Threat to Personal Security – Cultism | Meaning and Causes of Cultism | How to Prevent Cultism Primary 5 (Basic 5) Term 3 Week 4 Security Education

SECURITY EDUCATION

RELIGION AND NATIONAL VALUES

THIRD TERM  

WEEK 4

PRIMARY 5

THEME – ELEMENTS OF SECURITY 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Threat to Personal Security – Robbery | Meaning and Causes of Robbery | How to Prevent Robbery Primary 5 (Basic 5) Term 3 Week 3 Security Education

TOPIC – SOURCE OF DANGERS AND INSECURITY 

LEARNING AREA

1. Introduction

2. Meaning of Cultism

3. Causes of Cultism

4. Effects of Cultism on the Victims

5. How to Control Cultism

6. Revision and Weekly Assessment (Test)

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

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

1. explain the term – cultism.

2. state the causes and effects of cultism.

3. discuss how to control or prevent cultism.

4. examine why cultism is a threat to personal security.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils can state some of the unacceptable behaviours in our community.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of video clips

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 

Personal security is an extra caution taken to ensure your personal safety at all time. Cultism is a crime and threat to personal security just like rape and robbery.

MEANING OF CULTISM 

Cultism is a social group of people whose practices or activities such as membership, initiation, policies and rites are mostly done in the secret. It is also known as secret cult.

CAUSES OF CULTISM OR REASONS FOR JOINING SECRET CULT 

The reasons why people join secret cult are as follows:

1. Peer group influence

2. Poverty

3. Unemployment

4. Poor parental care or training by irresponsible parents

5. Political rivalry

6. Protection

7. Revenge

8. Loneliness

9. Quest for social identity

10. Personal decision

LESSON 2 – EFFECTS OF CULTISM ON THEIR MEMBERS AND HOW TO CONTROL CULTISM 

EFFECTS OF CULTISM ON THEIR MEMBERS/HOW CULTISM A THREAT TO PERSONAL SECURITY 

1. Untimely death

2. Dropout of school

3. Loss of morality

4. Drug addiction

5. Mental disorder or Illness

6. Loss of friends and family

7. Loss of respect

8. Life imprisonment

9. Fear of unknown

10. Uncertain future or ambitious

11. Later become robber, rapist, drug lord or dealer, hire killer, etc.

HOW TO PREVENT CULTISM 

1. Public enlighten

2. Proper home training

3. Appropriate law and enforcement

4. Capital punishment for the cultists

5. Monitoring and checking the students activities and practices within or outside the school’s premise.

6. Active participation of parents, administrator and government to ensure balance welfare.

LESSON 3 – REVISION AND WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST) – As stated in the performance objectives or weekly assessment. 

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. Teacher organizes the pupils into two or more groups depending on the size of the class.

3. Teacher displays chart showing the cultism activities or practices.

4. Teacher lets the pupils examine the chart and discuss.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils describe the content of the chart.

5. Teacher uses the chart and the pupil’s relevant responses to introduce the lesson – cultism as threat to personal security.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils pay attention to the lesson introduction understand the concept of lesson.

6. Teacher leads a class discussion on the meaning and causes of cultism.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the class discussion.

7. Teacher guides the pupils to state and discuss how to prevent cultism in our community.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils suggest possible means of preventing cultism in their community.

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

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the summarizes of the lesson by responding 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.

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LESSON EVALUATION 

Teacher ask pupils to:

1. explain the term – cultism.

2. state 3 causes of cultism.

3. mention 3 causes of cultism.

4. list 3 effects of cultism.

5. discuss 3 ways to prevent cultism in the community.

WORKBOOK

WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST)

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

1. ______ is a social group of people whose practices or activities such as membership, initiation, policies and rites are mostly done in the secret.

A. Secret society

B. Cult member

C. Cultism

2. Another name for cultism is ______.

A. secret cult

B. religious cult

C. personal cult

3. Cultism is a group make the society unsafe by attacking and killing innocent people, destroy property, engaging in armed robbery, drug abuse, and kidnapping.

A. True

B. False

C. Not really

4. One of these is not a threat to personal security.

A. Robbery

B. Cultism

C. Police

5. One of these is a reason for joining secret cult.

A. Recognition

B. Good grade

C. Job opportunity

6. Lack of parental care is one of the causes of cultism.

A. True

B. False

C. No, it’s not

7. To control the activities or practices of cultism in our schools is not a join task of parents, administors and government.

A. False

B. True

C. I don’t know

8. School’s security cannot necessarily control the activities and practices of cultism.

A. False

B. True

C. I don’t know

State 2 why cultism is a threat to personal security.

9. ____________

10. ____________