Social Studies Curriculum for Primary 2

Year 2 NERDC Social Studies Curriculum for Primary 2. Physical environment, food to our growth, keeping our environment – Schemeofwork.com 

THEME 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIAL STUDIES

Week 1

Topic: Scope of Social Studies

Performance objectives

1. Explain ‘scope of social studies’
2. Identify areas of focus in social studies

Contents

1. Meaning of scope of social studies:
   • The areas which social studies focuses to solve man’s problems of solver.
   • Areas which social studies focuses are:
   • Critical thinking
   • Reflective thinking
   • Problem solving

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Guide pupils to explain the scope of social studies
2. Guide pupils to identify areas of focus in social studies

Student’s Activities

1. Find out from home how family takes its social and economic decisions such as association to join and food to eat

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupil’s textbooks and video clips on how decisions are taken to solve problem.

Evaluation Guide

1. explain scope of social studies
2. Identify areas of focus in social studies

Week 2

Topic: Physical Environment

Performance objectives

1. identify our different physical environment

Contents

1. Our physical environment:
   • Some people live in desert condition
   • Other live in fertile places
   • Some near lakes, rivers or oceans
   • Some in mountains
   • Other low laying areas
   • Climate varies tremendously over the globe

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Leads the pupils to discover our different physical environment

Student’s Activities

1. Participant in class discussion
2. Respond to the teacher’s questions

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils textbooks
2. Pictures showing different environment
3. Video clips

Evaluation Guide

1. identify our different physical environment

SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES                  CLASS LEVEL: PRIMARY 2

THEME 2: FAMILY AS THE BASIC UNIT OF SOCIETY

Week 1

Topic: Foods We Eat in our Culture as Family Members

Performance objectives

1. List types of food in the Nigerian Culture
2. Mention the reasons why we eat together

Contents

1. Some Nigerian foods are; Yam, Eba, Amala, Tuwo Shinkafa, Plantain, Rice, Beans, Cocoyam, Pounded Yam, Akpu, Starch etc.
2. Consequences of Eating together as a family: e.g. promotes communalism, Happiness, family unity and loyalty, etc.

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Uses guided questions to lead pupils to name the various foods we eat in our culture
2. Asks the pupils to mention reasons why we eat together

Student’s Activities

1. Participate in the discussion on the types of food
2. Respond to teacher’s questions on the types of food

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils‟ text and workbooks
2. Picture showing the different types of food in our culture
3. Picture of happy moods of people eating together in the family

Evaluation Guide

1. state two types of food eaten in their homes
2. state reasons why we eat together

Week 2

Topic: Importance of these Foods to our Growth

Performance objectives

1. The nutrients in the foods we take
2. Mention the importance of food to our growth

Contents

1. The Nutrients in the food we take are:
   • Carbohydrate
   • Protein
   • Vitamins
   • Fats and Oil
2. Importance of food to our growth:
   • supply energy
   • build our body
   • Keep the body health
   • provide heats and energy of the nutrients food we take;
   • Carbohydrate supplies energy to the body
   • Protein to build our body
   • Vitamin to keep our body health
   • Fast and oil to provide heat and energy

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Leads the pupils through guided questions to say the nutrients we get from different foods e.g.
   • carbohydrate (Yam/ bread)
     • Protein (Meat/fish/egg)
   • Vitamins (Fruits/ vegetables
   • Fats and oil (Butter/ cheese), etc.
2. Guides the pupils to identify the functions

Student’s Activities

1. Pupils draw different types of food and say the importance to growth  
2. Respond to the teacher’s questions on  the topic

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils‟ textbook
2. Pictures showing groups of food and their nutrients
3. Real objects of food from their locality

Evaluation Guide

1. list three types of Nigerian foods and identify the nutrients in listed food
2. Mention the importance of food and to our growth

SUBJECT:    SOCIAL STUDIES               CLASS LEVEL: PRIMARY 2

THEME 3: CULTURE AND BASIC VALUES

Week 1

Topic: Greetings and Respect to Elders in our Culture   

Performance objectives

1. Recognize greetings as a way of showing respect
2. Perform various acts of greetings in their locality
3. Recognize the importance of greetings

Contents

1. Greeting is a way of showing respect to people and appreciating them
2. Forms of greeting include: kneeling, prostrating, shaking of hands, clenching of fists etc.
3. Greetings promote tolerance, good neighborliness, Courtesy, friendliness etc.

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Guides pupils through questioning to list ways of greeting in their locality
2. Demonstrates the various ways of greeting in our Culture

Student’s Activities

1. Find out more ways Of greetings in our culture                 
2. Draw different ways of greetings they can identify

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pictures of different ways of greeting
2. Video clips

Evaluation Guide

1. explain the meaning of greetings
2. list different ways of greetings from different cultures in Nigeria
3. mention some of the importance of greeting in our community

SUBJECT:  SOCIAL STUDIES                   CLASS LEVEL: PRIMARY 2

THEME 4: SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES

Week 1

Topic:    Keeping our Environment Clean

Performance objectives

1. mention ways of keeping our environment clean

Contents

1. Ways of keeping our environment clean:
   • Proper disposal of waste.
   • Proper use of the toilets/urinary:
   • Provision of waste bins.
   • Allowing drains to flow.
   • Clearing and sweeping round our surroundings.
   • Regular sweeping of our homes

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Asks questions to lead pupils to suggest ways of keeping our environment clean
2. Get the pupils practically involved in different ways of keeping their environment clean

Student’s Activities

1. Respond to teacher’s questions on the ways to keep our environment clean
2. Practical involvement in acts of keeping the environment clean

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pictures showing clean and dirty environment
2. Cleaning tools

Evaluation Guide

1. mention three ways of keeping our environment clean
2. Mention some of the tools needed for carrying out different cleaning activities

Year 2 NERDC Social Studies Curriculum for Primary 2 – Schemeofwork.com 

Week 3

Topic: Accidents in the School/Home

Performance objectives

1. explain the meaning of accidents
2. identify causes of home and school accidents
3. mention ways of preventing accidents in school/home
4. List steps of caring for accident victims in the school and home

Contents

1. Meaning of Accidents: “Accidents are unplanned events that lead to injury, Damage or death
2. Causes of accidents in school and Home
3. Prevention of Accidents in the school/ home:
   1. Remove all dangerous objects from the surroundings.
   1. Do not play with dangerous or sharp objects.
   1. Avoid exposed electricity sources (naked wires).
   1. Removing what has caused the accident
4. Caring for Accident Victims
   1. Report accidents in school or home to parents/elderly persons/teacher.
   1. Take victims to nearby hospitals/clinic

Teacher’s Activities

1. explain the meaning of accidents
2. identify causes of accidents in the school and home
3. state ways of preventing accidents around the school/ home
4. Guides the pupils to suggest ways to take care of victims
5. Demonstrates different ways of caring for accident victims

Student’s Activities

1. Respond to the teacher’s questions
2. Participate in class discussion
3. Demonstrate how to avoid accidents

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils‟ textbooks
2. Pictures showing dangerous and sharp objects
3. Video clips

Evaluation Guide

1. explain the meaning of accidents
2. identify causes of home and school accidents
3. mention three ways we can avoid accidents in the school and at home
4. enumerate four ways of preventing accidents in the school/home
5. list two steps to be taken when accidents occur

Week 3

Topic: Drugs

Performance objectives

1. explain the meaning of drugs
2. mention the categories of drugs

Contents

1. Meaning of Drugs:
   • Any substance other than food which when taken can change the body function
2. Categories of Drugs:
   • Legal drugs;
   • Socially acceptable drugs;
   • Illegal drugs

Teacher’s Activities

1. Leads the pupils to explain the meaning of drug
2. Ask questions to lead pupils to list categories of drugs

Student’s Activities

1. Participate in class discussions
2. Ask and answer questions

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils Textbooks
2. Pictures or photographs that show different categories of drugs

Evaluation Guide

1. explains the meaning of drugs
2. mention categories of drugs

Week 4

Topic: Drug Abuse

Performance objectives

1. explain the meaning of drug abuse
2. mention dangers of drug abuse
3. mention ways of preventing drug abuse

Contents

1. Meaning of drug abuse: – use of drugs without the advice of a qualified doctor/ pharmacist
2. Dangers of drug abuse:
   • Mental illness
   • Accident
   • Addiction
   • Drop-out of school
3. Ways of preventing drug abuse:
   • Avoid bad friends
   • Seek advice of doctors/nurses and pharmacist before taking drugs.
4. -Avoid buying medicines in buses or unauthorized stores.
   • Avoid self-medication

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Organizes class discussion on drug abuse and its dangers
2. Invites resource persons to talk on the dangers of drugs

Student’s Activities

1. Participate in the discussion
2. List dangers involved in drug abuse
3. Respond to Resource Persons‟ questions as well as ask their own questions

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils‟ textbooks
2. Posters on war against drug abuse
3. Photographs showing drug addicts

Evaluation Guide

1. explain the meaning of drug abuse
2. mention two dangers of drug abuse
3. mention two ways of preventing drug abuse

Week 5

Topic: Harmful Substances and How to avoid taking them

Performance objectives

1. explain the meaning of harmful substances
2. Give examples of harmful substances
3. Mention way of preventing intake of harmful substances

Contents

1. Meaning of harmful substances – food, water, fruits or drugs that are unfit for human consumption
2. Examples of harmful substances:
   • stale foods
   • poorly cooked foods
   • rotten foods
   • infested foods
   • expired foods/drugs
   • un-ripe fruits
   • impure water
3. Ways of preventing intake of harmful substances.
   • Avoid eating stale, poorly cooked, dirty and infested foods.
   • Avoid taking expired food/drugs.
   • Take only drugs that are prescribed by the doctor/physician

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Leads the pupils in discussion to discover harmful substances when taken into human body
2. Takes pupils to local shops and markets to identify harmful substances in their environment
3. Asks questions to lead pupils to identify ways of preventing intake of harmful substances

Student’s Activities

1. Participate in the discussion
2. Respond to the teacher’s questions
3. Participate in field trip

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pupils‟ textbooks
2. Real objects of harmful substances in their environment

Evaluation Guide

1. explain the meaning of harmful substances
2. give two examples of harmful substances
3. mention two ways of preventing intake of harmful substances

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