Gr5.Health Teachers Guide JP

Health
Teacher Guide
Primary
Grade 5
Standards Based
Papua New Guinea

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Health
Teacher Guide
Primary
Grade 5
Standards Based
Papua New Guinea

Department of Education
Grade 5
Issued free to schools by the Department of Education

First Edition
Published in 2017 by the Department of Education, Papua New Guinea

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ISBN: 978-9980-86-575-5
Acknowledgements
This Health Teacher Guide for Grade 5 was written by the

Curriculum Development Division of the Department of Education. The
development of this book was coordinated by Elizabeth Moli with
assistance from the Subject Curriculum Group (SCG) members.
Teachers, school inspectors, community members, representatives from

non-government organizations, teachers college lecturers and other
stakeholders are acknowledged for their contributions to the development
of this Teacher Guide.
The Subject Advisory Committee (SAC) and Basic Education Board of

Studies (BEBOS) Committee members are also acknowledged for their
recommendations and endorsement of this Teacher Guide.
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Health Teacher Guide
Contents
Secretary’s message.......................................................... iv
Introduction........................................................................ 1
Teaching and Learning....................................................... 5
Planning and Programing................................................... 9
Guided Lessons................................................................. 20
Assessment and Reporting................................................ 109
Resources........................................................................... 125
Glossary.............................................................................. 126
Appendix............................................................................ 129
References.......................................................................... 146
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Grade 5
Secretary’s Message
This Health Teacher Guide for Grade 5 was developed as a support
document for the implementation of Health syllabus for Grades 3, 4 & 5.
The document provides guidelines for teachers on how to plan and
program teaching and learning activities. It also contains sample guided
lessons and assessments tasks with suggested teaching and learning
strategies that teachers can use to work towards the achievement of
content standards in the syllabus.
Health education develops students to positively influence their health

behaviors and that of their families as well as the surroundings and
learning environments that impact their health. Comprehensive health
education that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social
aspects of health that teaches students how to improve and sustain their
health; prevent disease; reduce health-related risk behaviors; and develop
health knowledge, attitudes, and skills that foster academic achievement.
The teaching of health equips students with the knowledge, skills and
values they need to make informed decisions and choices to perform
basic first aid procedures, basic nutrition knowledge, keeping personal
hygiene, understand and accept the different growth changes (physical,
emotional, social, spiritual, and mental) to be healthy, wealthy, wiser and
smart individuals. Other stakeholders are encouraged to become impor-
tant partners in the health of students and their communities
Teachers are encouraged to read this teacher guide carefully to become

familiar with the content so that they can be confident to try out new
concepts and strategies and to teach the content well. They can also
adjust to suit the needs of their students.
I commend and approve this Grade 5 Health Teacher Guide to be used in

all primary schools throughout Papua New Guinea.
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DR. UKE W. KOMBRA, PhD
Secretary for Education
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Introduction
The Health Education reflects the Government of Papua New Guinea‘s
Vision 2050: “Smart, Wise, Fair, Healthy and Safe Society.” This includes
a range of learning experiences that enables students, as individuals and
as members of society, to make informed decisions, modify behaviors,
and change social conditions in ways that enhances health and increases
health literacy. The health education standards define the essential skills
and knowledge that all students should achieve as they progress from
Grades 3 - 5.
The primary goal of health education is to improve academic achievement

and health literacy for all students. This includes these four basic
characteristics that are identified as essential to health-literate individuals
as:
• Critical thinkers and problem solvers when confronted with health

problems and issues
• Self-directed learners who have the competence to use basic health

information and services in health-enhancing ways
• Effective communicators who organize and convey beliefs, ideas, and

information about health issues
• Responsible and productive citizens who help ensure that their

communities are kept healthy, safe, and secure.
Purpose
The teacher guide is purposely written to provide information and
guidelines that can assist the teachers to interpret and translate the
prescribed content in the Syllabus into teachable instructional programs.
The guided lesson samples provided can be used by teachers to deliver
the health content and to generate other creative teaching and learning
activities. It also provides samples of assessment tasks for content
standards. The knowledge, skills, attitudes and values provided in this
guide will assists teachers to prepare teaching and learning activities that
will promote personal health and hygiene, cleanliness, safe behaviour,
basic health care and first aid, food hygiene and care and healthy choices
of nutritional diet.
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How to use the book
In order for you to understand and know how to use this guide
effectively, you are encouraged to do the following:
• Read each section of the teacher guide thoroughly and

carefully and take note of new changes or inclusions that may
appear to be unfamiliar to you.
• Read the syllabus and become familiar with strands, units,

content standards, performance standards and assessment
tasks which are expanded in this teacher guide.
• Meet with other teachers, discuss and share ideas to better

understand the content.
• Refer to the suggested lesson titles to help you to plan your

lessons.
• Use the teacher guide to do planning for the year’s instructional

programs.
• Conduct in-services on sections of the teacher guide to assist

other teachers in your school.
• Share ideas and carry out awareness with other stake

holders on the content and expectations of teaching and
learning Health as a subject at this grade and level.
There are 13 sample guided lessons done for each unit to help you
teach. For the lessons that are not written, there are KSAVs and the
lesson template provided. Use the template and the KSAVs to plan your
lessons. Some teaching and learning activities are also provided to
assist in your planning of the lessons.
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Key Features
Being healthy is being free from sickness and diseases. The health
content for Grade 5 draws upon the broad concepts of healthy growth,
healthy individual, healthy home, healthy community, healthy
district, healthy province and healthy nation. The teaching and learning
also builds upon the broad contents and concepts of Individual and
Community Health which is a strand in the Culture and Community
subject at elementary level.
Health subject strands and units
This table shows the strands and units of the subject. Each strand has a
number of Units. The strands and the units are the same for Grades 3, 4
and 5. The content standards are written according to each unit for each
strand.
Strand Units Emphasis of this unit

The emphasis of this unit allows learners to explore their self-identity,
embrace the physical, social, emotional and mental aspects of personal
1. My Body health and how these are influenced by biological factors and individual
Development
2. Relationship
Growth and
health choices. They learn to appreciate the relations and cultures they
3. Culture, Values have while at the same time develop a high self-esteem during the time
1.
and Morals when they are undergoing changes. They also become aware of how
4. My Career several factors affecting their growth and their personal interests that
helps them build a certain interest in a particular job or work for
Interest
the future.
This unit enables students to be able to identify things around their

1. Alcohol and environment that can harm them and affect their health. They learn about
Community Health
Substance other harmful substances like drugs and alcohol which can become
Individual and
Abuse harmful when abused. They look at the roles of the family and community
2. Protection health services; their relationships and observe bad and healthy practices
2.
against Disease at homes. The unit embraces aspects of the social and physical
environment that influence the health of individuals and communities and
3. Healthy
nurtures the skills that enable students to take action to promote healthier
Environment social and physical environments and also look after health services.
4. Health services
Healthy diet or good eating habits are also an essential part of good
health. In this unit the children can be able to know the value of local
1. Food and Growth foods and those obtained from the stores. The children can also be able
Nutrition
2. Food and to prepare food using various styles of cooking and practice serving
3.
Hygiene balance meals to make food safe to eat. They learn about healthy food
and also diseases caused by eating unhealthy food.
Prevention is better than cure. The students learn to take precautions to

prevent accidents and injury in a variety of situations. The students will be
Safety and First Aid
able to learn safety rules for the use of roads and vehicles. The children
will be guided to develop good safety habits to follow the rules that are in
1. Safety place. The students will be guided to understand an demonstrate
4.
2. First Aid simple and basic first aid such as care of sores and scratches, head
ache, stomach ache swelling and where to get help from the services that
are provided in the community. They will also learn that some of the rules
are common sense that needs them to be critical, analytical and require
good decision making skills.
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Life skills
Three main life skills will be reinforced throughout the learning period of
Grades 3-5 in the Primary Level.
Interpersonal communication
Positive relationships support the development of healthy attitudes and

behaviors. The ability to appropriately convey and receive information,
beliefs, and emotions is a skill that enables students to manage risks,
conflicts, and differences and to promote health.
Decision making
Managing health behaviors requires critical thinking and problem solving.

The ability to use decision-making skills to guide health behaviors fosters
a sense of control and promotes the acceptance of personal
responsibility.
Goal setting
The desire to pursue health is an essential component of building healthy

habits. The ability to use goal-setting skills enables students to translate
health knowledge into personal meaningful health behaviors.
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Teaching and Learning

Teaching strategies
Students learn in different ways. Teachers are encouraged to use a variety

of teaching strategies to teach Health lessons to guide and help students
learn effectively.
Guided discovery approach
The guided discovery approach to teaching is used when students are

expected to come up with solutions to a given problem. This approach
gives the students an opportunity to find out for themselves different
solutions to solving problems.
Students discover different ways of solving problems. For example, if the

topic is “First Aid treatment for bleeding nose,” the students can develop
a few questions that will assist them in exploring the topic, or, the teacher
can develop a standard set of questions that will guide the students to
explore the topic. This approach is the easiest and suitable for a large
class or if you are trying it for the first time.
When students are involved in developing the research questions, either

as individuals or as a class, they should focus learning on areas that are
relevant to their needs and interests.
The teacher acts as a facilitator and helps students to find the information
they need to answer their questions. Students could locate the
information by:
• interviewing community members
• working in small group activities
• finding relevant information in books and newspapers
• going on an excursion.
Problem solving
Problem solving encourages students to investigate an area of interest

and establish strategies and actions to solve or minimize the problem.
This strategy is used to teach lessons when a problem has many ways to
solve and that there is no one right answer. It helps students to develop
critical and analytical thinking skills and to apply decision-making and
problem-solving skills in real life situations.
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How to use problem solving
1. Identify problems for discussion.

2. Discuss ways to solve the problem.
3. Consider the consequences of applying a particular strategy in trying
to solve the problem.
4. Consult experts and other resource personnel for assistance.
5. Decide and apply corrective measures to correct the problem and take
actions for planning and implementation.
For example; your lesson aims to teach students about the negative
impacts peers can have on individual health. The task for the students is
to identify ways to deal with negative peer pressure.
Organize the class into groups and ask students to identify solutions to
cope with peer pressure. Groups go into discussions and find their
solutions. The teacher walks around and gives students guidance,
answering questions and encouraging students to explore further if they
have yet to find a solution.
The groups are then asked to share their solutions to the class. The
classes discuss the solutions from each group and appreciate each
other’s suggested solutions. This approach helps students to learn that
there is no right or wrong answer and that there can be more than one
solution for a problem
Anecdotes, fables, proverbs, mottos, quotes or famous sayings
This teaching approach uses stories or narrations, records of events and

situations or pictures of topics or lessons that are to be taught. The use
of fables, proverbs, mottos, quotes or famous sayings in teaching and
learning are suitable to use in teaching about certain desired characters,
attitudes and values that students can mimic, copy and adapt to be good
students. The use of this approach in teaching can also be used to
enhance decision making lessons and analytical and critical thinking
activities.
For example; the idiomatic expression; “The early bird catches the worm”
teaches about punctuality and the benefits of punctuality. Another fable;
“Loners are easy prey” teaches about safety. It teaches that it can be
dangerous to be alone as no one can be a witness to any bad things or
harm that other people may cause you. People who may have bad
intentions to hurt us can take advantage of the situation and hurt us
because they can easily get away with it.
An anecdote like that in Ephesians 6: 1-3 teaches about children’s

obedience and respect for their parents and as a result, each student will
be a good child in the family and a good citizen later in life. Other lessons
that can be useful in the child’s growth can be leant from this text.
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Games
The use of games in teaching concepts is a fun and enjoyable way of

encouraging students to learn. The games serve as motivation during
learning for student. The games could include crosswords, word and
problem solving games, guessing and riddles to cater for students with
different learning abilities. When using this approach, the games must be
designed in an inclusive manner so no-one child is left out from
participating.
Cooperative learning
Cooperative learning refers to a specific instructional task in which

teachers have students work together toward a common goal. Teachers
ask students to do more than group work; students are actively working
with their peers around the content in a meaningful way.
To implement cooperative learning effectively, teachers include five basic

elements:
1. Positive interdependence
students must understand and accept the fact that they need
their group members and they can depend on them for the
group to progress,
2. Individual accountability
that each student is responsible for both the failure and the
success of achieving the goal,
3. Promoting one another’s successes

embracing each other and finding joy in each other’s success
but at the same time acknowledging their shortfalls and failures
encountered along the way to success.
4. Applying interpersonal and social skills

understanding, being considerate and relating to one another
in an acceptable manner.
5. Group processing
the group discusses progress toward achieving a goal.
When implementing cooperative learning, teachers should have an

element that requires collective accountability as well as individual
accountability to ensure that everyone participates in the learning task.
In order for this to have an impact on student learning, student’s need to
collaboratively process how they work together and monitor their
progress toward their goal.
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Inquiry learning
The inquiry learning approach promotes discovery learning. It is a

research-based learning strategy that actively involves students in the
exploration of the content, issues, and questions surrounding a topic or
concept. The activities and assignments in a classroom can be designed
such that students work individually or together to solve problems
involving both in-class work and fieldwork. While the strategy is meant to
be highly student-focused, the extent of teacher-directed vs.
student-directed learning can vary depending on the level of the students’
ability in your class and their understanding of the inquiry process.
Inquiry learning approach not only increases student motivation, but also
provides a means to actively involve students in the learning process.
With the trend to move away from teacher-centered instruction to a more
student-centered approach, inquiry learning approach gives you the
opportunity to help students learn the content and course concepts by
having them explore a question to find solutions and answers themselves.
Thus, giving students more opportunity to reflect on their own learning,
gain a deeper understanding of the subject concepts in an integrated
fashion, and become better critical thinkers.
In inquiry learning, a research question that is based on the perceived

knowledge, skills, and abilities of the students with respect to the inquiry
process can be given to students. But teacher has to be precise about
what objectives they have to achieve in the activity.
Choosing tasks
This learning strategy requires the teacher to prepare task sheets with a
range of activities sequenced from easiest or simplest to difficult or
advanced. Students choose a task and attempt those that they would
like to try; usually they must start with the easiest. This allows students
to progress at their own pace and allows students to achieve their task or
goal according to their own ability. Tasks can be designed for all including
students with special needs.
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Planning and Programming

Planning and programming is organizing the content from the syllabus
into a teachable plan for delivery in the classroom using the different
approaches of delivery. There are several areas to consider when planning
and programing an instructional program for the school year. It is
important for teachers to follow the order as listed. The following are
areas of the components of planning and programing your Health course
for Grade 5:
• Content overview
• Yearly overview
• Termly overview
• Weekly overview
Content overview
This section presents to the teachers an overview of the content scope

of learning for Grade 5 given in the Health syllabus. The broad learning
content and concepts form the strands. From the strands and units the
teachable concepts are drawn from the units. These are tabled for
teachers’ convenience. Here is the scope of learning for Grade 5.
Table 1.0: Grade 5 Content overview
Strands Units Teachable concepts
• Puberty stages
1. • Secondary changes
• Differences and similarities in growth changes for both sexes
My Body
• Overcoming negative growth emotions
1. Growth and Development
• Positive attitudes
2. • Ways to overcome negative emotions
• Bad behavior
Relationship
• Promoting positive attitudes
3. • Influences on individual identity and health

