Types of Building | Common Building Materials JSS 1 (Basic 7) – Basic Technology

BASIC TECHNOLOGY 

BASIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

THIRD TERM

WEEK 2

JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (JSS 1)

THEME: BUILDING 

PREVIOUS LESSON – 

TOPIC – BUILDING AND BUILDING MATERIALS 

LEARNING AREA

1. Introductory Activities

2. Types of Building

3. Common Building Materials

4. Revision and Weekly Assessment (Test)

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

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

1. identify various types of building.

2. identify common building material.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The students can state different types of building.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

1. Building plans, cement, sand, gravel.

2. Documentary on various types of building, charts and posters etc.

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

Shelter is one of the basic needs of life. A shelter is a basic architectural structure or building that provides protection from the local environment. Having a place of shelter, of safety and of retreat, i.e. a home, is commonly considered a fundamental human needs.

Sometimes, it is called house or home.

MEANING OF BUILDING 

 

 

Building is a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house, factory, school, church or mosque, shop, etc.

TYPES OF BUILDINGS

1. Residential buildings – Bungalow, duplex, detached and semi detached, hut, high rise, sky scrapers, etc.

2. Educational or Institutional Building – Primary, Secondary, Polytechnic, College of Education and University Buildings.

3. Assembly Buildings – Hall, Cinema, Church or Mosque, etc.

4. Factory and Industrial Buildings

5. Worship Center – Church, Mosque or Shrine.

6. Business Building – Bank, Insurance, Filling Station, Market, Shopping Mall, etc.

7. Hospital Building

ASSIGNMENT

Find out common building materials.

LESSON 2 – COMMON BUILDING MATERIALS

1. Cement

2. Sand

3. Gravel

4. Metal

5. Plastic

6. Wood

7. Glass

8. Leaves

9. Ceramics

10. Grass, etc.

ASSIGNMENT

Find out the uses of common building materials.

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 students some questions; then, the teacher –

2. explains types of building.

Student’s Activities – Identify various types of building.

3. Summarizes the lesson on the board.

Student’s Activities – Copy as the teacher writes.

CONCLUSION

To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

LESSON EVALUATION 

Ask students to:

1. list types of building.

2. list five common types of building materials.

 

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