Employment and Unemployment (Primary 4)

 

SOCIAL STUDIES 

RELIGION AND NATIONAL VALUES 

THIRD TERM

WEEK 1

PRIMARY 4

THEME: NATIONAL ECONOMY 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Useful and Quick Links for Second Term Plan Lesson Notes All Subjects Primary 4, Primary 5 and Primary 6

TOPIC: EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT 

LEARNING AREA 

1. Meaning of Employment and Unemployment

2. Consequences of Unemployment

3. Ways of reducing unemployment.

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

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

1. explain the meaning of employment and unemployment;

2. discuss the consequences and ways to reduce unemployment.

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOR

The pupils are required to already have learned to wages and income distribution.

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

charts of different work.

 

 

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 – MacMillan Brilliant Primary Social Studies Book 4

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

 

Relevant link – Third Term Scheme of Work and Plan Lesson Note for Social Studies Primary 4 Primary 5 and Primary 6 Links

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

LESSON ONE – INTRODUCTION (EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT) 

Employment and Unemployment are word and opposite. They both referred as people with job and people without job.

 

MEANING OF EMPLOYMENT

Employment is work done to earn a living.

 

MEANING OF UNEMPLOYMENT 

Unemployment is having no work to do to earn money.

 

 

CONSEQUENCES OF UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment, also referred to as joblessness, occurs when people are without work and actively seeking employment. But when they are unable to get any,

1. It increases crime rate such as rmed robbery, human trafficking, prostitution, drug addiction, etc.

2. It leads waste of manpower.

3. It became threat to peace.

4. It increases dependents rate.

5. It reduces investment.

6. It causes of migration. This means movement to another state or country.

7. It leads to overcrowding in towns and cities.

8. It increases street begging.

 

LESSON TWO – WAYS TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT 

1. Establishment of industries by government.

2. Encouraging farmers.

3. Encourage self employed.

4. Provision of social amenities, e.g. electricity, good roads, hospitals, schools  etc.

5. Provision of soft loans to unemployed people.

6. Provision of soft to small and medium business to expansion their business to employ unemployed people.

7. Restructuring our educational system.

 

 

REVISION AND WEEK 1 LESSON ASSESSMENT

As stated in 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 on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Guides pupils to differentiate between employment and unemployment;

Pupil’s Activities – Explain the mean employment and unemployment.

3. Lists and discuss  the with pupils – the consequences and ways to reduce unemployment;

Pupil’s Activities – Discuss the consequences and ways to reduce unemployment.

 

CONCLUSION

  • To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.
  • Assignment – Find out how to solve the problem of unemployment in your locality.

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Pupils to:

1. explain the meaning of employment and Unemployment.

2. Mention 3 consequences of unemployment.

3. List 3 ways to reduce unemployment.