My Environment and My Health

Curriculum details

Strand

All About Me (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

My Environment and My Health (1.5)

Content standard

K1.1.5.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how keeping our home and school environment clean can keep us healthy and strong.

Indicator

K1.1.5.1.1 - Talk about how we can keep our environment clean in order to avoid getting sick.

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 6 (Week 6 of the year)

Term is the curriculum's own; the week within it is our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order. Follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

Kindergarten Curriculum (KG1 and KG2), 2019, p. 16

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Exemplar: (Theme discussion) Have learners sit in a semi-circle (community circle time) and sing a song related to keeping the environment clean. Show them a conversational poster with people defecating around their homes and at school Teacher and pupils discuss the causes of sickness. Teacher asks the learners how our environment can cause us to be sick.
Using think-pair-share, have learners contribute to how we make the environment dirty.
E.g. Some ideas can be: when we throw papers/rubbish about, bushy and gutters are choked., Animals walking through rivers, learners walking in the garbage area, people washing in the rivers. etc. Create more situations of a dirty village
and ask learners to think about how to change the situation and avoid sickness.eg. What do we do make our classroom/school compound clean from litter? What do we do to stop people from going to toilet all around our home and the school compound? What do we do to avoid getting sick? E.g. Washing hand with soap and water, put rubbish or unwanted papers and rubbish in bins, etc.