTH
ISSUE/ PROBLEM

1.

Improper solid waste disposal

2.
 Air Pollution

3.

Climate change (severe drought)

WAYS TO PREVENT/ MANAGE

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT/S ON
THE ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUE/ PROBLEM HUMAN HEALTH
ISSUE/ PROBLEM

4.

Declined Biodiversity
(denuded mountain)

5.
Environmental hazard (COVID-19)
Processing Questions:

1. Aside from the environmental issues given above, what other environmental issue/s
are you also experiencing in your community?
2. What do you think causes it?
3. What actions have you done to help prevent it?

What’s New

Activity 2. EMOJI (SMILE / FROWN)

Read carefully each statement below. Analyze whether the statement is an action that
protects or destroys our environment. Check the column of emoji that corresponds to your
response/ reaction towards the action.

-- protects our environment -- destroys our environment

ACTION

1. Close the faucets and turn off lights and other

electrical appliances when not in use.
2. Bird hunting through shooting them
3. Throwing garbage in trash cans without proper
segregation
4. Burning of plastic materials
5. Participating in cleanup drives
6. Hiking or riding bicycles instead of riding smoke
belching vehicles.
7. Using paper bags instead of plastic bags when
 marketing
8. Excessive logging of trees
9. Solid waste disposal through compost pits
10. Using chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow
plants faster
11. Reusing and recycling of materials instead of
throwing them away
12. Using dynamite or cyanide to catch more fish
13. Avoid using aerosol sprays and other CFC
products
14. Land mining
15. Denudation of forest through Kaingin

What is it

Environmental Problems/ Issues and Protecting our Environment

All living things especially us humans interact with our environment constantly,
because we all depend on our environment for energy and materials needed to sustain life.
However, our choices/daily life activities also affect our environment extremely bad. It is
undeniable and many other sources around the globe prove that the world that we live in had
gone a lot of changes already and these changes keep continuing up to now even faster and
worse than before. These changes also affect all inhabitants on Earth and even our
economy since we all rely on our environment for our survival. What do you think would
happen to us if these changes still continues and make our world uninhabitable?
Before everything gets too late, here are some examples of solutions that could help
prevent the environmental issues and problems we are currently experiencing.

MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL
SOLUTIONS
ISSUES/ PROBLEMS
POLLUTION (Air, water and land)
 Dirty air  Hike, or ride bicycles more
 Unsafe drinking water; dirty/contaminated bodies of instead of smoke belching
water; algal bloom/ eutrophication vehicles to reduce emission of
 Improper solid waste disposal; dangerous pesticide greenhouse gases which
residues in the soil or water supply contributes to enhanced
greenhouse effect and climate
change as well as global
warming
 Proper solid waste disposal
(throwing garbage on trash bins
with proper segregation of
biodegradable and non-
biodegradable materials)
 Use compost pits for
 biodegradable materials so that
it would serve as fertilizers for
plants
 Reuse or recycle non-
biodegradable materials instead
of throwing them away to avoid
clogging of canals and to reduce
solid waste disposal
 Use green products (e.g. paper
bags, wood)
 Use organic fertilizers instead of
chemical fertilizers and
pesticides/herbicides or other
chemical substances
 Participate in cleanup drives
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
 Total ban of illegal logging of
 Landslides/Flash floods, Forest fires
trees
 Enhanced greenhouse effect due to excessive
 Avoid excessive cutting of trees
amount of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s
 Participate in environmentally-
atmosphere
friendly activities like tree
 Climate change (extreme floods, severe drought)
planting/reforestation
 Global warming
 Avoid burning of any materials
made up of plastics
 Avoid burning fossil fuels and
other organic materials
 Turn off lights and electric
appliances when not in use
 Avoid using aerosol products
 Use CFC free products
 Reduce household waste
(choose reusable products
instead of disposable ones)
 Buy products with minimal
packaging
 Be an advocate of Clean and
Green Program, and encourage
other people to support and
participate in it
DECLINING/ DECREASING BIODIVERSITY
 Conserve rainforest which is
 Destruction or degradation of some of our natural
considered a home to many
resources and ecosystems such as denuded
wildlife species, and since it also
mountains through excessive logging of trees or
effectively absorbs CO2 in the air
Kaingin, land mining
which mainly contributes to
 Conflicting and changing land use such as rapid
climate change and global
conversion of forests or agricultural lands into
warming
residential, industrial or commercial lands, mangrove
 Conserve natural resources
swamps into fish ponds
 Restrict land development
 Depletion of wildlife through animal hunting or
 Create biodiversity action plans
competition between animals for food and habitat
 Protect species by legislation
 Soil erosion
 Prohibition of animal hunting or
any exploitation of animals
especially wildlife animals or
endangered species
 Ecotourism / Environmentally-
 friendly tourism (educating
people to be environmentally
aware)
 Decreasing the need for the
amount of products that can be
harvested from rainforests
 Spread of pandemic diseases/ illnesses (COVID-19)  Observe social distancing
 Frequent and proper washing of
hands
 Wearing of face mask
 Disinfection
 Avoid unnecessary going out
 Stay at home and be safe

What’s More

Activity 3. CHECK YOUR LIST

Check the following list below. Mark it √ if you have practice them in your barangay and if
not, mark it X. If your response is √, identify how often you do it.

