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Learning Activity Sheets

Health 8
Quarter 4 – Weeks 1-3
Prevention of Substance
Use and Abuse
I.What I Need to Know? Health – Grade 8
Learning Activity Sheet
Title: PREVENTION OF
SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE
( Cigarettes and Alcohol)
Quarter 4- Weeks 1- 3

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At the end of this Learning Activity Sheet, you are expected to:
 discussed the gateway drugs. (H8s-IVa-27 / Week 1)
  described the harmful short and long-term effects of cigarette smoking on the different
parts of the body (H8S-IVb-c-29 /Week 2-3))
 explain the impact of cigarette smoking on the family , environment and
community(H8S-IV-c-29/ WEEK 2-3)
 described the harmful short and long-term effects of drinking alcohol
(H8S-IVe-f-31/Week 4)

Activity 1: True or False

Directions: Read each statement about the nature of communicable diseases. You will be
guided in determining whether the statement is true or false by putting a check (/) mark n the
appropriate column.Write your
II-What I Know? answer on a separate sheets of
paper.

Statement True False

1 Alcohol is a colorless, bitter-fasting substance that humans
have been consuming since the ancient times.
2 Cigarette smoking primarily affects the digestive system.
3 Tar is the addictive chemical in smokeless tobacco and
cigarette
4 Nicotiana Tabacum is a plant whose leaves can be rolled in a
cigar or pipe and can be smoked.
5 Gateway drugs are drugs non-drug users might try out and can
lead to trying more dangerous one’s.
6 The Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 is also known as
“Republic Act 9211 or R.A. 9211”.
7 A kind of Smoke emitted by cigarettes which smokers directly
inhale is caller Mainstream Smoke.
8 Lung cancer is a malignant growth of cells in the lungs due to
cigarette smoking.
9 Smoking inside the school premises is a violation of R.A. 9211
1 The longer cigarette smoke stays in the body, the more it
0 causes damage to the body parts.

Lesson
1 Gateway Drugs
 Gateway drugs are legal drugs that non -drug user might try, which can lead him/her to
a more dangerous drugs such as Marijuana and Shabu.

According to the study dione by the National Youth Commission (NYC), two out of five
Filipino teenagers age 13-15 years old smoke cigarette. (Phil.Star.Com., March 16,
2012).Furthermore, a study conducted by an anti- tobacco group in the year 2011, Ten
Filipinos die every hour because of tabacco-related diseases,(Phil. Daily Inquirer, September
19, 2011.

There are harmful chemicals in cigarettes that can harm people. In studies conducted,
43 of the chemicals in a cigarettes are know carcinogens. Carcinogens are substances which
cause cancer. Nicotine, the addictive drugs increases the central nervous system activity. The
central nervous system controls all body organs like the heart, lungs, brain and processes like
heart rate, blood pressure rate, respiration rate and more.

There are three (3) smoke produced by cigarette smoking

1. Mainstream smoke – a smoke that the smoker directly inhales.
2. Side stream smoke or second hand smoke- smoke that comes out of the lighted
end of a cigarette or pipe that is more dangerous than mainstream smoke.
3. Third hand smoke/ Residual Tabacco smoke- smoke left for a longtime on sofa,
beddings, pillow and other objects. This smoke still contains harmful chemicals and
carcinogens.

I. What’s In?
Activity 2: Draw a Pathway
Materials: Pencil, Marker , long bond paper
Directions: On a bond paper, draw a gate on the lower leftside. Leading from your gate will be
pathways that will describe directions life will take. Draw these paths and write beside the
paths your goals and targets in life (present & future). These will enter the gate or not.

Activity 3: The Dangers With In

Materials: Bond Paper and Marker

Direction: Draw a cigarette stick on a bond paper. List several chemicals that you
you think are present in a cigarette stick. Write the chemicals around
the cigarette stick you have drawn

Activity 4: Write an Essay

Direction: Make a journal using your family pictures engaging in sports. If there is no family
pictures, make cut outs from any magazines.Make an essay on the healthy benefits of the
families engaging in sports

