8 Health

Learning Activity Sheet

Quarter 3
Disease Prevention and Control
Introductory Message
Welcome to G8 Health Activity Sheets

The Learning Activity Sheet for Grade 8 Health is a product of the collaborative
efforts of the Schools Division of Capiz and DepEd Regional Office VI - Western Visayas
through the Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD). This is developed to
guide the learning facilitators (teachers, parents and responsible adults) in helping the
learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum.

The Learning Activity Sheet is self-directed instructional materials aimed to guide

the learners in accomplishing activities at their own pace and time using the contextualized
resources in the community. This will also assist the learners in acquiring the lifelong
learning skills, knowledge and attitudes for productivity and employment.

For learning facilitator:

The Learning Activity Sheet for Grade 8 Health will help you facilitate the teaching-
learning activities specified in each Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC) with
minimal or no face-to-face encounter between you and learner. This will be made available
to the learners with the references/links to ease the independent learning.

For the learner:

The Activity Sheet for Grade 8 Health is developed to help you continue learning
even if you are not in school. This learning material provides you with meaningful and
engaging activities for independent learning. Being an active learner, carefully read and
understand the instructions then perform the activities and answer the assessments. This
will be returned to your facilitator on the agreed schedule.

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 LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET (LAS) – HEALTH 8
Name of Learner:
Grade:
Section:
Date:

Health 8 Learning Activity Sheets

Disease Prevention and Control (Communicable)

I. Learning Competency with Code:

1. Discusses the most common communicable diseases

 signs and symptoms of common communicable diseases ( H8DD-IIIb-c-17)
 effects of common communicable diseases ( H8DD-IIIb-c-18)
 misconceptions, myths, and beliefs about common communicable diseases
 prevention and control of common communicable diseases (H8DD-IIIb-c-19)

II. Background Information for Learners:

Disease prevention and control is a very important health concern because it

affects the quality of people’s life. Communicable disease not only threatens the sick
person but also his/her family and the society in general. Thus, protecting ourselves and
our families from diseases is both a personal and social responsibility.

This material will introduce to the learners the nature of communicable diseases and
its prevention and management. They will discover that the spread of communicable
diseases to the environment will threaten the populace so each one must understand
how to prevent the spread and learn how to manage it.

There is a very popular saying “Prevention is better than cure.” As you go along, you
will notice that the diseases you are experiencing or encountering can be prevented if
you only know how to control them. Accordingly, if you lack self-discipline, then
prevention and control of diseases will be difficult to attain.

One thing is sure after learning from this material, you will be challenged to become
a catalyst for the control and prevention of communicable diseases. Start with yourself,
family, neighbour, community, including your school then extend it to the nation. You just
need to consistently demonstrate personal responsibility and healthful practices in order
to prevent and control communicable diseases.

III. Accompanying Textbook:

Kto12 Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum Guide Grade 8 Health

Most Essential Learning Competencies
Physical Education and Health 8 Learner’s Material

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 IV. Activity Proper:

Activity 1: WORD HUNT

Directions: Find five (5) words related to communicable diseases and encircle it. Words
appear straight across, up and down, down and up, and diagonally.

T U Q T U O R Y I O P L F J G
S I W Y E R X U F C V K R H F
B F M P P R I N C U P L E D D
A G H E Q O G P S G N C Q S A
C Q G Z W P J R D F V G U A O
T W V W C R K O U D Q B I Z L
E E S R I N G W O R M S S X E
R R D C R S M R R J E M C G U
I T F V I R U S E S X T Y H E
A Y G B T D B S F T R Y A S N
I U H N Y F V S D Y T U C D C
L I J S P E C I F I C T Y J A
I O K M U G F O L N M I V Q T
T P L F I H D N S B O P W Y
Y T U B E R C I N G G N B T U

Activity 2: Describe Me!

Directions: From the two pictures shown below, choose only one and answer the guide
questions that follow. Write your response on the space provided. (No need to draw the
picture)

A B

Guide Questions:

1. Describe the picture that you have chosen.

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2. What disease/s can be brought by the one you have chosen?
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3. What preventive measures can be done to avoid acquiring such disease you mentioned?
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Activity 3: What You Need to Know?

Communicable Diseases – are diseases that are transmissible from one host, (person,
animal or other objects) to another.

Many of the most common diseases are caused by tiny microorganism called
pathogens. Pathogens infect or invade the body and attack its cells and tissues. Some
bacteria, fungi, protozoa, certain types of worms and all viruses are pathogens. Diseases
caused by the direct or indirect spread of pathogens from one person to another called
communicable diseases.

Directions: Based on the picture, select the following communicable diseases inside the box
and place it according to its number, signs and symptoms and effects.

