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Health6 Q3 Mod1 PoorEnvironmentalSanitationItsImpactToOne'SHealth
Health
Quarter 3 – Module 1:
Poor Environmental
Sanitation: Its Impact
to One’s Health
CO_Q3_Health 6_Module 1
Health – Grade 6
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 3 – Module 1: Poor Environmental Sanitation: Its Impact to One’s Health
First Edition, 2019
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Health
Quarter 3 – Module 1:
Poor Environmental
Sanitation: Its Impact to
One’s Health
Introductory Message
This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners, can
continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions, directions,
exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to understand each lesson.
Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-by-
step as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you.
Pre-tests are provided to measure your prior knowledge on lessons in each SLM.
This will tell you if you need to proceed on completing this module or if you need to ask
your facilitator or your teacher’s assistance for better understanding of the lesson. At
the end of each module, you need to answer the post-test to self-check your learning.
Answer keys are provided for each activity and test. We trust that you will be honest in
using these.
In addition to the material in the main text, Notes to the Teacher are also
provided to our facilitators and parents for strategies and reminders on how they can
best help you on your home-based learning.
Please use this module with care. Do not put unnecessary marks on any part of
this SLM. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises and tests. And read
the instructions carefully before performing each task.
If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering the
tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator.
Thank you.
What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you explain
how poor environmental sanitation can greatly affect one’s health.
The module consists of only one lesson:
After going through this module, you are expected to explain how poor environmental
sanitation can negatively affect the health of an individual.
(MELC H6EH-IIIb-2)
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What I Know
Direction: Write True if the statement is correct about the impact of poor
environmental sanitation to health and False if it is not. Write your
answers in a separate sheet of paper.
6. Wastes coming from piggeries that are directly dumped into the
rivers make fishes and shrimps grow well.
8. Oil spills can cause fish kill that pollutes the environment.
9. Wastes in bodies of water can poison marine life like fishes and
shells. Eating the contaminated food endangers people’s health.
10. Leaving dead animals to decay or rot causes foul odor and allows
bacteria to multiply that can cause airborne or water diseases.
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Poor Environmental
Lesson
Sanitation: Its Impact to
1 One’s Health
What’s In
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What’s New
A. D.
B. E.
C.
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What is It
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Can we burn plastics and other garbage
such as leaves to manage our waste?
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I’m very happy that you did a lot of
research, classmates. How about poor
environmental sanitation in water like
dumping garbage in the river and other
bodies of water?
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Very Good! Poor environmental
sanitation in air is a problem too.
Smoke coming from factories, cigarette
smoking and smoke-belching vehicles
is a danger to one’s health. Can you
share negative impacts of air pollution?
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Water pollution is another problem that kills organisms
that depend on water bodies. Drinking contaminated
water could cause diseases like diarrhea and other
infections. People get diseases such as hepatitis by
eating seafood that has been poisoned. Can you give
examples of poor environmental sanitation activities
done in our bodies of water?
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Well said! Now, let us sum up our
discussions. What are the negative impacts
of poor environmental sanitation to our
health?
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What’s More
Direction: Try singing the song to the tune of “The More We Get Together”. You
can also have this as a poem.
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What I Have Learned
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answers in a
separate sheet of paper.
1. Kiko burns the garbage in their backyard. What will be the impact of
this activity?
A. It will help the air clean.
B. It will pollute the air.
C. It will make the nearby plants healthy.
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What I Can Do
Direction: Write Yes if the statement below each picture shows or depicts a poor
environmental sanitation that can greatly affect one’s health and No if it
does not. Write your answers in a separate sheet of paper.
3. Improper disposal of
garbage makes the
environment dirty and
unhealthy.
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Assessment
6. Garbage that is not collected by garbage collectors makes the air dirty
and can cause diseases.
7. Leaving dead animals to rot can cause airborne diseases that could
harm our health.
10. Smoke-belching vehicles make the air quality good and safe for people
to breathe.
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Additional Activity
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What I Know What I Have Assessment
Learned
1. True 1.
2. False 1. B
3. True 2. C 2.
4. False 3. A
5. True 4. B 3.
6. False 5. A
(In any False
7. order) 4.
8. True
a, b, 9. True
c, d, f, h, i, j 5.
10. True
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
What’s New What I Can Do Additional Activity
A, B, C, D (In any order) 1. Yes Pupil’s answers
2. No may vary
Pupil’s answers may 3. Yes
vary for the succeeding 4. Yes
questions 5. Yes
Answer Key
References
A. General References
B. Electronic Sources
Air quality: Particle Pollution. In Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.cdc.gov/air/particulate_matter
Risk Assessment for Toxic Air Pollutants: A Citizen’s Guide. In EPA United States
Environmental Protection Agency. https://www3.epa.gov/airtoxics/3_90_024.html
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