Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Primary 4

Causes of road accidents + Causes of ethnicity + Emergency phone numbers in Nigeria

Term: 3rd Term

Week: 2

Class: primary 4

Age: 9 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 3 periods

Date:

Subject: National values education

Topic:-   Causes of road accidents

-Causes of ethnicity

-Emergency phone numbers in Nigeria

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

  1. List causes of road accidents
  2. Describe how drivers and other road users should maintain roads
  3. Highlight at least five causes of ethnicity
  4. Enumerates the emergency lines of security organizations

 

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

Instructional materials: charts showing bad road, charts of road sign, picture chart showing different ethnic group, chart showing list of emergency lines in Nigeria

Period 1: causes of road accidents

Instructional procedures

Presentation

Teacher’s activity

Pupil’s activity

Step 1

Introduction

The teacher revises the previous topics and introduces road accidents.

Road accident is when an unfortunate incident happens unexpectedly on the road that causes harm or injury.

Pupils pay attention

Step 2

Explanation

She explains the causes of road accident

1. Bad road

2. Over speeding

3. Bad weather

4. Fatigue

5. Poor vehicle maintenance

6. Bad state of vehicles

7. Over loading

Pupils pay attention and participates

Step 3

Demonstration

She further explains the remedy of road accidents.

1. Introduce speed limit method

2. Build good road and new road

3. Government should provide campaign seminars and workshop for drivers.

4. Good monitoring and use of alcohol detective device.

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

Road accident is when an unfortunate incident happens unexpectedly on the road that causes harm or injury.

Causes of road accident

  1. Bad road
  2. Over speeding
  3. Bad weather
  4. Fatigue
  5. Poor vehicle maintenance
  6. Bad state of vehicles
  7. Over loading

Remedy of road accidents.

  1. Introduce speed limit method
  2. Build good road and new road
  3. Government should provide campaign seminars and workshop for drivers.
  4. Good monitoring and use of alcohol detective device.

 

Evaluation:          1. List 5 causes of road accident

  1. Explain 3 ways of preventing road accidents

Class work: as in evaluation

Conclusion: the teacher commends the pupils positively

Period 2 and 3: causes of ethnicity

-emergency phone numbers in Nigeria

Presentation

Teacher’s activity

Pupil’s activity

Step 1

Introduction

The teacher revises the previous topics of ethnicity and emergency

Pupils pay attention

Step 2

Explanation

She list and explains the causes of ethnicity in Nigeria

1. Lack of access to resources: people resort to ethnicity when they feel cheated in the allocation of resources. When people cannot get access to state resources, they turn back and mobilize ethnic group.

2. Poverty: due to uneven distribution of resources in Nigeria, only few have access to them. Thus, this causes those who do not have such access to form groups to fight for them with hope that things will get better

3. Illiteracy: the inability to read and write in any local language causes ethnicity. This is because people who are literate can easily mobilize the illiterates for their own selfish interest.

4. Political strategy to win election: politicians fall back to their ethnic group to arouse ethnic consciousness when they see that they cannot win in competitive election

Pupils pay attention and participates

Step 3

Demonstration

The teacher list the right personnel to contact in danger:

1. Police- in term of domestic violence

2. FRSC- in term of accident and road safety

3. State security service- in term of terrorist attack. And many more

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

Causes of ethnicity in Nigeria

  1. Lack of access to resources: people resort to ethnicity when they feel cheated in the allocation of resources. When people cannot get access to state resources, they turn back and mobilize ethnic group.
  2. Poverty: due to uneven distribution of resources in Nigeria, only few have access to them. Thus, this causes those who do not have such access to form groups to fight for them with hope that things will get better
  3. Illiteracy: the inability to read and write in any local language causes ethnicity. This is because people who are literate can easily mobilize the illiterates for their own selfish interest.
  4. Political strategy to win election: politicians fall back to their ethnic group

To arouse ethnic consciousness when they see that they cannot win in

competitive election      

Right personnel to contact in danger:

  1. Police- in term of domestic violence
  2. FRSC- in term of accident and road safety
  3. State security service- in term of terrorist attack. And many more

 

Evaluation:          1. List and explain 5 causes of ethnicity

  1. State 3 personnel to contact in time of danger

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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