This document contains a lesson plan on personal health and prevention of diseases for third grade students. It includes 8 lessons that discuss topics like health and wellness, common childhood illnesses, factors that influence health, hygiene practices, nutrition, exercise, immunization, and maintaining a healthy environment. The lessons include activities, worksheets, and assessments to teach students healthy habits and help them prevent common diseases.

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HEALTH
Learner’s Materials
UNIT 2
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Health – Grade 3
Learner’s Material
First Edition, 2013
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Table of Contents
Quarter 2 – Personal Health/Prevention and Control of Diseases
and Disorders
Lesson 1: Health and wellness ............................................2
Lesson 2: Sickness troubles ..................................................7
Lesson 3: Factors on the go ................................................10
Lesson 4: Be healthy with clean body...............................13
Lesson 5: Build up for a healthy fight.................................17
Lesson 6: Get protection from your health.......................22
Lesson 7: Clean for better health.......................................26
Lesson 8: Living up a healthy life........................................29

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QUARTER 2
PERSONAL HEALTH
PREVENTION OF DISEASES

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INTRODUCTION:
Good health keeps us away from diseases. Taking care of oneself
is one way to be healthy. This module will help you understand
health and wellness to practice healthy habits to prevent
common childhood diseases. So now, get ready to learn and be
healthy. Always remember that health is wealth but we need to
work for it.
Lesson 1: Health and Wellness
Healthy Idols
Do you know a healthy person? Write the name of the healthy
people that you know. List or draw as many as you can.
Answer: What makes them healthy? What is health?
Let’s Try!

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Activity 1: Healthy One
Draw yourself inside the circle.
What are the activities that make you healthy?
Health is the complete well-being of body, mind, feeling,
spirit and relationship with others.
Let’s Do This!

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Activity 2: Wellness on Go
Which pictures show a healthy person? Encircle the correct
pictures.
Good health is called wellness.

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Activity 3: Let’s Go for Health and Wellness
Use the codes to unlock the message for wellness. Write your
answer on the boxes provided.
Healthy lifestyle equals wellness.

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I promise to keep my body healthy.
I will ______________________________.
I will ______________________________.
I will ______________________________.
I will ______________________________.
Pupil’s Name: ___________________________
Parent’s Signature: ______________________
Healthy Promise
Write your own healthy promise. Sign at the bottom of your
promise. Ask your parents also to sign.
MY HEALTHY PROMISE
Let’s Check!

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Lesson 2: Sickness Troubles
Oh My, I’m Sick!
Have you been sick?
List diseases that you have experienced.
Activity 1: Sickness Bingo
Complete the human bingo.
You may ask the help of your family and friends.
Write their names on the appropriate boxes.
Has Colds today Got Dengue Was absent in class
because of
Influenza/ Flu
Experienced
Parasitic intestinal
infestation
Knows what is
Malara
Had Chickenpox
Let’s Try!
Let’s Do This!

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Had
Sore Eyes
Read about
Tuberculosis
Got Measles when
still a baby
Heard news about
Meningococcemia
Suffered from
Pediculosis
Had Mumps
Activity 2: Just Can’t Forget It
When was the last time you got sick? How did you feel?
What did you do about it?
Write a short paragraph about your experience.
Put a title to your work.

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Health Advisory
Visit your barangay health center.
Ask for a recent health advisory/news on diseases.
Make a poster about the advisory you learned.
Include a brief description, its effect and who are mostly affected.
Be ready to present it in your class.
Let’s Check!
Disease is an abnormal condition of the body which affects
the normal function of our body and mind. There are diseases
which commonly affect young children like you.

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Lesson 3: Factors on the Go
Picture Says
Study the pictures below.
What does each picture show?
Activity 1: Sickness Factors
Identify the contributing factors of diseases.
Write H if it is Heredity, L if it is Lifestyle and E if it is environment.
Put your answers on the blank provided.
________ 1. Mang Pedro got lung disease because of smoking.
________ 2. Rene has a family medical history of heart disease.
________ 3. Lito acquired diabetes from eating too much sweets
and fats.
Let’s Try!
Let’s Do This!

