The Environment and… · B4 Our World And Our People

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.2.1.1.1 - Explain ways of making the environment safe

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

List at least four ways of making the environment safe, such as keeping it clean, planting trees, and practising good sanitation.
Identify human activities that make the environment unsafe, including illegal mining (galamsey), deforestation, pollution, and indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste.
Explain how each safety practice protects people, animals, and the environment.
Work in groups to plan and carry out a simple class or school project that promotes environmental safety, such as a clean-up exercise or a tree-planting activity.
Demonstrate a commitment to making the environment safe by following classroom rules on waste disposal and caring for plants around the school.

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Curriculum details

Strand: All Around Us (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: The Environment and the Weather (2.1)
Content standard: B4.2.1.1 - Demonstrate knowledge of environmental safety
Indicator: B4.2.1.1.1 - Explain ways of making the environment safe
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 9 (Week 9 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: Our World and Our People Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 6
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners talk about ways of ensuring safety in the environment e.g. keeping the environment clean, planting trees, good sanitation, good roads, safe drinking water, reduce usage of chemicals, reduce burning of things.
Show pictures and video clips on human activities that do not make the environment safe: illegal mining (galamsey), indiscriminate cutting down of trees (deforestation), pollution of the air and water bodies, throwing plastic bags around.
Learners in groups play games or engage in activities/projects that teach ways of ensuring safety in the community e.g. preventing flooding, preventing drowning, preventing fire outbreaks by putting off electrical gadget after use, make fire extinguisher available in homes, preventing road accidents, keeping the home and classroom or school clean, planting trees, recycling waste paper and plastics.