Culture, • Influences of media and religion on health
• Peer Groups influence on individual health
Morals and
• Moral behavior
Values
4. • Factors that influence Job interests
My Career • Learn about volunteer work
Interest
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• Illegal drugs
• Useful drugs
• Disease and social life related to drugs
1. • Reasons for using drugs
Alcohol and • Overcoming drugs
Substance Abuse • Drug addiction
2. Individual and Community Health
• Decision making
• Common illness and cure

2. • Germs and how it spreads
Protection • Causes of communicable and non-communicable diseases
Against Disease • Disease and prevention
• Toilet and waste management facilities

3. • Awareness on unsafe areas
Healthy • Awareness on safe and clean areas
Environment • Clean environment
• NGO providing Health Services

4. • Immunization Clinic
• Health products at local chemists
Health Services
• Roles of health services
• Junk food and the

• Effects of eating too much junk food
• Nutrients in food
1. • Health problems from too much fat, sugar and oils.
Food and Growth • Prevent health problems.
3. Nutrition
• Processed foods and

• Nutritional facts on food labels
• Food products and

2. • Packaging
Food and • Correct handling of food and keeping food safe
Hygiene • Signs of stale food and effects of eating stale food/Expiry dates
• Road safety
4. Safety and First Aid
1. • Personal safety
• Safety from natural disasters
Safety
• Safety instructions and gears
• Basic first aid for accident

2. • Procedures for unsafe situations
First Aid • Treatment for Injuries
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The Health Education Teacher Guide is organized into strands and

further divided and elaborated in units as out lined in the table below
across all grades in the Primary Level – Grades 3–5.
Links with other primary grade levels
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
Strands Units
1. Growth & 1. My Body 1. My Body 1. My Body
Development 2. Relationship 2. Relationship 2. Relationship
3. Culture, Values and 3. Culture, Values and 3. Culture, Values and
Morals Morals Morals
4. My Career Interest 4. My Career Interest 4. My Career Interest
2. Individual and 1. Alcohol and 1. Alcohol and 1. Alcohol and

Community Health Substance Abuse Substance Abuse Substance Abuse
2. Protection from 2. Protection from 2. Protection from Dis-
Disease Disease ease
3. Healthy environment 3. Healthy environment 3. Healthy environment
4. Health services 4. Health services 4. Health services
3. Nutrition 1. Food and Growth 1. Food and Growth 1. Food and Growth
2. Food and Hygiene 2. Food and Hygiene 2. Food and Hygiene
4. Safety and First Aid 1. Safety 1. Safety 1. Safety

2. First Aid 2. First Aid 2. First Aid
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Yearly overview
When planning an instructional program we begin with the yearly plan.
The yearly plan is organized by terms in a school year. The main or key
information that form the content of the plan is provided in the syllabus.
These are the strands, units, content standards and performance
standards. We have compiled a sample yearly plan for Grade 5 class. The
syllabus is translated into a delivery plan for use in the classrooms for a
school year. The plan promotes sequencing of the learning content so;
there is fair distribution of content standards throughout the school year.
The yearly overview is a long term plan, whilst the term overview is a
medium term plan and, weekly and daily plans are short term.
Teachers have to ensure that the following are done when implementing
the yearly overview. These are:
• read and understand the content overview and content expansion
sections of the syllabus
• note the number of strands, units and topics
• check the education calendar to confirm teaching weeks and events

(8 weeks a term)
• organize the strands and units according to the 34 week calendar in

a school year
• check to see that the units are fairly distributed throughout the year
• organize the year plan by subject content
• organize the seven subjects in a teaching timetable.
Develop yearly overview
It is commended that a yearly overview should be done in the beginning

of the school year during the orientation week. It is advisable to have
the yearly plan in grades, so that all classes of the same grade will use
the same plan to write their instructional programs for the year. There is
consistency in standards of lessons delivered and resources used. Health
Education proposed Yearly Overview for Grade 5.
For Grade 5 teachers in the primary schools, a sample of a yearly plan

of organizing the learning content has been done for you to access. This
sample is given only to guide you. However if you want to draw up your
own yearly plan, you are encouraged to do so.
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Health proposed yearly overview for Grade 5
For Grade 5 teachers, a sample of a yearly plan of organizing the

learning content has been done for you use. The sample is given only to
guide you. However if you want to draw up your own yearly plan, you are
encouraged to do so.
Table1.1: Yearly overview
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
Strand 1: Growth and Strand 1: Growth and Strand 2: Individual Strand 3: Nutrition
Development development and Community
Health Unit 2: Food and
Unit 1: My Body Unit 4: My Career Hygiene
Interest Unit 3: Healthy
5.1.1: Explore and Environment 5.3.2: Describe the
identify secondary 5.1.4: Demonstrate ways and reasons
changes at puberty an understanding 5.2.3 Assess unsafe of keeping food
that are associated that setting goals can situations in the products safe to eat.
with growth and further develop an community and take
development stages individual’s interest actions to reduce
and discuss ways to and ability to perform harm and promote
address the related a particular activity or health.
changes. job.
Strand 1: Growth and Strand 2: Individual Strand 2: Individual Strand 4: Safety and
Development and Community and Community First Aid
Health Health
Unit 2: Relationship Unit 1: Safety
Unit1: Alcohol and Unit 4: Health
5.1.2: Develop Substance abuse Services 5.4.1: Demonstrate
strategies to manage and evaluate
the influence of 5.2.1: Evaluate the 5.2.4: Identify health strategies to deal
individuals and impact of harmful services and products with unsafe and
groups on attitudes substances on young in the community emergency situations
and behaviors. people and take and plan ways to in the community.
actions to encourage assist and care for the
healthy choices. services.
Strand 1: growth and Strand 2: Individual Strand 3: Nutrition Strand 4: Safety and
Development and Community First Aid
Health Unit 1: Food and
Unit 3: Culture, values Growth Unit 2: First Aid
and Morals Unit 2: Protection
against diseases 5.3.1: Assess the 5.4.2: Demonstrate
5.1.3: Demonstrate nutritional value how to provide care
an understanding 5.2.2: Explore and of different foods and manage risk in
of the importance identify causes of and take action to responding to unsafe
of personal values, common illnesses promote healthy food or risky situations and
attitudes and other and take action to choice. behavior.
influences that promote behavior that
identify them as reduces health risks.
individuals.
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Termly overview
A termly overview is a plan of an instruction program for teaching and

gives the teacher specific outline of the units, content standards and
performance standards for instruction (teaching) which the teacher
follows in a term. The term overview is a medium term plan. This guides
the teacher to organize the teaching program for the number of weeks in
each term. To compile a term overview teachers need to organize the plan
using the:
• Strand
• Units
• Content Standards and
• Performance Standards
The termly overviews for the school year is important for all Grade 5
Teachers as these sample is giving the view that all teachers for Grade 5
are teaching according to the content organized in this plans across the
country. This practice is a strategy to maintain standards in:
• implementing the content from the Grades 3, 4 and 5 Primary Health
Syllabus for Grade 5
• teacher-student preparation is regarded as high priority
• content and performance standards are consistent across the

classrooms
• maintaining the learning environment that is conducive to teaching

Health Education lessons.
Term 1 Overview Grade 5
Table1.2: Termly Overview
Term 1
Content Performance Teachable

Weeks Strand Unit
standard standard concepts
1 Planning and preparation - Orientation
5.1.1a Discuss the Puberty stages

puberty stage for both
boys and girls.
1. My Body
1.
5.1.1b Discuss Overcoming
2 Growth and 5.1.1
secondary changes for negative growth
Development boys and girls, such as and emotions
pimples, beard, armpit
hair, breasts
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Term 1

Weeks Strand Unit
5.1.1c identify and Secondary
address similarities and changes
differences on the growth
3
and development stages
of boys and girls
1. My Body
1.
Growth and 5.1.1 5.1.2d Describe ways Differences and
Development to overcome negative similarities in
feelings and emotions of growth changes for
4 growth and development both sexes
stage, eg: menstruation/
wet dreams.
5.1.2a Discuss and iden- Positive attitudes

tify positive attitudes that
can be learned while in-
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with people (in the family,
house, community.
5.1.2b Identify and Ways to overcome

recommend ways to negative emotions
overcome negative
feelings and emotions
such as embarrassment
Relationship
1. and shyness.
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Growth and 5.1.2
5.1.2c Discuss and Bad behavior
Development
describe negative feelings
and emotions that can
lead to bad behavior.
5.1.2d Identify negative Promoting positive

attitudes and negative attitudes
emotions such as
embarrassment and find
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ways to overcome them
to promote positive
attitude.
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Term 1

Weeks Strand Unit
5.1.3a Discuss and Influences on
identify other influences individuals
such as religion, peer
groups, media etc., that
certifies them as
individuals.
8 Culture, Values and morals
5.1.3d Identify moral Moral behavior

behaviors and positive
1. attitudes in a person
Growth and 5.1.3

Development
5.1.3b Describe and Influences of
compare how religion media and religion
and media has influenced on health
them as individuals
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5.1.3c Describe how peer Peer Groups
groups has influenced influence on
them as individuals individual health
10 Term assessment week Term assessment week Term assessment week
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Weekly plan
A weekly plan is a plan of an instructional program for teaching. It gives

the teacher specific outline of the units, content standards and
performance standards for the teacher to organize the teaching program
for the number of weeks in each term.
To compile a plan for a week’s program teachers will need to organize the
plan using the;
• Units
• Content standards
• Performance indicators
• Lesson topics
Teacher should use the term overview to see how units are organized, and
then use this order to plan the weekly program. The weekly plan is
implemented through a timetable that is planned for the subjects in the
junior primary levels.
Subject time allocations
The following is a listing of the sample subjects time allocations:

1. English 510 minutes
2. Mathematics 240 minutes
3. Science 165 minutes
4. Social Science 150 minutes
5. Arts 135 minutes
6. Health 90 minutes
7. Physical Education 120 minutes
8. CRE 60 minutes
9. Assembly 75 minutes
10. Block time 60 minutes
11. Sports 60 minutes
These basically give a total time of 1650 minutes per week to deliver the
7 subjects in primary classrooms, Grades 3 to 5. The subject total times
given are sample lessons breakup for the teacher to use per week as
reference. The teachers are encouraged to work on their own to suit their
teaching and learning needs.
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Here is a sample plan of the subject scheduled in a week with other

subjects at Grades 3-5. There are time adjustments in subjects for SBC
content, therefore a sample time table is given for teacher’s convenience.
Table 1.3: Sample suggested number of lessons - time break up
Minutes per Recommended

No. Subjects
lesson time
1 Listening 3x 15 45
2 Talking 4x 15 60
3 Oral expression 2x 15 30
4 Reading 5x30 150
5 Written Sentences 5x30 150
6 Hand writing 1x15 15
7 Spelling 2x15 30
8 Written Expression 1x30 30
9 Mathematics 8x30 240
10 Science 3x30 + 1x60 150
11 S/Science 5x30 150
12 Health 3x30 90
13 Arts 3x30 +1x45 135
14 Physical Education 2x30 +1x60 120
15 Sports 1x60 60
16 R/Education 1x60 60
17 Assembly 5x15 75
18 Block Time 4x15 60
1650
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Sample timetable
It is important to be mindful of how much time there is to deliver the
content of the subject in a week and throughout the school year.
Suggested weekly timetable for Grade 5
Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

8.00 - 8.15 Assembly Assembly Assembly Assembly Assembly
8.15 - 8.30 Listening Oral Express Listening Listening
Block time
8.30 - 8.45 Spelling Spelling Oral Expression Talking
8.45 - 9.00 Talking Talking Talking Hand writing Block time
9.00 - 9.30 Wr. Sentences Wr. Sentences Wr. Sentences Wr. Sentences Wr. Sentences
9.30 - 10.00 Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading
10.00-10.30 Recess Recess
10.30 - 11.00 Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics

11.00 - 11.30 Science Science Science Science Wr Expression
11.30 - 12.00 S/Science S/ Science S/Science Science S/Science
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
1.00 - 1.30 Mathematics Health Mathematics S/Science Mathematics

1.30 - 2.00 Health PE Health Arts Arts
Christian Religious
2.00 - 3.00 Arts Block time PE Sports
Education
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Guided Lessons
Health lessons in Grade 5 must promote active and interactive
learning and be planned around the main concepts and key ideas and
skills identified in the content standards. These lessons must be delivered
using guided discovery learning strategies, so that, as much as possible
students are fully participating in the learning processes of the activities
using the different learning and teaching strategies according to the three
domains of learning within the experiential learning cycle.
The guided lessons for Grade 5 are sample lessons developed from the
performances standards derived from the content standards statements
prescribed in the syllabus. They are only lesson guides to guide and direct
the teacher to teach the content of the lesson in a sequential manner
providing appropriate students learning activities to demonstrate
concepts, skills, attitudes and values appropriate for the grade level.
There are total of 117 guided lessons to be taught for a school year in
Grade 5 classes in all Primary Schools. The guided lessons provided in
this teacher guide are provided in two sets and they are;
• Planned sample lessons and

• Unplanned lessons provided with knowledge, skills and
attitudes(KSAV)
Sample guided lessons

There are twelve sample guided lessons in this teacher guide as a guide
for you to start of your instructional teaching and learning for the school
year. These sample lessons are taken from the termly and weekly
overview. These sample lessons are coming from the first lesson of each
performance standard under each content standard. For example, lesson
1 comes from content standard 5.1.1, performance standard (a, or a.1).
Knowledge, skills, attitudes and values (KSAV)

The other 105 lessons that do not have samples provided are provided
with content concepts of knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAV) with the
teacher notes as a guide for the teacher to plan and teach in the
classroom.
Lesson titles
The lesson titles are created from the performance standards given in the
syllabus. They are recommended for delivery in Grade 5 classrooms in the
primary schools. These lesson titles are further organized in weeks and
according to the number of lessons per week. This is one way to monitor
that all Grade 5 students are learning the same lessons from the
performance standards, and content standards. The following is a
schedule of lesson titles which are sequenced in the order of strands
appearing in the syllabus. Teachers are encouraged to teach the lessons
in order as much as possible, as they are given, and ensure that delivery
is done according to the number of lessons per week for a total time of 90
minutes.
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Suggested guided lessons
Guided lesson sample 1 Lesson 1

Strand 1: Growth and development Unit 1: My body
Lesson title: What is puberty? Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.1.1: Explore and identify secondary changes at puberty

that are associated with growth and development stages and discuss ways to
address the related changes.
Performance standard 5.1.1a: Discuss the puberty stages for both boys and
girls.
Lesson objectives: By the end of the lesson the students can:

• explain the term puberty
• list changes that happen to boys and girls during puberty
Assessment tasks: List some changes happening and research on the

different stages during puberty.
Resources/Materials: Puberty, reproduction and sexual health in Papua

New Guinea, Richard Jones and Jenifer Miller: Health for the Pacific,
Oxford University press 2011. Pages 1-2-3.
Key concepts
Knowledge Skills Attitudes/Values

• Puberty is the time of • Identify the age at which • Appreciate changes in their
change from childhood to puberty occurs for boys bodies as being natural change.
adolescence and then to and girls.
adulthood. • Respect views or opinions of
• Describe the physical others about body change.
• Physical, emotional, changes that occur in
intellectual, behavioral, boys and girls during
social and spiritual puberty.
changes occur during
puberty.
Teacher's notes (background information)
• Puberty is the time of change from childhood to adolescence and then

to adulthood.
• Physical, emotional, intellectual, behavioral, social and spiritual
changes occur during puberty.
• At puberty, young people are faced with challenging decisions about
school, physical appearances, families, relationships and coping with
the changes in their body.
• At puberty, a person is capable of making a child.
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The table below shows some similarities and differences in both boys and
girls during puberty.
Changes in boys during Similarities in changes during

Changes in girls during puberty
puberty puberty for both boys and girls
Occurs between the ages of 13 Occurs between the ages of 11 Hair grows on pubic areas and under
and 18 and 17 arms (armpit)
The voice box(larynx) enlarges The breasts become enlarged, Grow taller and stronger
and the voice becomes deeper hips become broader and waistline
in tone becomes narrow.
The penis and the testes The external genitals (vagina) and Perspiration (sweating)as a result of
become enlarged internal reproductive organs fast development of the sweat glands
(uterus and ovaries) become may cause the skin to become oily
enlarged. and trigger acne (pimples)
Teaching and learning activities
Part of lesson Teacher’s activity Student’s activity

• Ask students to describe the sizes of • Respond by describing orally what
their hands, feet, head and legs when physical changes they can see in their
they were a baby or a child. Then ask body or others making comparisons to
them to describe how these physical the time they were a baby or a child.
features have changed over time to the
stage they are in now.
Introduction
5 minutes • Introduce the lesson by explaining that;
just like when their hands, legs and feet
change, they have gone through other
changes as well. They are in one major
stage in life called “Puberty.” Then ask
what puberty is?
Activity 1: • Students relate the definition of puberty

a. Ask students to describe puberty to themselves.
according to their understanding.
b. Record student’s descriptions. • Students describe the changes they
c. Collate all descriptions to come up with have gone through in the different
a possible definition of puberty. stages for example, small feet to big and
strong feet, short to tall, slow to faster,
small hands to big hands, etc.
Puberty marks the change from being a
Body child to becoming an adult. It is one of the
20 minutes most important changes in life. Every person
experiences puberty.
Activity 2 :
Discuss and describe the different stages
and changes they have gone through from
fertilization to their current stage.
(see teachers notes)
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Part of lesson Teacher’s activity Student’s activity

Explain to the students that the changes a) Work in groups to complete table.
they are going through are natural and part
of their growth. They are now in another b) Share, discusses and debate findings.
stage and they need to be aware of the They disagree with or support findings
Conclusion changes and accept the changes so they similar to theirs.
5 minutes can be comfortable growing up like healthy c) Appreciate and respect findings of other
individuals. groups and make corrections to
misconceptions.
Teacher's reflection/evaluation:
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Lesson for you to plan Lesson 2

Strand1: Growth and development Unit 1: My body
Lesson Title: Puberty changes in boys and girls Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.1.1a: Discuss the puberty stage for both boys and
girls.
Key concepts

• Definition of puberty. • Able to define puberty. • Resilient to the sensitivity of
the issue.
• Different stages of life. • Able to identify different life
stages. • Respect the learning of the
• Ages at which puberty
puberty stage.
occurs for boys and girls. • Able to find comfort in the
learning of the sensitive • Confidence and high
• A person becomes capable topic. self-esteem.
of making children.
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Strand1: Growth and development Unit 1: My body
Lesson title: Secondary changes in girls

Performance standard 5.1.1b: Discuss secondary changes for boys and girls
such as pimples, beard, armpit, hair, breasts.
Key concepts
Knowledge Skills Attitudes/Values Assessment Tasks

• Changes in girls • Able to cope with the • Confidently learn • Identify the
during Puberty. discomfort. about the female secondary changes
secondary changes in of growth and
• Occurs between the • Speak openly and
a dual gender setting/ development and
ages of 11 and 17. maturely.
classroom. recommend ways to
• The breasts improve their own
• Respect other
become enlarged, developmental
students resistance changes.
hips become broader
and discomfort about
and waistline
the topic.
becomes narrow.
• Speak with
• The external genitals
consideration.
(vagina) and internal
reproductive organs
(uterus and ovaries)
become enlarged.
• Ovulation or release
of an egg and
Menstruation
(a monthly period)
occurs.
• Increased wetness in
the vaginal area.
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Lesson title: Secondary changes in boys

Performance standard 5.1.1b: Discuss secondary changes for boys and girls
such as pimple, beard, armpit hair, breast.
Key concepts
Knowledge Skills Attitudes/Values Assessment tasks

Changes in boys during • Able to cope with the • Confidently learn • Identify the
Puberty: discomfort. about the female secondary changes
- occurs between the secondary changes in of growth and
• Speak openly and a dual gender setting/
ages of 13 and 18 development and
maturely. classroom. recommend ways to
- the voice box
• Respect other improve their own
(larynx) enlarges
students resistance developmental
and the voice
and discomfort about changes.
becomes deeper in
tone the topic.
- the penis and the • Speak with

testicles become consideration.
enlarged
- sperm production
begins
- semen production
begins and
ejaculation occurs.

Lesson title: Similarities in growth changes between boys and girls

Performance standard 5.1.1c: Identify and address differences and
similarities in n the growth and development stages of boys and girls.
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Key concepts

• Changes in girls during • Able to cope with the • Confidently learn about the
puberty. discomfort. female secondary changes in a
dual gender setting/classroom.
• Changes in boys during • Speak openly and maturely.
puberty. • Respect other students
resistance and discomfort
• Similarities in change between about the topic.
boys and girls during puberty.
• Speak with consideration.
• Differences in change between
Reference: Lesson 1-4 Teacher's Notes and KSAVs

Lesson title: Differences in growth changes between boys and girls

Performance standard 5.1.1c: Identify and address differences and
similarities in n the growth and development stages of boys and girls.
Key concepts

• Changes in girls during • Able to cope with the • Confidently learn about the
puberty. discomfort. female secondary changes in a
dual gender setting/classroom.
• Changes in boys during • Speak openly and maturely.
puberty. • Respect other students
resistance and discomfort
• Similarities in change between about the topic.
• Speak with consideration.
• Differences in change between
Reference: Lesson 1-4 Teacher's notes and KSAs
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Lesson title: Changes in growth that causes negative feelings and

emotion

Performance standard 5.1.1d: Describe ways to overcome negative
feelings and emotions of growth and developmental stages.
eg. Menstruation/wet dream.
Key concepts

Mood swings • Able to make decisions • Confidently discuss their
• Dramatically changes in young according to good moral emotions.
people’s emotions from one values.
day to the next can be • Respect their emotion sand
frustrating. • Can distinguish and accept feelings and those of others.
negative emotions that result
Sexual attraction • Appreciate guidance from
from changes during puberty.
• Romantic feelings in a parents and on the spiritual
• Can talk and discuss changes values from the Bible.
relationship can be
with an adult.
uncomfortable.
Peer's beliefs
• Valuing peer’s and friend’s
opinions can contradict family
and community values.

Lesson title: Dealing with negative growth feelings and emotions

Performance standard 5.1.1d: Describe ways to overcome negative
feelings and emotions of growth and developmental stages.
eg. Menstruation/wet dream.
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Key concepts

Sexual attraction • Able to make decisions • Confidently discuss their
• Romantic feelings in a according to good moral emotions.
relationship can be values.
• Respect their emotions and
uncomfortable.
• Can distinguish and accept feelings and those of others.
negative emotions that result
Peer's Beliefs • Appreciate Guidance from
from changes during puberty.
• Valuing peer’s and friend’s parents and the Spiritual Values
opinions can contradict family • Can talk and discuss changes from the Bible.
and community values. with an adult.
• Appreciate Cultural practices of
• Can question openly the initiation that identifies them as
Initiation emotions they are going unique individuals with growing
• Cultural practices of initiation through to understand changes responsibilities.
at puberty can be both they experience.
accepted and rejected by
young people.
Spiritual Challenges
• Exploration and experimenting
during puberty tests spiritual
values and beliefs. Spiritual
values can give good morals
and guidance during puberty.
Increased expectations, demands

and responsibilities
• From adults for the young can
be frustrating and distressing.
Sample Guided Lesson 2 Lesson 9

Strand 1: Growth and development Unit 2: Relationships
Lesson title: Positive attitudes learned from the family, school and
community
Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.1.2: Develop strategies to manage the influence of

individuals and groups on attitudes and behaviors.
Performance standard 5.1.2a: Discuss and identify positive attitudes that
can be learned while interacting and participating with people (in the family,
home, school, community.
Lesson objective(s): The students can list some positive attitudes that
they learnt from their families at homes.
Assessment tasks: (refers to the assessment tasks from the beginning to

the end of the lesson).
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Key concepts

• Positive attitudes learned from • Show positive attitudes towards • Appreciate positive
family, school and community. others in the family, school and attitudes.
community.
• Manners and mannerism.
• Use of mannerism in different
• Praises and praising.
situations.
• Praising others.
Teacher’s background notes
• Positive attitudes are usually learnt at home through family members.

• “Positive attitude refers to a mental position with regard to a fact or
state for example being confident that you will do well in a test.
• Positive attitude also refers to a feeling or emotion toward a fact or
state for example being kind and sharing your lunch with a friend you
know doesn’t often have breakfast.
• Positive attitudes lead us to success and happiness in our daily lives.
• Having a positive attitude means choosing to approach difficult
circumstances and situations with a productive mindset.
• Some of these attitudes are: courageous, open-minded, tolerant,
unselfish, willingness, devotion, decisive, optimistic, sympathetic and
thoughtful towards others, using manners.
Resources: Junior Primary Syllabus, Define a Positive Attitude by Brenda

Hagood, chart.
Part of lesson Teacher’s activities Student’s activities

Song Sing the song.
• Sing the song’ Smile a while’
‘Smile awhile and give your face a rest,
ooo! Raise your hands to the one you
love the best, Turn around, shake hands
Introduction with the one nearby and greet them with
a smile.’
5 minutes
• Ask children: What words from the song Children’s’ answers: (smile, love, shake
talks about something good? hands)
• Tell children that our lesson for today
will be on ‘Positive attitudes.'
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Activity1: trusting helpful
Ask children to: friendly
a) List some positive attitudes learnt at
home, school and community. Use a accept Positive
mind map. attitudes
others smile
b) List some manners learnt at point of views
Body home, school and community. kind
20 minutes
Activity 2: Children sample answer:
• Ask students to identify situations in a) My mother always smiles at anyone
their community, school and home that who comes to the house.
give them the opportunity to learn some b) I learnt to greet people in school.
positive attitudes.
Ask children two questions. Children’s answer:

• Smiling, being friendly, helpful,
1. Name two positive attitudes you learnt respectful, obedience, volunteer work,
Conclusion
at home, school and community. etc.
5 minutes
2. Name someone from the family that you • I have learnt from my father to be
have learnt this positive attitude from. content with what I have.
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Lesson title: Positive attitudes learned from family, school and

community (sample Lesson 2)

home, school, community).
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Key concepts

• Positive attitudes • Show positive • Being friendly • List five positive attitudes.
learned from family, attitudes towards
school and from the • Being happy • Identify people with these
others.
community. positive attitudes.
• Being helpful
• Able to use
• Manners and • Identify situations in the
manners in different • Being home, classrooms, school
mannerism learned situations. considerate and community that
from family, school and
from the community. • Being able to praise • Being obedient encourage positive
others for the good attitudes and good
• Praises and ways of things they do. • Being respectful. behaviors.
praising others learned
from family, school and • Able to identify
from the community. good role models.
• Positive attitudes • Able to mimic good

displayed by role role models in life.
models (Sports, Music,
NGOs, Religious,
Political, Heroes and
Heroines)
a) PNG role models
b) International role
models
c) School role models
d) Community role
models
e) Family role models
f) Peer role models

Lesson title: Positive characters displayed by a role model

(See sample lesson 2)

home, school, community).
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Key concepts

• Positive attitudes learned from • Show positive • Being friendly 1. List five positive
family, school and from the attitudes towards attitudes.
community. • Being happy
others.
2. Identify people with
• Manners and Mannerism • Being helpful
• Able to use these positive
learned from family, school and manners in • Being attitudes.
from the community. different considerate
3. Identify situations in
• Praises and ways of praising situations. the home,
• Being obedient
others learned from family, classrooms, school
• Being able to
school and from the • Being and community that
praise others for
community. the good things respectful. encourage positive
• Positive attitudes displayed they do. attitudes and good
by role models (Sports, Music, behaviors.
• Able to identify
NGOs, Religious, Political, good role models.
Heroes and Heroines)
• PNG role models • Able to mimic
• International role models good role models
• School role models in life.
• Community role models
• Family role models
• Peer role models.

Lesson title: Dealing with my negative emotions and feelings

Performance standard 5.1.2b: Identifyand recommend ways to overcome
negative feelings and emotions such as embarrassment, shyness.
Key concepts

Ways to deal with: Coping with: • Being friendly even in a failed
- emotions and feelings of sexual - decision making relationship.
attractions
- able to make • Being helpful to ease tense situations.
- shyness and lack of confidence in informed choices
• Being considerate of others in our
a relationship
- communication relationships.
- arguments with family members
- negotiation. • Being confident and bold about
- a failed or broken relationship decisions and choices we make.
(break-ups).
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Lesson title: Case study: How my family overcomes negative emotions

Performance standard 5.1.2b: Identifyand recommend ways to overcome
negative feelings and emotions such as embarrassment, shyness.
Key concepts

Ways to deal with: Coping with: • Being confident and bold about
- emotions and feelings of sexual - decision making decisions and choices we make.
attractions
- able to make • Being obedient to the rules that guide
- shyness and lack of confidence in informed choices our healthy relationships.
a relationship • Being respectful to others need in a
- communication
- arguments with family members relationship.
- negotiation.
- a failed or broken relationship • Being sensitive and sensible to other
(break-ups). people’s hurts in a relationship.

Lesson title: Negative feelings that lead to bad behavior

Performance standard 5.1.2c: Discuss and describe negative feelings and
emotions that can lead to bad behavior.
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Key concepts

a) Negative feelings: • Being able to • Self-awareness of negative
- anger identify negative feeling feelings and emotions.
- jealousy and emotions
• Acknowledge bad feelings.
- envy experienced.
- pride • Accept and appreciate help given
• Ability to identify
- short tempered to correct bad behavior.
situations that can cause
- Ignorance. negative feelings and bad • Vigilant in responding to other
behavior. people’ bad behaviors.
b) Causes of negative feelings:
• Able to find ways to • Being helpful to those who need
- situations
prevent or deal with bad help in dealing with negative
- arguments behavior. emotions.
- domestic violence
- peer pressure • Able to seek help from
- bad life experience e.g. natural peers, adult or counselor.
- disaster
- favoritism in the family, class or
- community
- relationship breakups
- failing exams.
c) Conditions:
- people with special needs
- poverty
- being rich
- illiterate.
Resource: Healthy Relationships in Papua New Guinea (Richard Jones &

Jennifer Miller, 2011)

Lesson title: Causes of negative feelings that lead to bad behavior

Performance standard 5.1.2c: Discuss and describe negative feelings and
emotions that can lead to bad behavior.
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Key concepts

a) Negative feelings • Being able to identify • Self-awareness of negative feelings and
- anger negative feeling and emotions.
- jealousy emotions
• Acknowledge bad feelings.
- envy experienced.
- pride • Accept and appreciate help given to
• Ability to identify
- short tempered correct bad behavior.
situations that can
- ignorance. cause negative • Vigilant in responding to other people’
feelings and bad bad behaviors.
b) Causes of negative feelings: behavior.
• Being helpful to those who need help in
- situations dealing with negative emotions.
• Able to find ways to
- arguments prevent or deal with
- domestic violence bad behavior.
- peer pressure
- bad life experience e.g. natural • Able to seek help
from peers, adult or
- disaster
counselor.
- favoritism in the family, class or
- community
- relationship breakups
- failing exams.
c) Conditions:
- people with special needs
- poverty
- being rich
- illiterate.