HOW OFTEN
SIMPLE THINGS I CAN DO TO MANAGE RESPONSE (Seldom, for 1-2x a month
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (√ or X) Moderately, if 3-5x a month
Frequently, if more than 5x a month)

Reduce, reuse, and recycle

Volunteer for clean-up drives in your barangay and
make out for the chance to save watersheds.
Educate and share to others your understanding on
why we should care and treasure our natural
resources.
Conserve water to minimize waste water and prevent
overflow that eventually end up in the ocean.
Always have a reusable bag prepared whenever you
shop in order to reduce plastics.
Use LED –energy saving bulbs that decreases
greenhouse gas emissions. And always switch off
lights when you leave the room!
Participate in tree planting. Make a hobby of growing
plants in your backyards. One way to address climate
change and cleans up the air we breathe.
Use organic products in home and office to avoid
toxic chemicals thrown on waterways.
Walk and bike more. Drive less.

Processing Questions:

1. Which of the following way/s above you do frequently? Why?

 2. Which way/s given above is strictly imposed by the government?
3. Aside from the ways sited above, what other ways can you suggest to prevent and
manage environmental issues?

What I Have Learned

Activity 4. REFLECT AND RESPONSE

Reflect on the pictures below and answer the processing questions.

Processing Questions:

1. Among all of the pictures of environmental issues above, cite your top 3 issues you
are most concerned about? Explain why?
2. What can you do in order to eradicate it?
3. Why do we have to protect our rainforests? Who benefits from saving it?
4. Why is it necessary to protect our planet Earth?

What I Can Do

Activity 5. GARBAGE OR GEM

Since you are now wired to observe the health of our environment, there would be no doubt
you can start few steps to prevent environmental issues.

Reduce solid wastes at home! Follow directions no. 1 – 8 below.

1. Below is a checklist of waste materials. You can add some to it and track the wastes
you had in a week.
2. Wear hand gloves and face mask.
3. Pile your trash with all the food scraps, paper, old chairs, bottles and other solid
waste on the list then sort them on your backyard.
4. Most of them will fall into one of the following five categories: reduce, reuse, recycle,
compost, and recover energy.
5. Put a √ next to items you threw in the wastebasket this week.
6. Among the 5 categories, lets us only do the two, compost pit and reuse / recycling.
7. Create a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) artcraft using the reusable/recyclable materials you
have collected. Take a look of the picture given below the table as an example of a
recycled material to give you an idea of your own recycled DIY artwork.
8. Below are the list you’ll start to work.

CHECKLIST Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri Sat Sun

____Paper bag
____Orange peel
____Napkin
____Newspaper
____Old clothes
 purse vertical hanging garden DIY Denim tote bag
(using candy wrappers) plastic bottles (using old pants/jeans)

Processing Questions:

1. How does reduction of wastes help to prevent environmental issues in your barangay?
Explain your answer.
2. Did you ever think about your garbage affecting the weather?
3. Would you encourage your family member to do the composting, and reuse / recycle?
Why?

RUBRIC

Assessment: (Post-Test)

Multiple Choice. Read each of the following statement and choose the best answer.
Write the letter on the space provided.

_____1. Why do planting trees help to slow climate change?

A. Trees absorb Carbon dioxide from the air during food making or
photosynthesis.

B. Trees release a large amount of oxygen into the atmosphere.

C. Trees absorb water to prevent soil erosion.

 D. Trees minimize air pollution.

_____2. What human activity below may contribute to decrease biodiversity?

A. cutting of trees

B. bird hunting

C. mining activity

D. All of these.

_____3. Which way below helps prevent air and water pollution?

A. garbage segregation

B. excessive use of pesticides

C. use of organic fertilizers

D. tree planting

_____4. Listed below are ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic EXCEPT?

A. wearing of face mask

B. social distancing

C. garbage segregation

D. constant washing of hands

_____5. How will you prevent decreasing biodiversity in a river ecosystem?

A. avoid the use of very fine fish net

B. prohibition of dynamite fishing method

C. avoid dumping garbage on rivers

D. All of the above.

 E.

Key to Answers

PRE – TEST POST – TEST

Multiple Choice Multiple Choice

1. D. 1. A.
2. D. 2. D
3. A. 3. D
4. D. 4. C.
5. C. 5. D.

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