Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Primary 4

Citizenship + Introduction to neighbourhood security

Term: 2nd Term

Week: 1

Class: primary 4

Age: 9 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 3 periods

Date:

Subject: National values education

Topic:-       Citizenship

-Introduction to neighbourhood security

Specific objectives: at the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Explain the concept of citizenship
  2. State and describe qualifications of a citizen
  3. Identify the right of a citizen

Instructional techniques: identification, explanation, playway method, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

Instructional materials: the teacher uses a sample of a birth certificate and a registration form to teach the pupils how citizenship is obtained.

Period 1: citizenship

Instructional procedures

Presentation

Teacher’s activity

Pupil’s activity

Step 1

Introduction

The teacher revises the previous term work.

 she introduces a citizen as a person who is legally granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation or political community. She state that a Nigerian citizen is a person whose parents come from Nigeria or obtained Nigerian citizenship by birth, registration or naturalization 

Pupils pay attention

Step 2

Explanation

She explains that citizenship is the right of being a citizen of a country. The teacher lists the rights of citizens

1. Right to life

2. Right to dignity

3. Right to personal liberty

4. Right to fair hearing

5. Right to privacy

6. Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion

7. Right to freedom of expression

8. Right to freedom of assembly and association

9. Right to freedom of movement

10. Right to freedom from discrimination

Pupils pay attention and participates

Step 3

Demonstration

She further explains the types of citizenship.

1.   By birth

2.   By registration

3.   By naturalization

Pupils pay attention and participate

Step 4

Note taking

The teacher writes a short note on the board

The pupils write the notes in their books

 

Note

A citizen as a person who is legally granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation or political community. She state that a Nigerian citizen is a person whose parents come from Nigeria or obtained Nigerian citizenship by birth, registration or naturalization 

Citizenship is the right of being a citizen of a country.

Rights of citizens

  1. Right to life
  2. Right to dignity
  3. Right to personal liberty
  4. Right to fair hearing
  5. Right to privacy
  6. Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  7. Right to freedom of expression
  8. Right to freedom of assembly and association
  9. Right to freedom of movement
  10. Right to freedom from discrimination

Types of citizenship.

  1. By birth –this is one of the most common ways of acquiring citizenship. A person born in a country before or after the day of independence or if both of his parents are citizens of Nigeria.
  2. By registration
  3. By naturalization

 

Evaluation:          1. Explain citizenship

  1. State 3 types of citizenship

Class work: as in evaluation

Conclusion: the teacher commends the pupils positively

Period 2 and 3:introduction to neighbourhood security

Presentation

Teacher’s activity

Pupil’s activity

Step 1

Introduction

She introduces the topic by explaining the meaning of neighbourhood.

Neighbourhood also known as a community is a place or area where people live as a community.

Pupils pay attention

Step 2

Explanation

She explains that security is the state of being free from danger, threat or crime.

She helps the students to identify neighbourhood in the community

She States the meaning of neighbourhood security personnel

As a community security personnel that helps to protect the entire community from crime. Neighbourhood security is also called local security personnel

Pupils pay attention and participates

Step 3

Demonstration

She further explains neighborhood security watch as a group of security who watches over the neighborhood’s properties as a way of preventing crime.

Benefits of neighborhood

Security

1.   To maintain law and order in the state

2.   To fight crime for a safer neighborhood

3.   To bring light to an important issue in the  neighborhood

 

Pupils pay attention and participate

Step 4

Note taking

The teacher writes a short note on the board

The pupils copy the note in their books

 

Note

Neighbourhood also known as a community is a place or area where

People live as a community.

Security is the state of being free from danger, threat or crime.

Neighbourhood security personnel

This is community security personnel that helps to protect the entire

Community from crime. Neighbourhood security is also called local

Security personnel.

Neighborhood security watch is a group of security who watches over the neighborhood’s properties as a way of preventing crime.

Benefits of neighborhood security

  1. To maintain law and order in the state
  2. To fight crime for a safer neighborhood
  3. To bring light to an important issue in the neighborhood

 

Evaluation:          1. What is the meaning of security

2.explain the meaning of neighbourhood security personnel

Class activity: pupils in small groups identify the problems of man and state their solutions

Class work: as in evaluation

Conclusion: the teacher commends the pupils positively



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