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________ 4. There was a malaria outbreak at the evacuation
center.
________ 5. Dengue is carried by mosquitoes which live in dirty and
moist areas.
Activity 2: Friend or Foe
Classify the items below.
Which are like friends who can make us healthy?
Which are like foes who can make us sick?
Write in the appropriate column.
Your heredity, lifestyle, and environment are contributing
factors of diseases.
Heredity includes the genes you inherit from your parents.
Lifestyle refers to your health practices
Environment includes your surroundings and all its elements.
Rest Smoking Clean body Immunization
Germs Polluted air Dirty water Check-ups
Exercise Balanced diet Household pests
Abnormal Tissues

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FRIENDS
1. _______________________
2. _______________________
3. _______________________
4. _______________________
5. _______________________
6. _______________________
FOES
1. ___________________________
2. ___________________________
3. ___________________________
4. ___________________________
5. ___________________________
6. ___________________________
Maze for Health
Complete the maze below.
Write along the maze 5 items that can make you healthy.
Write on the Stop signs 3 items that can make you sick.
Let’s Check!

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Lesson 4: Be Healthy with Clean Body
ng
Sing a Song
Sing the song to the tune of “Clap your Hands”
Cleanup your Body
Brush your teeth so gaily, gaily, gaily
Brush your teeth so gaily,
Brush, brush, brush
Wash your face so gently, gently, gently
Wash your face so gently
Wash, wash, wash
Comb your hair so lightly, lightly, lightly
Comb your hair so lightly
Comb, comb, comb
Let’s Try!

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Activity1: Cleaning is Fun!
How do these items help you?
Describe how each item below helps you.
1. ___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
2 ___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
3. ___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
4. __________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Activity 2: Check for Health
Put a check (√) inside the box if the statement is a hygienic
practice and (X) if it is not.
Let’s Do This!

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1. Luis washes his feet before going to bed.
2. Ali bites his nail when bored and nervous.
3. Carlo brushes his teeth after every meal.
4. Leo takes a bath only when it is a sunny day.
5. Ana always washes her long and shiny hair.
6. Juan takes off his slippers when playing outside.
7. Kat changes her favorite dress every other day.
8. Patrick washes his hands before and after eating.
Activity 3: Post for Health
Make a poster on ways to keep the body clean.
Self-Checklist
Check the appropriate column for your health behaviour. Do this
in your notebook.
Let’s Check!
One way for you to prevent catching common childhood
diseases is to maintain proper hygiene at all times.

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Healthy Practices Always Sometimes Never
1. I take a bath.
2. I wash my hair.
3. I clean my face.
4. I brush my teeth.
5. I change my clothes.
6. I cut my nails regularly.
7. I change my underwear.
8. I consult a doctor twice a
year.
9. I wash my wash after using the
toilet.
10. I wash my hands before and
after eating.
Collage for Hygiene
Collect pictures proper hygiene practices. Make a collage and
paste it on a card board. Give a title to your work.
Let’s Do this at Home
Let’s take note…
Health is personal. You are the one responsible for your own
health.

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Lesson 5: Build up for a Healthy Fight
Being Active Is Fun!
Look at the pictures. Imitate the movement of each animal.
Let’s Try!
Jump like a bunny
Stretch like a cat
Run like a gorilla
Walk like a spider

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Activity 1: Get Physical Pyramid
List your physical activities.
Write appropriate activities for each level.
Make sure to follow the pyramid for your health.
Do this in your notebook.
Activity 2: Balanced Diet with Pyramid and Plate
Study at the Food Plate and Food Pyramid below.
Let’s Do This!
Cut down
3- 5x a week
2-3x a week
Everyday
I need at least 30-60 minutes of daily physical activities to
maintain a healthy body.

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Complete your healthy plates for a day based on the food plate
and food pyramid above. Draw this in your notebook.
Activity 3: Get Enough Rest and Sleep
Now, let’s check your bedtime for a week.
Record your bedtime and wakeup time daily.
Ask your parents to sign in the last column.
DAY BEDTIME WAKE-UP
TIME
HOURS OF
SLEEP
PARENT’S
SIGNATURE
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

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Crossword Puzzle Time
Answer the puzzle below.
Vertical (Down)
1. Basic exercise that uses legs and feet
2. Nutrients found in fruits
5. Fun activities outside
Horizontal
3. Opposite of being weak
4. You must do it every night
Let’s Check!
My body needs enough rest and sleep to be healthy.
Children like me need 10-11 hours of sleep at night.
I also need to rest after doing a physical activity so that my
body can regain strength.

