Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Primary 3

Term: 3^rd Term

Week: 6

Class: Primary 3

Age: 8 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 3 periods

Date:

Subject: National Values Education

Topic:-       Highway codes

• Avoiding criminal behaviours
• Contents of the first aid box

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

1. Explain the meaning of highway codes
2. Identify simple highway codes
3. Identify the importance of highway codes
4. Explain theft

5, Describe actions that could be referred to as theft

6. List the contents of the first aid box and their uses

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

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: pictures and charts of various highway codes, flash cards of theft behaviour, real objects in the first aid box e.g cotton wool, Methylated spirit, Gentian Violet etc

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1: Highway codes

NOTE

The Highway Code is a set of principles, advises, rules, and regulations that governs road use

Examples of simple highway codes in Nigeria

1. Traffic light
2. Zebra crossing
3. Speed limit signs
4. No U-turn signs
5. Men at work signs
6. Children crossing sings
7. Hospital ahead signs
8. School ahead signs
9. Speed bump signs
10. bend signs
11. Narrow bridge ahead sign
12. danger signs

Importance of highway codes

Learning and Following this Highway Code will

1. help you stay alive while using the road.
2. help you avoid penalties due to road offences.
3. also teach you how to use the road in a safe and civilized manner

EVALUATION:    1. Explain the meaning of highway codes

2. List six examples of highway codes
3. Discuss three importance of highway codes

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the pupils positively

PERIOD 2 and 3: Theft. Contents of the first aid box and their uses

NOTE

Theft

Theft means taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

Actions that could be described as theft

1. Committing fraud
2. Breaking and entering into someone’s house or property
3. Bribing others to get favours
4. shop-lifting
5. pick-pocketing
6. Robbery (either armed or unarmed)
7. Looting

Contents of the first aid box and their uses

1. A box of adhesive dressing (Plasters) of different sizes for covering small wounds.
2. Blunt-ended scissors for cutting bandage of plaster.
3. Antiseptic lotion to use with the cotton wool and antiseptic wipes.
4. Cotton wool for cleaning cuts and gauzes.
5. Some triangular bandages to several safety pins for making a sling or emergency bandage.
6. Sterile dressings (field dressings) of various sizes for covering wounds. Sterile eye dressings with bandage attached for eye injuries.
7. Aspirin or paracetamol preferably sealed in foil to give longer shelf life.
8. Anti histamine cream for insect bites and stings.
9. Tweezers for removing splinters.
10. Tubular gauze bandages for finger injuries and applicator tongs.
11. Two or three crepe or conforming bandages for sprains and for wounds in awkward places such as elbows and ankles.

EVALUATION:    1. Explain the meaning of theft

2. Describe three actions that could be referred to as theft
3. List six contents of the first box and their uses

CLASS ACTIVITY: Pupils in small groups, describe actions that could be referred to as theft

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the pupils positively