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PERFORMANCE TASK ST. ANTHONY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Concepcion, General Tinio, Nueva Ecija
Directions: Create a Facebook campaign on how to keep your community healthy. NAME: GRADE: 9
Upload a photo of yourself resolving an environmental problem. Make a quote about TOPIC/S: IMPORTANCE OF A HEALTHY DURATION: Week 8
your photo and include the hashtags #SACSTCares and #SaveOurEnvironment at the COMMUNITY
end of the description. DO not forget to tag your Mapeh Teacher.
Example:

MODULE IN
MAPEH 9

MR. CHRISTIAN GONZALES LARON

Subject Teacher
 IMPORTANCE OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY HEALTH

ACTIVITY TIME PART I

IMPORTANCE OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY
Directions: Draw your dream community. You can use any col-oring materials to
A healthy community is all what we need as a human being living in the community. make it colorful. Make a short description of your work.
We are all seeking a livable and peaceful community for our family and children.
Community is a reflection of its people, thus, a healthy community makes people
healthy and happy. If a community promotes respect and fair treatment to all its
people, then the people will also be respectful and fair to all. It is important that a
community leader will uphold the law and promotes peace and unity among people. It
is the prime duty of the community leader to take good care of the welfare of the
people. A healthy community gives many benefits such as it (1) promotes happiness,
(2) peace of mind, (3) unity, (4) generosity and (5) friendliness.

WAYS TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY COMMUNITY

There are ways to maintain a healthy community. These include the following:
1. Enough budget to support community projects.
2. All should participate in any program implemented within the community.
3. Local government should evaluate community performance.
4. National Government should mobilize money and resources to create anything
which is necessary for the people.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY

1. Promote physical activity.
2. Promote a diet free of additives, preservatives, and pesticides.
3. Improve air quality.
4. Lower risk of injuries.
5. Increase social connection and sense of community.
6. Reduce contributions to climate change.

You can help improve the health of your community by taking a look at your health
and the health of your family. Take actions to ensure that you are as healthy as
possible. Before an emergency, if you eat well, get regular check- ups and
vaccinations and are physically active. Your body will be better able to handle stress
and physical demands of recovering from a disaster. Washing your hands regularly
can also help reduce your chances of getting sick during and after emergency.
 ISSUES AND CONCERNS OF TEENAGERS AND FAMILY SUPPORT HEALTH

PRE-ASSESSMENT
You can help promote health in your community by becoming more engaged in your
Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is community. Encourage local community groups and the organizations to consider
wrong. community health in their emergency prepared-ness plans. Take action to improve
your community’s health now to ensure you are better prepared to remain healthy
________1. Healthy community refers to surroundings or conditions that provide the when an emergency occurs. Promoting and maintaining a healthy community is
means and opportunity to achieve physical and/or mental being. everybody’s business and the responsibility of every individual living in it.
________2. If community promotes respect and equality, then the people will also be
respectful and equal to everyone. POSITIVE IMPACTS OF HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT TO PEOPLE
________3. Healthy community is a term used to describe the state of health and how 1. Clean water prevents diseases. There are about 2.2 million people die from diarrhea
easy or difficult it is to be healthy when people live, learn, work and play. due to unsafe water, whereas, 90% of tem are kids. Preserved natural beauty
________4. Working at the community level to promote healthy living brings the attracts people from other places who want to live, work and study in close
greatest health benefits to the greatest number of people. proximity to something beautiful. If those people are conscious and respectful for
________5. A healthy community makes people sick and sad. the environment, then that’s an economic boon for local communities. And all of
________6. Only an individual should participate in any program implemented these things nourish the soul.
within the community. 2. It provides clean air, clean water, and other ecosystem services that we need. It
________7. The youngsters should evaluate community performance. provides a sense of calm that relieves stress. It offers an amenable place to engage
________8. National Government should mobilize money and resources to create in exercise like walking, running, swimming etc. It is a source of tourism revenue,
anything which is necessary for the people. from people who come for recreation, for the wildlife or just to relax.
________9. Help promote health in your community by becoming mor engaged in
your community. THE NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
________10. Wellness program initiated by the community promotes healthy
environment to it people. Environmental Issues are major concerns that happen in the environment. Most of
________11. Promoting and maintaining a healthy community is everybody’s these happened because of human activities on the biophysical environment which
business and the responsibility of every individual living in it. has harmful effects to human who are living on it.
________12. Having a peaceful mind is one of the importance of healthy
environment. MAJOR CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
________13. A healthy community increase risks to climate change. 1. Climate Change – the global warming that has been going on for the past 50
________14. A healthy environment promotes happiness. years due to human activities
________15. Budget is not necessary to support community projects. 2. Pollution – the presence of harmful substances in the environment
3. Environmental Degradation – deterioration of the environment through depletion
of resources
4. Resource depletion – is the consumption of resource faster than it can be
replenished.
5. Renewable resources - are energy source that cannot be depleted and are able to
supply a continuous source of clean energy.
6. Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make room for something
besides forest. This can include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing, or Environmental surroundings get to be divided when technological advancement splits
ISSUES AND CONCERNS OF TEENAGERS AND FAMILY SUPPORT HEALTH
using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing. up areas of land. Some examples of this can include streets which may slice through
woods or even trails which wind through prairies. While it may not sound all terrible
OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES on the surface, there are bad results. The biggest of these results are felt by particular
1. A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and animal and plant groups, the vast majority of which are specific for their bio-region or
depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe need a large area in order to make sure that their genetic lines are kept intact.
thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm.
2. Soil erosion is a naturally occurring process that affects all landforms. In EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
agriculture, soil erosion refers to the wearing away of a field's topsoil by the 1. Impact on Human Health: Human health might be at the receiving end as a result
natural physical forces of water and or through forces associated with farming of the environmental degradation. Areas exposed to toxic air pollutants can cause
activities such as tillage. respiratory problems like pneumonia and asthma. Millions of people are known to
3. Coral reef destruction is defined as the degradation (and potential mass death) of have died of due to indirect effects of air pollution.
the ocean’s corals. It is normally caused by illegal fishing techniques, 2. Loss of Biodiversity: Biodiversity is important for maintaining balance of the
pollution, careless tourism, other natural phenomena such as earthquakes and ecosystem in the form of combating pollution, restoring nutrients, protecting water
hurricanes, and of course, climate change—the culprit responsible for our sources and stabilizing climate. Deforestation, global warming, overpopulation and
warmer oceans. pollution are few of the major causes for loss of biodiversity.
3. Ozone Layer Depletion: Ozone layer is responsible for protecting earth from
MOST COMMON SOLUTIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE harmful ultraviolet rays. The presence of chlorofluorocarbons, hydro
1. Replace disposal items with reusable items chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere is causing the ozone layer to deplete. As it will
2. The use of paper should be avoided deplete, it will emit harmful radiations back to the earth.
3. Consume water and electricity 4. Loss for Tourism Industry: The deterioration of environment can be a huge
4. Support environmental friendly practices setback for tourism industry that rely on tourists for their daily livelihood.
5. Recycle the waste to conserve natural resources Environmental damage in the form of loss of green cover, loss of biodiversity, huge
6. Plant Trees (Reforestation) landfills, increased air and water pollution can be a big turn off for most of the
tourists.
EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ON PEOPLE’S HEALTH 5. Economic Impact: The huge cost that a country may have to borne due to
environmental degradation can have big economic impact in terms of restoration of
Our planet earth has a natural environment, known as ‘Ecosystem’ which includes all green cover, cleaning up of landfills and protection of endangered species. The
humans, plant life, mountains, glaciers, atmosphere, rocks, galaxy, massive oceans, economic impact can also be in terms of loss of tourism industry.
and seas. It also includes natural resources such as water, electric charge, fire,
magnetism, air, and climate.

Environmental issues can be seen by long term ecological effects, some of which can
demolish whole environments. An environment is a unique unit and incorporates all
the living and non-living components that live inside it. Plants and creatures are
evident parts of the environment, but it also includes the things on which they depend
on, for example, streams, lakes, and soils.