Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
DIVISION OF CITY SCHOOLS
SORSOGON CITY

Name: _________________________________ Section: ________________ Date:______________

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET 2 IN HEALTH 7

QUARTER 1: SIGNIFICANT CHANGES DURING ADOLESCENSE
I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT:

Hi there! Are you experiencing significant changes in yourself? Of course, you are! It is because you are
now in another stage of life! The adolescence stage! Adolescence starts with puberty. Puberty is the time when
you start to become sexually mature. It usually happens at the age of 10 or 11 for girls and 12 or 13 for boys in
short girls mature faster than the boys! However, this is not true for everybody. Some adolescents experience
puberty either ahead or later than the others so there’s nothing to be ashamed if your friend already hit his/her
puberty and you don’t! It’s like some of your friends already started having pimples and some are not. The age
when you experience puberty is influenced by heredity, nutrition, exercise, and other environmental factors.
You undergo significant changes in the health dimensions – physical, mental/intellectual, social,
emotional, and moral-spiritual. You must know and understand these changes so that they will not surprise nor
scare you. In this lesson, you will understand that these changes are normal and will make you accept and love
yourself more.

II. LEARNING COMPETENCY:

Recognizes changes in different aspects of growth that normally happen during adolescence years.
(H7GD-Id-e-16)
III. ACTIVITIES:
A. TIME TO READ: Here are the different common changes you’ll undergo as an adolescent per health
dimension.
Physical Changes
The reproductive organs of both boys and girls are now developed. There are two types of sex
characteristic changes the primary and secondary.
 Primary sex characteristic – are those changes directly related to the sex organs.
 Secondary sex characteristic – are changes not directly related to sexual reproduction. Example
develops such deeper voice in boys, breast development for girls and more curved and prominent hips in
girls. Girls usually complete puberty by ages 15 to 17 and boys completes puberty by ages 16-17.

Boys Common Changes Girls

 The voice becomes  There is a rapid increase in height and  Breasts develop
deeper weight  The hips become wider
 The adam’s apple  The head, hands and feet grow faster first, than the shoulders
become bigger then the arms and legs  Hair grows on the under
 The shoulder becomes  Body composition muscles develop rapidly arm and pubic area
wider than the hips  Body fat increases, although the increase
 Hair grown on the face, in girls body fat is more than the boys
body, and pubic area  Sweat and oil glands become more active
 Bones develop and become harder

Mental/Intellectual Changes
 Adolescents are egocentric; they argue to convince, and exhibit independent, and critical thought
 Adolescents prefer active and cooperative learning activities over passive learning experiences
 Enjoy learning skills to apply to real life problems and situations
 Tend to become bored with routine activities; they need to be challenged
 Emotional Changes
 Have erratic emotions and behaviors, mood swings are mostly experienced
 Lacks self-esteem
 Easily offended and sensitive to criticism, vulnerable to one-sided argument.
 Being optimistic and hopeful, searching for adult identity and acceptance
 Exaggerate simple occurrences and believe that personal issues are unique to themselves
 Believe that nobody understands them
 Girls become self-conscious because of the changes that are happening to them, giving them a feeling of
insecurity and discomfort
Social Changes
 Being rebellious toward parents, but still strongly depend on parental values
 Desie love and acceptance from significant adults
 Enjoy with friends, who share the same interest with them, so they stay longer with them after school
 Idolize peers and media role personalities as sources for standards of behavior, dress, and style
Moral-Spiritual Changes
 Explore and ask broad and unanswerable questions about the meaning of life
 Depend on influences of home and religious institutions for moral and ethical choices and behaviors
 Try to find out who they really are and analyze their strengths and weakness resulting to understand
themselves better and learn to accept and like themselves, including their weakness
 Learn that house rules imposed by their parents are there to promote order and harmony
 Begin to distinguish non-negotiable rules like smoking, are imposed because they are for their own good

B. PERFORMANCE TASK
Directions: Give samples of significant changes for each given health dimension on the numbers
specified.

