DAILY LESSON PLAN IN HEALTH 7 3RD QUARTER

Date: November 3, , 2017

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
A. Analyze the major beliefs about the cause of disease.
B. Accept personal responsibility for ones health.
C. Practice ways to prevent diseases.

II. CONTENT
Lesson 2: Bad Air, Germs or Combined Factors?

The learner demonstrates understanding of growth

Grade Level and development, nutrition, prevention and control of
Standard communicable diseases, and community and
environmental health and their impact on health.
Content Standard The learner demonstrates understanding of the
ways to prevent and control communicable diseases.
Performance The learner consistently demonstrates healthful practices
Standard to prevent and control communicable diseases.

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

o Video Clips
o Diagram
o Learners Module

Reference: Learners Module in Grade 7 Health, page 10 15.

IV. PROCEDURE

A. PREPARATION
Greet the students; ask them to pick up pieces of paper. Once the classroom
is clean, let them take their seats.

B. MOTIVATION
The teacher presents a video clip on the beliefs of individuals interviewed by
the teacher. The students will then be asked if they share the same beliefs or
theyve heard similar beliefs from their parents, grandparents or relatives.

C. LESSON PROPER
In order to fully understand the nature of health, we need to understand
the nature of disease. People in various times of history have been
curious about the cause of disease. They tried to explain it as either a
supernatural or a natural event.
 The Causes of Disease
The Supernatural The Poisonous The Germ Belief The Agent-Host-
Belief Gas Belief Environment Belief
During the ancient According to Before the turn Since many people
times, people thought this view, of the 20th believed that the
that disease was disease, such century, the one-cause idea of
brought about by as malaria, was germ belief the germ belief was
sorcery, witchcraft, transmitted by about the cause not enough to
fate, or spirit poisonous of infectious explain the actual
aggression (Gods gases from disease cause of diseases,
punishment or devils rotting plants or became very the AgentHost--
work). bad vapour that popular... This Environment belief
The belief in the came from belief holds that was formed.
supernatural cause swamps (the microscopic It explains disease
was evident during word malaria organisms are as a product of the
the Black Death or comes from responsible for complex interaction
bubonic plague of the mala aria infectious among three
14th century. The meaning bad diseases. factors: agent, host,
bubonic plague air). Although and environment.
bacillus that came revolutionary, This is known as
close to wiping out this belief is the classic agent
the global population quite limiting host environment
was believed to be because it only triangle.
Gods punishment for considers a It helps us
peoples sins. single cause of understand the
disease. nature of
communicable
diseases. It
answers the who?
(host), what?
(agent) and
where?
(environment) of
disease.

D. ACTIVITY
Activity: My Health Pledge

E. GENERALIZATION
Lets sum up the key points in this lesson:
 H- ealth is more than the absence of disease.
E nhancing behaviors should be consistently practiced to safeguard
health.
A- ttainment of good health is both a personal and social responsibility.
L ifestyle diseases are caused by unhealthful practices.
T ype of activities that we do affect our health.
H- olistic health is the key to quality life.

F. EVALUATION
The activity serves as the evaluation.

G. ASSIGNMENT
In a sheet of paper, interview your parents or grandparents and ask them
of their beliefs on the cause(s) of diseases. Gather at least three beliefs.

V. REMARKS

VI. REFLECTION

Prepared by: Checked by:

NORALIE B. MORALES MARIVIC S. TORRES
Teacher I School Head