Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region XII

MAPEH 8
Health

I. Objective:
1. Discuss the stages of infection

II. Subject Matter:

Topic: Stages of Infection

Code: H8DD-IIIa-15
Materials: video clip, power point presentation, pictures

III. Procedure:
A. Preliminary Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Drill
- Show a picture or logo of DOH (Department of Health)

- Are you familiar in this department?

- What can we get or benefits can we get in this department?

5. Review
a. What is infection?
b. How can a person be infected?

6. Motivation
- Game : 4 pics, 1 word

_____________________ of _________________

B. Developmental Activities

1. Activity
 - The teacher will group the students into three (3) groups. Each will be given 2
scrambled picture. Each group will arrange the scrambled picture and present their
output to the class.

- Video presentation

2. Analysis
- (The teacher will asks questions after the video presentation)
 What are the 5 stages of infection?
 How do we know that the infection is in incubation? Prodromal? Acute? Declining?
Convalescent?
 Based on the 5 stages, what is the highest point of infection? Why?
 In what stage we can say that a person is back to its normal state of health?
 A stage where there is an exposure to a contagious disease?

3. Abstraction
 What are the stages of infection?
 Describe each stage.

4. Application
- The teacher will group the class into (3) three groups. Each group will be given 5
pictures and they will identify the stages of infection.

RUBRICS

INDICATORS 5 4 3

Correctness All the answer are correct 3-4 answer are correct 0-2 answer is correct

Participation All members participated 1 or 2 member did not 3 and above did not participated
participated

Presentation Well organized Partially organized Not so organized presentation

presentation presentation

Stages of
Infection
 Incubation stage Prodromal stage Acute stage Declining stage Convalescents stage

IV. Evaluation
Direction: Identify the stages of infection as describe in each number. Write your answer on the
space provided before the number.
_________1. A stage when the patient recovers his/her strength and returns to his/her normal state of
health.
_________2. A stage where there is an exposure to a contagious disease and the appearance of symptoms.
Colds can develop in a few hours.
_________3. A period when symptoms starts to subside and the patient may feel improved but still cannot
return doing normal activities.
_________4. A period when the disease is at its highest point that the signs and symptoms can be clinically
tested to diagnose the disease.
_________5. A period which the body reacts to the presence of pathogens. It is a stage where the disease is
communicable.

V. Assignment
Search about the meaning of Morbidity and Mortality.