Lesson title: Dealing with unhealthy attitudes Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.1.2d: Identify negative attitudes and negative
emotions such as embarrassment and find ways to overcome them to
promote positive attitude.
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Key concepts

Dealing with unhealthy attitudes and • Coping with • Self-awareness of unhealthy
bad behaviors as a result of: embarrassment. attitudes.
• embarrassment from growth
• Decision making. • Accept and appreciate help given
changes for example being fat,
to correct unhealthy attitudes.
growing beards or breasts, • Maintaining healthy
experiencing wet dreams or relationships. • Vigilant in responding to others
menstruation for the first time unhealthy attitudes.
• Being able to discuss
• fighting over boyfriends and unhealthy attitudes • Being helpful to those who need
girlfriends openly with adults. help in dealing with their
unhealthy attitudes.
• attention seeking • Being able to adapt
coping skills that are
• pride and self-centeredness
helpful.
• feeling of rejection in a
friendship
• anger and frustration towards
parents domestic violence.


Lesson title: Promoting positive healthy attitude
Content standards 5.1.2: Develop strategies to manage the influence of

Performance standard 5.1.2d: Identify negative attitudes and negative
emotions such as embarrassment and find ways to overcome them to
promote positive attitude.
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Key concepts

Healthy attitudes and • Being able to support and • Encouraging and supporting.
Behaviors: encourage positive attitudes in
friends/classmates. • Emphatic - putting oneself in
• Honest praises and the shoes of others to
compliments for example; I • Listening to and supporting understand them.
liked the way you helped your those who want to promote
positive attitudes. • Respectful and acceptance to
little sister this morning. Well
done. others potentials to promote
• Form or join groups that positive attitudes.
• Listening and supporting. practice or promote positive
healthy attitudes. • Appreciate other people’s
• Standing for your rights and efforts to promote positive
rights of others. • Participate in community attitudes.
activities that promote positive
• No sex policy in relationships healthy attitudes. • Participate voluntarily and
until marriage. willingly in community
• Conflict resolution.
• Sharing and working together. activities.
• Understanding the needs of

others.
• Solving conflicts.

Sample guided lesson 3 Lesson 17

Strand 1: Growth and development Unit 3: Culture, values and morals
Lesson title: Factors influencing individual identity Time: 60 minutes
Content standard 5.1.3: Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of

personal values, attitudes and other influences that identify them as
individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3a: Identify and discuss other influences such as
religion, peer groups, media, etc. that identifies them as individuals.
Lesson objective(s): The students can identify factors which influence

their personal identity.
Assessment tasks:
1. Identify factors influencing personal identity
2. Describe how these factors affect personal identity
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Key concepts

• Identity refers to who we are as an • Way of behaving. • Appreciate their own identity.
individual person.
• Learn to adapt to situation. • Respect the opinions of their
• Self-concept is the overall picture classmate.
you have of yourself.
• Families, peers, school, media,
culture, influence your identity.
Teacher’s notes
• Our individual identity refers to who we are as an individual person

compared to no other identity except our own.
• Self-concept is the overall picture you have of yourself. This includes
how you see your abilities, strengths and weaknesses.
• People who have a good self-concept have a high self-esteem. They
feel good about themselves and what they are able to do. They are
people who are confident, happy and loving. They feel comfortable
giving and receiving compliments.
• Self-concept may also be called self-image.
• Types of factors that influence individual identity include; families,
peers, schools, spiritual beliefs, media, culture, tradition, language,
exposure, etc.
• These factors all affect our individual identity in different ways.

Ask: Respond:
Introduction What makes us who we are as individuals? Our name, our place of origin, our
language, our dressing, our values, ideas
5 minutes and belief systems, etc.
Activity 1: Group activity • Identify the influence and discuss how

Identify different factors which influence these factors affect individual identity.
personal identities such as, culture, media,
language, traditional dressing, and friends • Students respond by listing them
and describe how they influence the identity. down (at least 2 factors - based on
Body individual opinions):
Activity 2: Individual activity E.g. family, mobile phone, spiritual beliefs,
20 minutes
a) Which of the above factors has the peers, school, culture, exposure, etc.
greatest influence on you as an
individual student in the 21st century?
b) How has it influenced you?
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Summarize points: • Students summarise the summary
• We are who we are because of these notes in the teacher's notes.
factors (examples listed above in
teacher’s notes).
Conclusion • We must be sure of our identity to
5 minutes healthy individuals.
• Being aware of ourselves give us the
confidence of our own individual identity
as unique.
Teacher's reflection/evaluation
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Lesson title: How different factors influence my health
Time: 30 minutes

individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3a: Identify and discuss other influences such as
religion, peer groups, media, etc. that identifies people as individuals.
Key concepts

• How families, peers, • Being able to identify • Self-awareness on the • Identify factors
schools, culture, how these factors influences from the that influences
tradition, language and influence individual different factors. the individual
exposure influence health. person’s identity.
individual health. • Confident in making
• Being able to make individual healthy
healthy choices. choices.
• Coping with bad • Helping peers who may
influences from these be having difficulty
factors. coping.
• Adopting and • Being sensitive to bad
practicing good healthy health influences.
influences.
• Appreciating and
accepting good healthy
influences.
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Lesson title: How the media can affect my health

individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3b: Describe and compare how religion and
media has influenced their individual health.
Key concepts

• Positive and negative health • Being able to identify positive • Self-awareness on the
effects. media influences that promote influences from the media.
healthy attitudes.
• Public advertisements on TV • Confident in making individual
can influence young people’s: • Being able to identify media healthy choices about
- way of dressing influences that can have unhealthy media publicity.
- the type of food to eat negative effects on individual
health. • Helping peers who may be
- the kinds of activities to
having difficulty coping with
engage in, e.g. drug, negative health messages.
substance and alcohol abuse
- relationship practices for • Being sensitive to bad health
example, most actors have influences.
multiple sexual relationships • Appreciating and accepting
which are unreal but good healthy influences.
communicate confusing
relationship messages.
• TV models and actors often

mislead young people’s healthy
food choices by making them
belief certain amounts of foods
make them look ugly.
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Lesson title: How the media can affect health Time: 30 minutes

individuals.
Key concepts

• Positive and negative health effects. • Being able to identify • Appreciate media
positive media influences information regarding
• Publicity or advertisements on TV can health.
that promote healthy
influence young people’s:
attitudes.
- way of dressing
- the type of food to eat • Being able to identify
- the kinds of activities to engage in e.g; media influences that can
drug substance and alcohol abuse have negative effects on
individual health.
- relationship practices for example, most
actors have multiple sexual relationships
which are unreal but communicate
confusing relationship messages.

Lesson title: How religion can affect my health.
Content standards 5.1.3: Demonstrate an understanding of the importance

of personal values, attitudes and other influences that identify them as
individuals.
Key concepts

Ways religion affects individual • Can identify ways religion • Appreciate the roles of religion
health: affects individual health. in contributing to the health of
- types of food to eat individuals, community and the
• Can make informed health nation.
- types of activities to engage in
choices.
- beliefs about certain foods and
health practices.
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Lesson title: How my peer groups can affect decisions I make about my
health

individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3c: Describe how peer groups has influenced
them as individuals.
Key concepts

Ways peers affect • Make decisions on • Respect of peers’ • Explain the benefits
individual health: what they think is decisions. of having positive
right. relationships with
• types of food to eat • Accept friends’ and
family and friends.
• Assist friends to make peers’ decisions.
• types of activities to good choices.
get engaged in
• Educate peers of
• beliefs about certain good health
foods and health decisions.
practices
• Refuse to be
• certain belief about
pressured by peers.
certain appearances
e.g. slim, fat.

Lesson title: Helping my peers to make healthy decisions
Time: 30 minutes

individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3c: Describe how peer groups has influenced
them as individuals.
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Key concepts

• Ways peers affect • Make decisions on • Respect of peers’ • Explain the benefits
individual health: what they think is decisions. of having positive
right. relationships with
• Types of food to eat. • Accept friends’ and
• Assist friends to make peers’ decisions. family and friends.
• Types of activities to good choices.
get engaged in.
• Educate peers of
• Beliefs about certain good health
foods and health
decisions.
practices.
• Refuse to be
• Certain belief about
certain appearances pressured by peers.
e.g. slim, fat.

Lesson title: Self-reflection on positive and healthy practices

individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3d: Identify moral behaviors and positive attitudes
in a person.
Key concepts

• Reflect on positive • Being able to avoid • Be responsible • Describe the
healthy practices. engaging in unhealthy indecision making difference between
practices. about health moral behavior and
• Keeping a record of
practices. positive attitude.
milestone • Being able to
achievements in continue and
health practices. maintain the good
healthy practices.
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Lesson title: Let’s keep a diary of our healthy practices

individuals.
Performance standard 5.1.3d: Identify moral behaviors and positive attitudes
in a person.
Key concepts

• Reflect on Positive • Being able to avoid • Be responsible • Describe the
healthy practices. engaging in unhealthy indecision making difference between
practices. about health moral behavior and
• Keeping a record of
practices. positive attitude.
milestone • Being able to
achievements in continue and
health practices. maintain the good
healthy practices.

Strand 1: Growth and development Unit 4: My career interest
Factors that influence job interest
Lesson title: Short and long term health goals Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.1.4: Demonstrate an understanding that setting goals

can further develop an individual’s interest and ability to perform a particular
activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4a: Identify short and long term goals and
describe ways to achieve them.
Lesson objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students can:

• identify what is important to them and begin setting personal and
educational goals.
Key concepts

• A goal is an aim that an individual wants to • Methods used to achieve • Confident
achieve. goals.
• Hopeful
• A short term goal is something that you want
to achieve straight away. • Enthusiastic
• A long term goal is something you want to • Optimism.

achieve in the future.
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Teacher’s notes
• A goal is an aim that an individual wants to achieve.

• A short term goal is something that you want to achieve straight away.
• A short term goal can be achieved in a short time for e.g. in one
school term, 6 months or 3 weeks.
• A long term goal is something you want to achieve in the future.
• A long term goal can be achieved after a long time, for example in a
year, four years, 10 years.
• Types of goals may include personal and /or educational goals.
• Personal goals may include; appearance, personality, friends, buying a
nice dress or shirt.
• Educational goals may include doing well in tests and assignments,
passing an exam, continuing studies at a university, getting a job or
training for a career.
• A career goal may include doing things at home and school that are
related to your career interest, learning about the career, interviewing
a person with the career of your interest, doing volunteer work in the
area of your career interest.
• A health goal may include eating a balanced meal, doing exercise
daily, engage in a sport, keeping fit and healthy, not eating too much
junk, not use drugs, not have sexual relationships.
• It is important to set goals in life and plan ways or steps to achieve
them.
• Goals must be real and achievable.

Ask students each of the four questions below and give • Students answer the
them 30 seconds to respond by writing the first thing that given questions.
comes to their minds:
• Students discover the
a} If you were given 3 wishes for anything, what would
intention of the activity
you wish for?
is make them aware the
b) If you won a thousand kina, how would you spend it? need and importance of
c) If you had only 6 months to live, what would you do? having aims and goals
d) If you could achieve anything in the world, what would in life.
Introduction you do?
5 minutes
Activity 1: Group
Ask the students to:
a) define or describe what a goal is
b) identify the two types of goals: short and long term
goals • Students discuss and
c) identify examples of goals in the two types of goals: provide responses to
personal, educational, career, health, relationship the questions.
which can be short or long term.
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Activity 2: Individual • Students discuss and

provide responses to
Ask students to identify 1 short term and 1 long term goals the questions
as shown in the table below
Goal Short term Long term
Personal Buy a new comb Be obedient to
my parents
Body Educational Score an A grade Pass Grade 8

in my Maths in exams
20 minutes term 2
Career goal Do volunteer Aim to be a

work at the local medical doctor
clinic
Health goal Dental check on Maintain good

my teeth and healthy teeth in
gums life
Conclusion • Recap on key learning points by answering the

activities.
5 minutes
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Strand 1: Growth and development Unit 4: My career interests
Lesson title: Planning to achieve my goals Time: 30 minutes

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4a: Identify short and long term goals and
describe ways to achieve them.
Key concepts

Types of goals: • Being able to identify • Visionary • List 1 short term and
plans to achieve goals. 1 long term goal and
- short term goals • Enthusiasm draw up a plan on
• Being able todifferentiate how to achieve each
- long term goals between short and long • Perseverance
one.
- personal goals term goals. • Investigative
- educational goals • Confidence.
- planning to achieve goals
• Ways to achieve different
types of goals
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Lesson title: My interests in a health job

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4b: Review and assess interest about certain
activities and jobs to see if they have changed over time.
Key concepts

Interests • Ability to find • Enthusiasm • Identify a health job
• Things that make you happy interest in that you are
things they do. • Perseverance
interested in and
• Interests include subjects, ideas, describe why you are
• Ability to relate • Investigative
things, topics and events which interested in it.
fascinate and stimulate the their interest to • Confidence
curiosity of the child. particular jobs
and types of • List and describe
work. other health related
Career interests jobs you might be
• interests can lead to lots of • Ability to interested in.
careers for e.g. your love of understand the
painting can lead you to have factors that
an interest in jobs which involve influence their
creative thinking: product interest.
designer, comic-book artist,
programmer, museum curator,
advertiser or teacher.

Lesson title: Factors that cause me to change my job interest

(Case study)

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4b: Review and assess interest about certain
activities and jobs to see if they have changed over time.
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Key concepts

Interests • Ability to find • Enthusiasm • Identify a health
• Things that make you happy interest in things job that you are
they do. • Perseverance interested in and
Interest that you can spend long hours describe why you
• Ability to relate • Investigative
are: are interested in it.
• Interests include subjects, ideas, their interest to • Confidence.
things, topics and events which particular jobs • List and describe
fascinate and stimulate the curiosity and types of other health
of the child. work. related jobs you
might be
Career interests • Ability to
interested in.
• interests can lead to lots of careers understand the
for e.g. your love of painting can factors that
lead you to have an interest in jobs influence their
which involve creative thinking: interest.
product designer, comic-book artist,
programmer, museum curator,
advertiser or teacher.
Interest in a health job

Lesson title: Let’s do a volunteer activity in our school

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4c: Identify volunteer activities they have in their
families, homes, churches, schools and communities that can help develop
their interests and abilities.
Key concepts

Volunteer work • Ability to do work • Humility • Identify volunteer
• Doing work for free or without without asking to jobs that can be
be paid. • Kindness done in the school
being paid.
• Consideration and describe what
• Do charitable or helpful work • Ability to offer help you can do as a
without receiving pay for it. at own will. • Thoughtfulness volunteer.
• To perform or offer to perform • Volunteering.
work of your own free will.
• Benefits of volunteer work.
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Lesson title: Learn about volunteer work from a guest speaker

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4c: Identify volunteer activities they have in their
families, homes, churches, schools and communities that can help develop
their interests and abilities.
Key concepts

Volunteer work • Ability to do • Humility • Identify volunteer
• Doing work for free or without work without jobs that can be done
asking to be • Kindness in the school and
being paid.
paid. • Consideration describe what you can
• Do charitable or helpful work do as a volunteer.
without receiving pay for it. • Ability to offer • Thoughtfulness
help at own will.
• To perform or offer to perform • Volunteering.
work of your own free will.
• Benefits of volunteer work.

