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Week: 7

Term: 2nd Term

Class: Junior Secondary School 2

Age: 12 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods

Date:

Subject: Physical and Health Education

Topic:-       Meaning and types of environmental pollution

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

  1. Explain the meaning and types of environmental pollution

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 school health programmes

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She explains the meaning of environmental pollution

 

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She further explains the types of environmental pollution giving examples of each

 

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

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Environmental pollution is the process of introducing a contaminant into an

environment making unsafe and dangerous to the health of living

organisms there.

TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

  1. Air pollution: This is the addition of harmful substances to the

atmosphere resulting in damage to the environment, human health and

quality of life. Examples are noise, tobacco smoke, exhaust gases of

vehicles etc

 

  1. Water pollution: This is the contamination of water bodies e.g lakes,

rivers etc by substance harmful to living things. Examples are industrial

affluents(acids, alkalis, salts, oils etc), mining and industrial

waste(pesticides, herbicides etc), sewage and domestic wastes

 

  1. Land pollution: It involves the deposition on land of solid waste e.g soil

pollution, waste, noise, visual pollution(bill board, scarred land forms etc),

thermal pollution and radioactive pollution 

 

EVALUATION:    1. Define environmental pollution

  1. Mention and explain the types of environmental pollution giving examples of each

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively