The Environment · B2 Religious And Moral Education

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.1.2 - Demonstrate human activities that destroy God’s creation or the environment.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least three human activities that destroy God’s creation, such as cutting down trees, illegal mining (galamsey), and polluting water bodies.
Explain how these destructive activities lead to climate change, including floods, drought, and less rainfall.
Identify whether a picture or scenario shows a safe or unsafe environment.
Draw and colour one picture each of a safe environment and an unsafe environment.
Talk about the kind of environment they desire and how to achieve it as caretakers of God’s creation.

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Curriculum details

Strand: God, His Creation and Attributes (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: The Environment (1.2)
Content standard: B2.1.2.1 - Appreciate the environment as God's creation
Indicator: B2.1.2.1.2 - Demonstrate human activities that destroy God's creation or the environment.
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 4 (Week 4 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: Religious and Moral Education Curriculum (Basic 1-6), 2019, p. 8
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Guide learners to talk about activities that destroy the environment: indiscriminate cutting down of trees, illegal mining activities (galamsey), pollution of water bodies, etc.
- Let learners know that all these activities lead to climate change - heat, floods, rainstorms, less rainfall pattern, drought, famine, etc.
- Group learners to record data on human activities that destroy the environment and present to class for discussion.
NB Nature walk, video clips and pictures on environmental degradation can be used.
- Let learners draw and colour various aspects of the environment:
  - safe environment,
  - unsafe environment, etc.
- Let learners talk about the desired environment.