Lesson title: A job of my interest in the health sector Time: 30 minutes

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4d: Identify and describe jobs in the health sector
that are linked to their interest and abilities.
Key concepts

• A dream job they are • Ability to learn about • Confidence • Identify and describe two
interested about in the the guest speakers types of health jobs they
health sector. • Enthusiasm know that exists in their
experiences and
mimic them. • Perseverance homes, school and
• A dream job they are
communities.
interested in but is not • Explore and research • Investigative.
necessarily in the health jobs of interest to • Identify factors that
sector (same comment them. influenced the decisions
as above). of people doing these
• Learn about the guest two jobs.
speakers experiences.
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Lesson title: Learn about health jobs from a guest speaker.

activity or job.
Performance standard 5.1.4d: Identify and describe jobs in the health sector
that are linked to their interest and abilities.
Key concepts
Knowledge Skills Attitudes Assessment tasks

• A dream job they are • Ability to learn • Confidence • Identify and describe two
interested about in the about the guest types of health jobs they
health sector. speakers • Enthusiasm know that exists in their
experiences and • Perseverance homes, school and
• A dream job they are
mimic them. communities.
interested in but is not • Investigative.
necessarily in the health • Explore and • Identify factors that
sector (same comment research jobs of influenced the decisions of
as above). interest to them. people doing these two jobs.
• Learn about the guest
speakers experiences.
Guided lesson sample 5 Lesson 33

Strand 2: Individual and community health
Unit 1: Alcohol and substance abuse
Lesson title: Illegal drugs and the effects it has in our body
Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.2.1: Evaluate the impact of harmful substances on young

people and take actions to encourage healthy choices.
Performance standard 5.2.1a: Identify illegal drugs such as
marijuana/alcohol and describe their effects on personal health.
Key concepts

• Illegal drugs are drugs that are not legal and • Identify legal and illegal • Respect their bodies
cause harm to the people’s health. drugs. by not taking illegal
drugs.
• The use of Illegal drugs has harmful • Describe the effects of
consequences to the physical, mental and taking illegal drugs.
emotional health of people.
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Teacher’s notes
• A drug is a chemical substance given to treat or prevent a disease or

to lessen pain.
• A drug is often illegal and sometimes an addictive substance that
causes changes in behavior and perception and is taken for the
effects.
• Some drugs are very common and used by many people.
• Effects of drugs can be physical, mental and emotional.
• Some drugs can help your body and others can be harmful or lead
to dangerous behavior.
• Legal drugs are those that are allowed to be used for a specific
purposes. But the abuse of these substances can lead to poor
health and unsafe behavior.
• It is against the law to grow, make, transport, sell, buy or use illegal
drugs.
• Remember: All drugs change your body and when abused, have
harmful consequences.
Resource materials: “Drugs of Addiction in Papua New Guinea” Richard

Jones: Health for the Pacific Series, Oxford University Press 2011. Pages
1-2-3.
Parts of the lesson Teacher's activities Student’s activities

Ask students: • Provide oral answers.
Introduction To identify drugs they have heard about in
their communities.
5 minutes
Describe what drugs are.
Activity 1: Group activity • Identify two legal drugs and
• Identify two legal drugs and describe their uses.
how they are useful.
• Identify two illegal drugs
• Identify two illegal drugs and describe and how they are harmful.
Body how they are harmful.
• Share their findings.
20 minutes • Ask students to share their findings.
Activity 2: Group
a) Describe some negative effects of one
illegal drugs on people.
Stress to students that: • Copy the notes into their
• Drugs can be harmful to the body if notes book.
Conclusion
abused. Remember: All drugs change
5 minutes your body and when abused, and have
harmful consequences.
………………………………………………………………………………………
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Lesson title: Effects of marijuana Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.1a: Identify illegal drugs such as
marijuana/alcohol and describe their effects on personal health.
Key concepts

• Recognize and • Describe the • Help family • Identify illegal drugs such
beware of illegal harmful impacts of members stay as marijuana/alcohol and
drugs. illegal drugs on young away from drugs describe their effects on
teenagers. and alcohol. personal health.
• Harmful effects of
illegal drugs on the • Interpret signs of • Be careful when • Produce a poster with
body. alcohol effects. moving around the pictures of communicable
community. and non-communicable
• Causes of illnesses • Identify problems disease and give a brief
by harmful drugs. drunkards cause to • Encourage description of how the
the family/community. community to disease is spread from
• Impact of alcohol
make awareness one person to another.
on young children. • Identify and describe
on qualities of a
ways of advocating
• Smoking is a health happy community.
on the use of drugs
hazard which is and alcohol.
caused by taking
tobacco.

Lesson title: Effects of alcohol on health Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.1b: Identify useful drugs and describe how they
are used safely to improve personal health.
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Key concepts

• Recognize useful • Discus and compare • Be careful in handling • Do a poster of useful
drugs and their the conditions in safe useful drugs. drugs and describe
uses. and unsafe use of their uses.
useful drugs. • Share knowledge and
• Different types of advise others on the • Do a poster of drugs
useful drugs. • Identify and describe safe uses of useful and describe their
common useful drugs drugs. unsafe use.
• Impact of useful used in the homes/
drugs on sick clinics for family • Encourage peers to
people. health care. talk to others about
using useful drugs
• Safe and unsafe use • identify health safely.
of useful drugs. workers/pharmacist
to present talks about
improving personal
health without the use
of useful drugs.

Lesson title: Useful drugs prescribed at chemists Time: 30 minutes

Key concepts

• Recognize useful • Discus and compare the • Be careful in • Do a poster of useful
drugs and their conditions in safe and handling useful drugs and describe
uses. unsafe use of useful drugs. drugs. their uses.
• Different types of • Identify and describe • Share knowledge • Do a poster of drugs
useful drugs. common useful drugs used and advise others and describe their
in the homes/clinics for on the safe uses of unsafe use.
• Impact of useful
drugs on sick family health care. useful drugs.
people. • identify health workers/ • Encourage peers to
• Safe and unsafe pharmacist to present talks talk to others about
use of useful about improving personal using useful drugs
drugs. health without the use of safely.
useful drugs.
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Lesson title: Abuse and misuse of medicine Time: 30 minutes

Key concepts

• Recognize useful • Discus and compare • Be careful in handling • Do a poster of
drugs and their uses. the conditions in safe useful drugs. useful drugs and
and unsafe use of describe their
• Different types of • Share knowledge and uses.
useful drugs.
useful drugs. advise others on the
• Identify and describe safe uses of useful • Do a poster of
• Impact of useful drugs drugs. drugs and
common useful drugs
on sick people.
used in the homes/ • Encourage peers to describe their
• Safe and unsafe use of clinics for family health talk to others about unsafe use.
useful drugs. care. using useful drugs
• identify health workers/ safely.
pharmacist to present
talks about improving
personal health
without the use of
useful drugs.

Lesson title: Chronic diseases related to taking drugs

Performance standard 5.2.1c: Describe how alcohol is harmful to health and
a cause of social problems in the community.
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Key concepts

• Alcohol can cause • Select types of social • Co-operate with • Identify one
social problems in issues community others that work common social
families and experiences from alcohol in the community related problem
communities. users. to curb down that is caused by
alcohol related alcohol.
• Alcohol is harmful. • Identify and role play social issues.
problems caused by • Identify health
• The benefits of not • Encourage other problems caused
individuals under the
consuming alcohol. young teenagers by alcohol.
influence of liquor.
and peers to
• Alcohol causes social
• Define the terms non make sensible
problems for
alcohol/alcohol user, social healthy choices.
individuals, families and problems created by liquor.
communities.
• Describe the effects of
• Differentiate between alcohol on an individual’s
alcohol user and non physical or psychological
alcohol user. functions.

Lesson title: Social related problems caused by alcohol

Performance standard 5.2.1c: Describe how alcohol is harmful to health and
a cause of social problems in the community.
Key concepts

• Alcohol can cause • Select types of social • Co-operate with • Identify one
social problems in issues community others that work in common social
families and experiences from alcohol the community to related problem
communities. users. curb down alcohol that is caused by
related issues. alcohol.
• Alcohol is harmful • Identify and role play social
problems caused by • Encourage other • Identify health
• The benefits of not young teenagers problems caused
consuming it. individuals under the
and peers to make by alcohol.
influence of liquor.
• Alcohol causes social sensible healthy
problems for • Define the terms non choices.
individuals, families alcohol/alchol user, social
and communities. problems created by liquor.
• Differentiate between • Describe the effects of

alcohol user and non alcohol on an individual’s
alcohol user. physical or psychological
functions.
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Lesson title: Reasons for taking drugs by young people
Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.1d: Explain why people take drugs and other
harmful substances. Propose alternative solutions to their problems.
Key concepts

• Recognize other • Organize and conduct • Care for one and • Explain why people take
harmful drugs in the a community survey on other and help drugs and other harmful
community. types of social problems family members substances and propose
caused by drugs and affected by heavy alternative solutions to
• Differentiate alcohol. smoking of drugs. their problems.
between other
harmful substances • Classify drugs and • Take part in • Find news articles on
and drugs. harmful substances community groups behaviors and illnesses
according to how they and visit drug that stem from
• Benefits of not are obtained and their patients. consuming alcohol and
taking drugs. effects on the user. discus the health
issues these bring to the
families.

Lesson title: Experiences of overcoming drug addiction

Performance standard 5.2.1e: Relate decision making process and skill to
say 'NO' to take harmful drugs.
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Key concepts

• Making informed • Interpret information • Appreciate others • Identify a coping
decisions. about drugs/other and their friends strategy to overcome
harmful substances. advise on not to take drug addiction and
• Decision making drugs. describe the steps of
process. • Explain decision the strategy.
making process. • Be concerned for
• Knowing when to say those who are • Identify one
'NO' to harmful drugs. • Research information
addicted to drugs strategy that can help
on the use of harmful
help them break the a person in decision
substances such as
bad habits. making to “Say 'No'
nicotine.
to Drugs”

Lesson title: Cope with drug addiction

Key concepts

• Making informed • Interpret • Appreciate others • Identify a coping strategy
decisions. information about and their friends to overcome drug
drugs/other advise on not to addiction and describe
• Decision making take drugs. the steps of the
harmful
process.
substances. strategy.
• Knowing when to • Be concerned for
• Explain decision those who are • Identify one strategy
say 'NO' to
making process. addicted to drugs that can help a person in
harmful drugs. decision making to “Say
help them break
• Research 'NO' to Drugs”.
the bad habits.
information on
the use of harmful
substances such
as nicotine.
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Lesson title: Use decision making process to say 'NO' to drugs

Key concepts

• Making informed • Interpret information • Appreciate others and • Identify a coping
decisions. about drugs/other their friends advise on strategy to overcome
harmful substances. not to take drugs. drug addiction and
• Decision making describe the steps of
process. • Explain decision • Be concerned for the strategy.
making process. those who are
• Knowing when to • Identify one strategy
addicted to drugs
say 'NO' to harmful • Research information help them break the that can help a
drugs. on the use of harmful bad habits. person in decision
substances such as making to “Say 'NO'
nicotine. to Drugs.”

Unit 2: Protection against disease
Lesson title: Causes of common illness
Content standard 5.2.2: Explore and identify causes of common illnesses

and take action to promote behavior that reduces health risks.
Performance standard5.2.2a: Identify the causes and cures of common
diseases found in the community.
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Key concepts

• Causes of common • Identify and explain • Care for the • Do a poster on
diseases. different causes of community. causes of diseases
common diseases in and ways to prevent
• Cures of common the community. • Make sure the sick or treat diseases.
diseases. are helped.
• Plan and organize
• Community behavior • Encourage all
health talks with
to prevent illnesses. members of the
school and
• Types of common community. community to join in
diseases found in the a cleanathon
community. • Describe various activities.
ways for/of
preventing/curing
common diseases
such as flue, diarrhea
etc.

Unit 2: Protection against disease Lesson title: Ways to cure illness

Performance standard 5.2.2a: Identify the causes and cures of common
diseases found in the community.
Key concepts

• Causes of common • Identify and explain • Care for the • Do a poster on
diseases. different causes of community. causes of diseases
common diseases in and ways to prevent
• Cures of common the community. • Make sure the sick or treat diseases.
diseases. are helped.
• Plan and organize
• Community behavior • Encourage all
health talks with
to prevent illnesses. members of the
school and
• Types of common community. community to join in
diseases found in the a cleanathon
community. • Describe various activities.
ways for/of
preventing/curing
common diseases
such as flue, diarrhea,
etc.
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Lesson title: Germs such as bacteria and virus cause diseases

Performance standard 5.2.2b: Demonstrate ways to prevent the
transmission of germs (e.g. washing hands, using tissues).

• Germs viruses • Describe germs and other • Encourage safe • Identify ways germs
and bacteria. viruses/bacteria that spread healthy practices and bacteria spread
illnesses. amongst friends. disease and describe
• Ways of ways of preventing
preventing germs • Identify and explain • Keep community the spread.
transmission. community hygiene and surroundings clean
cleanliness practices. at all times.
• Basic individual,
family and • Research and report about
community health risk spots in the
cleanliness and community.
hygiene
• Create and design personal
practices. health charts of community
illnesses.

Unit 2: Protection against diseases
Lesson title: Causes of communicable (Infectious) diseases
Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.2.2 Explore and identify causes of common illnesses and
take action to promote behavior that reduces health risks.
Performance standard: 5.2.2c: Explain what communicable and
non-communicable diseases are and list ways to prevent catching them.
Lesson objective: The students can identify and describe the causes of
communicable diseases.
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Key concepts

• Communicable diseases are • Identify and describe • Take ownership to do
also called infectious communicable diseases. awareness on
diseases. communicable disease.
• Identify ways to prevent
• Communicable diseases are communicable diseases. • Willing to share information
spread through contact. on causes and prevention of
communicable disease.
Teacher’s notes
• Communicable diseases are also called Infectious diseases because

they are contagious and transmittable from one person to another.
• Communicable (Infectious) diseases are spread through small living
organisms such as worms, insects, protozoa, fungi, bacteria and virus
which can invade our bodies and cause sickness.
• Common communicable disease include malaria, diarrhea, colds and
influenza and typhoid.
Communicable diseases: Transmission and prevention
How does it Sign and

Disease How is it caused? How is it prevented?
spread? symptoms
Mosquito bites and By Anopheles Fever, Sleep under
inject microbes called mosquitoes that headaches, insecticide-treated bed nets. Try
protozoa into usually bite at night. vomiting. to avoid being bitten. Remove
Malaria
bloodstream. mosquito breeding places.
Anti-Malaria medicine.
Virus or bacteria Flies, food and Boil drinking water, wash hands
through ingested food water. after using toilet, wash hands
Diarrhea or water. before preparing and before
eating food.
Microbes such as Droplets in the air Runny nose, Cover mouth when coughing
Colds viruses when breathed. when people cough cough, sore or sneezing. Keep five meters
or sneeze. throat, away from infected people.
and
headaches,
influenza temperature.
Bacteria ingested Food and water, Vomiting and Good hygiene and sanitation.
through mouth with flies, contact with diarrhea.
Typhoid
food or drink. feces.
Resource materials: “Drugs of Addiction in Papua New Guinea” Richard

Jones: Health for the Pacific Series, Oxford University Press 2011. Pages
1-2-3.
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Parts of a lesson Teacher's activity Student's activity

Ask students: Provide oral answers
Introduction a) To identify some diseases they know.
b) Describe what can happen to someone who has that
5 minutes disease.
Activity 1: Group activity Provide oral answers

Define communicable diseases.
Identify two communicable diseases and describe how they
are caused.
Body Identify ways to prevent them.
20 minutes
Activity 2: Group activity
Discuss the slogan “Prevention is better than cure” and
explain what it means.
Stress to students that; Provide oral answers

Conclusion Most Communicable diseases can be prevented. Remember
5 minutes that “Prevention is better than cure.”
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Lesson title: The causes of the communicable diseases

Performance standard 5.2.2c: Explain what communicable and
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Key concepts

• Communicable diseases are • Identify and • Be alert and • Explain the
transmitted through direct describe some hygiene conscious differences
contact with and infected known at all times in between
individual. communicable public places. communicable and
• Non-communicable diseases diseases. non-communicable
• Share with others diseases.
are medical conditions and • Describe processes knowledge and
diseases that are not caused of prevention good practices
by infectious agents methods for that promote
• Differentiate between communicable and healthy lifestyle
communicable and non-communicable free of illness.
non-communicable diseases. diseases.
• Prevention of • Discuss the

communicable and importance of
non-communicable diseases. promoting reduction
of health risks.

Lesson title: The causes of the non-communicable diseases

Key concepts

• Communicable diseases are • Identify and describe • Be alert and • Explain the
transmitted through direct some known hygiene differences
contact with and infected communicable conscious at all between
individual. diseases. times in public communicable and
• Non-Communicable diseases places. non-communicable
• Describe processes
are medical conditions and of prevention • Share with diseases.
diseases that are not caused methods for others
by infectious agents.
communicable and knowledge and
• Differentiate between non-communicable good practices
communicable and diseases. that promote
non-communicable diseases. healthy lifestyle
• Discuss the free of illness.
• Prevention of communicable importance of
and non-communicable promoting reduction
diseases. of health risks.
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Lesson title: Ways to fight these diseases Time: 30 minutes

Key concepts

• Communicable diseases • Identify and describe • Be alert and • Explain the
are transmitted through some known hygiene differences between
direct contact with and communicable conscious at all communicable and
infected individual. diseases. times in public non-communicable
places. diseases.
• Non-Communicable • Describe processes
diseases are medical of prevention • Share with others
conditions and diseases methods for knowledge and
that are not caused by communicable and good practices
infectious agents. non-communicable that promote
diseases. healthy lifestyle
• Differentiate between free of illness.
communicable and • Discuss the
non-communicable importance of
diseases. promoting reduction
of health risks.
• Prevention of
communicable and
non-communicable
diseases.

Lesson title: Ways to prevent malaria Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.2d: Discuss how to prevent malaria/tuberculosis/
diabetes and take actions to protect themselves.
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Key concepts

• Common diseases, • Identify and describe • Encourage • Describe how other
malaria, tuberculosis, various symptoms of the 3 community to forms of sickness
diabetes. diseases. work together to and diseases are
fight TB, malaria caused and
• Prevention strategies • Interview health workers
and diabetes. recommend ways
for malaria, in the community on what
to avoid their
tuberculosis and causes these illnesses. • Make every day spread.
diabetes. a campaign day
• Describe strategies for
to promote the
• Population infected by caring for those affected
eradication of TB,
malaria, tuberculosis, by these diseases.
malaria and
diabetes. diabetes.

Lesson title: Ways to prevent tuberculosis

Key concepts

• Common diseases, • Identify and • Encourage • Describe how other
malaria, describe various community to forms of sickness and
tuberculosis, symptoms of the 3 work together to diseases are caused
diabetes. diseases. fight TB, malaria and recommend ways to
and diabetes. avoid their spread.
• Prevention • Interview health
strategies for workers in the • Make every day
malaria, community on what a campaign day
causes these to promote the
tuberculosis and
illnesses. eradication of TB,
ndiabetes.
malaria and
• Population infected • Describe strategies diabetes.
by malaria, for caring for those
affected by these
tuberculosis,
diseases.
diabetes.
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Lesson title: Ways to prevent diabetes

Key concepts

• Common diseases, • Identify and describe • Encourage • Describe how other
malaria, tuberculosis, various symptoms of the community to forms of sickness and
diabetes. 3 diseases. work together to diseases are caused
fight TB, malaria and recommend ways
• Prevention strategies • Interview health and diabetes. to avoid their spread.
for malaria, workers in the
tuberculosis and community on what • Make every day
ndiabetes. causes these illnesses. a campaign day
to promote the
• Population infected • Describe strategies for eradication of
by malaria, caring for those affected TB, malaria and
tuberculosis, by these diseases. diabetes.
diabetes.

Unit 3: Healthy environment
Lesson title: Improved toilet facilities Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.2.3: Assess unsafe situations in the community and take
actions to reduce harm and promote health.
Performance standard 5.2.3a: Survey the community for toilets and rubbish
disposal and recommend ways to make them more hygienic.
Lesson objective: The students can learn proper ways to use toilets and
identify ways to improve toilet building and caring for the facility.
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Key concepts
Knowledge Skill Attitudes/Values

• Toilet is a building where we use • Identify proper places to build a • Develop a sense of caring
to excrete feces. toilet suitable for the for toilet facilities.
community setting.
• There are two types of toilets
used in PNG - pit and flush • Improve and keep toilet
toilets. facilities clean.
• Importance of proper toilet

places.
Resource materials: Toilet diagram
Teacher's notes
Types of toilets in PNG – Pit toilets and Flush toilets

• Pit toilets are small outdoor huts which are built for the disposal of
human waste (excrete feces and urine).
• In modern buildings and houses, toilets are built indoors. Flush

toilets serve as an indoor removal system for human waste. Waste
water is drained out from the toilet through pipes into a sewer or
septic tank through the sewage disposal.
• How to care for the toilet - refer to Appendix.
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Lesson parts Teacher's activities Student's activities

Ask students questions on the use of toilets • Responding to the teacher.
a) What is a toilet?
Introductions b) What types of toilets do we have in the
5 minutes school?
c) How do the school toilets look now?
Toilet is a building where we use to excrete • Copy the notes.

feces.
Activities
• Think about ways to look after the toilet. • Clean the toilet area.
Body
• How can we improve toilet facilities? • Use toilet wisely.
20 minutes
• Request the Board of
Management to purchase toilet
materials.
Conclusion • Why is using toilet very important? • We would not walk on human
feces.
5 minutes
Teacher's reflections/evaluation
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Strand 2: Individual and community health Unit 3: Healthy environment
Lesson title: Proper rubbish disposal in the community Time: 30 minutes
Content standards 5.2.3: Assess unsafe situations in the community and take
action to reduce harm and promote health.
Performance standard 5.2.3a: Survey the community for toilets and rubbish
pits and recommend ways to make them more hygienic.
Key concepts

• Community toilets • Discuss and negotiate with • Promote healthy • Differentiate the
and rubbish pits community leaders to lifestyle activities for types of toilets
survey. promote safe ways to dispose health. and describe how
rubbish. to care for each
• Community • Encourage the type of toilet.
hygiene • Describe rubbish disposal public to dispose
strategies. strategies. rubbish/away from
community markets,
• Community health • Organize and liaise with schools shops,
promotion community to plan health risk villages etc.
strategies. management meetings.
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Lesson title: Warning labels on unsafe areas
Performance standard 5.2.3b: Organize sign boards and notices to warn the
public about unsafe areas in the community.
Key concepts

• Safety signs and • Discuss create and design • Encourage all to • Draw signs and
symbols for safe safety signs for various practice safe write warning labels
environment. unsafe and safe environment to warn people
environments. behaviors in the about an unsafe
• Signs for unsafe schools, homes area in your school,
environment. • Identify strategies to and communities. an unsafe practice
or a warning sign
advocate safety signs at
• Appreciate the about a poisonous
• Poisonous plants, home, schools, and
safety sign and plant, liquid or
liquids and food/fish communities.
ensure they are animal.
in the home or
community. not destroyed.
• Describe and create a
healthy environment kit for
the home/school and
community.

Lesson title: Ways to reduce unsafe areas Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.2.3b: Organize sign boards and notices to warn the
public about unsafe areas in the community.
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Key concepts

• Safety signs and • Discuss, create and design • Encourage all to • Draw signs and write
symbols for safe safety signs for various practice safe warning labels to
environment. unsafe and safe environment warn people about an
environments. behaviors in the unsafe area in your
• Signs for unsafe school, an unsafe
schools, homes
environment. • Identify strategies to practice or a warning
and communities.
• Poisonous advocate safety signs at sign about a
home, schools, and • Appreciate the poisonous plant,
plants, liquids
communities. safety sign and
and food/fish liquid or animal.
ensure they are
in the home or
• Describe and create a healthy not destroyed.
community.
environment kit for the home/
school and community.

Lesson title: Community cleaning day
Performance standard 5.2.3c: Plan and organize awareness on the need to
keep the community healthy, safe and clean.
Key concepts

• Community health • Discuss and illustrate • Appreciate having a • Plan an awareness
awareness. healthy community healthy safe of a health issue
awareness posters. environment. to address in the
• Safe clean school.
community. • Identify spots in the • Be responsible for your
community to conduct own rubbish in public
awareness meetings. places.

Unit 3: Healthy environment Lesson title: Safe and clean water source
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Key concepts

• Community • Discuss and illustrate • Appreciate having a • Plan an awareness
health healthy community healthy safe environment. of a health issue
awareness. awareness posters. to address in the
• Be responsible for your school.
• Safe clean • Identify spots in the own rubbish in public
community. community to conduct places.
awareness meetings.

Lesson title: Clean and safe places in the community
Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Community health • Discuss and illustrate • Appreciate having a • Plan an awareness
awareness. healthy community healthy safe of a health issue
awareness posters. environment. to address in the
• Safe clean community. school.
• Identify spots in the • Be responsible for
community to conduct your own rubbish in
awareness meetings. public places.

Lesson title: Provide house and public bins Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.2.3d: Discuss how to keep the environment neat
and clean in their home and community.
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Key concepts

• Clean environment. • Identify strategies and • Encourage clean • Do a pamphlet or
stage clean home, environment brochure on how to
• Strategies for community and practices. manage waste for e.g.
maintaining clean school competition. the use of the 3 R
homes, community • Appreciate each processes:
and school. • Write up an action other’s efforts to • Reduce
plan on how to maintain keep the • Reuse and
• Managing waste cleanliness in the community, home/ • Recycle
using the 3 R school and present to school clean.
processes: Reduce, the class.
Reuse and Recycle.

Lesson title: Ways to manage waste Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.2.3d: Discuss how to keep the environment neat
and clean in their home and community.
Key concepts

• Clean environment. • Identify strategies and • Encourage clean • Do a pamphlet or
stage clean home, environment brochure on how to
• Strategies for community and practices. manage waste for
maintaining clean school competition. e.g. the use of the 3
homes, community R processes:
• Appreciate each
and school. • Write up an action other’s efforts to • Reduce
plan on how to keep the community, • Reuse and
• Managing waste maintain cleanliness home/school clean. • Recycle
using the 3 R in the school and
processes: Reduce, present to the class.
Reuse and Recycle.
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Strand 2: Individual and community health Unit 4: Health services
Lesson title: Name various NGOs Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.2.4: Identify health services and products in the

community and plan ways to assist and care for the services.
Performance standard 5.2.4a: Identify various organizations in the
community such as Red Cross or other NGOs and discuss their roles in
improving health.
Key concepts

• Important global • Research and report the • Appreciate national • Research about an
organizations various organizations and global NGO and discuss
involved in healthy involved in global health organizations that how their role has
nation activities. services. provide health contributed in
• Roles of NGOs and • Identify and describe the services. improving the health
government bodies roles of non-government services in the
• Share knowledge of
that provide public and government community.
healthy communities
health services. organizations to deliver with one another.
health services.

Lesson title: Name various NGOs Time: 30 minutes

improving health.
Key concepts

• Important global • Research and report the • Appreciate national • Research about
organizations various organizations and global an NGO and
involved in healthy involved in global health organizations that discuss how their
nation activities. services. provide health role has
services. contributed in
• Roles of NGOs and • Identify and describe the
improving the
government bodies roles of non-government • Share knowledge of health services in
that provide public and government healthy communities
the community.
health services. organizations to deliver with one another.
health services.
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Lesson title: Roles of NGOs in the community Time: 30 minutes
Content standards 5.2.4: Identify health services and products in the

improving health.
Key concepts

• Important global • Research and report • Appreciate national • Research about an
organizations involved the various and global NGO and discuss
in healthy nation organizations organizations that how their role has
activities. involved in global provide health contributed in
health services. services. improving the health
• Roles of NGOs and services in the
government bodies • Identify and describe • Share knowledge of community.
that provide public the roles of healthy communities
health services. non-government and with one another.
government
organizations to
deliver health
services.

Lesson title: Immunization clinics Time: 30 minutes
Content standard (CS) 5.2.4: Identify health services and products in the
Performance standard (PS) 5.2.4b: Explain what immunization is and
suggest ways to encourage parents with young children to attend
immunization clinics.
Lesson objective: The student can describe what immunization clinics

are and state the importance of immunization clinics.
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Key concepts

• Immunization is the process whereby a • List the • Being responsible by advising
person is made immune or resistant to importance of their parents to bring babies to
infectious diseases, by giving him/her the immunization clinics to get immunized.
vaccines. clinics.
• Appreciate the benefits of
• Benefits of immunization is to protect immunization.
yourself and those around you from
diseases.
Resource materials: Junior Primary Teacher's Guide, immunization

charts, pamphlets.
Teacher's notes (Background Information)
Immunization is one of the best ways to protect yourself, your children

and safeguard the health of future generations. It remains the safest and
most effective way to stop the spread of many of the world’s most
infectious diseases.
Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or

resistant to infectious diseases, by giving him/her the vaccines. The two
most important reasons for immunization are:
1. Safest and most effect way of giving protection against the disease.
(to protect yourself)
2. If enough people in the community are immunized, the infection can

no longer spread from person to person and the disease dies out
altogether. (To protect those around you.)
Why children need to be immunized?

Immunization prevents children from becoming ill with unpleasant and
serious infectious diseases, which have a high risk of complications and
long-term side effects. Until these diseases are eradicated, every child
that is not immunized is at the risk of complications if they catch the
actual infectious disease itself.
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Part of the lesson Teacher's activities Student's activities

• Tell children to sing a song. • Sing ’Head and shoulders'
• Ask children to check their friend’s arms. • Check friend’s immunization scars.
What can they see?
Introduction
• Introduce the lesson title and lesson
5 minutes objective.
• Ask children to raise hands if they’ve

received immunization already.
• Explain this to the children: • Listen attentively.

- what immunization is and its importance.
• Children describe what is on the
• Show the immunization chart to the chart.
children.
Body • Children listen.
20 minutes
• Possible answers: treat sick
children, give vaccines to babies
and young children, travel to
communities giving
immunizations.
Summarize • Protects us from diseases.

• What is immunization?
Conclusion • I will turn to get sick often.
5 minutes • What will happen if you don’t get
immunized?
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Lesson title: Immunization clinics

Performance standard 5.2.4b: Explain what immunization is and suggest
ways to encourage parents with young children to attend immunization clinics.
Key concepts

• Importance of • Identify and • Encourage • List the reasons for
immunization. discuss different mothers to visit immunization programs for
immunization immunization young children.
• The impacts of injections. clinics.
immunization in an • Produce posters to show the
individual child’s life. • Research and • Appreciate free importance of immunization
describe how health services. clinics.
immunization
prevents illness in • State two reasons and justify
early age. why immunization clinics are
important.

Lesson title: Life skills: Goal setting plans for parents to attend clinics

Performance standard 5.2.4b: Explain what immunization is and suggest
ways to encourage parents with young children to attend immunization clinics.
Key concepts

• Importance of • Identify and • Encourage • List the reasons for
immunization. discuss different mothers to visit immunization programs for
immunization immunization young children.
• The impacts of injections. clinics.
immunization in an • Produce posters to show the
individual child’s life. • Research and • Appreciate free importance of immunization
describe how health service. clinics.
immunization
prevents illness in • State two reasons and justify
early age. why immunization clinics are
important.
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Lesson title: The health products at local clinics Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.4c: Identify the range of health products available
at the local chemist or stores under categories such as medicines, personal
hygiene products, first aid items.
Key concepts

• Health products • Identify the • Assist others around you • Identify one traditional and
for different age different uses to use health products one modern health
groups. of healthcare carefully. product used by people
products. in your community and
• Health products • Appreciate healthcare describe how their purpose
for external use for • Explain how products for personal and how they are used.
male and female. health care can use and community
be obtained. cleanliness.
• Types of
healthcare • Describe and • Be fair and considerate
products and heir list names of in taking actions for
uses. healthcare healthy clean
products. environment.

Lesson title: Personal hygiene products Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.4c: Identify the range of health products available
at the local chemist or stores under categories such as medicines, personal
hygiene products, first aid items.
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Key concepts

• Health products • Identify the different • Assist others around you • Identify one traditional
for different age uses of healthcare to use health products and one modern health
groups. products. carefully. product used by people
in your community and
• Health products • Explain how health • Appreciate healthcare describe their purpose
for external use care can be products for personal and how they are used.
for male and obtained. use and community
female. cleanliness.
• Describe and list
• Types of names of healthcare • Be fair and
healthcare products. considerate in taking
products and actions for healthy clean
heir uses. environment.

Lesson title: The role of ambulance services Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.4d: Explain the roles of health services such as
the ambulance service, clinics, aid posts.
Key concepts

• Health services and • Discuss and interview • Appreciate health • Explain the roles
roles of health workers. health workers in the services of health services
community. provided. such as the
• Types of health ambulance.
services provided with • Identify and name health • Encourage others
fee and without fee. services received from the to take ownership
government. of non-expansive
• Taking ownership of health services.
individual, family and • Identify conditions of
community health different types of health
services. services.
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Lesson title: The role of clinics and aid posts Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.2.4d: Explain the roles of health services such as
the ambulance service, clinics, aid posts.
Key concepts

• Health services and • Discuss and interview • Appreciate health • Explain the roles
roles of health workers. health workers in the services provided. of health
community. services such as
• Types of health services • Encourage others to the ambulance.
provided with fee and • Identify and name take ownership of
without fee. health services non-expansive health
received from the services.
• Taking ownership of
individual, family and government.
community health • Identify conditions of
services. different types of health
services.

Strand 3: Nutrition Unit 1: Food and growth
Lesson title: Junk foods Time: 30 minutes
Content standard: 5.3.1: Assess the nutritional value of different foods and
take action to promote healthy food choice.
Performance standard 5.3.1a: Identify junk food found in the school, canteen
village stores, and market and discuss its effects.
Lesson objective: By the end of the lesson, the students can: discuss
and list junk food. State their effect to the body and name healthy food to
replace them.
Key concepts

• A junk food is a term for cheap • Identify and list the different • Value local food as they are rich in
food containing high levels of types of junk foods. nutrients.
calories from sugar or fat with
little fibre, protein, vitamins or • Develop decisive and • Minimise consumption of junk
minerals. reasoning skills. foods.
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Resource materials: empty packets of junks e.g; Chocolate
Teacher's notes
Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food defines junk food as “those
commercial products, including candy, bakery goods, ice cream, salty
snacks and soft drinks which have little or no nutritional value but do have
plenty of calories, salt and fats." While not all foods from bakeries, stores
or fast food outlets are called junks foods, most products from these
places are junk foods. Fast foods are foods that are readily prepared food
for direct consumption after ordering. Ken Mighty Fried Chicken (KFC),
Big Rooster, fast-food outlets.
Examples of commonly known junk foods are, chewing gums, candy,

salted snack foods, fried food, sugary soft drinks and cakes.
Before the lesson, prepare pictures of some empty packets of junk food
like, candies, drinks, sweet snacks.

• Ask the children to: • Students respond to the teacher
Introduction - name their favourite store food. by naming their favourite store
- explain why they like the food. food and providing explanations
5 minutes to their answers.
• Explain junk food to the students:

A junk food is a term for cheap food
containing high levels of calories from
sugar or fat with little fibre, protein,
vitamins or minerals.
Activity 1:
Body Draw a table on the board. Name a junk
food and its effects then a healthy food to
20 minutes
replace it. • Complete the table in their
exercise books.
Healthy
Junk Food Bad effects
Food
Stick lollies Decay teeth Peanut
• Teacher and student do correction • Read your answers out for the
together on the board. teacher to correct.
Conclusion
5 minutes
• Recap on the main teaching points.
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Lesson title: Effects of eating too much junk food Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.3.1: Assess the nutritional value of different food and
take action to promote healthy food choices.
Performance standard 5.3.1a: Identify junk foods found in the school
canteen, village stores and market and discuss their effects.
Key concepts

• Types of food for • Display and discuss • Appreciate foods • Collect empty
healthy growth. pictures of foods that that promote good packets of junk food
haven for nutritional growth. or bad food and state
• Types of food that do value for physical one reason why it is
not promote healthy growth. • Share experiences
bad.
growth. from eating junk
• Describe in your foods.
• Different types of junk own words how to
food. choose nutritional
foods.

Lesson title: Making informed choices on Healthy foods to replace junk

food in a daily meal
Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.3.1: Assess the nutritional value of different food and
Performance standard 5.3.1a: Identify junk foods found in the school
canteen, village stores and market and discuss their effects.
Key concepts

• Types of food for • Display and discuss • Appreciate foods • Collect empty
healthy growth. pictures of foods that that promote packets of junk food
haven for nutritional good growth. or bad food and state
• Types of food that do
value for physical growth. one reason why it is
not promote healthy • Share experiences
bad.
growth. • Describe in your own from eating junk
words how to choose foods.
• Different types of junk
food. nutritional foods.
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Lesson title: Prepare a balanced meal Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.3.1: Assess the nutritional value of different foods and
Performance standard 5.3.1b: Prepare a balanced meal and discuss the
meal requirement of people with special nutritional requirements.
Key concepts

• Balanced Meals. • Identify foods for good • Share knowledge • Collect and analyze local
growth. about food with high foods and group them in
• Different foods nutritional value. the categories of energy,
with different • Describe nutritional protective and growth.
levels of values of food from • Appreciate garden
nutritional values. the garden, store etc. foods.
• Healthy food
choices.

Lesson title: Main nutrients in foods Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Balanced Meals. • Identify foods for • Share knowledge • Collect and analyze local
good growth. about food with high foods and group them in
• Different foods with nutritional value. the categories of energy,
different levels of • Describe nutritional protective and growth.
nutritional values. values of food from • Appreciate garden
the garden, store foods.
• Healthy food etc.
choices.
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Lesson title: Meal requirements of people with special nutritional needs
Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Balanced Meals. • Identify foods for good • Share knowledge • Collect and
growth. about food with high analyze local foods
• Different foods nutritional value. and group them in
with different • Describe nutritional the categories of
levels of nutritional values of food from the • Appreciate garden energy, protective
values. garden, store etc. foods. and growth.
• Healthy food
choices.

Lesson title: Goal setting for daily nutritional meals Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Balanced meals. • Identify foods for • Share knowledge about • Collect and analyze
good growth. food with high nutritional local foods and group
• Different foods value. them in the categories
with different • Describe nutritional of energy, protective
levels of nutritional values of food from • Appreciate garden foods. and growth.
values. the garden, store
etc.
• Healthy food
choices.
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Lesson title: Foods that have too much sugar Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.3.1c: Discuss health problems that result from bad
food choices and ways to prevent them.
Key concepts

• Effects of bad food • Identify strategies or • Encourage friends and • Describe diseases
choices. processes of food peers to choose food caused by eating
selection. carefully. unbalanced meals.
• Health problems
caused by different • Describe foods that • Share some experiences
types of food. cause health problems with others on different
in the body when types of food.
consumed.

Lesson title: Foods that have too much fats and oils Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Effects of bad food • Identify strategies • Encourage friends • Describe diseases
choices. or processes of and peers to choose caused by eating
food selection. food carefully. unbalanced meals.
• Health problems caused
by different types of • Describe foods • Share some
food. that cause health experiences with
problems in the others on different
body when types of food.
consumed.
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Lesson title: Ways that prevent having health problems associated with
junk food
Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Effects of bad food • Identify strategies or • Encourage friends • Describe diseases
choices. processes of food and peers to choose caused by eating
selection. food carefully. unbalanced meals.
• Health problems
caused by different • Describe foods that • Share some
types of food. cause health experiences with
problems in the others on different
body when types of food.
consumed.

Lesson title: What are processed foods? Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.3.1d: Identify and analyze key components of the
“Nutrition Facts” labels to the analysis of the local food collection.
Key concepts

• Nutritional facts about • Interpret • Appreciate foods • List 5 items sold at the
selected foods. nutritional fact with high nutritional school canteen or a local
charts. value. trade store and describe
• Differentiate between their nutritional values
local and processed • Identify foods • Share with friends and state whether they
foods and their that have high nutritional knowledge are healthy foods.
nutritional values. nutritional values about food.
for growth.
• Foods with high
nutritional values for
growth.
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Lesson title: Healthy and unhealthy processed foods Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Nutritional facts about • Interpret • Appreciate foods • List 5 items sold at
selected foods. nutritional fact with high nutritional the school canteen
charts. value. or a local trade store
• Differentiate between local and describe their
and processed foods and • Identify foods • Share with friends nutritional values and
their nutritional values. that have high nutritional state whether they
nutritional values knowledge about are healthy foods.
• Foods with high nutritional for growth. food.
values for growth.

Lesson title: Importance of the ‘Nutritional Facts’ on food labels
Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Nutritional facts about • Interpret nutritional • Appreciate foods • List 5 items sold at
selected foods. fact charts. with high nutritional the school canteen
value. or a local trade store
• Differentiate between • Identify foods that and describe their
local and processed have high • Share with friends nutritional values and
foods and their nutritional values nutritional state whether they are
nutritional values. for growth. knowledge about healthy foods.
food.
• Foods with high
nutritional values for
growth.
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Strand 3: Nutrition Unit 2: Food and hygiene
Lesson title: Making food products safe to eat Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.3.2: Describe the ways and reasons of keeping food
products safe to eat.
Performance standard 5.3.2.a: Identify how food products can be safe to
eat.
Lesson objective: the students can discuss ways of how they can make
food products safe to eat.
Key concepts

• Types of food products. • Identifying food products. • Practice hygienic habits.
• Ways of making food products safe • Discussing ways of making food • Being responsible.
to eat. products to be safe.
Resource materials: Junior Teacher Guide
Teacher's notes
There are many types of food products produced by a variety of

companies. These products need to be kept safe so that when taken, it
won’t cause any sickness to our body. Some of the types of food
products are: baby food, baked goods, beverages, breakfast foods,
canned (tinned meats, meats, sauces, spreads, jams, sea food, snack
foods soup and noodles, yeast etc.. These foods when opened for
eating need to be kept safe. Ensure that children are taught the right ways
of keeping these foods safe.

• Play ‘Simon Says’ • Children play ‘Simon Says’
• Ask children to name any food they ate • Children’s answer: rice, banana,
Introduction in morning. kaukau, tea, milk, bread.
5 minutes
• Introduce the lesson title and state the
objective of the lesson.
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Activity 1: • Children name them as you show
Show the children different types of food them.
product pictures or empty packets of these - tea bag, milk, coffee, biscuit.
products (empty box of tea bag, biscuit,
coffee, rice, chicken) • Discuss in pairs.
Activity 2:
Body
How do the packets help to preserve the
20 minutes foods inside?
• Ask children to discuss in pairs how
each one could be kept safe.
- Pack biscuits in a tight container
- Put sugar, coffee, milk in empty
peanut butter jars.
• Ask two pairs to present. • Children present.

- eg: Biscuits are put in an air tight
Conclusion container so they don’t get cold.
5 minutes - Baby food product should be
heated before feeding the baby.
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Lesson title: The appropriate package for a food product
Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.3.2a: Identify how food products can be safe.
Key concepts

• Various food • Identify and select food • Be concerned for • Produce a poster
products. products for safe others as well as with different
consumption. family and help methods of storing
• Safe food storing them understand and caring for baby
strategies to keep • Explain why food must be food care. food products.
food safe for kept safe before
consumption. consumption.
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Lesson title: Foods that go bad quickly Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.3.2b: Demonstrate ways to keep food safe to eat.
Key concepts

• Food Safety in the • Identify and describe good • Care for food • Identify and describe
homes and elsewhere. food storage strategies. in homes and three common
schools. practices of
• Strategies for food • Discuss and explain to keeping food safe in
storage. others the importance of the home.
keeping food.

Lesson title: Foods that can stay longer Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Food safety in the • Identify and describe good • Care for food • Identify and describe
homes and food storage strategies. in homes and three common
elsewhere. schools. practices of
• Discuss and explain to keeping food safe in
• Strategies for food others the importance of the home.
storage. keeping food.
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Lesson title: Foods that go bad quickly Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Food safety in • Identify and describe good food • Care for food • Identify and
the homes and storage strategies. in homes and describe three
elsewhere. schools. common practices of
• Discuss and explain to others keeping food safe in
• Strategies for food the importance of keeping food. the home.
storage.

Lesson title: Signs that tell that food is not safe to eat
Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.3.2c: Describe the effects of eating food products
that are bad/stale.

• Stale food • Fix and explain • Encourage and make • Discuss why it is
products. characteristic of stale food. awareness to family important to keep
and others about safe food safe and discuss
• Effects of • Describe the effects of consumption of food. the effects of eating
consuming stale food after unsafe food.
stale foods. consuming it.
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Lesson title: What can be done to prevent food from going bad?
Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard5.3.2c: Describe the effects of eating food products
that are bad/stale.
Key concepts

• Stale food • Fix and explain • Encourage and • Discuss why it is
products. characteristic of stale make awareness to important to keep food
food. family and others safe and discuss the
• Effects of about safe effects of eating unsafe
consuming stale • Describe the effects consumption of food.
foods. of stale food after food.
consuming it.

