B4 Our World And Our People · Term 2 Week 2: Plants and Animals

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.2.2.1.2 - Recognise the need to preserve living and non-living things in the environment as a responsible citizen

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

State at least three ways plants and animals are important to humans.
State at least three ways water and other non-living things are important to humans.
Describe what happens when trees are cut down carelessly or when water is polluted.
Identify simple actions they can take to preserve plants, animals, water and other natural things.
Work with a partner to sort pictures or names of things into “living” and “non-living” groups and explain why each one matters.

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Curriculum details

Strand: All Around Us (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Plants and Animals (2.2)
Content standard: B4.2.2.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how living and non-living things in the environment are related.
Indicator: B4.2.2.1.2 - Recognise the need to preserve living and non-living things in the environment as a responsible citizen
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 2 (Week 14 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.
Source document note: The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

indicator text - p.9 the indicator text stops at 'as a responsible' on the page; the noun is missing in the document, and the parallel indicators in other grades read 'as a responsible citizen'
exemplars - p.9 the document prints a single Core Competencies cell for the whole B4.2.2.1 row, set level with the first indicator only; it is repeated here for this indicator
indicator text - ] p.9 the printed indicator stops at "as a responsible" and the noun is absent from the page (confirmed on the rendered page, not just the text layer). Completed as "citizen": the same document sets "as a responsible citizen" in full twice elsewhere (printed pp 3 and 5). Printed text was: "Recognise the need to preserve living and non-living things in the environment as a responsible"
Curriculum reference: Our World and Our People Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 9
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Through group work guide learners to play games and use specific examples to talk about the importance of living and non-living things to humans. e.g. Plants provide oxygen, food, medicine, fuel wood, clothes. Animals provide food, medicine, manure, clothes.
Water is used for drinking, washing, cooking, river transport, manufacturing of industrial goods.