Primary 3 Social Studies

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PRY 3 SOS IST TERM

WEEK1

Topic: Family

Subtitle: Nuclear and extended Family

Learning Objectives: At the end of this this lesson, pupils should be able to:

1.    Define family

2.    State the members of a family

3.    Differentiate between nuclear and extended family

 

Resources and materials:

Scheme of work

Online information

Instructional material: picture chart

Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with numbers in hundred, tens and units from their previous classes.

CONTENT

Meaning and members of a nuclear family        

Family is defined as a group of people that are related by blood, marriage or by adoption. Everybody in the society belongs to one family or another, family can be small or big.

There are two types of family; they are:

1 Nuclear family

2 Extended family

Nuclear family

A nuclear family is a simple family made up of a father, a mother and their children. In other words, nuclear family can also be referred to as immediate family.  The members of a nuclear family are father, mother, sons and daughters.

 

A nuclear family

Extended family

An extended family refers to all the people that are related by blood through one’s father or mother. It is made up of many nuclear families.

The members of an extended family include:

1 Uncle: The brother of one’s mother or father

2 Aunt: The sister of one’s mother or father

3 Nephew: The son of one’s brother or sister

4 Niece: The daughter of one’s brother or sister

5 Paternal grandfather: The father of one’s father

6 Paternal grandmother: The mother of one’s father

7 Maternal grandfather: The father of one’s mother

8 Maternal grandmother: The mother of one’s mother

9 Father–in–law: Father of one’s husband or wife

10 Mother–in–law: Mother of one’s husband or wife.

When our relations like uncles, aunts and cousins are from our mother’s side they are known as maternal relations, but when they are from our father’s side, they are known as paternal relations.

Primary 3 Social Studies

An extended family

 

Strategies& Activities:

Step1: Teacher revises the previous topic.

Step2: Teacher introduces the new topic.

Step3: Teacher explains the new topic.

Step4: Teacher welcomes pupils’ questions.

Step5: Teacher evaluates the pupils.

Assessment & Evaluation:

1.    Define family

2.    State two difference between nuclear and extended family

WRAP UP (CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.

Assignment:

1.    relations from mother’s side are known as ……………………………………………..

2.    state six members of the nuclear family

3.    your father’s brother is called…………………………………………

 

WEEK 2

Topic: Nuclear family

Subtitle: The roles of nuclear family members

Learning Objectives: At the end of this this lesson, pupils should be able to:

1.    explain the roles family members

2.    state the roles of father in the family

3.    state the roles of mother in the family

4.    state the roles children in the family

Resources and materials:

Scheme of work

Online information

Instructional material: picture chart

Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with the topic in their previous classes.

CONTENT

Roles of family members

All members of the nuclear and extended families have different roles to play to bring about the growth of the family.

Father

1 The father is the breadwinner of the family. This means he provides money for the family’s food.

2 He provides the needs of the family such as food, shelter, and clothes.

3 He pays the children’s school fees, electricity bills and waste disposal bills.

4. He protects the children and other members of the family from any attack.

 

 

Mother

1 The mother cooks for the family and makes sure the members of the family feed well.

2 The mother assists the father in training the children and making sure they behave well in the society.

3 She cleans the house to ensure healthy surroundings.

4 She teaches the children how to perform domestic work. Domestic work is the type of work we do at home. It includes sweeping the floor, washing the plates and clothes, and mopping the floor.

 

Children

The children also have their roles in their own upbringing. This is to ensure that the roles of other family members are not in vain.

1 The children help their parents to do household chores, such as sweeping and cleaning the house as well as wash the cars, clothes and plates.

2 The children run errands for the parents and other members of the family. This means they do the work people asked them to do.

3 The older children in the family help in training the younger ones.

4 The children assist in taking care of their parents when they are sick.

5 The children show that they are obedient by reading their books and doing their homework at the right time.

Strategies& Activities:

Step1: Teacher revises the previous topic.

Step2: Teacher introduces the new topic.

Step3: Teacher explains the new topic.

Step4: Teacher welcomes pupils’ questions.

Step5: Teacher evaluates the pupils.

Assessment & Evaluation:

1.    State three roles of the children in the family

2.    Who is the breadwinner in the family?

WRAP UP (CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.

Assignment:

1.    Who teaches the children to perform domestic work?

2.    Write four roles of the children in the family

        

 

WEEK 3

Topic: Extended family

Subtitle: Roles of extended family members

Learning Objectives: At the end of this this lesson, pupils should be able to:

1.     Explain the role grandparents

2.     Explain the role aunties and uncle

Resources and materials:

Scheme of work

Online information

Instructional material: charts

Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with the topic in their previous classes.

CONTENT

Extended family

The extended family means all the people that are related by blood through the father or mother. Members of the extended family, apart from the father, mother and children, are grandparents, uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew and niece.

 

The roles of the extended family include the following:

1 The grandparents when they are around, help in taking care of the children while the father and mother are at work.

2 The grandparents give advice to their grandchildren. They do this in the form of storytelling. For example, a grandfather may tell the grand children stories in order to teach them a lesson on honesty, sense of value or appreciation.

3 The aunts when they are around also help the mother to take care of the children and even to cook.

4 The uncles also help to take care of the entire extended family. They do this by teaching morals to their nephews and nieces.

5 The uncles and aunts give money to help members of the extended family.

6 Members of the extended family help to protect the child from external physical attack.

7 They make the child identify himself as mentor of the one large family.

 

Strategies& Activities:

Step1: Teacher revises the previous topic.

Step2: Teacher introduces the new topic.

Step3: Teacher explains the new topic.

Step4: Teacher welcomes pupils’ questions.

Step5: Teacher evaluates the pupils.

Assessment & Evaluation:

1.           Mention the five people that make up the extended family

2.           What is the role of grandparents in the family?

 

WRAP UP (CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.

Assignment:

1.     Explain the role of four members of the extended family

2.     My father’s brother is called ………………………

3.     My aunty or uncle children are my …………………………

 

 

 

WEEK 4

Topic: Marriage

Subtitle: Marriage in our community

Learning Objectives: At the end of this this lesson, pupils should be able to:

1.     Define marriage

2.     State the types marriage

Resources and materials:

Scheme of work

Online information

Instructional material: charts

Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with the topic in their previous class.

CONTENT

Definition of marriage

Marriage is the coming together of a man and a woman as husband and wife. It is the legal joining or union of two persons of opposite sexes as husband and wife with the purpose of companionship and raising a family.

Marriage may be between people of the same or different ethnic groups, e.g., Hausa and Igbo. It may be between people of different religions, e.g., Christian and Muslim. The people only need to love and respect each other.

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