B6 Religious And Moral Education · Term 3, Week 5

Authority and Obedience

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

  1. Explain what harmony means in the context of family life.
  2. Identify at least four roles children can play to promote harmony with other family members.
  3. Describe the roles of other family members (grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins) in maintaining family harmony.
  4. Demonstrate through role-play how respectful, obedient, and humble behaviour contributes to a peaceful home.

Indicator: B6.5.1.1.1

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Curriculum details

Strand
The Family, Authority and Obedience (Strand 5)
Sub-strand
Authority and Obedience (5.1)
Content standard
B6.5.1.1 - Discuss the need to obey and submit to authority
Indicator
B6.5.1.1.1 - Identify the role of children in promoting harmony with other family members.
Suggested placement
Term 3, Week 5 (Week 29 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:

  • strand name - printed p.54 heads this strand '5: The Family, Authority and Obedience', with the word Strand missing; the name is otherwise as printed
  • content standard text - p.54
  • core competencies - p.54
Curriculum reference
Religious and Moral Education Curriculum (Basic 1-6), 2019, p. 54

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Guide learners to talk about harmony.
- Let learners, in pairs, list roles they can play to promote harmony in the family: Children must be respectful, obedient, humble, etc.
- Let learners, in pairs or in groups, list roles other family members can play to ensure harmony in the family: relatives must be respectful, obedient, caring, protective, defensive, humble, etc.
- Ask learners to dramatise or role-play the duties of their grandparents, uncles, cousins, aunts, etc., in moulding their character.