Personal Hygiene and… · JHS1 Career Technology

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B7.1.1.1.1 - Discuss the need to stay healthy.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Define staying healthy as physical, mental, and social wellbeing, using their own words.
Explain at least three actions that help a person stay healthy, such as exercising the body, having enough rest, and eating a balanced diet.
Identify at least two consequences of not taking good care of one’s body, such as contracting diseases and falling ill.
State at least two ways to improve personal hygiene and why each matters.
Work in a group to present the consequences of poor body care using a poster, picture, illustration, or short talk.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Health and Safety (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Personal Hygiene and Food Hygiene (1.1)
Content standard: B7.1.1.1 - Demonstrate knowledge of basic concept of staying healthy
Indicator: B7.1.1.1.1 - Discuss the need to stay healthy
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 1 (Week 1 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. 2
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

1. Explain what is meant by staying healthy.
E.g. Staying healthy: physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and as a resource for living a full life-exercise the body, have enough rest, eat a balanced diet, avoid drug abuse and negative peer pressure
2. Discuss and present in groups the consequences of not taking good care of one's body
E.g., Contract disease and fall ill.
NB: Use different ways or means for presentation-power point, posters, pictures, illustrations (differentiation).
3. Research and write on materials and strategies (ways) used for improving personal hygiene and discuss, in groups.