Environmental Health · JHS3 Career Technology

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B9.1.3.2.2 - Discuss the benefits of improved cookstoves and fuels

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

State at least five benefits of improved cookstoves and fuels, including savings on fuel cost, health protection, and time savings.
Compare the benefits of improved cookstoves with the disadvantages of traditional three-stone stoves using specific examples.
Explain in clear, ordered speech how improved cookstoves protect the cook and family members from smoke-related illnesses.
Plan a school and community campaign that educates others on the use and benefits of improved cookstoves.
Demonstrate the correct use of an improved cookstove, showing safe handling of the stove and its fuel.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Health and Safety (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Environmental Health (1.3)
Content standard: B9.1.3.2 - Demonstrate understanding of clean energy, and Improved Cookstoves (ICS) and their accompanying fuels
Indicator: B9.1.3.2.2 - Discuss the benefits of improved cookstoves and fuels
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 6 (Week 6 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: Career Technology, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 84
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

1. Brainstorm the benefits of improved cookstoves and fuels, in groups and present in class.
E.g., They save money, protect the cook and people around against illness.
2. Demonstrate the uses of the following stoves.
E.g. - improved cookstoves and fuels - traditional stoves.
3. In groups, plan and organise a campaign to educate the school and the community on the use and benefits of improved cookstoves.