My Environment and My… · KG1 Integrated Learning

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

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

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Sing a song about keeping the environment clean and join in with actions.
Name at least two ways our environment can become dirty and cause sickness.
Talk about at least two things we can do to keep our home and school environment clean.
Demonstrate how to wash hands with soap and water to avoid getting sick.
Respond to simple questions during the community circle discussion about cleanliness.

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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.