The Environment and the Weather

Curriculum details

Strand

All Around Us (Strand 2)

Sub-strand

The Environment and the Weather (2.1)

Content standard

B4.2.1.1 - Demonstrate knowledge of environmental safety

Indicator

B4.2.1.1.1 - Explain ways of making the environment safe

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 9 (Week 9 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

Our World and Our People Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 6

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners talk about ways of ensuring safety in the environment e.g. keeping the environment clean, planting trees, good sanitation, good roads, safe drinking water, reduce usage of chemicals, reduce burning of things.
Show pictures and video clips on human activities that do not make the environment safe: illegal mining (galamsey), indiscriminate cutting down of trees (deforestation), pollution of the air and water bodies, throwing plastic bags around.
Learners in groups play games or engage in activities/projects that teach ways of ensuring safety in the community e.g. preventing flooding, preventing drowning, preventing fire outbreaks by putting off electrical gadget after use, make fire extinguisher available in homes, preventing road accidents, keeping the home and classroom or school clean, planting trees, recycling waste paper and plastics.