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Health
Quarter 3-Module 7:
Noise Pollution and its Effects to
Humans

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

 Lesson

1 Noise Pollution and its

Effects to Humans

OVERVIEW
This module tells about noise pollution and its effects to humans. The
sequence of this module appropriately good for one week. Good Luck learners
and do good in your activities, pre-test and post-test.
This module has 1 lesson:
 Lesson 1: Noise Pollution and its Effects to Humans
At the end of this module, you are expected to:

a. suggest ways to control/manage noise pollution

b. list the effects of noise pollution to humans
c. make an essay about the effects of pollution to humans
seriously

o General Before you go further, you should

Instruction remember the following:

 Do not put some markings on this Module as there are still other students
who will be using it. Use a separate notebook as a REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
to keep your answer in each activity. Be sure to LABEL your work according
to the Module, lessons and the date you work on it.
 Each Module has a brief instruction and followed by a list of objectives. Read
them and follow instructions carefully.
 Before going over the activities, answer the PRE-TEST first then find out how
well you did by checking your answers given in the self-assessment activity.
Each activity must be according to the objectives of this Module. Note the
skills or strategies you tried to develop.

After each activity, you need to go over the items which you think you failed.
Take the POST TEST when you think you have mastered all the activities.

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 What I Know

PRE-TEST

Directions: Read each statement carefully. Answer TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if the statement is wrong.

__________1. Noise pollution is also considered environmental pollution.

__________2. Noise pollution does not affect both health and behavior.
__________3. The lower decibels, the louder a sound is.
__________4. Not all sound is considered noise pollution.
__________5. Continuous exposure to loud levels of noise can cause loss of hearing.
__________6. Without a good night sleep it may lead to sleep problems.
__________7. Loud noise can have hidden effects causing aggressive behavior.
__________8. Noise may not affect your memory and concentrations.
__________9. Our ears need less than 16 hours rest from 2 hours of exposure to 100 dB.
__________10. Extremely noise effects gastritis (inflammation of stomach lining).

What’s In

We were able to discuss the ways to control/manage noise pollution. In the previous
module you are also enjoyed making earplugs made of cotton. So now, let us have a short
recall
1. What is noise pollution?
2. How noise measured?
3. What do you call the simplest ways in preventing noise pollution?
4. Give the sources of noise pollution.
5. How will you control or manage noise pollution?

I surely know that you have already known the answers of the questions.

This time, you will learn about noise pollution and its effects to humans. Are you ready?

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 What’s New

What will you do if you are in this situation?

Is it irritating?

What do you think the man do?

Is it producing noise? Why?

What is It

Not all sound is considered noise pollution. The World Health Organization (WHO)
defines noise above 65 decibels (dB) as noise pollution.  As a consequence, it is
recommended noise levels be kept below 65 dB during the day and indicates that restful
sleep is impossible with nighttime surrounding noise levels in excess of 30 dB.

The higher the decibels, the louder a sound is. To be more specific and clearer,
below are a few decibel measurements of typical environments and machines:
 
Whisper – 30 dB

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 Normal conversation – 60 dB
Office noise – 70 dB
Noisy restaurant, lawn mower – 80-90 dB
Motorcycle – 100 dB
Sports crowd, rock concert – 120 dB
Gun shot – 140 dB

Noise pollution is also considered as environmental pollution although it is not as

harmful as air, water or soil pollution but the effects of noise pollution for a longer period can
be severed.

The health effects of noise pollution

Noise pollution affects both health and behavior. Unwanted sound (noise) can
damage physiological health. Noise pollution is associated with several health conditions,
such as:
Physical- Respiratory depression, rapid pulse, high blood pressure, headaches and,
in case of extremely loud it can effect gastritis, colitis and even heart attacks.
Psychological- Stress, fatigue, depression, anxiety and hysteria in both humans and
animals.
Memory and concentration- May affect people's ability to focus, which can lead to
low performance over time. It is also bad for the memory, making it hard to study.
Interestingly, our ears need more than 16 hours' rest to make up for two hours of exposure
to 100 dB.
Hearing loss- Jackhammers, horns, machinery, airplanes and vehicles are man
made noises are can be too loud for our hearing range. Continuous exposure to loud levels
of noise can easily result in the damage of our ear drums and loss of hearing. It also lessen
our sensitivity to sounds that our ears pick up unconsciously to regulate our body’s rhythm.

Sleep problem- Noise above 45 dB stops you from falling asleep. Remember that
according to the WHO it should be no more than 30 dB. Loud noise can have hidden effects
on our behaviour, causing aggressive behaviour and irritability. Without a good night sleep, it
may lead to problems related to fatigue and your performance may go down in office as well
as at home. Therefore, take a sound sleep to give your body proper rest is recommended.

