# Lesson Plan: National Values Education
## Topic: Duties of Community Leaders and Identification of Security Agencies - Nigeria Correctional Service + Ways of Preventing Drug Abuse
### Grade: Primary 2
### Duration: 60 Minutes
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### **Learning Objectives:**
1. **Understand the duties of community leaders.**
2. **Identify the Nigeria Correctional Service and their roles.**
3. **Learn ways to prevent drug abuse.**
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### **Materials Needed:**
- Flashcards with pictures of community leaders and security agencies
- Chart paper and markers
- Storybook or visual aids about community leaders
- Simple diagram depicting ways of preventing drug abuse
- Video clips (if available) or relevant text materials
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### **Lesson Structure:**
#### **Introduction (10 minutes):**
1. **Greetings and Warm-up:**
- Greet the students and introduce the day's topic.
- Quick ice-breaker: Ask the students to name any community leader they know and what they think that leader does.
2. **Objective Outline:**
- Briefly explain what students will learn in the lesson.
#### **1. Duties of Community Leaders (15 minutes):**
1. **Discussion:**
- Define a community leader and provide examples (e.g., teacher, head of village, religious leaders).
- Discuss their roles and responsibilities (e.g., making decisions, helping in solving problems, guiding the community).
2. **Activity:**
- Show flashcards with pictures of different community leaders.
- Ask students to identify each leader and discuss their duties.
3. **Storytime:**
- Read a short story or show pictures showing a day in the life of a community leader.
#### **2. Identification of Security Agencies - Nigeria Correctional Service (15 minutes):**
1. **Introduction:**
- Introduce the Nigeria Correctional Service.
- Discuss their role in maintaining law and order and rehabilitating offenders.
2. **Visual Aids:**
- Show a picture or a small video clip of the Nigeria Correctional Service in action (if available).
3. **Activity:**
- Use flashcards to show the badge and uniform of the Nigeria Correctional Service.
- Have a brief Q&A to reinforce identification.
#### **3. Ways of Preventing Drug Abuse (15 minutes):**
1. **Discussion:**
- Explain what drugs are and the issues that come from drug abuse.
- Emphasize that they should always say no to drugs.
2. **Prevention Strategies:**
- Teach simple but effective ways to prevent drug abuse:
- Making healthy choices.
- Saying no to peer pressure.
- Talking to trusted adults if offered drugs.
3. **Activity:**
- Create a simple diagram/chart with student input showing ways to prevent drug abuse.
- Share the diagram/chart and place it on the classroom wall.
#### **Conclusion (5 minutes):**
1. **Recap:**
- Summarize the key points learned:
- Duties of community leaders.
- Identification and roles of the Nigeria Correctional Service.
- Ways of preventing drug abuse.
2. **Feedback:**
- Ask a few students to share what they found the most interesting.
#### **Assessment:**
1. **Oral Questions:**
- Ask students to name one duty of a community leader.
- Ask them how they can identify the Nigeria Correctional Service.
- Ask them to name one way to prevent drug abuse.
2. **Group Activity:**
- Divide students into small groups and give them scenarios to act out involving community leaders, the Nigeria Correctional Service, or preventing drug abuse.
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### **Homework/Extension Activity:**
- **Homework:**
- Draw a picture of a community leader they admire and write one sentence about what they do.
- **Extension Activity:**
- Encourage students to participate in a role-playing exercise with their families at home, playing as community leaders or security personnel, and share their experiences in the next class.
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### **Additional Notes:**
- Engage students with frequent questions to keep them participative.
- Be sensitive to the diverse backgrounds of students when discussing topics like drug abuse.
- Ensure a safe and respectful discussion environment.