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Week: 2

Class: Junior Secondary School 1

Term: 2nd Term

Age: 12 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods

Date:

Subject: Agriculture

Topic:-       Types and characteristics of farm animals

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Define farm animals
  2. Discuss the types of farm animals citing examples
  3. State the characteristics of the types of farm animals

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher revises the previous lesson on the classification of plants based on their anatomy

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She begins by explaining the meaning of farm animals

She further discusses the types of farm animals citing examples

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She then discusses the characteristics of each types of farm animal

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

FARM ANIMALS

Farm animals are those animals which are reared by man for food, work, guard, sports, economic and social purposes.

 

TYPES OF FARM ANIMALS

  1. Mammals: these are animals that produce their young ones alive and feed them with milk e.g goats, cattle, rabbits, sheep etc

Characteristics of mammals

  1. they have hairs on their body
  2. they give birth to young ones alive
  3. the mother mammals feed their young ones with milk from their mammary glands or breast
  4. they have different types of teeth
  5. they are warm blooded

 

  1. Birds: These are animals that lay eggs which hatch into their young e.g chickens, ducks, geese, turkey, guinea fowls, pigeons, canary etc

Characteristics of birds

  1. they are bipedal i.e they walk on two legs
  2. they are warm blooded
  3. they have their bodies covered with feathers
  4. they are oviparous i.e egg-laying
  5. they have legs protected by scales
  6. they have their eggs covered with shell

 

  1. Fishes: these are animals that live in natural or artificial water bodies e.g shark, mackerel, cod etc

Characteristics of fish

  1. they have streamlined body
  2. they have three body divisions; head, truck and tail
  3. they are cold blooded
  4. they are oviparous i.e egg-laying
  5. they are divided into two: bony fishes(fishes found in fresh water) and cartilaginous fishes(fishes found in salt water)
  6. their bodies are covered with scales
  7. they have no neck
  8. they have fins on their skins and gills for respiration

 

EVALUATION:    1. Explain farm animals

  1. What are the types of farm animals we have? Give two examples of each
  2. State the characteristics of
  3. mammals
  4. birds
  5. fishes

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively