Social and Religious Studies

1.1. Fulfilling responsibilities in extended family
A. Responsibilities of members of an extended
family.
Activity 1

Look at the pictures below and state what people are doing.

2 Activity 

Give the responsability of each member in an extended family basing on government programme.

I have understood that:

Every person in an extended family has the following responsibilities:

1. Should be involved in promoting government programme like: 
a) Family welbeing
 - Medical insurance
 - Proper feeding and management of the environment. 

- Hygiene and Sanitation.

b) Family development- Working in cooperatives and land consolidation. 
- Proper housing and paying taxes. 
- Education for all and one cow per every Rwandan poor family.

 - Modern farming.

c) Good governance
- Participating in community work. 

- Fair justice and elections.

d) Security
- Night patrols and helping each other in case of problems.

- Reporting of wrong doers

Activity 3
Tell anothers your roles and the roles of your parents/

guardians in the family.

Self assessmennt

Who is in charge of telling pupils to enter the class room?

Peer assessment
1. What is the importance of one cow per a single Rwandan
poor family?
2. Give any three important things that can promote the

welfare of citizens

Exercises
1. Give any two examples of the work you do at home.
2. Put every activity where is should go.
– Body hygiene, hygiene of where we live and hygiene of
clothes.
– Respecting the laws.
– Put pupils in class.
– Planting forests/trees and preventing soil erosion.
– Family planning
– Paying and using health insurance cards when sick.
– Paying taxes.
– Modern animal rearing.

– Road and bridge construction.

3. State any three activities which your parents/ guardians do to develop the country.
Home work
Ask your parents/guardians your responsibilities. Let them also tell you their responsibilities.
Write them down and tell them to your classmates when you come back to school.
B. The importance of fulfilling responsibilities in an extended family.
Activity1
 Look at the pictures below and state what you can see.

Activity 2
Every body should tell his/her classmates benefits of fulfilling

his/her responsibilities.

I have understood that:
When every body in an extended family has fulfilled
responsibilities then:
– Understand one another, Live peacefully, sharing.
– Work together in order to develop.
– Promote one another in different activities.
– They help one another in case of problems, visit one
another.
– They help the government to get money which is used to

develop roads, schools, Hospitals, Water and electricity

We have accepted that:
We shall be fulfilling our responsibilities and advise our friends
to do the same.
Self assessmennt
1. State any 2 importances of fulfilling responsibilities among
members of extended family.

2. Explain the impotance of paying taxes

Peer assessment
1. What shows that members of an extended family work
together?

2. How do people fulfil their responsibilities at home?

Exercises1.
 1.Where does the government get money to build infrastructure?
2. Match responsibilities with its importance
.a. Paying taxes
b. Paying insurance
c. Family planning
d. Protecting the environment
e. Resecure others in times of problems
1.The family gets food
2.It reduces disaster
3.The government builds infrastructure.
4. Accessig health care services.
5. Food security.
Home work
Ask your parents/guardians to tell you the importance of fulfilling your responsibilities as well as the importance of fulfilling theirs. Write them down and discuss them with your classmates.
Game
Play a game of catching the tail of the wolf.
C. Effects of not fulfilling responsibilities in an extended family.
Activity 1
Look at the pictures below and state what you can see


Activity 2
Every body should tell his/her classmates the effects of not

fulfilling responsibilities.

Ihave learned that:
By not fulfilling family responsibilities causes bad effects like:
– Family members do not work together and this causes
poverty.
– They do not listen to each other, they don’t help one
another, they are not always at peace.
– By not protecting our environment leads to diseases like
Chorela, dycentry and Malaria.
– By not participating in government programmes causes

poor development.

Activity 3

Every body should tell his/her classmates the bad effects of not fulfilling responsibilies by family members.

We have accepted that:

 –We shall avoid bad effects of not fulfilling responsibilities. 
–We shall do what we are asked to do. 
–By telling/ sensitizing others who do not fulfil them to do so.

Self assessmennt

with yes or No
a. Stopping pupils from going to school is good
.b. It’s not good to report some body who is a security threat.
c. It’s good for pupils to remain home doing domestic work.
 d. Protecting environment, will protect the nearby people from diseases.
e. A good citizen is a person who does not pay taxes.
f. A good child is that child who helps his/her parents to do work.
g. A good sector is that one which does not participate in community work and working together by village people.
h. By not having medical insurance can make you very sick at home.
Peer assessment
1. Explain the characteristics of people who don’t fulfil their
responsibilities.
2. What are the effects faced by a family which does not

protect the environment?

Exercises
1. List the dangers of not fulfilling the following responsibilities:
a. Not paying taxes
b. Not having medical insurance.
c. Not doing community work.
d. Not working in cooperatives.
e. Not sending children to school.
2. What can happen between members of an extended family

if they do not fulfil their responsibilities?

Home work
Discuss with your parents/guardians about the dangers of
not fulfilling their responsibilities in extended family. Share

your findings with others in class.

A game
a. Rollplay people fulfilling their responsibilities in a family.
b. Roll play people who do not fulfil their responsibilities in

a family.

1.2. Proper management of family Assets.
A.Components of family Assets.
Activity 1

Observe and tell what you can see in the pictures below.

Activity 2

Every body should identify and tell his/her friends the non- fixed assets they have at home.

I have understood that:
The family property is made up of both fixed and non- fixed
assets.
Non- fixed assets are assets that can be moved from one
place to another.
Examples: Kitchen utensils, tools used in the compound and
the garden, Animals, Cars, Bicycles, Motocycles and others.
Fixed assets are assets that can not be moved, example

land,houses.

Activity 3

Identify the major componets of the family Assets.

Peer assessment
1.Explain the difference between fixed assets and non- fixed assets.
Exercises
Use these assets: Chairs, garden, plot of land, kitchen, bed,
radio,toilet, charcoal stove, a cupboard, clothes, house, forest,

bag and fill the table below.

B. Importance of family assets.
Activity 1

Observe the pictures below and tell what is taking place in each picture you can see.

Activity 2

Explain to your friends the importance of the family asset that you know.

Self assessmennt
Identify the family assets which protect you from the following.
a. Boredom d. Thieves
b. Fatigue e. Sun shine and rainfall

c. Hunger.

Peer assessment
Circle things that are not family asset.
a. Animals h. Cars l. Roads
b. River i. Lakes m. House
c. Garden j. plot o. Swamp
d. Market k. Stadium p. Air port
e. Health center g. Kitchen utensils

f. Power station

Exercises
Match correctly every asset with its use
a. Cupboard 1. Growing crops and weeding
b. Plot 2. Cutting tall grass.
c. Forest 3. Transport
d. Banana 4. Where the house is built
e. A car      5. It keeps utensils.
f. Home tools   6. It is a source of timber .
g. Garden tools. 7. Banana stem

Home work
Identify other things at home that make up family asset which you did not study in class.
Write them down, tell their importance to others pupils at school.
C. Use and proper management of family assets.
Activity 1
Look at the pictures below and state what you can see.

Activity 2
Discuss the importance of proper management of family
assets.
I have understood that:
If you use well family assets, they last longer and it saves
you from buying new ones and this save family income.

How family assets should be used and managed.

Self assessmennt
1. Mention main things that can destroy the following family assets.
 a. Gardens:
b. House:
c. Forest:
d. Metalic tools.
2. Explain the importance of proper management of family

assets.

Peer assessment
What can you do to protect the following family assets?
a. A car d. Gardens
b. Garden tools e. Utensils

c. Clothes f. Animals

Exercises

Fill this table below.

Home work
Identify family assets in your home. Discuss with you parents/guardians’ways they should be used and managed.

Share this information with your clasmates in the next lesson.

D. Disadvantages of misusing and poor management of family assets
Activity 1

Observe the pictures below and state what you can see.

I have understood that:
When family assets are misused, they do not last for a long 
time and this may lead to loss of the family income.

Activity 2
Discuss the disadvantages of misusing family asset.
We have decided:
We shall avoid bad behaviour like the following:
– Breaking window panes, scratching doors and windows
and making them dirty
– Dancing and playing on top of tables, beds and chairs.
– Cutting down trees, flowers and crops.
– Leaving out side family property that can be stolen at
night.
– Not throwing any thing on top of the roof.

– Not breaking delicate house hold items.

Self assessmennt
1. Explain the dangers of misusing family property.
2. Give two ways children misuse family property.
Peer assessment
Answer with Yes, or No:
a. When you dance on top of the bed, you are destroying
family property.
b. When you remove all house hold items from outside, you
are destroying family property.
c. Watering flowers and trees in the compound is wasting
water.
d. Drawing pictures on the walls of the house is proper management of the family property.
e. Serving too much food that you can not finish is wastage of family property.
Exercises1.
 Why should we use and manage family property well?
2. What can you do if you find your relatives wasting your family property?
3. Give examples of things which children misuse at home.

Home work
Find out things that make up you home. Discuss with your parents/guardians the dangers of misusing the family property. 

Share your findings with your classmates in the next lesson.

A game
Act a rollplay showing pupils how to manage property well.
Activity 1

The benefits of being satisfied with family assets.

Activity 2
Tell the benefits of being satisfied with family assets.
E. The benefits of being satisfied with family assets.
I have understood that:
Being satisfied with family assets prevents the following from
happening:
– Thefty
– wishful thinking
– jealous
– Selfishness
– Betrayal
–Begging 
–Devalue 
–Benefits of being satisfied with family asset
 –Happiness –Soldality 
–Personal development 
–Self respect –
 – self confidence
 –Security 

–Visionary

Activity 3
Every body should tell classmates the benefits of being happy with the family assets..
We have decided that:
– We shall be satisfied and happy with our family assets.

– We shall not beg for things we don’t own in our homes.

Activity 4
Every body should tell the advantages of being satisfied 

with his/her own school property with out minding about what the classmates have.

Self assessmennt1.
 State some of the negative effects of not being satisfied with your family assets.
2. Explain reasons why being satisfied and happy with what
your family owns is a must.
Peer assessment
1. What shows that a person is satisfied with what he/she
owns?
2. What shows that a person is not satisfied with what he/

she owns?

Exercises
1. Why is it good to be satisfied with what your family owns?
2. What is the importance of being satisfied with the school
items that you have?
3. Being satisfied and happy with the food you brought to
school and what you eat during holidays protects you
from?
4. Read the story and choose the words that show that a
person mentioned in the story is satisfied or not satisfied
with what the family owns.
When Musana is at school, he likes to borrow his classmate
a watch to wear. During breaks, he likes going around seeing
the type of food his classmates have yet he has his. But
Mutesi likes studies and gets good marks. She does not steal

school items like her classmates.

Home work
Discuss with your parents/guardians about the importance
of being satisfied and happy with the family property. Tell
your classmates in the next lesson what you discussed

with your parents.

A game
Act out a short play showing chidren who are satisfied with what their families have and another group which is not.
1.3. End unit assessment 1.
 1.Give 3 examples of responsibilities.
a) Those you fulfil at home.
b) Those that your parents fulfil and lead to National development.
2. A nswer with yes or no.
a) A biding by the laws is part of good governance.
b) Telling pupils to enter classes is part of security.c) Planting forests and preventing soil erosion is part of the economy.
d) Family planning and paying insurance is part of social welbeing.
3. State the importance of the following.
a) Paying taxes.

b) Protecting environment