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HEALTH
Quarter 1 – Module 7:
Decide Now, Success Later

CO_Q1_Health 8_ Module 7
Health – Grade 8
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Quarter 1 – Module 7: Decide Now, Success Later
First Edition, 2020

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HEALTH
Quarter 1 – Module 7:
Decide Now, Success Later
Introductory Message

This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners,
can continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions,
directions, exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to
understand each lesson.

Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-
by-step as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you.

Pre-tests are provided to measure your prior knowledge on lessons in each

SLM. This will tell you if you need to proceed on completing this module or if
you need to ask your facilitator or your teacher’s assistance for better
understanding of the lesson. At the end of each module, you need to answer
the post-test to self-check your learning. Answer keys are provided for each
activity and test. We trust that you will be honest in using these.

In addition to the material in the main text, Notes to the Teacher are also
provided to our facilitators and parents for strategies and reminders on how
they can best help you on your home-based learning.

Please use this module with care. Do not put unnecessary marks on any
part of this SLM. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises
and tests. And read the instructions carefully before performing each task.

If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering
the tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or
facilitator.

Thank you.
 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to
help you master the nature and background of team sports. The scope of
this module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The
language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The
lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the
textbook you are now using.

This module contains:

 Lesson 1 – Decision-Making Skills in Managing Sexuality-Related Issues

After going through this module, you are expected to apply decision-making
skills in managing sexuality-related issues (H8FH- Ih-23)
a. define decision-making;
b. identify the six steps of decision-making in
managing sexuality-related issues;
c. conduct interview on how to manage sexuality-related issues.

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 What I Know

Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer in your activity
notebook.

1. What is the choice that you make or act upon?

A. decision
B. evaluation
C. explanation
D. remarks

2. What skill must be practiced and exercised in resolving issues and

concerns?
A. arranging
B. decision-making
C. evaluating
D. planning

3. How many steps do we have in the decision making?

A. 6
B. 16
C. 60
D. none of the above

4. What is the second step of decision-making?

A. deciding on solution
B. determining the problem
C. evaluating the situation
D. exploring the alternative

5. Maria decided to go home early to study her lessons for the

upcoming examination. In what step of decision making she has to
follow?
A. consider the consequences
B. decide on solution
C. evaluate the situation
D. explore the alternative

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6. Jerald is going to a birthday party this weekend. This is the first
time he was asked to attend by his friends but then he discerns
that his parents will not approve of it. He thinks that if he will
disobey his parents he could be in big trouble. In what step of
decision-making Jerald has to follow?
A. consider the consequences
B. decide
C. determine the problem
D. evaluate

7. What is the first step in decision-making?

A. decide
B. determine the problem
D. evaluate
D. explore the alternative

8. What is the sixth step of decision-making?

A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

9. It is the third step of decision-making.

A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

10. It is the fifth step of decision-making.

A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

11.A package of individual elements that together provides a

comprehensive appeal to the decision.
A. alternative
B. assess
C. determine
D. evaluate

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12. A resolution in the mind as a result of consideration.
A. assess
B. decide
C. determine
D. evaluate

13.What step in decision making in which the person gives the

importance, worth, or usefulness of something?
A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

14. What step in decision making that would to results of an action or

condition?
A. consequence
B. evaluate
C. explore
D. problem

15. Jeyrald saw a dog hit by a car. No one tried to help the wounded
dog so he decided to call for help to aid the dog. What step of
decision- making is he portraying?
A. consider consequences
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. explore alternative

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Lesson
Development of Decision-
1 Skills

The decisions you make related to your sexual behaviors will affect
yourself and others now or in later life. These sexual behaviors may be
toward yourself, your family, your friends, or other people. Thus, what
you choose to do, and how you behave, should be guided by family, social
and spiritual standards, and should be based on decision-making steps
or procedures.

What’s In

In the previous module, you have already identified different issues

and concerns of teenagers like you. You have also understood the need for
support of the family.
Now, you are going to choose one issue that you think is the most
bothering on your part.
Write at least three ways on how to overcome or avoid this issue to
happen to you. Do this in your activity notebook.

Key Issue:

How did you

overcome?
1. 2. 3.

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 What’s New

Arrange Familiar Terms

Arrange the scrambled letters to form the correct word and say
something about what you understand. Write your answer in your activity
notebook.

1. IONSCIED
2. BLEPROM
3. ELUAVAET
4. INGKAM
5. YFDEITN

What is It

Decision- Making

In life, we may come to a point in which we make the necessary

decision and in which we make important choices for a better situation or a
better life. Choosing a career is one of the crucial stages that involves
careful planning and decision making. If you are to decide which career
would you take, what would it be? Why?

Illustrated by: Ruth B. Elman

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 A decision is a choice you make or act upon. A good decision is a
decision in which you have carefully considered the outcome of each choice.
Taking personal responsibility is to accept how your decisions may affect you
and other people.

Decision-making skills will help you make decisions based on your

need and desires. At the same time, it helps you to resist peer pressure.
These skills must be practiced and exercised in resolving issues and
concerns about sexuality.