Acne Ringworms Leptospirosis Gonorrhea

Tuberculosis Pneumonia COVID-19

Picture Diseases Signs and Effects
Symptoms
1. A cough that It usually affects
lasts more than the lungs, but it
3 weeks can also affect
Chest pain other parts of the
Coughing up body, such as the
blood brain, the kidneys,
Feeling tired all or the spine. A
the time person with TB
Night sweats can die if they do
Chills not get treatment.
Fever
Loss of appetite
Weight loss

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2. A scaly ring- It is a rash caused
shaped area, by a fungal
typically on the infection. It's
buttocks, trunk, usually a red,
arms and legs itchy, circular rash
May itch with clearer skin
A clear or in the middle.
scaly area
inside the ring,
perhaps with a
scattering of
red bumps
Slightly raised,
expanding
rings
A round, flat
patch of itchy
skin
Overlapping
rings

3. Whiteheads It can increase

(closed depression,
plugged pores) anxiety, poor self-
Blackheads image and poor
(open plugged self-esteem.
pores)
Small red,
tender bumps
(papules)
Pimples
(pustules),
which are
papules with
pus at their tips
Large, solid,
painful lumps
under the skin
(nodules)
Painful, pus-
filled lumps
under the skin
(cystic lesions)

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4. fatigue, The first skin
irregular, often changes usually
fast, heartbeat involve one or a
muscle pains few patches of
nausea skin losing their
nosebleeds color. Other skin
pain in the changes include:
chest lightening or
panting darkening
poor appetite dryness or
swelling of the flakiness
hands, feet, or signs
ankles of inflammation,
unexplained such as redness
weight loss a burning
jaundice, seen sensation
in a yellowing the growth of
of the whites of nodules
the eyes, the formation of
tongue, and painless ulcers on
skin the feet
thickened skin
surrounding
lesions
lumps or swellings
of the face or
earlobes
5 Chest pain It can reach other
when you major organs and
breathe or result in organ
cough. damage or even
Confusion or death. The spread
changes in of bacteria
mental through the blood
awareness (in is called
adults age 65 bacteremia. Its
and older) potentially deadly
Cough, which result is called
may produce septic shock.
phlegm,
Fatigue,
Fever,
sweating and
shaking chills
Lower than
normal body
temperature (in
adults older
than age 65
and people
with weak
immune
systems)

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 Nausea,
vomiting or
diarrhea
Shortness of
breath

6. Fever The infectious

Cough diseases with
Tiredness millions dying
Shortness of have been
breath or recorded in the
difficulty history for the
breathing past several
Muscle aches centuries.
Chills The pandemic
Sore throat has been affecting
Runny nose the entire food
Headache system and has
Chest pain laid bare its
Pink eye fragility. Border
(conjunctivitis) closures, trade
restrictions and
confinement
measures have
been preventing
farmers from
accessing
markets, including
for buying inputs
and selling their
produce, and
agricultural
workers from
harvesting crops,
infectious
diseases with
millions dying
have been
recorded in the
history for the
past several
centuries.

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 Activity 4: My experience:

It was one Christmas vacation when my friends and I went outside to play basketball. After
playing, we decided to take a bath in a nearby waterfalls in our locality. I noticed that one of
my friends is having a circular- shaped rash on his forearm and he said it was so itchy. I
suspected it was a ringworm and advised him to visit a Doctor.
My friend talked to his mother asking to bring him to a Doctor. His mother refused and
brought him to a folk healer instead. The folk healer started applying coconut leaves in his
forearm while talking indistinctively. His mother believed that it can cure the suspected
ringworm in his forearm.
Ismael John D. Delfin

React on what you read.

Ask the help of your parents or guardian to guide you analyze the questions and assist
you while reading the questions aloud. Mark check on the choices yes or no.

1. Is the rash the result of some disturbed spirit? ( ) yes ( ) no

2. Can playing together harm some spirits? ( ) yes ( ) no
3. Will applying coconut leaves around help heal the rash? ( ) yes ( ) no
4. Does consulting a folk healer help heal the rash? ( ) yes ( ) no

Evaluate Your Answer

If you got 4 correct answers, then you really know the truth about some false beliefs and
practices.
If you got 3 correct answers, then you are not sure of some false beliefs and practices.
If you got 2 correct answers, then you need to focus, listen, and learn.
If you got 1 correct answer, then you are in danger, you practice a lot of false beliefs and
practices

Directions: Answer the following questions below and write your answers on the space
provided.

1. Do you agree with the belief of the mother? Why or why not?
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2. If you were on the same situation, what should you do? Why?
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 Activity 5: Learning Goals and Targets

Directions: Write down the steps you will do daily to consistently demonstrate personal
responsibility and healthful practices in preventing and controlling
communicable diseases.
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V. Reflection:

Directions: Write your own reflection about how you can prevent the spread of
communicable diseases. Write your answers on the space provided.

1. As a student, what can you do to prevent the spread of common communicable

diseases in your community?
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2. How can you help your family not to be infected by common communicable diseases?
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VII. References:

https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/general/tb.htm
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/308114#Symptoms
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wXDljGmMuerLaFVA8BinmCBgOAifG2_0/view