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Term: 3rd Term

Week: 4

Class: Junior Secondary School 2

Age: 13 years

Duration: 40 minutes

Date:

Subject:      Social studies

Topic:-       Poverty

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

  1. Explain the meaning of poverty
  2. Discuss the causes and consequences of poverty
  3. Outline the poverty alleviation strategies

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 transportation

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She explains the meaning of poverty

She discusses the causes and consequences of poverty

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She outlines some poverty alleviation strategies

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

POVERTY

Poverty is the social condition of being poor and unable to afford basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter etc

CAUSES OF POVERTY

  1. low/poor level of required skills
  2. Extended family responsibilities
  3. inadequate resources and ineffective patterns of distribution of communal wealth
  4. terrible/wasteful spending habits
  5. illiteracy
  6. untapped natural resources
  7. natural environmental problems

 

CONSEQUENCES OF POVERTY

  1. poor quality of life
  2. inaccessibility to quality education
  3. violence and high crime rate
  4. poor economic growth

 

POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGIES

  1. qualitative education at all levels
  2. skill acquisition programmes and setting up of development centres
  3. Encouraging and rewarding hardwork
  4. Providing grants, loans etc for small scale businesses to scale

 

EVALUATION:    1. Define poverty

  1. Discuss the causes and consequences of poverty
  2. Outline some poverty alleviation strategies

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively