1. School LUCIANO B. RAMA SR. MNHS Grade Level 12
Teacher MARIA JAMAICA DOLORES B. PULGAR Learning Area Personal Development
Teaching
Dates/Time
JULY28-31, 2025/8:30-9:30AM(12MGC);2:00-
3:99PM(12LBA)
Quarter WEEK 7/QUARTER 1
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content
Standards
The learners demonstrate an
understanding of the concepts
about mental health and well-
being particularly stress and
coping strategies in middle and
late adolescence
The learners demonstrate an
understanding of the concepts about
mental health and well-being
particularly stress and coping
strategies in middle and late
adolescence
Stress and its sources; various
stress response; and coping
strategies for healthful living in
middle and late adolescence
The learners demonstrate an
understanding of the brain parts, its
processes and functions
B. Performance
Standards
The learners shall be able to
identify his/her own
vulnerabilities and plan on how
to stay mentally healthy while
coping with stress
The learners shall be able to identify
his/her own vulnerabilities and plan
on how to stay mentally healthy
while coping with stress
Identify personal ways of coping
for healthful living
The learners shall be able to identify
ways to improve brain functions
which will be manifested in thoughts,
behavior and feelings
C. Learning
Competencies
Discuss that understanding
stress and its sources during
adolescence may help in
identifying ways to cope and
have a healthful life
(EsP-PD11/12CS-If-5.1)
Identify sources of one’s stress and
illustrate the effect of stress on one’s
system (EsP-PD11/12CS-If-5.2)
Demonstrate personal ways of
coping with stress for healthful
living (EsP-PD11/12CS-Ig-5.3)
Discuss that understanding the left
and right brain may help in improving
one’s learning (EsP-PD11/12PM-Ig-
6.1)
II. CONTENT Understanding of Mental
Health and Psychological Well-
being
Cause and Effect of Stress in One’s
Life
Coping with Stress in Middle and
Late Adolescence
Ways to Improve Brain Functions
III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
A. References
1. Teache
r’s
Guide
pages
2. Learner
’s
GRADES 1 TO 12
DAILY LESSON LOG
2. Materi
als
pages
3. ADM
pages
4. Additio
nal
Materi
als
from
LR
Portal
B. Other
Learning
Resources
Materials
Manila Paper, Pictures, Laptop,
TV, PowerPoint Presentation
Materials
Manila Paper, Pictures, Laptop, TV,
PowerPoint Presentation
Materials
Manila Paper, Pictures, Laptop, TV,
PowerPoint Presentation
Materials
Manila Paper, Pictures, Laptop, TV,
PowerPoint Presentation
IV.
PROCEDURES
A. Reviewing
previous lesson
or presenting
the new lesson
Imagine you are browsing your
Facebook timeline, and you saw
the following pictures posted
by your friends. Draw the
reaction you will give in each
post.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
1. Stress is the body’s reaction to
challenge.
a. True B. False
2. Difficulty in concentration to one’s
task is a sign of stress.
a. True B. False
3. Being with your closest friend can
help lessen your stress.
A. True B. False
4. Calmness is negative stress.
A. True B. False
5. Stress is a term that has been
linked to varied concepts and
operations.
A. True B. False
Now let us have a review of the
previous lesson: Identify if the
words below are causes of stress
or effects of stress. Write STOP for
causes of stress and draw a SAD
FACE for effects of Stress.
Directions: Write True if you agree
with the statement, and False if you
do not.
_____1. Regular exercise would
benefit your body except for your
brain.
_____2. For your brain to function
properly, you should get enough
sleep.
_____3. Meditation could extend your
cognitive longevity.
_____4. Proper nutrition is good for
your brain.
_____5. Getting sunlight is good for
your brain.
B. Establishing
the Purpose of
the new lesson
At the end of the lesson
students will be able to:
Define what stress is;
Define what mental health is;
At the end of the lesson students will
be able to:
1. Enumerate the sources of
stress.
At the end of the lesson students
will be able to:
1. Identify the meaning of
coping with stress/stress
At the end of the lesson students will
be able to:
1. Discussed ways on how to
improve brain functions for
3. Discuss understanding of
mental health and
psychological well-being to
identify ways to cope with
stress during adolescence
2. Determine the effect of
stress.
3. Value the importance of
knowing how to handle
stress.
management.
2. List ways on how to face
the different causes and
effects of stress.
3. Share ideas in dealing with
stress and maintaining
mental health with
siblings, friends, and
family.
personal development.
2. Identify ways on how to
improve mental focus.
3. Plan ways on how to improve
brain functions.
C. Presenting
examples/insta
nces of the
new lesson
Color the Fun Game List down inside the box the events
or people that cause your stress.
Process Questions:
1. What have you felt after writing
the causes of your stresses?
2. While writing your reaction from
the source of your stresses, what
have you realized?
3. Do you think you have control over
your reaction?
Read the poem and answer the
questions below.
