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MAPEH (Health)
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Environmental Issues in the
Philippines
Physical Education – Grade 9
Self-Learning Module (SLM)
Quarter 1 – Module 3: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE PHILIPPINES
First Edition, 2020

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MAPEH (Health)
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Environmental Issues in the
Philippines
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the MAPEH 9 (Health) Self-Learning Module (SLM) on Environmental

Issues in the Philippines!

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.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

Hello, dear teacher! You are lucky to have this
learning material to easily deliver the lesson for our
learners and enhance their knowledge on environmental
issues that affect the Philippine environment. Please help
them achieve our learning objectives.
Please tell our leaners to read, understand, analyze,
and answer all the given activities and questions seriously
as this material is designed and made for them. This is also
to inform our learners to take some precautionary
measures and some activities need extra care.
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beyond our objectives and main goal for our learners. Be
an agent of learning. Have fun!

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learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the MAPEH (Health) –Grade 9 Self-Learning Module (SLM) Environmental

Issues in the Philippines!

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 Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your
level of mastery in achieving the learning
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to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson learned. This also tends retention of
learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

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this module.

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not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know

Introduction:
Many environmental issues
affect the Philippine environment.
These issues arose from people’s
indifference toward the
environment. Individuals continue
to exploit the environment for
Environmental
immediate individual gain, Issues in the
ignoring the long-term effects of Philippines
their actions. The environmental
issues that the country is facing
include deforestation, flash floods,
illegal mining, soil erosion, coral
reef degradation, and pollution.

This activity will make you

aware of the most pressing problems of the environment today. You will be provided
with favorable circumstances to widen your understandings about environmental
issues in the Philippines.

Most Essential Learning Competencies:

Discuss the Nature of Environmental Issues.

The module contains:

Lesson 1 – Environmental Issues in the Philippines.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. explain the characteristics of the different environmental issues in the

Philippines.
2. make a solution on how to prevent or control environmental issues; and
3. appreciate the knowledge gained in the environmental issues.

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 What I Know

Directions: Read the statements carefully. Choose the correct answer from the
given choices and write the correct letter on a separate sheet of paper.

_______1. Environmental issues are problems that have been developed as a

result of human interference. Which of the following is a human
interference?
A. Planting of trees
B. Dynamite fishing
C. Segregation of garbage
D. Coral reef conservation

_______2. Environmental protection is needed to lessen environmental problems.

Which of the following is correct?
A. Water sports
B. Illegal logging
C. Building of roads
D. Reduce, reuse, and recycle waste materials

_______3. Which of the following does NOT address environmental issues?

A. Advocacy
B. Education
C. Disengage
D. Social media

_______4. Environmental problems affect people’s health. How are we going to

prevent it?
A. Abandon automobiles
B. Burning of solid waste
C. Proper waste disposal
D. Oil spill

_______5. Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activity on the

biophysical environment. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Loss of life
B. Landslides
C. Bareness of land
D. Safe drinking water

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_______6. Which of the following statements best describe environmental issues?
A. It can be prevented.
B. These are problems resulted from human activities.
C. These are global concerns not only in the Philippines.
D. It includes biological and physical aspect of
environment.

_________7. The Philippines is among the countries with the fastest loss of forest
cover around the world. What is the rank of the Philippines among the
world’s top ten most threatened forest hotspots?
A. 1st
B. 2nd
C. 3rd
D. 4th

_________8. What factor contributed to the staggering death toll in the cities of
Iligan and Cagayan de Oro where many victims were swept away by
huge logs that rolled down denuded mountains facing two cities?
A. Pollution
B. Soil erosion
C. Illegal logging
D. Illegal mining

_________9. What is the composition of the coral reef?

A. Calcium Sulfate
B. Calcium Chloride
C. Calcium Carbonate
D. Calcium Hydroxide

_________10. Which of the following are causes of soil erosion?

A. Disaster
B. Destruction
C. Phenomena
D. Urbanization

________ 11. What is the destruction of big areas of forests?

A. Oil spill
B. Soil erosion
C. Flash floods
D. Deforestation

________ 12. What is a sudden flood of great volume usually caused by a heavy
rain?
A. Pollution
B. Flash flood
C. Illegal mining
D. Coral reef degradation

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________ 13. Which of the following environmental issues that happens when soil
and rock are moved from one place to another by wind, water, and
gravity?
A. Oil spill
B. Pollution
C. Soil erosion
D. Deforestation

________ 14. What is the destruction of the ocean’s corals?

A. Flash floods
B. Air pollution
C. Illegal mining
D. Coral reef degradation

________ 15. What is the excessive sound that causes hearing loss, stress, fatigue,
irritability, tension, headaches, and high blood pressure?
A. Air pollution
B. Noise pollution
C. Soil pollution
D. Water pollution

What’s In

Instruction: Before you will start the lesson. Review first your previous learning
about community health problems. Please answer the following questions. Write
your answers on the separate sheet of paper.
1. What are the characteristics of a healthy community?
2. What are the different community health problems?
3. What are the kinds of refuse materials?

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 What’s New

Let’s do it!

