PRIMARY FIVE SOCIAL STUDIES SECOND TERM
PRIMARY FIVE SOCIAL STUDIES
SECOND TERM
WEEKS TOPICS
2. Organization and cooperation
– Meaning of organization and cooperation
– Types of organization and cooperation
– Why people live together
-Functions of various organization and cooperation
– Benefit of living together i.e. cooperation in
Solving common problems, protect one another,
Sharing of things together etc.
– Problems, bad feelings, harming one another etc.
3. Resources Preservation (saving)
– What is resource preservation
– Mention types of saving e.g. Modern ways of
Saving money: thrift and credit, cooperatives,
Banks, insurances companies etc.
– Banking facilities in communities’ e.g.
Commercial bank, swing bank, micro-credit
Bank etc.
– Process of opening an account in the bank Lagos State Ministry of Education Schemes of work for Primary School
– Organized a drama small and large sized
Families difficulties in managing income.
– Causes of poor savings e.g. High level of spending
Too many festivals and feast etc.
– Inability to manage ones income properly
– Practice savings e.g. personal savings, formal of
Keeping records of savings etc.
– Meaning of capital: capitals savings for further
Production
– Ways of raising funds: government source,
Through taxes, levies, loans, donations, grants,
Etc.
– Sources of funds e.g. Individual and group
Sources: saving loans, institution, donations etc.
– Identify the uses of funds e.g. establishment of
Industries, buying of proportion etc.
– Meaning of resources: e.g. used for further
Production
– Types of resources e.g. Land, labour, capital and
Entrepreneur.
– Why resources are not evenly distributed, e.g.
Nature, lack of access, location of raw materials,
Market etc.
– Problems of over concentration of industries e.g.
Pollution, high cost of living, unhealthy environment
Etc.
– Ways of ensuring even distributions of resources
E.g. provide social amenities in other places,
Policy for rural development should be
Introduced. Lagos State Ministry of Education Schemes of work for Primary School
– What is Employment?
– Concept of employment, unemployment and
Under-unemployment e.g. Employment: having
Jobs and earning income, unemployment: Not
Having jobs that earn income, under employment:
Not having jobs that attract sufficient income
– Causes of unemployment e.g. Economic,
Recession, lack of information, low investment,
Lack of necessary skills etc.
– What are the causes of underemployment e.g.
Lack of appropriate facilities, no conducive
Environment, poor management, lack of
Adequate training etc.
– Concept of wages and salaries e.g. Wages are
Not paid at regular interval, like money paid to
Workers at the end of the month.
Salaries: are paid at regular interval e.g. monthly
Salaries, both are payment for workers.
– Why some people can earn higher salaries than
Others e.g. level of qualifications, value of
Services, amount and quality of work done.
– Meaning of communication e.g. Information
Carried out from one place to another.
– Types of electronic communication devices that
Use electricity e.g. television, radio, telephone,
Fax, emails, and internet facilities etc.
– Uses of the devices e.g. Television: enlightenment
Entertainment, discussion of important public issues,
News etc.
– Problems of some of the devices e.g. poor Lagos State Ministry of Education Schemes of work for Primary School
Condition of the set, climatic changes, outdated
Facilities, irregular electricity supply etc.
10. Transportation
– Meaning of transportation e.g. Movement of
People or goods, from one place to another.
– Types of transportation e.g. Road, rail, sea, air
– Forms of land transport e.g. Roads by motor,
Vehicles, bicycles etc. Railway by train,
Trekking on foot.
– Draw the means of transportation on land and
Their associated modes
– Advantage of transportation e.g. movement is
Made easier movement is made faster, more
People and goods are transported easily.
– Identify the problems of land transportation e.g.
Poor conditions of vehicles, reckless drivers,
Bad roads, cost of spare parts none availability of
Expects etc.
– Solutions to problem of transportation e.g.
Patriotism, repaired and maintenance of road,
Effective supervision etc.
11. National water supply
– Definition of water e.g. is the necessities of life,
Animals, plants and human being cannot do with
Out water.
– Sources of water supply e.g. River, streams,
Lakes, sea, ocean, well, bore holes etc.
– Uses of water e.g. washing, drinking, bathing, for
Planting, cooking, for production etc.
12. National water supply
– Why water is sometimes scarce eg. Climate
Changes, wastage, burst pipes, plant failure, Lagos State Ministry of Education Schemes of work for Primary School
Irregular supply of electricity etc.
– Consequences of water shortage in Nigeria e.g.
Outbreak of water borne diseases, inadequate
Electricity supply etc.
– How to solve the problems of water shortage e.g.
Sink more bore holes, installation of modern
Facilities avoid dumping of refuses in river;
Avoid water wastage, more steady supply of electricity
Etc.
– Population and water supply e.g. Increase in
Population growth leads to increase demand for
Waters, available water supply becomes
Inadequate, creates needs form more water.
13. Revisions and Examinations