Questions:
1. What is the poem all about?
2. What did the author say about
stress?
3. How did the author cope with
stress?
Directions: DO NOT shade the word
with the name of the color it spells
out, instead, use a different color.
After you finished coloring all the
words, try to tell the color that you
used to shade the word. Practice
doing so on your own for one minute
before you invite someone to tell the
color shaded on each word.
Process Questions:
What do you think are the ways to
improve your brain functions?
What is the best way for you to
improve your brain functions?
4. D. Discussing
new concepts
and practicing
new skills #1
Mental Health
As defined by Merriam-
Webster dictionary, it is a
condition of being sound
mentally and emotionally
that is characterized by the
absence of mental illness and
by adequate adjustment
especially as reflected in
feeling comfortable about
oneself.
Stress is a simple reaction to an input
that disturbs our physical and mental
balance. It is ever-present in
everyone’s life in various situations
and activities.
Therefore, you are not exempted
from experiencing stress.
Different people have different
stresses. As a student, you, too, have
various
stressors. These are the commonly
cited causes of stress of the students:
• peers
• examinations
• making portfolios
• returning to study
• poor time management
• bullying
• overcrowding
Good stress is the type of stress you
feel when you are excited. Your
hormones
surge high and your pulse quickens.
You feel that you are far from stress.
Causes of Bad Stress:
It happens when you feel stressors
that burden you and put you over a
seemingly hopeless situation which
hinders your problem-solving
capability. Chronic
stress is the response to emotions
that bring pressure to an individual
wherein they think that they have
little or no control on the situations.
These stresses may cause anxiety.
Effects of Stress
Most young people go through
Coping Defined
“Coping refers to mental and
behavioral efforts that we use to
deal with problems relating to
stress, including its presumed
cause and the unpleasant feelings
and emotions it produces.”
How do people cope with stress?
Since stress is real and cannot be
avoided, we need to deal with it.
When we are stressed out, we
typically wanted to feel good and
well. This may include knowing the
causes of stress, understanding its
effects on us, and finding ways to
deal with it.
Ways on how to Cope with Stress
to Maintain a Healthy Well-Being:
1. Physically:
A. Simple exercise- like stretching,
proper breathing exercise, walking,
jogging, Zumba, etc.
B. Eat Nutritious Food and Healthy
foods: Vegetables, fruits, eggs, and
less fatty foods, salty, and sweet
food, etc.
2. Emotionally/Socially:
A. Listen to Music (inspiring music
that would help you feel better)
B. Do your favorite hobbies like
dancing, playing musical
instruments,
drawing, singing, painting, reading,
blogging, etc.
3. Mentally and Spiritually:
A. Read books/Novels/Comics,
Inspirational books, Bible, etc.
Ways to Improve your Brain Function
for Personal Development
The brain is responsible for our way of
thinking, feeling, and behaving. Still,
it is important to observe and
exercise ways to improve your brain
functions as a maturing adolescent.
Here are some useful tips to improve
your brainpower that will help you
activate brain functions for personal
development:
1. Exercise- benefits brain health and
cognition, improves your memory,
and
even protects your brain from
degeneration.
2. Meditate- taking 10-15 minutes of
meditation a day could help to extend
your cognitive longevity.
3. Sleep – getting enough sleep at
night for 7 to 9 hours is enough to
consolidate
memory learning. This is important in
resetting the brain, allow it to heal
and
restore.
4. Food Intake- just as the body needs
fuel, so does the brain.
How to Improve your mental focus?
1. Assessment- begin by assessing just
how strong your mental focus is at
the
present moment before you start
working.
2. Eliminate distractions- request to
be left alone and set aside a specific
time
5. situations that cause stress. Most of
the time, these stressors pile up,
affecting behavior once stress hits
the individual. Whether good or bad
stress, both may result in developing
good or bad effects. Since this is a
part of life, and everyone may
experience it, there is a need for you
to know the different effects of these
stressors.
B. Think Positive- look at the
brighter side in every situation.
4. Things to be avoided when you
are stressed:
1. Tobacco/cigarette
2. Alcoholic beverage
3. Illegal drugs
4. Too much coffee and soft drinks
5. Negative thoughts
Coping/managing stress is
important because it will help you
to keep moving
amid the daily challenges you are
facing. It will help you live a
healthy mind and a
healthy being.
and place, and seek out a calm or
quiet place where you can work
undisturbed.
3. Limit focus- part of improving your
mental focus is all about making the
most of the resources you have
available.
4. Brainstorm- a mind map is an easy
way to brainstorm thoughts
organically without worrying about
order and structure.
F. Developing
Mastery
(Leads to
formative
assessment #3)
Sharing is Caring
In this activity, you will write
the threats and
opportunities of the given
situation. Use the
illustrations below to
indicate your answers. Write
your answer on a separate
sheet of paper.
Identify at least 3 stressors you are
currently experiencing. List them
down in the human image inside the
mirror. Put an X mark opposite the
stressor you want to overcome.