Six Steps of Decision-Making (DECIDE)

Determine the problem (1st - Identify causes of your problem.

Stage) Look at the current situation,
rather than its history. Do not
consider the "trouble" it creates
whether now or in the future.

Explore the alternatives (2nd - an alternative is not a single action,

Stage) but a set of actions.
- a package of individual elements
that together provide a
comprehensive approach to the
decision situation.

Consider the consequences - a result or effect of an action or

(3rd Stage) condition.

Identify your values (4th Stage) - the regard that something ought to
deserve; the importance, worth, or
usefulness of something.

Decide (5th Stage) - come to a resolution in the mind as

a result of consideration.

Evaluate (6th Stage) - form an idea of the amount,

number, or value of assess

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 What’s More

Go Straight Up!

Fill in the steps of the stairs in the illustration according to the six stages of
decision making (fromthe bottom is stage 1 and so on.). Draw this in your
Health activity notebook.

Illustrated by: Ruth B. Elman

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 What I Have Learned

Your Insights

After doing all the activities in this module, I learned that

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________

I realized that I need to improve my

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________

The most difficult part of the lesson that I found is

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________

I believe I can improve my performance and understanding of the

lesson through
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________

What Can I Do

Let’s Climb Deeper in Making Good Decisions

In your activity notebook, label the page with the letters D E C I D E

vertically. Use the six steps in decision making in going through this
activity.

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1. Your BFF is going to a party this weekend. This is first time that
you are asked to attend by a friend but then you discern that your
will not approve of it. You don’t want to make your friends angry by
not going, but you also don’t want to get in trouble with your
parents. Determine what decision you should make.

D - ____________________________________________________________

E - _____________________________________________________________

C - _____________________________________________________________

I - _____________________________________________________________

D - _____________________________________________________________

E - _____________________________________________________________

2. One of your closest friends tells his problem and asks for your
support. He got his girlfriend pregnant. What kind of support are
you going to offer without sacrificing morality?

D - ____________________________________________________________

E - _____________________________________________________________

C - _____________________________________________________________

I - _____________________________________________________________

D - _____________________________________________________________

E - _____________________________________________________________

3. The following guide questions may help you decide.

Is it safe?
Is it legal?
Is it healthy?
Does it show respect for you and others?

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 Assessment

Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write it in your activity notebook.

1. What is the choice that you make or act upon?

A. decision
B. evaluation
C. explanation
D. remarks

2. What skill must be practiced and exercised in resolving issues and

concerns?
A. arranging
B. decision-making
C. evaluating
D. planning

3. How many steps do we have in the decision making?

A. 6
B. 16
C. 60
D. none of the above

4. What is the second step of decision-making?

A. deciding on solution
B. determining the problem
C. evaluating the situation
D. exploring the alternative

5. Josmerie decided to go home early to study her lessons for the

upcoming examination. In what step of decision making she has to
follow?
A. consider the consequences
B. decide on solution
C. evaluate the situation
D. explore the alternative

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6. Jeyrald is going to a birthday party this weekend. This is the first
time he was asked to attend by his friends but then he discerns
that his parents will not approve of it. He thinks that if he will
disobey his parents he could be in big trouble. In what step of
decision making Jerald has to follow?
A. consider the consequences
B. decide
C. determine the problem
D. evaluate

7. What is the first step in decision-making?

A. decide
B. determine the problem
C. evaluate
D. explore the alternative

8. What is the sixth step of decision-making?

A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

9. It is the third step of decision-making.

A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

10. It is the fifth step of decision-making.

A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

11. A package of individual elements that together provide a

comprehensive appeal to the decision.
A. alternative
B. assess
C. determine
D. evaluate

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12. A resolution in the mind as a result of consideration.
A. assess
B. decide
C. determine
D. evaluate

13. What step in decision making in which the person gives the
importance, worth, or usefulness of something?
A. consider the consequence
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. identify your values

14. What step in decision making that would to results of an action or

condition?
A. consequence
B. evaluate
C. explore
D. problem

15. Josmerie saw a dog hit by a car. No one tried to help the wounded
dog so she decided to call for help to aid the dog. What step of
decision- making is he portraying?
A. consider consequences
B. decide
C. evaluate
D. explore alternative

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 Additional Activities

Interview or talk to five (5) of your friends about things learned on

how to manage sexuality-related issues. This can be done virtually.

1) What have you learned?

2) How did you go about 3) Why did you choose to

learning the lesson? learn it?

4) What/Who helped you learn it? 5) What hindered your

learning?

6) How did you know that you had learned it?

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Assessment What I Know
Test I Test I
1. a 1. a
2. b 2. b
3. a 3. a
4. d 4. d
5. b 5. b
6. a 6. a
7. b 7. b
8. c 8. c
9. a 9. a
10. b 10. b
11. a 11. a
12. b 12. b
13. d 13. d
14. a 14. a
15. c 15. c
Answer Key
References
Book

Department of Education, 2013.Physical Education and Health 8 Learners

Module. Philippines: Vacarish Publication and Trading, Inc.

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