Emotional Mental/Intellectual Social Change Moral-Spiritual Physical Change

Change Changes Changes
1.  Adolescents are 8.  Explore and  The voice
egocentric; they ask broad and becomes
argue to unanswerable deeper
2. convince, and 9. questions  There is a
exhibit about the rapid increase
independent, meaning of life in height and
3. and critical 10.  Learn that weight
thought house rules 13.
 Enjoy learning imposed by
4. skills to apply to 11. their parents 14.
real life are there to
problems and promote order
5. situations and harmony 15.
6. 12.

7.

C. TRUE OR FALSE
Directions: Read each statement below. Write T if the statement is True and F if False on the space
provided.
__________ 1. Explore and ask broad and unanswerable questions about the meaning of life is an example of a
social change.
__________ 2. Tend to become bored with routine activities; they need to be challenged is an example of
mental/intellectual change.
__________ 3. Being rebellious toward parents, but still strongly depend on parental values is an example of
social change.
__________ 4. Have erratic emotions and behaviors, mood swings are mostly experienced is an example of
physical change.
__________ 5. Secondary sex characteristic is those directly related to the sex organs.
__________ 6. The age when you experience puberty is influenced by heredity, malnutrition, exercise, and other
environmental factors.
__________ 7. Adolescence starts with puberty.
__________ 8. Puberty happens at the age of 10 or 11 for girls and 12 or 13 for boys.
__________ 9. Desire love and acceptance from significant adults is an example of physical change.
__________ 10. Enjoy learning skills to apply to real life problems and situations is an example of
mental/intellectual change.

IV. ANSWER KEY:

B. PERFORMANCE TASK
(Note: Any of the following given answers.)
Emotional Change:
 Have erratic emotions and behaviors, mood swings are mostly experienced
 Lacks self-esteem
 Easily offended and sensitive to criticism, vulnerable to one-sided argument.
 Being optimistic and hopeful, searching for adult identity and acceptance
 Exaggerate simple occurrences and believe that personal issues are unique to themselves
 Believe that nobody understands them
 Girls become self-conscious because of the changes that are happening to them, giving them a feeling
of insecurity and discomfort
Mental/Intellectual Change:
 Adolescents prefer active and cooperative learning activities over passive learning experiences
 Tend to become bored with routine activities; they need to be challenged
Social Change:
 Being rebellious toward parents, but still strongly depend on parental values
 Desie love and acceptance from significant adults
 Enjoy with friends, who share the same interest with them, so they stay longer with them after school
 Idolize peers and media role personalities as sources for standards of behavior, dress, and style
Moral/Spiritual Change:
 Depend on influences of home and religious institutions for moral and ethical choices and behaviors
 Try to find out who they really are and analyze their strengths and weakness resulting to understand
themselves better and learn to accept and like themselves, including their weakness
 Begin to distinguish non-negotiable rules like smoking, are imposed because they are for their own good
Physical Change:
 The adam’s apple become bigger
 The shoulder becomes wider than the hips
 Hair grown on the face, body, and pubic area
 The head, hands and feet grow faster first, then the arms and legs
 Body composition muscles develop rapidly
 Body fat increases, although the increase in girls body fat is more than the boys
 Sweat and oil glands become more active
 Bones develop and become harder
 Breasts develop
 The hips become wider than the shoulders
 Hair grows on the under arm and pubic area

C. TRUE OR FALSE
1. F 3. T 5. F 7. T 9. F
2. T 4. F 6. F 8. T 10. T

V. REFLECTION:
Something to ponder on:
Now that you already reach the adolescent stage, do you consider yourself more responsible and more
mature? Explain your answer. (Provide a sheet of paper that can be used in writing your answer.)

VI. REFERENCE/S:

 (2017) Grade 7 Physical Education and Health Learner’s Material