Topic outline

  • UNIT 1: MATERIALS AND TOOLS USED 1 AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL

      1.1. Introduction
    Look at the picture
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                                        What do you see in the picture?
    1.2. School materials and their uses 
    1.2.1. Writing materials and their uses
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                      • What are the pupils doing?
    1.2.2. Drawing materials and their uses
    Look at the picture
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                            • What are the pupils doing?
    1.2.3. Reading materials and their uses
    Look at the picture
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                      • Where are the pupils reading from?
    1.2.4. Things we use to tell time
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                                        • What are the two standing pupils doing?
    1.2.5. Storage materials at school 
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              • Where are the pupils keeping their books?
    1.2.6. Cleaning materials at School
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                           • What are the pupils doing?
    Look at the picture
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               • What are the pupils doing ?
    1.3. Home materials, tools and their uses 
    1.3.1. Agriculture tools and their uses
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                              • What are the children doing?
    1.3.2. Kitchen utensils and their uses 
    Look at the picture
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               • What are children in picture (a) doing?
              • What are children in picture (b) doing?
    1.3.3. Dining utensils and their uses 
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                    • What can you see? 
                   • What are these people doing?
    1.3.4. Sitting room materials and their uses
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                 • Where are these people sitting?
                 • What are they sitting on?
    1.3.5. Bedroom materials
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                            • What is the child doing?
    1.3.6. Storage materials and their uses
     Look at the picture
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                      • Where did children keep the clothes?
    1.4. Cleaning of home materials
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                       • What do you see in the picture? 
                      • What are the children doing?
    A  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 

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                 What do you see in the picture?

    2.2. Making toys out of paper

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             • What does the picture show? 

            • Make the same object

    2.3. Making toys out of banana fibres

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              • What is the child making? 

              • Make that object.

    2.4. Making toys out of sorghum sticks

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           . What is the child making? 

           • Try to make that toy.

    2.5. Making a toy out of a box, bottle tops, thread and sticks

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               • 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

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    • What is the animal in the picture f? 

    • Try and make that animal f.

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    - 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

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               What do you see in the picture?

    3.2. Basic ICT tools

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            • What do you see in the picture?

    3.3. Uses of basic ICT tools 

    Look at the picture

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                • 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

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            • What is the child doing? 

           • Do the same.

    3.4.2. How to use a television?

     Look at the picture

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    • What is the child doing?

     • Do the same.

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    Basic ICT tools are: 

    • Loud speakers, 

    • Recorders, 

    • Radio, 

    • Camera,

     • Computers, 

    • Television set.

  • UNIT 4: WATER

    4.1. Introduction

    Look at the picture

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            • What do you see in the picture?

    4.2. Sources of water 

     Look at the picture

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    • What do you see in picture? 

    • What are the children doing?

    4.3. Types of water

     Look at the picture

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              Which water can you choose to fetch?

    4.4. Uses of water 

    Look at the picture

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            • What are the people doing?

    4.5. Steps of washing clothes 

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         • What is the child washing?

         • Try to wash a pair of socks

    4.6. Steps of cleaning food (sweet potatoes) Look at the picture

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                • What is the child doing?

    4.7. Steps of cleaning fruits

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             • What is the child doing? 

            • Do like him and clean a mango.

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    - 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

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                 What do you see in the picture?

    5.2. Domestic animals

     Look at the picture

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                • Which animals do you see at your home?

    5.3. Wild animals 

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                   • Which animals do you know? 

                   • Where do they live?

    5.4. Uses of domestic animals 

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           • What are the uses of domestic animals?

    5.5. Uses of wild animals 

    Look at the picture

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                       What do you see?

    5.6. Small animals (Insects)

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            Show the body parts of an insect

    5.7. Main body parts of an insect.

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    - 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 

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               What do you see in the picture?

    6.3. Non- cultivated plants

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             Name the plants in picture a, b, c, d

    6.3. Non- cultivated plants

    Look at the picture

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                       • Which of the plants do you see at home?

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    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 

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    What do you see in the picture?

    7.2. Types of Wastes 

    7.2.1. Decomposing wastes 

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    • What do you see in picture a, b, c?

    7.2.2. Non decomposing wastes 

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                         What do you see in the picture?

    7.2.3. Toxic wastes 

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                       What do you see in the picture?

    7.3. Ways of waste management

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                 • What is the person doing?
    7.4. Ways of cleaning a home and its surrounding
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                        • What are the children doing?
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    Types of wastes are:
    • Wastes that can decompose
    • Wastes that can’t decompose
    • Toxic wastes

  • UNIT 8: THE HUMAN BODY

    8.1. Introduction

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                What do you see in the picture?

    8.2. Main human body parts

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                • What are the main parts of human body?

    8.3. Uses of human body parts 

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             • 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 

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                    • What are the children doing?

                    • Why are they doing so?

    8.4.2. Washing Hands

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                         • What is the child doing?

    8.4.3. Brushing the teeth

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             • What is the child doing?

    8.4.4. Cleaning Noses 

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                           • How would you clean your nose?

    8.4.5. Physical Exercises Look at the picture

    Look at the picture

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    • What are the children playing?

     • Why is playing important?

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    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

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                              • What do you see in the picture?

      Look at the picture again

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                    • List artificial materials in the picture. 

                   • List natural materials in the picture.

    9.2. Uses of materials

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                • What do you see? 

               • What are the uses of materials in picture a, b, c, d?

    9.3. Artificial materials 

    Look at the picture

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                   • 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)