Description of the sun and its importance to farmer
Subject: Agricultural Science
Class: Basic 1 / Primary 1 / Year 1
Term: Second Term / 2nd Term
Week: Week 7 and week 8
Topic:
Description of the sun and its importance to the farmer
Previous Knowledge: The pupils have previous knowledge of
Usefulness and Importance Of Rocks To Farmers
that was taught in their previous lesson.
Behavioural Objectives : At the end of the lesson, learners will be able to
- Describe the sun
- Say the importance of the sun to the farmer
Instructional Materials
- Wall Charts showing people spreading clothes in the sun to dry
- Online Resource with pictures showing plants growing in the presence of sunlight
- Textbooks
Methods of Teaching
- Role modelling
- Questions and Answers
- Explanation
- Discussion
- Recitation
- Imitation
- Story Telling
- Dramatization
Content:
The sun is in the sky.
It is up there in the sky.
It is the main source of sunlight in the day.
Sun gives us sunlight.
Sunlight gives us warmth.
Sunlight makes plants to make food and grow.
- The sun gives us warmth
- The sun gives us light
- The sun helps during photosynthesis
- The sun helps us to dry our clothes
- The sun makes the world continue to exist
- Sun gives us sunlight
- It preserves our food by putting them in the sun to dry eg dry yam (Elubo)
- Plants grow well in the presence of sunlight. The leaves of plants in dark places without sunlight will soon turn brown and die.
- Sun makes us up and alive. Apart from food that gives us warmth, sunlight also gives us warmth.
Presentation:
The topic is presented step by step
Step 1: The class teacher revises the old topic
Step 2: The class teacher introduces the new topic
Step 3: The class teacher allows the pupils to give their own contributions and gives room for pupils” participation
Class Teacher and Pupils Activities. Interaction or Participation
This involves class teacher and pupils’ interaction, conversation, imitation or modeling through discussion, play method or just by recitation or asking and answering questions that are related to the topic that has just been taught.
Evaluation
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The sun is in the ___(a) sky (b) bedroom (c) water
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___ are important to farmers (a) Blade (b) ruler, (c) The sun
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The sun helps plants to make food. This is known as ____(a) Transpiration (b) Photosynthesis (c) Condensation
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___ gives us warmth (a) Sun (b) Moon (c) Star
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Light that is produced by sun is called ___(a) moonlight (b) starlight (c) sunlight
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