Activity 1A: Connect - Me! Connect words that are related to

environmental issues. Write your answer on the separate sheet of paper.

Figure 1: Environmental Issues

chemical beauty
garbage
noise

power song

dynamite ENVIRONMENTAL smoke

ISSUES
human rain

health
typhoon concert
dance mineral

✓ Are you familiar with the words?

✓ Do you think you have connected the words correctly?
✓ What did you feel after doing the activity?
✓ Among the words connected, what issue is present in your community?

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Activity 1 B. Words Scramble: Inside the box are environmental issues. Arrange the
letters for each item to unlock the mystery word/s. Hints were given below the
scramble letters for you to have an easy identification of the word/s. Write your
answer in a separate sheet of paper.

1. LRAOC FREE NIODTARAGED

Hint: Destruction of diverse underwater ecosystems.

2. HSALF FOLODS

Hint: Sudden flood of great volume of water caused by a heavy rain.

3. OILS OPLULNOTI

Hint: Caused by chemicals in pesticides.

4. EDOFRSEATTINO

Hint: Destruction of big areas of forests.

5. LOPULTNIO

Hint: Alteration of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the

atmospheric air.

6. ILSO ORESINO

Hint: Moved from one place to another by wind, water, and gravity.

7. SENOI NOLUTILOP

Hint: Excessive sound that causes hearing loss, stress, fatigue, etc.

8. GLILELA IINMNG

Hint: Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials

without mining license, land rights, etc.

9. WREAT LOLPNTIOU

Hint: Alteration of the properties of a body of water resulting in the

impairment of its purity or quality.
10. LOI LISPL
Hint: Death of trees from oil in roots and caused suffocation of marine
mammals.

Guide Questions!
• How did you find the activity?
• What have you learned?

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 What is It

Here’s What you Need to Know!

Environmental Issues
Environmental Characteristics
Issues
-destruction of big areas of forest
Deforestation -Philippines has one of the fastest forest cover loss,
and 4th among the world’s top 10 most threatened hotspots
-effect of illegal logging and burn farming (the Kaingin
system)
-sudden flood of great volume, caused by a heavy rain
Flash Floods -caused by clogged waterways or drainage obstructions
-illegal logging is another factor
-extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials
from the earth
-absence of land rights, mining license, exploration or
Illegal Mining mineral transportation permit
-mining Act of 1995 aimed to help the domestic mining
industry
-happens when soil and rock are moved from one place to
another by wind, water and gravity
Soil Erosion -caused by building of roads, agriculture, urbanization,
mining from water sports and from drilling carried out by the
sea
Coral Reef -destruction of ocean’s corals
Degradation -coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystem built from
calcium carbonate secreted by corals
Pollution -any alteration of the physical, chemical, and biological
properties of water, air or land resources
Air Pollution -any alteration of the properties of the atmospheric air
Water -any alteration of the properties of a body of water resulting
Pollution in the impairment of its purity or quality
Noise -excessive sound that causes hearing loss, stress, fatigue,
Pollution irritability, tension, headaches and high blood pressure
-caused by chemicals in pesticides
Soil Pollution -poisons that are used to kill agricultural pests like insects
and herbicides
-release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the ocean or
Oil Spill coastal waters
-caused death of trees from oil in roots and suffocation of
marine animals

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WAYS TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:

✓ Do not burn your yard waste.

✓ Trees should be planted everywhere.
✓ Waste matter should be disposed immediately and properly.
✓ Properly maintained vehicles get better gas mileage and emit fewer
pollutants.
✓ Avoid drilling land for underground water.
✓ Use organic fertilizers and pesticides in farming.
✓ Reduce, reuse, and recycle materials.
✓ Keep the volume of your television or music low.

What’s More

Activity 2 – Let’s Check it Out!

Directions: Match the following characteristics to their corresponding environmental

issue. Choose the correct answer from the word pool inside the box. Write
the letter on a separate sheet of paper.

A. AIR POLLUTION D. SOIL EROSION

B. DEFORESTATION E. SOIL POLLUTION
C. FLASH FLOODS

____ 1. Cars, trucks, and tricycles that emit dark smoke (smoke belchers) are
allowed to travel.
2. People cut too many trees for lumber, paper, and building houses.
3. Some farmers used too much chemical fertilizers to replenish soil fertility.
4. When roads are built, mountains are blown off using dynamite.
5. It causes destruction of dams, sewage system, and pier.

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 What I Have Learned

Directions. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word or phrase that correctly fits
in each of the sentences about environmental issues of the Philippines.
Write your answer on the separate sheet of paper.
I have learned that the most pressing environmental issues are (1) ________,
(2) ________, (3) ________, (4) ________, (5) ________, and (6) ________. Deforestation is
the act or result of cutting down or burning all (7) _______ in an area. Flash flood is
a rising and overflowing of a body of (8) ______ especially onto normally dry land.
Illegal Mining is an unlawful process or business of digging in (9) ______ to obtain
minerals, metals, jewels, etc. Soil erosion is the gradual destruction of (10) ______ by
natural forces such as water, wind or ice or the process by which soil is eroded or
worn away. Coral reef degradation is the act or process of damaging or ruining the
(11) ______ corals. Pollution is the action or process of making land, water, air, etc.,
(12) _______, and not safe or suitable to use.

What I Can Do

Activity 3A: You can do it!

Advocacy Board: Fill in the boxes with your own advocacies related to the
prevention and elimination of environmental issues in your community. You can
add more boxes if you want to share more advocacies.

Example
Quit plastic!

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 Rubric for Advocacy Making

Below
Average Proficient Advanced
Average
CCriteria 5 pts 7 pts 10 pts
3 pts

Content Content is Content is not Content is Content is

incomplete. comprehensive comprehensive comprehensive
and not and and
persuasive. persuasive. persuasive
and is
supported
with details.

Creativity and Student’s Student’s Student’s Student’s

workmanship output is output is fair output is good output is very
dull with and has few and tidy. creative and
lots of errors. tidy.
errors

Attractiveness Student’s Student’s Student’s Student’s

output is output is output is output is
distractingly acceptably attractive in exceptionally
messy or attractive terms of attractive in
very poorly though it may design, layout terms of
designed. be a bit and neatness. design, layout
messy. and neatness.

Effort I did not I finished my I completed I completed

finish my Advocacy my Advocacy my Advocacy
Advocacy Board but Board in an Board and far
Board in a they lack above average exceeded the
satisfactory finishing manner, yet requirements
manner. touches or can more could for the
be improved have been activity.
with little done.
effort.

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 Assessment

Directions: Match the characteristics of environment in column A to the

environmental issues in column B. Write the letter of the correct answer on a
separate sheet of paper.

A B

____ 1. Burn farming (Kaingin System). a. Noise pollution

____ 2. Alteration of properties of the atmospheric air b. Oil spill
____ 3. Aim to help the domestic mining industry. c. Deforestation
____ 4. Oil is released into the ocean or coastal water. d. Community health
____ 5. Excessive sound that causes hearing loss e. Water pollution
f. Mining Act of 1995
g. Air pollution

Directions: Make an illustration by listing the causes and solutions of the

environmental issues. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.
Note: An example is done for you
Environmental Causes Solutions
Issues
Deforestation Burn farming Trees should be planted
everywhere.
Flash floods 1. 2.
Pollution 3. 4.
5.
Soil erosion 6. 7.
8.
Coral reef degradation 9. 10.

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 Additional Activities

Activity 4: Self Inventory: How do I rate?

Directions: Answer this self-inventory, without any assistance from anybody. Mark
check (√ ) in the appropriate column for M - most of the time, S - sometimes,
and N – never. Write your answer on a separate sheer of paper.

Self-Inventory

Commitment to prevent environmental issues M S N

1 I do not throw garbage anywhere.
2 I burn used plastic materials.
3 I plant vegetables and flowers at home.
I support factories which are built to cater the demands of
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a fast growing population and industrialization.
I hate too much mining and quarrying for the purpose of
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getting precious metals and stones and gravel.
I agree to some farmers who are using chemical fertilizers
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to replace soil fertility.
7 I refuse dynamite fishing.
8 I do not like pollution.
9 I promote illegal logging.
10 I say no to coral reef destruction.

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What I Know Activity 1b Post Assessment
Pretest (Word Scramble)) A. Matching Type
1. B
2. D 1. Coral reef degradation 1. C
3. C 2. Flash flood 2. G
4. C 3. Soil pollution 3. F
5. B 4. Deforestation 4. B
6. A 5. Air pollution 5. A
7. D 6. Soil erosion B.
8. C 7. Noise pollution
8. Illegal mining 1. Illegal logging
9. C
10.D 9. Water pollution 2. Clean waterways
11.D 10. Oil spill or drainage
12.B 3. Chemicals in
13.C pesticides
14.D ☺
4. Use organic
15.C
fertilizers
Activity 2 5. Healthy methods of
Word Pool soil management
1. A
6. Building of roads
2. B
3. E 7. Refrain from illegal
4. D mining
5. C 8. Minimize water
sports
Activity 1a What I have learned 9. Dynamite fishing
(Word Association) 1-6. In any order 10. Preserve coral
Deforestation
➢ Noise reef
Flash flood
➢ Chemical Illegal mining
➢ Garbage☺ Soil erosion
➢ Smoke Coral reef degradation
Pollution
➢ Rain 7. Trees
BBB
➢ Health ☺ 8. Water 1. Illegal logging
➢ Mineral ☺ 9. Mines
➢ Human 10. Soil
➢ Dynamite  11. Ocean’s
12. Dirty
➢ Typhoon ☺
Answer Key
References

Book:
⚫ Department of Education (DepEd). Physical Education and Health Grade 9 -
Learner’s Material First Edition, 2014.

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This Self-learning Module (SLM) was developed by DepEd SOCCSKSARGEN with the
primary objective of preparing for and addressing the new normal. Contents of this
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is a supplementary material to be used by all learners of Region XII in all public
schools beginning SY 2020-2021. The process of LR development was observed in
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