Civic Education - Junior Secondary 2 - Election and voters' responsibilities

Election and voters' responsibilities

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Term: 3rd Term

Week: 6

Class: Junior Secondary School 2

Age: 13 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each

Date:

Subject:      Civic education

Topic:-       Election and voters responsibilities

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

  1. List the basic qualifications for elections
  2. State the importance of election

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 election and voter responsibilities

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She states the basic qualifications for election

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She states and explains the importance of election

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

ELECTION AND VOTERS RESPONSIBILITIES

Qualifications for Elections

There are basic qualifications for elections. These are

  1. Anybody that must contest an election must belong to a registered political party
  2. He must be an adult who is able to contribute to the welfare of the nation
  3. Such an individual must have clean records within and outside the nation
  4. He must be free from all bias, favouritism, ethnicity, preference.
  5. He must be a person who is ready to serve and not a person who wants to be served
  6. He must be a person of high intelligent quotient
  7. He must be disciplined and be ready through good examples to instill discipline to others
  8. He must also be a corrupt free individual

 

IMPORTANCE OF ELECTION

  1. To vote candidate of choice into power
  2. To have a change of government
  3. To make people participate in governance through their vote
  4. To make people perform their political and civic right
  5. To have a change of policy
  6. To unseat a government that is not performing well

EVALUATION:    1. State five basic qualifications for election

  1. State and explain five importance of elections

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively