Social Studies Curriculum for Primary 3

Year 3 NERDC Social Studies Curriculum for Primary 3. Nuclear and Extended Families, First Aid, Abused drug – Schemeofwork.com 

THEME 1: FAMILY AS THE BASIC UNIT OF SOCIETY

Week 1

Topic: The Nuclear and Extended Families

Performance objectives

1. identify a nuclear family and the extended family
2. demonstrate how to show respect to members of the nuclear and extended family
3. explain the roles each family member plays in raising a child

Contents

1. Members of a nuclear family.
   • Father, mother/mothers and children
2. Extended Family i.e. close blood relations
3. Respect among family members e.g.
   • father/ mother,
   • Parents/ children
   • Sibling/sibling
   • Children/uncles, parents/in-laws etc.
4. Functions or roles of extended family members include;
   • Assisting the direct parent in the child’s upbringing.
   • Extended family members give the child a social identity.
   • The also help in keeping family history

Teacher’s Activities

1. Asks pupils‟ to find out who are the members of their nuclear families, using questioning method
2. Uses questioning method to identify various ways family members respect each other
3. Explains how extended family members assist parents or contribute to a child’s upbringing
4. Asks pupils to find out from home who are members of their extended family and the roles they play in their upbringing

Student’s Activities

1. Find out from home about their nuclear families
2. Pupils role play respect among family members/ extended members in the class
3. Find out from their parents and elders who are members of their extended family
4. Participate in class discussions
5. Outline some of the contributions of aunties, uncles, grandparents to their upbringing
6. Respond to questions in class

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pictures of father, mother brother, sister and children
2. Pictures showing ways of showing respect
3. Pupil’s textbooks
4. Pictures of extended family members
5. Pictures of a family tree
6. Picture of extended/ older people in their community

Evaluation Guide

1. draw ways of showing respect to family members
2. identify a nuclear family and the extended family
3. demonstrate how to respect member of the nuclear and extended family
4. Explain who members of nuclear and extended family are
5. list four roles extended family members play in their upbringing

SUBJECT:    SOCIAL STUDIES                                         CLASS LEVEL: PRIMARY 3

THEME 2: CULTURE AND SOCIAL VALUES

Week 1

Topic: Types of Marriages in our Community

Performance objectives

1. explain the meaning of marriage
2. identify major types of marriages in our community

Contents

1. Meaning of marriage.
   • Lawful and acceptable union of a man and woman to make up a family
2. Types of marriages: polygamy, monogamy etc.

Teacher’s Activities

1. Uses questioning method to explain meaning of marriage
2. Uses role- playing process to demonstrate types of Marriages

Student’s Activities

1. Participate actively in answering questions
2. Participate actively in the role- playing of polygamous and monogamous families

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Pictures of husbands and wives. (Couples)                         
2. Pictures or photographs that show types of marriages  

Evaluation Guide

1. explain the meaning of marriage
2. identify two types of marriage in our community

Week 2

Topic: Various Ways of Getting Married and the Objects used in the Ceremony

Performance objectives

1. Describe how marriages are contracted
2. Mention the objects used in contracting marriage

Contents

Marriage practices in Nigeria: e.g.

• religious marriage either in the court or mosque,             
• traditional marriage or   objects used in their court wedding
• agreement by the two families by paying the bride price

Objects used in Marriage ceremonies: Wine, kolanut, food items, wedding gown, money services etc.

Teacher’s Activities

1. Assigns to pupils the task of discovering how marriage is practiced and the objects used in their communities
2. Demonstrates to the pupils the process of marriage practices
3. Demonstrates the functions of marriages in the lives of individual and the community at large

Student’s Activities

1. Carry out the investigation
2. Share their findings in class discussion

Teaching & Learning Material

1. Bible, and Qur’an
2. Picture of church, mosque and shrine
3. Audio visual aid
4. Textbooks Resource persons, marriage objects
5. Real objects
6. Marriage album

Evaluation Guide

1              Describe how marriage is contracted.

2              Write any two objects used in contracting them

SUBJECT:  SOCIAL STUDIES                         CLASS LEVEL: PRIMARY 3

THEME 3: SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES

Week 1

Topic: Common Drugs in Our Community and the Right People to Give Them   

Performance objectives:

1. Explain the meaning of drug
2. Identify common drugs
3. State who must administer drugs

Contents

1. Explain the meaning of drug – medical substances for curing illnesses
2. Identification of modern common medicine/drugs e.g. Aspirin, Daga, Nivaquine, Panadol, Paracetamol, Alabukun Phrenic, traditional e.g. lemon grass
3. Who administers the drugs: parents, guardian, teacher or nurses, doctors, etc.?

Teacher’s Activities

1. Shows labels with names of drugs to the pupils for the purpose of identification
2. Leads class discussions on synthetic and natural medicines /drugs
3. Invites medical person to give a talk on the topic
4. Organizes nature walk to identify some local herbs

Student’s Activities

1. Participate in class discussion on common drugs
2. Sample the labels of some drugs e.g. phensic, local herbs etc.
3. Participate in class discussion on who administers drugs
4. Participate in the answering of questions from the talk

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Samples of readily available labels of empty packets of common drugs
2. Posters showing various drugs and who must administer them
3. Colorful charts
4. Samples of local herbs and drugs

Evaluation Guide

1. Explain the meaning of drug
2. Identify two common drugs;
3. State two persons who administer drugs

Week 2

Topic: Ways of Identifying Someone who has Abused Drugs

Performance objectives

1. State the meaning of Drug Abuse
2. Recognize someone who has abused drug/medicines
3. Mention ways of helping someone who has abused drugs

Contents

1. Drug abuse intake of medicine without prescription
2. Ways of knowing someone who has abused drugs:
   • Untidy appearance
   • Drunken behavior
   • Frequent fighting
   • Disobedience
   • Convulsion
   • Inattentiveness,
   • having frequent accidents
3. Ways of helping someone who has abused drugs/ medicines: e.g. reporting any change of behavior to parent, teacher and other adults:
4. Seeking medical attention, etc.

