CIVIC EDUCATION

SECOND TERM WEEK 4

NURSERY 1 (AGE 3)

THEME – MY FAMILY 

PREVIOUS LESSON – My Friend – How to Play with my Friends and Be kind a Friend Nursery 1 (Age 3) Term 2 Week 3 Civic Education

TOPIC – EMOTION

LEARNING AREA 

1. Meaning and Types of Emotion

2. Why Emotions are Important

3. Lesson Evaluation and Weekly Assessment

BEHAVIOUR OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, the children should to able to –

1. understand basic emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise.

2. Identify different situations that can make them feel different emotions.

3. demonstrate how to express emotions through facial expressions and body language.

4. recognize when their friends or classmates are feeling different emotions.

5. use words like “happy,” “sad,” “angry,” and “excited” to describe how they feel.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR 

The children can express different emotions such as happy, sad or angry.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS 

The teacher will the lesson with the aid of chart showing different emotions.

REFERENCE MATERIALS 

1. Recommended textbook

2. National Curriculum

3. All relevant materials

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

MEANING OF EMOTION? 

An emotion is how we feel in a particular situation. It is a strong feeling such as joy, hatred, sorrow, or fear. When one feels an emotion, there are physical changes such as an increase in pulse, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise, and anger.

TYPES OF EMOTIONS 

1. Happiness – It is a feeling of joy that’s expressed through smiling or laughing when we are feeling good and relaxed.

2. Sadness – It is a feeling of disappointment that’s expressed through crying, quietness or withdrawal from others.

3. Anger – It is feeling of agitation, frustration, and antagonism that’s expressing through frowning, turning away, yelling, hitting, kicking, or throwing objects.

4. Surprise – It is an unexpected feeling that’s expressed through raising the brows, widening the eyes, and opening the mouth.

5. Fear – It is an unpleasant feeling that’s express through widening the eyes, attempts to hide or flee from the threat, rapid breathing and heartbeat.

WHY EMOTIONS MATTER? 

Emotions help us communicate with others, such as when we feel sad and need some help. They also can help us to act quickly in important situations.

LESSON PRESENTATION

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

1. Teacher revises the previous lesson based on what hr/she has taught or what the children have learnt.

2. Teacher displays chart/flashcards showing a child with different types of emotions.

3. Teacher point to the chart or flashcard and lets the children identify and describe the pictures on the chart.

4. Teacher asks the children, why the child is crying, happy or sad?

Children’s Activities – The children identify and state the reasons why the child is crying, happy or sad?

5. Teacher uses the chart and the children’s relevant responses to introduce the lesson and explain the meaning and types of emotion

Children’s Activities – The children pay attention to the lesson introduction, understand the meaning and types of emotion.

6. Teacher guides the children to demonstrate different types of emotion while he/she explains why emotions are important?

Children’s Activities – The children demonstrate and appreciate the importance of emotions.

7. 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.

LESSON EVALUATION/HOMEWORK

Teacher guides the children to answer the following questions.

1. describe the facial expressions of the following,

2. demonstrate the feeling of happiness, sadness, angry and fear.

3. explain why we are happy, sad, fear or angry.