HEALTH HABITS 

FIRST TERM WEEK 4

NURSERY 1

THEME – DISEASE 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Meaning and Importance of Immunization Nursery 1 (Age 3) Term 2 Week 2 Health Habits

TOPIC – DISEASES 

LEARNING AREA

1. Meaning of Diseases and Illness

2. Examples of Diseases and Illness

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

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

1. say the meaning of diseases and illness.

2. mention examples of common diseases or illnesses.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The children can identify and describe the duties of doctors or nurses.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of pictures or chart showing

1. people with wound or sick people.

2. doctors or nurses with their patients.

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

MEANING OF DISEASE OR ILLNESS 

Disease means illness or sickness that make people unhealthy.

Illness/sickness is when you are sick or feel unwell.

EXAMPLES OF ILLNESS OR DISEASES 

1. Fever

2. Headache

3. Cough

4. Malaria

5. Stooling

6. Chicken pox

7. Polio, etc.

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 adopts the following steps.

2. Teacher displays chart showing a doctor or nurse with their patients.

3. Displays allows the children to identify and describe the pictures on the chart.

Children’s Activities – The children identify and describe the duties doctors and nurses.

3. Teacher uses the chart and the children’s relevant responses to introduce the lesson and explains the meaning of diseases with common examples.

Children’s Activities – The children understand the meaning and examples of diseases and appreciate the importance of the doctors and nurses in their lives.

4. Teacher summarizes the lesson by asking the children questions based on the lesson taught and gives the children work to do at home.

Children’s Activities – The children participate actively in the summary of the lesson by responding to the questions and do their homework at home.

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 –

LESSON EVALUATION/HOMEWORK 

Teacher guides the children to answer the following questions.

1. _____ is when you are sick.

A. Illness

B. Happy

2. Sickness make people _____.

A. Sad

B. Happy

3. _____ causes pain in the body.

A. Illness

B. Happy

4. Cough is a sickness.

A. Yes

B. No

5. Where should we go when we sick?

A. Home

B. Hospital