B5 Science · Term 3 Week 6: Personal Hygiene and Sanitation

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.5.1.2.2 - Demonstrate how to clean the environment regularly

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and name at least five different tools used for cleaning the home, school, and community.
Demonstrate the correct and safe way to use common cleaning tools such as brooms, dustpans, rags, and dustbins.
Describe the steps involved in cleaning the classroom and the school environment properly.
Explain why it is important to clean the environment regularly and not just once in a while.
Create a simple poster that encourages others to keep the school, home, and community clean.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Humans and the Environment (Strand 5)
Sub-strand: Personal Hygiene and Sanitation (5.1)
Content standard: B5.5.1.2 - Identify, discuss and appreciate the natural and human features of the environment and the need to keep the environment clean
Indicator: B5.5.1.2.2 - Demonstrate how to clean the environment regularly
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 6 (Week 30 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: Science Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 30
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Assemble various items for cleaning the environment.
- Begin the lesson with a song on cleanliness.
- Take the learners on a trip to observe tidy and untidy parts of the nearby community or show different pictures depicting clean and unclean environments.
- Engage learners to discuss how to make the unclean environments as clean as those that are clean.
- Learners discuss some materials that are used for cleaning the home, the school and the community.
- Demonstrate to learners the correct way of using the cleaning tools, e.g. brooms, rags, ceiling brush, dustpans and dustbins.
- Learners are assisted to know the need to keep the environment clean.
- Engage learners to use local cleaning tools to clean the classroom and the school environment.
Project: Learners design posters to create awareness on the need to keep the school, home and Community clean and exhibit their work in the school.
NB: Teachers are encouraged to form an environmental awareness club in the class after this lesson.