Topic outline
UNIT 1: MATERIALS AND TOOLS USED 1 AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL
1.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
1.2. School materials and their uses
1.2.1. Writing materials and their uses
Look at the picture
• What are the pupils doing?
1.2.2. Drawing materials and their uses
Look at the picture
• What are the pupils doing?
1.2.3. Reading materials and their uses
Look at the picture
• Where are the pupils reading from?
1.2.4. Things we use to tell time
Look at the picture
• What are the two standing pupils doing?
1.2.5. Storage materials at school
Look at the picture
• Where are the pupils keeping their books?
1.2.6. Cleaning materials at School
Look at the picture
• What are the pupils doing?
Look at the picture
• What are the pupils doing ?
1.3. Home materials, tools and their uses
1.3.1. Agriculture tools and their uses
Look at the picture
• What are the children doing?
1.3.2. Kitchen utensils and their uses
Look at the picture
• What are children in picture (a) doing?
• What are children in picture (b) doing?
1.3.3. Dining utensils and their uses
Look at the picture
• What can you see?
• What are these people doing?
1.3.4. Sitting room materials and their uses
Look at the picture
• Where are these people sitting?
• What are they sitting on?
1.3.5. Bedroom materials
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
1.3.6. Storage materials and their uses
Look at the picture
• Where did children keep the clothes?
1.4. Cleaning of home materials
Look at the picture
• What do you see in the picture?
• What are the children doing?
have discovered that:
School materials are:
• Writing materials (pens, notebooks)
• Drawing Materials (Pencils, rubber, sharpener…)
• Reading Materials (Books, papers…)
• Storage materials (School bag, desk…)
• Time telling materials (Clock, bell, alarm)
• Cleaning materials (Soap, water, duster, bloom, basin…).
Home tools and materials are:
• Agriculture tools (Hoe, wheelbarrow…)
• Kitchen utensils (cooking pots, knives, cups…)
• Dining utensils (spoons, forks, plates…)
• Sitting/living room materials (chairs, table…)
• Bedroom materials (bed, covers, shelves…).UNIT 2: TOYS, MATERIALS AND TEACHING AND LEARNING AIDS
2.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
2.2. Making toys out of paper
Look at the picture
• What does the picture show?
• Make the same object
2.3. Making toys out of banana fibres
Look at the picture
• What is the child making?
• Make that object.
2.4. Making toys out of sorghum sticks
Look at the picture
. What is the child making?
• Try to make that toy.
2.5. Making a toy out of a box, bottle tops, thread and sticks
Look at the picture
• What is this toy?
• Try to make the toy.
2.6. Making toys out of plastic paper, sticks and threads
Look at the picture
• What is the child making?
• Try to make that toy.
2.7. Making toys out of clay soil
Look at the picture
• What is the animal in the picture f?
• Try and make that animal f.
- In paper, I can make a plane toy
- In banana fibres, I can make a ball
- In dry sorghum sticks, I can make puppet glasses.
- In a hard paper box, I can make a toy car.
- In clay soil, I can mold a cow.
UNIT 3: BASIC ICT TOOLS
3.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
3.2. Basic ICT tools
Look at the picture
• What do you see in the picture?
3.3. Uses of basic ICT tools
Look at the picture
• What are the people doing?
3.4. How to use basic ICT tools?
3.4.1. How to use a radio?
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
• Do the same.
3.4.2. How to use a television?
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
• Do the same.
Basic ICT tools are:
• Loud speakers,
• Recorders,
• Radio,
• Camera,
• Computers,
• Television set.
UNIT 4: WATER
4.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
• What do you see in the picture?
4.2. Sources of water
Look at the picture
• What do you see in picture?
• What are the children doing?
4.3. Types of water
Look at the picture
Which water can you choose to fetch?
4.4. Uses of water
Look at the picture
• What are the people doing?
4.5. Steps of washing clothes
Look at the picture
• What is the child washing?
• Try to wash a pair of socks
4.6. Steps of cleaning food (sweet potatoes) Look at the picture
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
4.7. Steps of cleaning fruits
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
• Do like him and clean a mango.
- Sources of water are:
• Taps • Streams
• Rivers
• Lakes
• Rainfall
- Water is important and used for:
• Drinking (drinking water)
• Washing clothes
• Watering plants
• Washing our body
• Cleaning food and fruits
UNIT 5: ANIMALS
ANIMALS
5.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
5.2. Domestic animals
Look at the picture
• Which animals do you see at your home?
5.3. Wild animals
Look at the picture
• Which animals do you know?
• Where do they live?
5.4. Uses of domestic animals
Look at the picture
• What are the uses of domestic animals?
5.5. Uses of wild animals
Look at the picture
What do you see?
5.6. Small animals (Insects)
Look at the picture
Show the body parts of an insect
5.7. Main body parts of an insect.
- Animals are of two types:
• Domestic animals
Examples: Cows, goats, rabbits, hens …
• Wild animals
Examples: Elephants, lions, gorillas, snake, insects…
- Both domestic and wild animals are important
- Main body parts of an insect are:
• Head
• Compound eye
• Fillers
• Thorax
• Abdomen
• Legs
• Wings
UNIT 6: PLANTS
6.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
6.3. Non- cultivated plants
Look at the picture
Name the plants in picture a, b, c, d
6.3. Non- cultivated plants
Look at the picture
• Which of the plants do you see at home?
There are two types of plants:
• Cultivated plants
Examples: Beans, maize, sorghum, banana plants, eucalyptus, tea, coffee, pear, avocado
• Non-cultivated plants
Examples: Black jack, African basil, goat apple, black berries, Aloe vera, …
UNIT 7: WASTE AND HYGIENE
7.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
7.2. Types of Wastes
7.2.1. Decomposing wastes
Look at the picture
• What do you see in picture a, b, c?
7.2.2. Non decomposing wastes
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
7.2.3. Toxic wastes
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
7.3. Ways of waste management
Look at the picture
• What is the person doing?
7.4. Ways of cleaning a home and its surrounding
Look at the picture
• What are the children doing?
Types of wastes are:
• Wastes that can decompose
• Wastes that can’t decompose
• Toxic wastesUNIT 8: THE HUMAN BODY
8.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
What do you see in the picture?
8.2. Main human body parts
Look at the picture
• What are the main parts of human body?
8.3. Uses of human body parts
Look at the picture
• Which body parts are the children using?
• How are the body parts helping?
8.4. Taking care of human body parts
8.4.1 Bathing
Look at the picture
• What are the children doing?
• Why are they doing so?
8.4.2. Washing Hands
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
8.4.3. Brushing the teeth
Look at the picture
• What is the child doing?
8.4.4. Cleaning Noses
Look at the picture
• How would you clean your nose?
8.4.5. Physical Exercises Look at the picture
Look at the picture
• What are the children playing?
• Why is playing important?
Human body has three main parts:
• Head
• Trunk
• Arms and Legs Human body needs good food and physical exercise for better life.
UNIT 9: NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS
9.1. Introduction
Look at the picture
• What do you see in the picture?
Look at the picture again
• List artificial materials in the picture.
• List natural materials in the picture.
9.2. Uses of materials
Look at the picture
• What do you see?
• What are the uses of materials in picture a, b, c, d?
9.3. Artificial materials
Look at the picture
• What do you see in the picture?
Our Environment is composed of:
• Natural materials (Soil, stones, wood, water, minerals, wool, …)
• Artificial materials (Buildings, fork, plate, soap, glass, paper, cement, car, roads, bridges)