Science and Industry · B2 Science

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.5.3.1.1 - Identify the technological devices used in the community and describe their impact

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify at least five technological devices found in their school, home, or community.
describe how one technological device (for example, a mobile phone or a fan) has changed or improved daily life.
compare how people communicated, travelled, and sought medical care in the olden days with how these things are done today.
state at least two ways in which the absence of modern technological devices would negatively affect the community.
draw a simple technological device that could improve their community in the future and briefly explain what it does.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Humans and the Environment (Strand 5)
Sub-strand: Science and Industry (5.3)
Content standard: B2.5.3.1 - Recognise the impact of science and technology in society
Indicator: B2.5.3.1.1 - Identify the technological devices used in the community and describe their impact
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 8 (Week 32 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: Science Curriculum (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 47
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Prior to the lesson, give learners an assignment to investigate how people communicated, travelled, sought medical care, etc. in the olden days (in the absence of modern-day technological inventions)
- Engage learners to communicate their findings based on the investigations
- Learners name some technological devices they see in the school, at home, in the market places, hospitals, mosque, churches, bus stations, airport, etc.
- Present some products of technology that can be seen in the community to learners, e.g. mobile phones, computers, school bag, sewing machines and fan
- Facilitate a session where learners operate some common devices such as mobile phones, laptops, toy cars etc.
- Let learners brainstorm to find out what will happen if there were no modern technological devices in the community
- Ask learners to draw a technological device that will improve their communities in future.