Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
identify what are the most common communicable diseases.
determine the cause, spread, and prevention of the communicable diseases.
show awareness on the communicable diseases.
demonstrate ways on how to prevent the common diseases.
III. Procedure
A. Preparatory Activities
1. Opening Prayer
2. Checking of Attendance
3. Review
The teacher will ask about their previous topic.
4. Motivation
The teacher will ask the students to get a piece of paper and answer the following
questions:
1. When was the last time you got sick?
2. What have you felt? What are the symptoms that you experienced?
3. What did you do to cure the sickness?
The teacher will ask the students to keep the paper because it will used later.
B. Activity
“I am Infected”
2 of the students will pretend to be infected by a virus.
The class must identify the 2 infected people by just using hand gestures.
The class will just be given 5 mins find out.
1. Analysis
Introduce the topic and start the discussion of the most common communicable diseases.
- Head Lice
- Chorela
- Malaria
- Influenza
- Chickenpox
Ask the students if they experience any of the stated diseases.
Discuss how these communicable diseases are spread and relate the previous activity a
while back.
Direct transmission
1. Contact transmission
2. Food-borne/ water-borne transmission
Indirect transmission
1. Droplet transmission
2. Air-borne transmission
Ask students what prevention can be done to these communicable diseases.
2. Generalization
The class will reiterate the causes, spread, and cure of the most common communicable
diseases.
The teacher will ask the students to get the sheet of paper used before the discussion
and evaluate the whether it is a communicable or non-communicable disease.
3. Application
“Task: News Casting”
The teacher will divide the class into 4 groups. Each group will be given a specific
disease to be discuss by creating a short skit.
The 2 students of each group will be portraying as reporters broadcasting the specific
disease while other group mates will act the scenario.
The students must show how the disease spreads and how to prevent.
The class will only be given 15 minutes to collaborate.
Rubrics for the Presentation
Category Excellent (4) Good (3) Inadequate (2)
Clarity and Main points clearly stated and Main points fairly clear; some Presentation jumps among
Organization explained; logical, smooth missing links or transitions. random topics. Main points
organization unclear
Style and Audience could see and hear Audience could see and hear Audience could mostly see and
Delivery speakers clearly. Effective speakers clearly. Most pauses hear speakers. Speakers show
pauses were effective hesitations and uncertainty.
Content Information are clearly Most information are clearly Information are not clearly
presented. Thorough mastery of presented. Mastery of the topic presented. Appears largely
the topic was evident. was evident. opinion-based
Cooperation Everyone contributed to the Group members tried to divide One person took lead while
whole presentation. the work evenly but some would others sometimes helped
only work sometimes.
IV. EVALUATION
Fill out the missing information on the table below.
Disease Cause Mode of Transmission Prevention
Influenza 3. Droplet 4.
V. ASSIGNMENT
On a short bond paper, create a slogan campaigning prevention of communicable diseases.
Prepared By:
Ms. Justine Sibug De Jesus, Lpt