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Health
Quarter 2 – Module 1:
Healthy School and Community
Environment
Health – Grade 6
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2 – Module 1: Healthy School and Community Environment
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 2 – Module 1:
Healthy School and Community
Environment
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Health – Grade 6 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Healthy School and Community Environment!

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

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Health – Grade 6 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Healthy School and Community Environment!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in the
module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways; a story, a
song, a poem, a problem opener, an activity
or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of the

lesson. This aims to help you discover and
understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the answers
to the exercises using the Answer Key at the
end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process
what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or skill
into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

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 Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given
to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson learned.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing

this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the
module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
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

This module was designed and written to help you determine healthy school and
community environments.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. describes healthy school and community environment (H6CMH-IIa-1)
a. physical environment
b. psychosocial environment

2. list down practices for building and maintaining healthful school and community
environment

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 What I Know

Draw a star if the statement tells about healthy physical environment of a

healthy school and community and heart if healthy psychosocial

environment.

____________1. The surroundings are safe, secure and free from hazard factor.

____________2. The member strictly observes proper waste disposal.

____________3. There is unity and oneness among the member.

____________4. The school and community are aesthetically pleasing.

____________5. The member shares healthy interpersonal relationship with others.

____________6. People are actively participating in projects and activities.

____________7. The school and community are place with fresh air and clean
surroundings.

____________8. People are showing care and concern for one another.

____________9. Have friendly and warm atmosphere between people.

____________10. People are free from abuse and discrimination.

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 Lesson
Healthy School and
1 Community Environments
Environment has a large impact on our well-being. A healthy environment promotes
safety, peace and good relationships with one another. School and community are
place where one learns and lives. It plays an important role in ensuring and
maintaining one’s good health.

What’s In

Do you practice ways in building and maintaining the school and community
healthy? Put a check in the box of your answer.
Yes No Maybe
1. Do you ensure the school and community
are well-kept and environmentally safe?
2. Do you clean the surroundings regularly?
3. Do you dispose or segregate your waste
properly?
4. Do you show respect to one another?
5. Do you observe and implement fair
treatment?
6. Do you help in implementing worthwhile
activities?
7. Do you openly communicate and cooperate
with others?
8. Do you actively participate in projects and
activities of your school and community?
9. Do you help in maintaining aesthetically
pleasing school and community?
10. Do you help in promoting unity in the
school and community

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 Notes to the Teacher
This module aims to prepare pupils to describes healthy school and
community environment and list down practices for building and
maintaining healthful school and community environment

What’s New

Now, are you ready for our lesson? Before that, let’s sing this song to the tune of
“Micronutrient Deficiency Rainy Season”.

Healthy Environment

Intro:

Pollution is everywhere

Everyone might get sick

But we can prevent it

If everybody will cooperate

We need to clean the surrounding

To have a healthy living

Let’s do it all (3X)

Chorus

Healthy School and Community

A place for everybody

Promotes peace and safety (oh yeah)

Let’s maintain it all

(repeat chorus 2x)

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 What is It

School and community contribute to the developmental growth of pupils. It also

shapes the behavior and health decision of pupils to promote peace and safety
environment to everyone. We should observe and consider the physical and
psychosocial environment as part of our development.

Let’s get to know more about it.

Community is a place where a group of people shares an environment. It involves

families and people living in a common place. The health status of a group of people
is called community health.

Community health is a status of the community that include the condition and
action which are done to promote and preserve health.

Some of the characteristics of a healthy community, according to World Health

Organization (WHO)

1. Clean and safe physical environment

2. Meets everyone’s basic needs

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3. Promotes social harmony and actively involves everyone

4. Understand local and environmental issues

5. Help in identifying local solutions to local problems

6. Members have access to health services and facilities

School is a place that provides educational learning to students under the

supervision of a teacher. School is not only a place for learning skills and concept
but it also allows students to interact with other student. It’s also consist of different
school facilities and classroom that serves as a learning space to students in their
development. The health status of the school is called school health.

School health refers to the condition of the physical and psychosocial environment
that promote, protect and preserve health to students, teachers, school principal and
school staff.

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Some of the characteristics of a healthy school

1. The whole school is clean

2. All rooms have proper ventilation

3. There is a proper waste segregation

4. There are quality facilities and equipment available to pupils

5. There are trees and plants around

6. Free from hazardous elements

7. School personnel assists and help the pupils in their needs and safety

8. The school is smoke and liquor free

The physical environment of a healthful school and community should be safe,

secure and clean. It should be also a place that makes people feel safe from illnesses
that are caused by a dirty environment.

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Healthy Physical Environment

1. Safe, secured, and free from hazardous factors

2. Clean place with fresh air and clean surroundings

3. Strictly observe proper waste disposal

4. Have a quality and potable water

5. Aesthetically pleasing

6. Have spacious and flexible space

7. Accessible to hospital, market, transportation and other public facilities

The healthy psychosocial environment of a school and community should develop

a potential capability of the people where they would not experience bullying and
discrimination from it. There must be a healthy interaction with the member of the
community and the school.

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Healthy Psychosocial Environment

1. Have a friendly and warm atmosphere between people

2. Share healthy interpersonal relationship with others

3. Advocates for a clean and peaceful environment

4. There is unity and oneness among the members

5. People actively participate in projects and activities

6. People are showing care and concern for each other

7. People are free from abuse and discrimination

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 What’s More

List down practices for building and maintaining healthful school and community
environment. Choose your answer inside the box below the table.

Healthful School Healthful Community

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

Meets everyone’s basic needs

There are a quality facilities and equipment available to pupils

Understand local and environmental issues

Helps in identifying local solutions to local problems

School personnel assists and help the pupils in their needs and safety

Members have access to health services and facilities

The whole school is clean

Promotes social harmony and actively involves everyone

All rooms have proper ventilation

The school is smoke and liquor free

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 What I Have Learned

Healthy environment promotes healthy living to people; therefore, we must

protect and keep it safe. If we took care of the environment, we also took care
of ourselves because it reflects our personality and behavior.

Healthful
interpersonal
Safe relations Flexible space

Clean with Free from abuse

good air and and
quality water discrimination

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 What I Can Do

Rate how healthy your school and community. Put a check in the box of your
answer.

5-strongly agree 4-agree 3-fair 2-disagree 1-strongly disagree

School Environment 5 4 3 2 1

1. The whole school is clean.

2. All rooms have proper

ventilation.

3. There is a proper waste

segregation.

4. There are a quality facilities and

equipment available to pupils.

5. There are trees and plants

around.

6. Free from hazardous elements.

7. School personnel assists and

help the pupils in their needs and
safety.

8. The school is smoke and liquor

free.

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 Community Environment 5 4 3 2 1

1. Clean and safe physical

environment

2. Meets everyone’s basic needs

3. Promotes social harmony and

actively involves everyone

4. Understand local and

environmental issues

5. Helps in identifying local

solutions to local problems

6. Members have access to health

services and facilities

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 Assessment

Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if not.

1. The school must be aesthetically pleasing.

2. There must be a limited space in the community.

3. People should not actively participate in projects and activities.

4. There should be danger, abuse and discrimination in the school and community.

5. The school and community must be accessible to hospital, market, transportation

and other public facilities.

6. People should not show care and concern for one another.

7. People should strictly observe proper waste disposal.

8. The school and community must have a friendly and warm atmosphere between
people

9. The school and community must be a polluted place with fresh air and clean
surroundings.

10. The people of the school and community must join the advocacy to have a clean
and peaceful environment.

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 Additional Activities

Do the following activities every day.

1. Actively participates in projects and activities of the school and community.

2. Strictly observe proper waste disposal.

3. Show care and concern for one another.

4. Share healthy interpersonal relationship with others.

5. Promote peace and harmony within the school and community.

Answer the following questions honestly.

Yes No Seldom

Did I follow all the given activities?

Did I have difficulties in doing the task?

Did I do it correctly?

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Additional Activities:
Depends on pupils
answer.
Assessment: What’ More:
1. True 6. Flase Healthful School Healthful Community
1. There are a quality 1. Meets everyone’s basic
2.False 7. True facilities and equipment needs
available to pupils
3. False 8. True 2. School personnel 2. Understand local and
assist and help the environmental issues
4. False 9. False
pupils in their needs and
5. True 10. True safety
3. The whole school is 3.Helps in identifying
clean local solutions to local
problems
4. All rooms have proper 4. Members have access
ventilation to health services and
facilities
5. The school is smoke 5. Promotes social
and liquor free harmony and actively
involves everyone
What I Can Do: What’s In: What I Know:
Depends on pupils Depends on pupils 1. 6.
answer. answer.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
Answer Key
References
2018. The 21St Century MAPEH In Action 6. Rex Interactive, pp.pp. 265-268.

2019. Keep In Touch With MAPEH 6. Sunshine Interlinks, pp.pp. 296-298.

The 21St Century MAPEH In Action 6. Reprint, Rex Interactive, 2018

https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/settings/hvchap1.pdf?ua=

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