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1.
2.
3.
4. 5.

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Lesson 6: Get Protection for your Health
Read aloud
Read the dialogue between Roy and Eva.
Let’s Try!

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Activity 1: Get Rid of Germs
What are the diseases that can be prevented through
immunization? Color them.
Let’s Do This!
Immunization gives protection against specific diseases. I must
have complete immunization. I can go to the barangay health
care center for free immunization.

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Activity 2: Know Your Immunization Record
Ask your parents what immunizations you have had.
List them in your notebook.
My Immunization
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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Immunization Core
Why is Immunization important? Write 1-2 sentences below.
Let’s Check!
Content(3)
Structure (2)
Total (5)

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Lesson 7: Clean-up for Healthy Environment
Community Check-up
Look around your community.
Write in the circles the things that make your community healthful.
Write outside the circles the things that make it unhealthful.
Do this in your notebook.
Let’s Try!
Let’s take note…
A healthy environment ________________________________________
___________________________________________________________.

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Activity 1: Cleaning-up
Circle the pictures that show ways to keep the surroundings clean.
Activity 2: Clean-up Promise
Make a promise on how you will keep your surroundings clean. Do
this in your notebook.
Let’s Do This!
Let’s take note…
Everybody must take part in keeping our environment clean.
A healthy environment makes people healthy..

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Draw a picture of ways you can keep your environment clean.
Your work will be marked as follows:
Content-----6 pts.
Creativity—2 pts.
Neatness—2 pts.
Observe the surroundings of your house.
Describe it. Are your surroundings healthy?
Write a plan on how you can keep your home surroundings
healthy.
Content (3)____
Structure(2)____
Total(5)________
Let’s Check!
Let’s Do this at Home

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Lesson 8: Healthy Choice
Poem Reading
Read the poem and try to act it out.
Life is What We Make It
by Minerva C. David
In life we always make
A choice we have to take.
It may be good or bad,
Be happy or be sad.
Healthy foods, we must eat,
Bad habits we must beat.
Smoking and drinking,
Not good for our well-being.
Life is what we make it.
We can be sick or fit,
Follow health practices,
Say goodbye to diseases.
Let’s Try!

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Activity 1: Healthy Habits
Encircle the pictures that show healthful habits.
Let’s Do!

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Activity 2: Healthy Story
Use the pictures to make a short story about healthful practices.
Write your answers in your notebook.
Healthy and Happy Together
Lito and Sila always help in _____(1)_______
the house. They make sure that their surroundings are clean. They also keep
their bodies clean.
Before eating, Sila _______(2)_____________.
Sila loves to eat________(3)____________ and Lito too.
They keep their bodies fit by ___(4)______ .
They also have regular_________(5)_________.
They are happy and healthy children.

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Activity 3: Checklist for the Parents
Ask your parents to put a check in the box that matches your
lifestyle. Copy and do this in your notebook.
Lifestyle YES NO
1. Take a bath daily.
2. Play all day long.
3. Drink milk everyday.
4. Stay up late every night.
5. Eat fruits and vegetables.
6. Help in household chores.
7. Sleep for 8-10 hours daily.
8. Watch TV most of the time.
9. Drink softdrinks after every meal.
10 . Play video games during free time.
______________________________
Parent’s Signature
Activity 4: Healthful Prayer
Write a short prayer for good health and for you and your family.
Dear God

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Daily Record
Record your daily activities. Check if they are healthful for you.
MY DAILY ACTIVITIES
What I Eat
Breakfast: _________________________
Lunch: ____________________________
Dinner: ____________________________
My Active Games
I walk _____________________________
I run ______________________________
I play _____________________________
My Rest and Sleep
I rest when I am ______________________
I slept at_____________________ last night.
I woke up at ______________.
I slept for ______________ hours.
Let’s Check!