6. G. Finding
practical
applications of
concepts and
skills in daily
living
As a student how do cope up
with stress in terms of your
studies?
What are the different kind of stress
that a teenager like you have
encountered? What are the ways for
you overcome them?
List factors that made you stressed
out and demonstrate personal
ways of coping with it to achieve a
healthy lifestyle.
As a student, why is it important for
you to improve your brain functions
and for you to have a good mental
focus?
H. Making
generalizations
and
abstractions
about the
lesson
What are the different ways on
how you can take care of your
mental health?
What are the different kinds of
stress?
What are the different ways on
how to cope up with stress?
What are the different ways on how
to improve brain functions?
I. Evaluating
learning
Multiple Choice.
Choose the letter of the best
answer. Write the chosen letter
on a separate
sheet of paper.
1. Which of the following is not
a thought when it comes to a
positive stress? What thoughts
come to the mind when you are
under negative stress?
A. Everything will be under
Write True or False on the space
provided before the number.
________1. Are stress and anxiety
different from each other?
________2. Can being easily annoyed
and usually irritable be an emotional
warning sign of little stress?
________3. Can managing your time
help you cope up with stress?
________4. Is Adaptive stress helps
you rise to life’s challenges?
Write True if the statement is
true, write False if the
statement is false.
________ 1. Every person has
the same way of coping with
stress.
________ 2. Stress should not
be taken for granted instead
you have to deal with it
properly.
________ 3. Coping with stress
Multiple Choice. Choose the
letter of the best answer.
1. The following are tips on how
to enhance your brain power
EXCEPT one.
A. Exercise
B. Meditate
C. Enough sleep
D. Limit focus
2. When do you assess your
mental focus if you are going to
7. control if you do not panic.
B. You can get help
immediately.
C. You think that there is no
solution on your current
situation,
D. You think that everything
happens for a reason.
Therefore, you must
stay positive.
2. Which of the following
statements is FALSE?
A. Stress can change your mood
B. Prolonged stress can lead to
depression
C. Stress is not emotional
D. Moodiness is an emotional
symptom of stress
3. It means learning to develop
skills that would enhance our
body’s adjustment when we are
subjected to the pressures of
life.
A. Stress
B. Stress management
C. Mental health
D. Stressor
4. Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE about
stress management?
A. Stress management helps
you break the hold stress has
on your life.
B. Stress management helps us
control our health in a positive
sense.
C. Stress management is
________5. Stress CAN NOT be
avoided?
________6. Mary said that she can’t
do anything about her stresses. She
added that she has to bear it. Does
Mary think right?
________7. Edna got irritated with
her sister. Oftentimes she shouts at
her,
but after shouting, you may see her
crying, and refrains from
talking to her family. Does she
experience stress?
________8. Is stress a physical and
mental response of the body to
inputs
that disturb the balance in our well-
being?
________9. Is stress a simple
reaction to an input that disturbs
physical and
mental balance?
_______10. Is a positive stress
bad?
needs the effort to help you
deal with its cause and effect.
________ 4. Avoidance
approach in coping with stress
is facing stressful situations
without fears.
________ 5. Coping with stress
is important to maintain
mental health and healthy
living.
________ 6. In the
Acceptance-action approach,
you tend to move away from
stressful scenarios.
do a task?
A. During the accomplishment of
the task
B. After accomplishing the task
C. Before doing the task
D. All of the above
3. What activity requires you to
take 10-15 minutes a day that
could extend your
cognitive longevity?
A. Exercising
B. Meditating
C. Eating
D. Smoking
4. What useful tip improves your
focus that allows you to visually
structure your
ideas?
A. Mind mapping
B. Practice mindfulness
C. Limit your focus
D. Live in the moment
5. You requested your siblings to
leave you alone in your room to
finish your
assignment. What useful tip on
improving focus did you apply?
A. Limit focus
B. Eliminate distractions
C. Practice mindfulness
D. Take a short break
8. learning about the connection
between mind
and body.
D. Stress management teaches
us to avoid all kinds of stress.
5. Which of the following
statements is TRUE?
A. In small quantities, stress is
good
B. Too much stress is harmful
C. All stress is bad
D. A and b are correct
J. Additional
activities for
application or
remediation
Directions: Plan ways on how to
improve your brain functions using
mind mapping.
V. REMARKS
VI.
REFLECTION
A. No. of
learners who
earned 80% in
the evaluation
B. No. of
learners who
9. require
additional
activities for
remediation
who scored
below 80%
C. Did the
remedial
lessons work?
No. of learners
who have
caught up with
the lesson
D. No. of
learners
continue to
require
remediation
E. Which of my
teaching
strategies
worked well?
Why did this
work?
F. What
difficulties did I
encounter
which my
principal or
supervisor can
help me solve?
G. What
innovation or
localized
materials did I
use/discover
which I wish to