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 What’s More

In the previous module, we tackled about ways to control/manage noise pollution. In

addition, here are some strict legislative measures need to be enforced to curb the menace
of noise pollution. Some of these measures could be:
a. Minimum use of loudspeakers and amplifiers especially near silence zone.
b. Banning pressure horns in automobiles.
c. Framing a separate Noise Pollution Act

What I Have Learned

Instruction: Arrange each scrambled words in every main effects of noise pollution and list
each sub-effects. Write your answer on your journal.

PEELS BEPMOLR ROMMEY DAN

1.__________ CIOONCENTRAT
2.__________ 12.___________
13.___________

GINEHAR OSLS
3.__________
4.__________

LOGICPAYHSOLY
14._____________
HAPYSIL 15._____________
5.__________ 16._____________
6.__________ 17._____________
7.___________ 18._____________
8.___________
9.___________
10.___________
11.___________

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 What I Can Do

ACTIVITY 1
INSTRUCTION: Suggest ways to manage/control noise pollution. Choose your best answer
which is written inside the box. Write your answer on your journal.

 Shut the door

 Close the windows
 Turn off electronic device
 Put on earplugs
 Invest noise-cancelling headphones

1. Reducing the amount of noise as entering into your home and it keeps away
annoying sound is by simply ____________________.
2. Your mother snoring every night you have to ____________________.
3. Game systems, computers, speakers and televisions when not in used. What will you
do? _________________
4. You are a music lover and instead of using an ordinary headphones/headset you
have, __________________.
5. If you have a noisy neighbors and you don’t want to hear unpleasant sounds, or if
there are appliances that produce loud noise such as blenders, and washing
machines, you can have them run in separate rooms and ____________________ to
seal off the noise.

ACTIVITY 2
Make an essay about the effects of pollution to humans.
Rubrics

FEATURE EXPERT ACCOMPLISHED CAPABLE BEGINNER

4 3 2 1
Quality of -Piece was -Piece and written -Piece had little -Piece had no
Writing written in an in an interesting style style
extraordinary style -Gives some -Gives no new
style -Somewhat information but information and
-Very information informative and poorly organized poorly organized
and well organized
organized
Grammar, -Virtually no -Few spelling and -A number of -So many
Usage and spelling, punctuation errors, spelling, spelling,
Mechanics punctuation, or minor grammatical punctuation or punctuation and
grammatical errors grammatical grammatical
errors errors errors that
interferes with the
meaning

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 POST TEST

Fill in the blank. Write your answer on your journal.

1. ___________ can effect gastritis, colitis and even heart attacks.

2. Noise pollution affects both __________ and behaviour.
3. Jackhammers, horns, machinery, airplanes and __________ are man-made noise
that are be too loud for our hearing range.
4. Continuous exposure to loud levels of noise can easily result in the damage of our
ear drums and __________________.
5. Our ears need more than _________ rest to make up for two hours of exposure to
100dB.
6. Loud noise effects on our behaviour causing aggressive behaviour and __________.
7. Noise pollution is also considered as _________________.
8. The higher decibels, the ____________a sound is.
9. Noise effects physiologically such as hysteria, anxiety, depression, fatigue and
____________ both human and animal.
10. _______________damage physiological human health.

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 Answer Key

LESSON 1

PRETEST

1. true 2. false 3. false 4. true 5. true

6. true 7. true 8. false 9. false 10. true

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

SLEEP PROBLEM HEARING LOSS PHYSICAL

10. Aggressive 1. Damage of 3. Heart attacks
behaviour eardrum 4. Colitis
11. irritability 2. irritability 5. Gastritis
6. Headaches
7. Respiratory
MEMORY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL depression
CONCENTRATION 8. Rapid pulse
12. stress 9. High blood pressure
17. Ability to 13. fatigue
focus and 14. depression
study 15. anxiety
18. Hard to 16. hysteria
study

WHAT I CAN DO

1. CLOSE THE WINDOWS

2. PUT ON EARPLUGS
3. TURN OFF ELECTRONIS DEVICE
4. INVEST NOISE-CANCELLING HEADPHONES
5. SHUT THE DOOR

POST TEST

1. EXTREMELY LOUD/NOISE 2. HEALTH 3. VEHICLES 4. LOSS OF HEARING

5. 16 HOURS 6. IRRITABILITY 7. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

8. LOUDER 9. STRESS 10. UNWANTED SOUND/NOISE