Teacher's Guide
A. LESSON INFORMATION
B. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
C. BOOK INFORMATION
D. TEACHING STEPS

Module 3 - Good Health and Well-being

This lesson is designed for Junior High School students and focuses on the importance of health and well-being. Using the picture book The Water Warrior, students will explore the significance of clean water and its impact on daily life, especially health. Through the story, they will engage in activities that develop skills in making predictions, analyzing content, and reflecting on the role of clean water in overall well-being.

Students develop key literacy skills through various strategies. Read Aloud enhances listening and vocabulary, while the 5W1H approach (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) helps break down and analyze texts. Previewing and predicting encourage students to infer what will happen next, and Writing Reflection allows them to express their thoughts and understanding. Together, these strategies enrich students’ comprehension and critical thinking on the issue of Health and Well-being.

Students will engage in multimodal learning through a series of interactive activities in the students’ worksheets. In the main activities, they will explore the front and back covers of the book, encouraging them to make predictions about the content. Next, they will meet the author and characters of the story, gaining a deeper understanding of the narrative’s background and the key figures involved. Finally, students will listen to the story, enjoy its progression, and respond with their reflections, enhancing their comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Cross-subject connections will be made in:

  • Social Studies: Understanding how environmental and societal issues impact communities.
  • Environmental Science: Learning about water conservation and its effects on the environment.
  • Civic Education: Engaging in advocacy for clean water and understanding the government’s role in community health.

The module also ties into children’s interests such as family and children’s rights, with reference to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 3, which focuses on health and well-being.

By the end of this module, students will be able to:

  1. Identify the main characters and the setting of the story.
  2. Explain the challenges faced by Nesa and Ambu and connect them to real-world issues of health and well-being.
  3. Discuss the importance of SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being) and how it applies to their own lives.
  4. Analyze the events in the story to understand how Nesa’s determination reflects community support and resilience in achieving health-related goals.
  5. Evaluate the importance of access to clean water and propose actions that can improve health and well-being in their community.
  6. Create a personal reflection on how they can contribute to improving health and well-being based on their learnings from the story.

Book Title: The Water Warrior
Author: Ervina Hasibuan
Illustrator: Clara Mengko
Publisher: The Asia Foundation
Illustrative Style: Realistic

The story takes place in Sumba, an island in East Indonesia, often referred to as the “land of a thousand hills.” The children of Sumba, including Nesa and Ambu, face the daily struggle of walking long distances over steep, rocky paths to collect clean water for their families. Through this journey, the story highlights the difficulties of accessing clean water and the resilience needed to overcome these challenges.

Link to the book: The Water Warrior

PART A. PRE-ACTIVITIES

1. Introduction to Health and Well-Being
Begin by prompting students to reflect on the meaning of being healthy and feeling happy. Post guiding questions (e.g., “What does it mean to be healthy?” “Why do we need water?”) in a class discussion forum for students to respond. Introduce the concept of “well-being” and encourage them to share their thoughts online or in class.
2. Exploring the Front and Back Covers
Strategy: Previewing, Visualizing, Predicting.
Post the image of The Water Warrior’s front cover and ask students to predict the story by observing the details. Have them answer questions in a discussion thread (e.g., “What do the characters’ expressions tell you?”). Afterward, share the back cover summary and ask more questions to deepen their predictions.
3. Meeting the Author
Provide a short biography of the author, Ervina Hasibuan, and discuss her purpose for writing about clean water struggles. Ask students to reflect and submit their thoughts on the characters and author’s intent through an online form or forum.

PART B. MAIN ACTIVITIES

1. Reading and Enjoying the Story
Strategy: Visualizing, Questioning, and Identifying
Share an audio or video reading of the story, or have students read it themselves. Afterward, guide them to respond to comprehension questions to comprehension questions from the orientation, complication, and resolution of the story. Students can submit answers in a quiz or discussion post in the class.

Lead students to comprehend the story through the Generic Structure of Narrative Text which are: Orientation, Complication, and Resolution Questions. The orientation emphasizes the characters, settings, theme, and initial conflicts of the story. The complication questions will lead the students to comprehend the conflict, obstacles, or challenges that are faced by the main character. The Resolution questions will help the students know how the conflicts are resolved, provide closure to the events, and discuss how the characters have changed and how the story ends.
2. Bringing Out Student’s Voices
Strategy: Connecting, Inferring
In this step, bring out the student’s voices to reflect on the story, share their opinions, and relate it to students’ real experiences. Encourage students to relate the story to their lives to increase their awareness toward the topic (e.g., “How is Nesa’s life different from yours?” “How can we help people without access to clean water?”). They can share their responses on paperboard or another online platform.
3. Reflecting Student’s Feelings
Strategy: Evaluating
Have students reflect on their emotions after reading the story using emoticons or short-text answers. Explore the students feeling after they read the book, what they have learned from the book, and What they want to do after reading the book. What is the impact of the book on the students, teachers can relate the story to the students’ real life.
4. Activating Vocabulary
Lead students to activate new words from the story through the HeKU Table Activity. Guide the students to find words from the storybook in this following category: words that they never heard before, words that they ever heard but did not know the meaning of, words that they ever heard and know the meaning of, and some words that they know and they ever use the words in sentences and utterances. Provide a list of new vocabulary words from the story. Ask students to define the words using context clues from the text and complete the table. Have them write sentences or utterances using these words that they already know and submit them for class assignments. Teachers can download the HeKU Table.
Ask the students to work on the vocabulary exercise to assess their vocabulary mastery.
Link to Answer Key of Vocabulary Exercise

PART C. EXTRA ACTIVITY (Optional)

At this part, the teacher can create an extra activity outside the module that is related to the context of the story. Ask students to draw a storyboard illustrating a time they helped someone in need. They can upload their drawing and explain in a video or written post, sharing it in an online gallery for class discussion.