IV. What’s New?

 Policies and Laws Regarding Cigarette Smoking
R.A. No. 9211, otherwise know as the “ Tabacco Regulation Act of 2003” is the law
governing tobacco production, distribution and use. Some of its important provisions are:
 Sec. 5 – Smoking Ban in Public places like schools, recreational facilities for persons
under eighteen years old, elevators and staireays, etc.0
 Sec. 9- Minimum Age Sells, under this act, it shall be unlawful for any retailer of
tabacco products to sell or distribute products to any minor (persons below 18 years of
age).
 Sec. 10- Sale of tabacco products within the School perimeters. The sale or distribution
of tabacco products is prohibited within one hundred meters from any point of the
perimetr of a school, public playground or other facility frequented particulary by minors.
Chapter 2, Article 5, Sec. 24 of R.A. No. 8749, also known as the “ Philippine Clean
Air Act of 1999.
 Smoking inside a public building or an enclosed public place including public place
including public vehicles and other means of transport or any enclosed area outside of
one’s private residence, private place of work or any duly designated smoking area is
hereby prohibited under this Act. This provision shall implemented by the Local
Government Units.``

Activity 5: Role Play

The class will divided into four (4) groups. Each group representative will draw lots for
the situation to role play.
Situation 1- Smoking inside the School
 You saw your classmates smoking in a concealed area inside the school.
Situation 2- Smoking in Government Offices
 While waiting for an important document to be released, you noticed that
there are some persons who are smoking inside the government agency
compound.
Situation 3- Smoking in Public Transportations
 You are riding a public utility jeepney and you noticed that the driver is
smoking
Situation4- Smoking in Restaurants
 While eating your lunch, some of the restaurant customers are smoking
cigarettes.

V.What is It?
Reflection:
 Students/Learners will be instructed to reflect on the following:
1. Self- Reflection
If they are smokers, how would they feel about non- smoker’s right?How do you
assert this right?
2. Family Invovement
Ask your family about changes in the smoking policies at their work or school.
Report your findings in the class.
3. Community Involvement
Interview atleast five people in your community who quitted smoking. Prepare
personal information and questionnaire on how they quitted smoking.

Activity 6: Pledge Wall

Materials: Manila paper, cartolina, markers or crayons
Direction: Post your pledge wall on an easily seen /visible corner in your house. Make the
corners of Pledge wall colorful and artistic to attract people to write. These
people can be your family members, neighboors, friends and guest. Ask them
to
write on the Pledge Wall on what they can do to prevent and control cigarette
smoking and tobacco use.

Let those who will write on the Pledge Wall to affix their signatures below or
beside
Their pledges

Activity 7: Thank you Notes

Direction: Write thank you notes addressed to a person/ persons who said “No” to
smoking,
has stopped smoking or has helped in the advocacy of a smokeless community.
Hightlight your thank you notes on how they have contributed in making a
healthy
Environment and community

VI.What’s More?
Lesson 2- The dangers of Alcohol
Activity 8: Draw a Bottle of any alcoholic beverages
Direction: Draw a bottle of any alcoholic beverages you know and write something
about it
Activity 9: Self- Inventory
Direction: Answer Self- Inventory by YES or NO. For evey Yes answer is 1 point.The
interpretation of the Total Score is shown below.

Score Interpretation
0-2 Congratulations! You do not have a
problem with alcohol
3-5 You could be on your way to a problem
with alcohol
6-8 Chances are you already have a
problem with alcohol
9 & Above You really need help! You have a
serious problem with alcohol

No. Self- Inventory YES NO

1 Have yopu ever had a drink mixed with alcohol
2 Have you ever had more than one glass or bottle of
alcoholic drink in a two- hour period?
3 Do you drink alcohol beverages on a regular basis
( everyday, every weekend, at all parties attended, etc.)?
4 Do you drink alcohol beverages to become more
comfortable with other people?
5 Do you drink alcoholic beverages to get away from prblems?
When you are in troubled or angry, do you drink alcohol right
6 away?
7 Have you ever received comments about your drinking
alcohol?
8 Do you get irritated or annoyed when people talk about your
drinking?
9 Do you drink alcohol until the supply is gone?
10 Do you sometimes deny your drinking when someone ask if
you drink?
11 Do you find it difficult to say no when someone else invites
you for a drink
12 Do you sometimes drink even though you know that it will
affect your work or class the next day?
13 Do you leave class or work just to attend a drinking session
with groups?
14 Are your grades suffering because of your drinking
15 Have your friends left or avoid you because of your
drinking?

Alcohol – is a colorless, bitter-tasting substances that humans have been consuming

since the ancient time. It comes from plants that underwent fermentation, the
process of extracting alcohol from plant or fruit.
Example of fermented alcohol is beer. Beer is extracted from grains. On the
Other hand, wines are from grapes, and other fruits

Three Types of Alcohol

1. Isopropyl
2. Methanol
3. Ethanol

Isoprophyl and Methanol – are used in laboratories, poisonous and fatal if

taken
Ethanol – also called the Beverage Alcohol. When human consume this in
unregulated amount it may result to intoxication and alteration of the
Nervous system. Example; Gin, Wine, Beer, Rhum, Vodka, etc.

