Arms of Government | Meaning and Examples of Legislation, Executive and Judiciary Primary 4 (Basic 4) – Term 1 Week 6 Civic Education

 

 

CIVIC EDUCATION

NATIONAL VALUES EDUCATION 

FIRST TERM

WEEK 6

PRIMARY 5

THEME: GOVERNMENT 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Meaning of Government | Types of Government Primary 4 (Basic 4) – Term 1 Week 5 Civic Education

 

 

TOPIC: ARMS OF GOVERNMENT 

LEARNING AREA 

1. Introduction

2. Meaning and Examples of Legislation

3. Meaning and Examples of Executive

4. Meaning and Examples of Judiciary

5. Revision and Weekly Assessment (Test)

 

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, most of the pupils should have attained the following objectives –

1. identify the arms of government.

2. differentiate between the arms.

 

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOR

The pupils can identify the president, state governor, judges and policeman.

 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of Photos, Video clips, Newspapers, Nigerian Constitution, Resource person

 

 

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

Scheme of Work

9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

Course Book

All Relevant Material

Online Information

 

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON 

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION 

A government is the system whereby group of people with authority to govern the public affairs. That’s, a group of people ruling other people. There are three arms of government that enable the government to govern the public affairs effectively.

 

ARMS OF GOVERNMENT

There are three arms of government,

1. Executive

2. Legislative

3. Judiciary

 

 

LESSON 2 – THE ARMS OF GOVERNMENT 

There are three arms of government – Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.

1. LEGISLATION – A legislature is the arm of government with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. That’s, Legislative makes laws. For examples – the senators and house of representatives.

2. EXECUTIVE – An executive is the arm of government with the authority to implement laws make by the legislature. That’s, executive executes or implements the laws. For example – the Senate, House of Representatives, State House of Assembly, Councilors, etc.

3. JUDICIARY – A judiciary is the arm of government with the authority to interpret laws make by the legislature and implemented by the executive. That’s, judiciary interprets, defends and applies the law in legal cases. For example – the supreme court and other federal courts.

 

LESSON 3 – Revision and Weekly Assessment (Test), As stated the performance objectives or lesson evaluation. 

 

 

PRESENTATION

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

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson based what he/she has taught the pupils or the lesson learnt by them.

2. Teacher organizes the pupils into groups depends on the size of class.

3. Teacher displays chart showing current people in the government. For example – the president, governor, etc.

4. Teacher lets the pupils identify the president of Nigeria, the state governor and other people in the government within their locality.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils identify the president, state governor, judiciary, etc. as a government.

5. Teacher uses the chart and their responses to introduce and leads a class discussion on the arms of government.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils pay attention to the lesson introduction and participate actively in the class discussion on the arms of government.

6. Teacher shows pictures or video clips of government institutions, e.g. offices, National, Assembly, courts etc.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils watch and make notes on video clips and pictures.

7. Teacher takes pupils on a trip to government institutions.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils role – play or simulate some government functionaries.

8. Teacher summarizes the lessons on the board using appropriate lesson evaluation.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the summary of the lesson by responding correctly to most of the questions 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 – necessity for division of government into three arms.

 

 

NEXT LESSON 

Civic Education Mid Term Test for Primary 4 (Basic 4) – Civic Education

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Teacher asks pupils to:

1. state the 3 arms of government.

2. differentiate between the arms.

 

 

WORKBOOK

WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST)

Instruction – Choose the correct answer from the options A – C.

1. ______ is the system whereby group of people with authority to govern the public affairs.

A. Governor

B. Government

C. Governance

 

2. There are ______ arms of government that enable the government to govern the public affairs effectively.

A. 3

B. 4

C. 2

 

3. Legislative, Executive and Judiciary are called ______.

A. Arms of government

B. Types of president

C. Arms of cabinet

 

4. The arms of government are ______, ______ and ______.

A. president, governor and judiciary

B. legislative, governor, executive

C. judiciary, executive and judiciary

 

5. ______ the arm of government that makes laws.

A. Judiciary

B. Executive

C. Legislative

 

 

6. The arm of government that executes laws is ______.

A. Judiciary

B. Executive

C. Legislative

 

7. The arm of government that interprets laws is ______.

A. Legislative

B. Judiciary

C. Executive

 

8. The members of the house Senate and Representatives are ______.

A. Legislative

B. Judiciary

C. Executive

 

9. The president, governor, local government chairman, etc. are ______.

A. Judiciary

B. Executive

C. Legislative

 

10. ______ includes the supreme court and other federal courts.

A. Legislative

B. Judiciary

C. Executive