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Leads class discussions on methods of taking drug/medicines into the body (swallowing, drinking, inhaling)
2. Asks pupils to describe ways they have been taking medicines/drugs
3. Invites resource persons to give talks on
4. How to identify someone who has misused drugs
5. To help someone who has abused drug/medicines
6. Teaches pupils songs, and rhymes that discourage drug abuse

Student’s Activities

1. Describe ways of taking medicines/drugs
2. Sing songs
3. Recite poems and rhymes
4. Dramatize caring for people who have abused drugs

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Charts/posters illustrating some methods of taking medicines
2. Resource person
3. Charts of health centers and health personnel
4. Posters showing a drug addict

Evaluation Guide

1. State the meaning of drug abuse
2. List three ways by which drugs/medicines are taken into the body
3. Mention two ways to identify someone who has abused drugs and ways of helping such people

Week 3

Topic: Ways of preventing common Illness

Performance objectives

1. Identify common illnesses in their community
2. Mention symptoms of common illnesses in their community
3. Identify causes of common illnesses
4. Mention ways of preventing common illnesses

Contents

1. Common illnesses in the community:
2. Malaria
3. Dysentery
4. Diarrhea
5. Cholera, etc.

• Symptoms of common illnesses in the community:
• General weakness
• Lack of appetite
• Headache/cold etc.

• Causes of common illnesses like dysentery or diarrhea:
• Dirty and polluted surroundings.
• Infections

• Prevention of common illnesses.
• Cleaning of one’s environment.
• Eating balanced diet.
• Regular medical checkup etc.

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Prevention of common illnesses.
2. Cleaning of one’s environment.
3. Eating balanced diet.
4. Regular medical checkup etc.
5. Assigns pupils into group work to come up with other common illnesses
6. Asks pupils to find out symptoms of common illnesses
7. Uses guided questions to find out the causes of common illnesses the pupils have suffered before
8. Leads pupils to find out how common illnesses can be prevented in the community
9. Uses guided questions to generate more ways of preventing common illnesses

Student’s Activities

1. Respond to the questions
2. Participate in the group assignment
3. Find out the symptoms of common illnesses and report to the class
4. Report findings to the class. In group assignment pupils discuss the causes of common illnesses in their community
5. Find out ways of preventing common illnesses from the community and report to the class

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Posters
2. Pictures showing people suffering from one illness or the other
3. Community resources
4. Pictures of some causes of common illnesses
5. Charts
6. Pictures of clean environment

Evaluation Guide

1. Identify two common illnesses in their community
2. Mention three symptoms of common illnesses in their community
3. Identify two causes of common illnesses
4. Mention three ways of preventing common illnesses

Week 4

Topic: Causes of Road Accidents

Performance objectives

1. explain road accident
2. list the causes of Road Accidents

Contents

1. Meaning of road accidents:
2. Sudden bad happen(s) on the road which can cause damage or loss of property, physical injury or loss of life
3. Causes of road accident include:
4. Bad roads.
5. Poorly built roads by corrupt and inappropriate workers.
6. Poor use of resources.
7. Bad vehicles.
8. Careless & unsafe driving
9. Inability to read and interpret road signs etc.

Teacher’s Activities

1. Uses guided questions to teach the causes of road accident
2. Uses charts to demonstrate further examples/ causes of road accidents

Student’s Activities

1. Give examples of causes of road accidents
2. Demonstrate some causes
3. Respond to questions
4. The pupils read the charts

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Resource persons such as Road safety personnel
2. Pictures
3. Photographs
4. Pupils. textbooks
5. Charts

Evaluation Guide

1. explain the meaning of road accident
2. explain causes of road accident
3. explain the meaning of first-aid in road accident

Week 5

Topic: Giving First Aid Treatment to Road Accident Victims

Performance objectives

1. identify the items found in a first-aid box
2. describe how simple first- aid could be applied to one of those injured

Contents

1. Objects found in first-aid box:
2. scissors
3. bandage
4. pain relieve tablets
5. razorblade
6. cotton wool
7. iodine
8. Izal etc.
9. Simple first-aid treatment:
10. Clean the wound with antiseptic.
11. Cover with plaster or bandage.
12. Administer pills as recommended by doctors, etc.

Teacher’s Activities        

1. Guide pupils to suggest ways to assist an accident victim
2. Directs pupils to inquire from home how cuts or burns are treated
3. Invites a nurse/dispenser to give a talk on first-aid treatment

Student’s Activities

1. Give examples of ways to help an accident victim
2. List some items that will be needed
3. Respond to questions
4. The pupils read the charts

Teaching & Learning Material  

1. Resource persons such as the school nurse or Red Cross personnel
2. Real objects in the First Aid Box
3. Photographs
4. Pupils‟ textbooks
5. Charts

Evaluation Guide

1. Identify five objects found in first-aid box
2. Describe how simple first-aid could be applied to one of those injured

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