Alcohol if enters the blood stream, it goes in all parts of the body. The
main effect of alcohol drinking reflects on a person’s central nervous system
(CNS) The CNS controls one’s mental processes, memory, speech, learning
and decision making. It also affects a person’s senses, feelings, movements
and breathing.

The amount of alcohol that entered in the blood stream at a certain

period can be measured in percentages through Blood- Alcohol Concentration
(BAC) or most often called Blood Alcohol Level ( BAL). A BAC of 0.05 %
means there is five parts of alcohol per 10,000.00 part of blood in the body. A
0.3-0.5 % BAC could lead to coma, brain damages and death
VII.What I Have Learned?
Activity 10

 How does Alcohol drinking affect the family, community and country?

VIII. What I Can Do?

 As a teenager, how can you say no,if somebody would envite you to
drink alcohol?

 In a a long bond paper/Oslo, make a poster that shows the causes and
effects of alcohol drinking or cigarette smoking. Write a short
description about the poster you have made.

IX. Assessment
A. Multiple Choice:
Direction: Read the following statements and write the letter of the correct answer.
1. Drugs which open doors for non-drug users to try and experiment on more dangerous
drugs are called ___.
a. Depressant drugs b. Narcotic Drugs c. Gateway Drugs
2. Chemical found in cigarette that was used as a pesticide.
a. Acetone b. Nicotine c. Tar
3. The plant whre cigarette and its other products come from is called______.
a. Nicoliana Tabacum b. Cannabis Sativa c. Papaver Sommiferum
4. Chemical found in cigarette smoke which when inhaled make body cells produce
abnormal and malignant cells which oftenresult to death.
a. Carcinogens b. hydrogens c. Toxins
5. The additive component in cigarette and tobacco products .
a. Smoke b. Nicotine c. Tar
6. Smoke that comes out of a filtered end of a cigarrete and directly inhaled by smokers.
a. Third hand smoke b. Mainstream c. Second hand smoke
7. What healthy alternative canone do to avoid smoking?
a. Hang out with smoking groups c. try one puff to be part of the gang
b. Join sports clubs and organizations
8. Republic Act that prohibits the sales of cigarettes to the persons below 18 years of age in
the Philippines.
a. R.A. No. 9211 b. R.A. No. 4670 c. R.A. No. 8749
9. The following are health risks of smoking EXCEPT.
a. Birth miscarriage b. Healthier body c. Cancer

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10. The most common form of addiction in the Philippines according to Ricardo Zarco is
____.
a. Smoking b. chewing of tobacco c. alcoholism
B. Fill in the blanks:
Direction: Write the correct answer. Choose your anwer from the word list inside the
box.

WORD LIST

Serious hazards Does not help resolve

Cirrhosis man- friendly chemicals
Shorter lung diseases
R.A. 9211 has no anti-aging effect
Can stay Ethanol

1. Alcohol beverage that can be consumed by human is ____________.

2. Smoker’s life span is _______ than that of a non-smoker by 10 years.
3. Stores selling cigarettes to person below 18 years old of age is violating the _____.
4. _______ is a condition when the liver is scarred due to heavy alcohol consumption.
5. Dangerous smoke residue ______ on sofa and bed sheets for a long time.
6. Cancer is only one of the many _______ of smoking.
7. Smoking can lead to heart and ____________.
8. Smoking does not relax the body and _________.
9. There are no _______ found in cigarettes and tobacco products.
10. Smoking ________ personal problems.

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 Answer Key
II-What I Know?
VI-What’s More
Activity I- True or False
III-What’s
V-What is it In IV-What’s New
1. True Activity 8- Draw a
VI-What
2. False I Have Learned? IX- Assessment
Activity 2- Draw a pathway
Activity 6- Pledge Wall Bottle 5- Role Play
Activity
Multiple Choice
3. False
Activity 10- Answers may 1.In C
4. False vary Activity
Activity 3-
7- Dangers
Thank youWith
Notes Activity 9- Self -
2. B Inventory
5. True
3.
Activity 4- Write an Essay A
6. True
4. A
VII-
7. What
True I can Do?
5. B
8. True
6. B
9. True
10.True 7. C
8. A
9. B
10. C

References:

Reference Books:
1. DepEd K-12 Physical Education – Health Learners Module Grade 8, First Edition
2. Teaching Guide in MAPEH 8 ( K-12) 2-13
3. Perez, Vilma,et. Al. 2006. Music, Art, Physical Education and Health, St. Bernadette
Publications, Inc.

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