B5 Our World And Our People · Term 1 Week 11: The Environment and the Weather

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.2.1.2.1 - Explain ways to care for the environment

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Explain at least three human activities that destroy the environment and their effects.
Describe at least four practical ways to care for the environment, such as tree planting, proper waste disposal, legal mining, and clean-up exercises.
Discuss the importance of caring for the environment, including how it improves climatic conditions like oxygen supply and balanced temperatures.
Work collaboratively in groups to carry out a simple environmental project, such as clearing a rubbish dump or planting trees.
Design a poster or flyer that creates awareness about cleanliness in their school or community.

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Curriculum details

Strand: All Around Us (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: The Environment and the Weather (2.1)
Content standard: B5.2.1.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to care for the environment
Indicator: B5.2.1.2.1 - Explain ways to care for the environment
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 11 (Week 11 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. 30
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners talk about the human activities in the environment.
Show pictures and video clips on human activities that destroy the environment: illegal mining (galamsey), indiscriminate cutting down of trees (deforestation), pollution of water bodies, air pollution, etc.
Learners write the effects of human activities on the environment: climate change - heat, floods, rain storms, less rainfall, famine, draught, etc.
Using Think-Pair-Share, learners talk about ways of caring for the environment through: tree planting, proper disposal of waste, legal mining, clean-up exercises, avoiding environmental pollution, etc.
Learners in groups do a project on any of the following: clearing a rubbish dump in the school, planting trees, checking erosion, clearing choked gutters, etc.
Learners discuss the importance of caring for the environment: It helps to improve climatic conditions such as oxygen, balanced temperature on earth, etc.
Let learners present their work in class for discussion.
Learners design posters and flyers in groups to create awareness on cleanliness in their school.