Basic 4 OWOP Term 1 Week 9 Lesson Plan

Have learners share what is going on in their lives. You and your learners might talk about plans for the weekends. Engage learners to sing songs and play games to get them ready for lesson. Use questions and answers to review learners understanding in the previous lesson.

Learners talk about ways of ensuring safety in the environment e.g. keeping the environment clean, planting trees, good sanitation, good roads, safe drinking water, reduce usage of chemicals, reduce burning of things. Show pictures and video clips on human activities that do not make the environment safe: illegal mining (galamsey), indiscriminate cutting down of trees (deforestation), pollution of the air and water bodies, throwing plastic bags around. Learners in groups play games or engage in activities that teach ways of ensuring safety in the community e.g. preventing flooding, preventing drowning, preventing fire outbreaks by putting off electrical gadget after use, make fire extinguisher available in homes, preventing road accidents, keeping the home and classroom or school clean, planting trees, recycling waste paper and plastics For this activity, learners use broom, waste basket and printed photographs of clean and polluted Ghanaian surroundings to identify local environmental problems and demonstrate a practical clean-up or protection action.

Ask questions to review learners understanding of the lesson Learners to tell what was interesting about the lesson.