Lesson title: Effects of eating unsafe food Time: 30 minutes
that are bad/stale.
Key concepts

• Stale food • Fix and explain • Encourage and • Discuss why it is
products. characteristic of stale food. make awareness important to keep food
to family and safe and discuss the
• Effects of • Describe the effects of others about safe effects of eating unsafe
stale food after consumption of food.
consuming stale
food.
foods. consuming it.
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Lesson title: The expiry dates on food products Time: 30 minutes
that are bad/stale.
Key concepts

• Stale food products. • Fix and explain • Encourage and make • Discuss why it is
characteristic of stale awareness to family important to keep
• Effects of consuming food. and others about safe food safe and discuss
stale foods. consumption of food. the effects of eating
• Describe the effects unsafe food.
of stale food after
consuming it.

Strand 4: Safety and first aid Unit 1: Safety
Lesson title: Let’s keep ourselves safe when using pedestrian
Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.4.1: Demonstrate and evaluate strategies to deal with

unsafe and emergency situations in the community.
Performance Standard 5.4.1a: Identify ways to stay safe when crossing
streets, riding a bicycle or playing games.
Lesson objective(s): The students can describe some safe ways when
crossing the road.
Key concepts

• Pedestrian ways. • Apply ways of pedestrian. • Appreciation
• Safe side of pedestrian. • Avoid accidents. • Positive response.
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Teacher's notes
A pedestrian is a person moving on foot, whether walking or running.
a) Definition of pedestrian crossing b) Ways of keeping safe
A pedestrian crossing or crosswalk is a place Explain that pedestrians have to wait on the pavement until
designated for pedestrians to cross a road. all the traffic coming from both directions has stopped - only
Crosswalks are designed to keep pedestrians then is it safe to cross.
together where they can be seen by motorists, Explain that if there is an island in the middle of the road,
and where they can cross most safely across your child should treat each half of the crossing as a
the flow of vehicle traffic. separate crossing.
Pedestrians of all ages are at risk of injury or

death from traffic crashes, but some people are
at higher risk. Males pedestrians are more likely
to die or be injured in a motor vehicle crash
than females.
Introduction • Outline the lesson topic • Listen attentively
5 minutes
• Pedestrian is someone walking on foot • Copy the meaning in the book.
rather than on vehicle/riding.
e.g. bush trackers
Activities • Students responding with

Body
1. What do you think about pedestrian answers.
20 minutes walking on foot are they going to get
accidents on road?
2. List some ways pedestrians enjoy?
• Enjoy the activity.
• Teacher summarizes the lesson by • Student in pairs imagine

Conclusion recapping the topic. crossing the pedestrian as a
5 minutes car is approaching them.
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Lesson title: Safety on wheels; esp. bicycle, motorbike Time: 30 minutes
Content standards 5.4.1: Demonstrate and evaluate strategies to deal with

Performance standard 5.4.1a: Identify ways to stay safe when crossing
streets, riding a bicycle, or playing.
Key concepts

• Safety in moving • Discuss and • Be careful of self • Write safety rules and
across and along describe transport and other person’ precautions when on
the road. that is safe. safety when the Road, at sea, on the
using the roads at plane, etc.
• Safe road and • Identify safety road all times.
traffic rules. crossing rules. • Produce a poster with
pedestrian signs and
state meaning of the signs
used.

Lesson title: Life skill; Demonstrate effective communication to avoid

playing on the road
Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.4.1a: Identify ways to stay safe when crossing
streets, riding a bicycle, or playing.
Key concepts

• Safety in • Discuss and • Be careful of self • Write safety rules and
moving across describe transport and other person’ precautions when on the Road,
and along the that is safe. safety when at sea, on the plane, etc.
road. using the roads at
• Identify safety all times. • Produce a poster with
• Safe road and road crossing pedestrian signs and state
traffic rules. rules. meaning of the signs used.
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Lesson title: Warning signs and signals used by ambulance, police or

others
Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.4.1b: Display personal safety rules in different
situations such as warning signs and signals.
Key concepts
.

• Personal safety • Discuss the current safety rules • Appreciate safe road • Suggest healthy
rules. for crossing and moving along signs and signals. and safe practice
roads and how they can be at home /school.
• Warning signs improved.
and signals for • Identify signs and signals of road
safety. safety.
• Describe how safety road signs
help road users.

Lesson title: Fire safety - inside and outside the building
Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.4.1c: Describe safety hazards, including those
related to fire, water, and disasters. eg; floods, earthquake, volcano, landslide,
tsunami,
Key concepts

• Safety hazards from • Observe and identify safety • Share • Describe a safety
natural disasters. strategies for emergency knowledge strategy for a
disaster situations. about safety for hazard.
• Unsafe
various
emergency situations • Identify and describe
situations in the
during natural appropriate safety
community.
disasters. procedures for fire,water
another disasters.
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Lesson title: Water safety in different environments Time: 30 minutes

tsunami.
Key concepts

• Safety hazards • Observe and identify safety • Share knowledge • Describe a safety
from natural strategies for emergency about safety for strategy for a hazard.
disasters. disaster situations. various situations in
the community.
• Unsafe • Identify and describe
emergency appropriate safety
situations procedures for fire, water
during natural and other disasters.
disasters.

Lesson title: Applying survival swimming skills Time: 30 minutes

tsunami.
Key concepts

• Safety hazards from • Observe and identify • Share knowledge • Describe a safety
natural disasters. safety strategies for about safety for strategy for a
emergency disaster various situations in hazard.
• Unsafe emergency situations. the community.
situations during
natural disasters. • Identify and describe
appropriate safety
procedures for fire,
water another disasters.
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Lesson title: Applying safety procedures in unsafe natural disasters such

as floods
Time: 30 minutes

unsafe and emergency situations in the community
Performance standard5.4.1c: Describe safety hazards, including those re-
lated to fire, water, and disasters. eg; floods, earthquake, volcano, landslide,
tsunami,
Key concepts

• Safety hazards • Observe and identify safety • Share knowledge • Describe a safety
from natural strategies for emergency about safety for strategy for a
disasters. disaster situations. various situations in hazard.
the community.
• Unsafe emergency • Identify and describe
situations during appropriate safety
natural disasters. procedures for fire,
water and another
disasters.

Lesson title: Safety plan to avoid danger Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.4.1d: Explain the importance of following safety
instructions and wearing safety gears.
Key concepts

• Importance and • Explain how safety • Be concerned for • Describe an emergency
use of safety gear. gears are used to the safety of drill for an emergency
assist in emergency others and self when situation.
• Recognize situations. involved in unsafe
instructions for situations.
safety in various • Discus and draw up a
situations safety plan on how and
including what to do around a
emergencies. danger spot.
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Lesson title: The importance of wearing safety gears
Time: 30 minutes

Performance standard 5.4.1d: Explain the importance of following safety
instructions and wearing safety gears.
Key concepts

• Importance and use • Explain how safety • Be concerned for • Describe an emergency
of safety gear. gears are used to the safety of drill for an emergency
assist in emergency others and self situation.
• Recognize situations. when involved in
instructions for safety unsafe situations.
in various situations • Discus and draw up
including a safety plan on
emergencies. how and what to
do around a danger
spot.

Lesson title: Unconsciousness and fainting Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.4.2: Demonstrate how to provide care and manage risks
in responding to unsafe or risky situations and behavior.
Performance standard 5.4.2a: Apply basic first aid to accidents at school.
Lesson objective(s): The students can be able to:

• define unconsciousness
• demonstrate basic first aid to a person who is unconscious and
fainting.
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Key concepts

• Unconsciousness is when a • Assess and analyzing the • Being alert and ready to
person suddenly becomes unable kind of emergency respond to emergencies.
to respond to stimuli and appears (unconscious and fainting).
to be asleep. • Eagerness to help others with
• Demonstrate the first aid love and care.
• Know the basic first aid procedures.
procedures on unconscious and
fainting casualties.
Teacher's notes
Unconsciousness is when a person suddenly becomes unable to respond

to stimuli and appears to be asleep. A person maybe unconscious for a
few seconds or longer. People who are unconsciousness don’t respond to
loud sounds or shaking. They may even stop breathing or their pulse may
become faint.
Unconsciousness can occur due to illness or injury or complications from

drug use or alcohol abuse.
A person may become temporarily unconsciousness (faint) when sudden

changes occur within the body. Common causes of temporary
unconsciousness include;
• Low blood sugar
• Low blood pressure
• Dehydration
• Problems with the heart.
Administering first aid

If you see a person who has become unconscious, take these steps:
• Check whether the person is breathing. If they are not breathing call
for help. If they are breathing, position the person on the back.
• Raise the person’s legs at least 12 inches above the ground.
• Loosen any restrictive clothing or belts. If the person doesn’t regain

consciousness within one minute, call for help.
• Check the person’s airway to make sure there’s no obstruction.
• Check again to see if the person is breathing, coughing, or moving.

These are signs of positive circulation. If the signs are absent,
perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation until help arrives.
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Parts of the lesson Teacher's activities Student's activities

• Drill the students on the definition of • Listen and copy notes
Introduction unconscious and fainting and explain what is
to be demonstrated on the procedures
6 minutes written on each flash cards.
• Divide students into the number of steps/ • Move into groups according
procedures to be followed. to the number of procedures
and practice what is written
• Allow students to demonstrate the on each flash card.
procedures and rotate in their groups.
i) Check airway, breathing and pulse. • Turn and flip the flash card to
ii) Loosen clothing around the neck, chest another until they complete
and waist and ensure that plenty of fresh all the procedures.
air is available.
iii) Lay child in the recovery position –
preferably with the lower part of the body
Body slightly raised above the head. This will
19 minutes ensure that vomit or saliva does not flow
into the lungs. Do not provide pillows and
keep the head flexed slightly backwards.
iv) Cover with a blanket and stay with the
child until medical help arrives. Never
leave an unconscious child unattended.
v) If consciousness returns, speak
reassuringly to the child, moisten his/her
lips and prevent him from hurting himself/
herself. Do not attempt to give a drink to
an unconscious child.
Conclusion • Give time for students to copy all the • Copy procedures written
procedures. form all the flash cards.
5 minutes
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Strand 4: Safety and first aid Unit 2: First aid
Lesson title: Basic first aid for bleeding Time: 30 minutes
Content standard 5.4.2: Demonstrate how to provide care and manage risk in
responding to unsafe or risky situations and behavior.
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Key concepts

• Procedures of • Discuss and identify • Show a caring • Role play in pairs how
basic first aid. materials used in attitude when first aid is applied to an
applying first aid. attending to an unconscious person.
• Types of accidents injured person.
at school. • Discuss and
demonstrate
application of first aid
through role plays.

Lesson title: Basic first aid for bone fractures Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Procedures of • Discuss and identify • Show a caring attitude • Role play in pairs
basic first aid. materials used in when attending to an how first aid is
applying first aid. injured person. applied to an
• Types of unconscious
accidents at • Discuss and person.
school demonstrate
through role plays.

Lesson title: Basic first aid for snake bite Time: 30 minutes
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Key concepts

• Procedures of basic • Discuss and identify • Show a caring • Role play in pairs
first aid. materials used in applying attitude when how first aid is
first aid. attending to an applied to an
• Types of accidents injured person. unconscious person.
at school. • Discuss and demonstrate
through role plays.

Lesson title: Treatment for dog bite Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Procedures of basic • Discuss and identify • Show a caring • Role play in pairs
first aid. materials used in attitude when how first aid is
applying first aid. attending to an applied to an
• Types of accidents at injured person. unconscious person.
school. • Discuss and
demonstrate
through role plays.

Lesson title: Basic first aid for choking Time: 30 minutes
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Key concepts

• Procedures of • Discuss and identify • Show a caring • Role-play in pairs
basic first aid. materials used in applying attitude when how first aid is
first aid. attending to an applied to an
• Types of injured person. unconscious
accidents at • Discuss and demonstrate person.
school. application of first aid
through role plays.

Lesson title: First aid procedures in drowning Time: 30 minutes
Performance standard 5.4.2b: Apply basic first aid procedures in unsafe
situations such as marine environment.
Key concepts

• Basic first aid • Discuss and identify • Appreciate the marine • Describe a basic first
procedures on unsafe situations in environment but also aid treatment for a bite
common marine marine environment. make awareness to related to a marine/land
injuries. others about unsafe animal.
• Demonstrate first situations that can be
• Unsafe situations aid procedures on encountered.
in marine persons stung by
environment. jelly fish.

Lesson title: Use basic first aid treatment for bites related to marine
animals.
Time: 30 minutes
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Key concepts

• Basic first aid • Discuss and identify • Appreciate the marine • Describe a basic first
procedures on unsafe situations in environment but also aid treatment for a
common marine marine environment. make awareness to bite related to a
injuries. others about unsafe marine/land animal.
situations that can be
• Demonstrate first aid
• Unsafe situations encountered.
procedures on persons
in marine stung by jelly fish.
environment.

Lesson title: Use basic first aid treatment for bites to related marine
plants
Time: 30 minutes
Key concepts

• Basic first aid • Discuss and identify • Appreciate the marine • Describe a basic
procedures on unsafe situations in environment but also first aid treatment
common marine marine environment. make awareness to for a bite related
injuries. others about unsafe to a
• Demonstrate first aid marine/land
situations that can be
• Unsafe situations in procedures on persons animal.
stung by jelly fish. encountered.
marine environment.

Lesson title: Treatment for eye Time: 30 minutes
Content standard (CS) 5.4.2: Demonstrate how to provide care and manage
risk in responding to unsafe or risky situations and behaviour.
Performance standard (PS) 5.4.2c: Apply basic first aid to care and manage
the injuries.
Lesson objective(s): The students can apply basic first aid and care to
minor injuries that happen at school.
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Key concepts

• Ways of managing eye • Use basic first aid skills. • Take care of the eye.
wounds.
• Identifying ways of managing • Personal responsibility.
• Ways of managing a foreign foreign object.
object in the eye. • Appreciate your good
eyesight.
Resource materials:
Junior Health trs Syllabus, Basic First Aid in PNG, by Andrew Solien, page
24- 25.
Teacher's notes
The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure. It is a very
sensitive organ that allows humans to see. Care must be given for our
eyes which enables us to see the beauties of this world. Many times,
when we work we encounter problems or injuries. Some of these injuries
could be minor while others could be permanent.
If a foreign object enters your eye, it is wiser to visit an eye clinic or an

urgent care centre for advice. More injury to your eye could be caused if
you attempt to remove the object yourself or if you rub your eye. If
possible, try loosely taping a paper cup or eye shield over your eyes for
protection then seek help.

• Start the lesson by asking all the students to do • Follow teachers instructions.
the following:
1. Close their eyes
2. Show different items (at least 5) to the class
Introduction and tell them to name the item (do not
5 minutes describe the item)
3. Open their eyes and confirm.
• Introduce the lesson title and lesson objective.
• Explain the treatment of minor injuries to the

eyes.
• Students in pairs check the eyes of their partner
Body and describe what is seen. • For each activity the student
will explain how to manage
20 minutes Activity 1: Fli in the eye the problem.
Activity 2: An object in the eye
Activity 3: An object cut the eye and bleeding.
• Emphasis to the students that the eye is the • Briefly say how they will
Conclusion delicate part of the body which needs special care for the eye if there is a
5 minutes care as it is useful to our lives. foreign object in the eye.
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Lesson title: Treatment for head injury Time: 30 minutes
Content standard (CS) 5.4.2: Demonstrate how to provide care and manage
the injuries.
Key concepts

• First aid for various • Identify and describe first • Encourage friends • Describe a basic
types of injuries. aid procedure performed and others to be first aid care to treat
for various injuries to parts aware of safety and manage a minor
• Care and manage of the body. when engaged in injury.
injuries. various activities.
• