SHS1 General Science · Semester 2 Week 11: The Human Body and Health

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 1.4.1.LI.1

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Define lifestyle diseases and list at least four common examples found in Ghana.
Explain the main causes of lifestyle diseases, distinguishing between modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors.
Describe the effects of lifestyle diseases on individuals, families and the community.
Outline practical prevention strategies for lifestyle diseases applicable to their own daily lives.
Demonstrate respectful attitudes towards people living with or recovering from lifestyle diseases, particularly those conditions that attract stigma.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Relationships with the Environment (Strand 4)
Sub-strand: The Human Body and Health (4.1)
Content standard: 1.4.1.CS.2 - Show understanding of Lifestyle Diseases, their causes, symptoms and prevention. 1.4.1.LO.2 Distinguish various types of lifestyle diseases.
Indicator: 1.4.1.LI.1 - Describe lifestyle diseases, their causes, effects and prevention.
Suggested placement: Semester 2, Week 11 (Week 31 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:

content standard text - p.54: the content standard code is printed 1.4.1CS2 without the required .CS. punctuation; normalised to 1.4.1.CS.2 for import, unambiguous because this block sits between 1.4.1.CS.1 and 1.4.1.CS.3
Curriculum reference: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 54

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Invite a resource person (Healthcare giver/Medical practitioner/public health Nurse) to talk about lifestyle diseases.
- Allow learners to assess these lifestyle diseases within their own environment, noting diseases that easily leads to stigmatisation, using guided inquiry and cross-share with their peers in class.
- Using Talk for Learning approaches, let learners show the difference in the various lifestyle diseases according to their causes, effects, preventions and how to manage stigma on recovered patients.
Teaching and Learning Resources:
- Public Address system
- Resource person
- Pictures/videos of humans suffering from lifestyle diseases
- Charts of diseases
- Health Journals
Assessment (1.4.1.AS.1). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 3 Strategic reasoning.