Meaning of Drug and Drug Abuse | Methods of taken Drugs l The Right People to Administer Drugs Primary 3/Basic 3 Term 2 Week 2 Social Studies

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

RELIGION AND NATIONAL VALUES

SECOND TERM

WEEK 2

PRIMARY 3

THEME – SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES 

PREVIOUS LESSON – As Stated in Second Term (Term 2) Week 1 Plan Lesson Notes for Primary Schools

 

TOPIC – DRUG ABUSE 

 

LEARNING AREA

1. Introductory Activities

2. Meaning of Drug Abuse

3. Methods of taken Drugs into the Body

4. Lesson Evaluation and Weekly Assessment (Test)

 

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to –

1. explain the meaning of drugs and drug abuse.

2. state the ways by which drugs/medicines are taken into the body.

3. state examples of drugs that can be abused.

4. differentiate between normal use of drug and abnormal use of drugs.

5. state the right people to administer drug.

 

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils can state the uses of drugs.

 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

1. Charts/posters illustrating some methods of taking medicines.

2. Resource person

3. Charts of health centres and health personnel

4. Posters showing a drug addict.

 

 

METHOD OF TEACHING 

Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

 

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

 

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON  

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION 

Drugs are any substance other than food which when taken can change the body function.

Drugs are taken by –

1. Swallow

2. Drinking

3. Inhale

4. Injection

 

When drugs taken drugs by swallowing, drinking or inhaling are recommended and taken by the doctors or any professional health workers prescription, that’s is good and ok. But, when these drugs are not, it is called drug abuse.

There is no drugs that cannot be abuse.

 

 

LESSON 2 – DRUG ABUSE 

Drug abuse is the use of drugs without the advice of a qualified doctors.

Drug abuse is also known as wrong use of drugs.

 

 

THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO ADMINISTER DRUG

The right person to administer drugs is pharmacists.

 

 

GUEST SPEAKER

Invite any available health worker to talk on drug abuse.

Note – Any of your colleagues can post as guest speaker.

 

 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Displays sample of Drugs.

3. Lets pupils identify and state the reasons why we take drugs.

Pupil’s Activities – Identify and state the reasons why we take drugs.

4. Leads the pupils to identify and discuss the methods of taking drugs/medicines into the body (swallowing, drinking, inhaling).

Pupil’s Activities – State methods of taken Drugs.

5. Asks pupils to describe ways they have been taking medicines/drugs.

Pupil’s Activities – Describe ways of taking medicines/drugs.

6. Discuss the different between the person that prescribed and administer drugs.

Pupil’s Activities – Identify and differentiate the person that prescribed and administer drugs.

7. Invites resource persons to give talks on drug abuse.

Pupil’s Activities – Listen to the guest speaker, ask and answer questions.

8. Summarizes the lesson on the board.

Pupil’s Activities – Participate actively in the lesson summary and write as instructed.

 

 

CONCLUSION

To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

 

 

NEXT LESSON

Ways of Knowing Someone Who has Abused Drugs (Primary 3)

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION 

Ask pupils to:

1. state the meaning of drug abuse.

2. list three ways by which drugs/medicines are taken into the body.

 

 

WORKBOOK ASSESSMENT 

ATTEMPT ALL THE QUESTIONS

 

1. ____________ is a swallow drug.

A. Blood tonic

B. Paracetamol

C. Inhaler

 

2. ____________ is a drinking drug.

A. Blood tonic

B. Paracetamol

C. Inhaler

 

3. ____________ is a inhaler drug.

A. Blood tonic

B. Paracetamol

C. Inhaler

 

4. Injection is a drug administer by ____________.

A. doctor

B. parent

C. teacher

 

5. ____________ is the use of drugs without the advice of a qualified doctors.

A. Drug use

B. Drug abuse

C. Drug taken

 

6. Drug abuse is also known as ____________.

A. right use of drug

B. wrong use of drug

C. mode of taken drug

 

Write 4 mode of taken drugs.

 

7. ________________________

 

8. ________________________

 

9. ________________________

 

10. ________________________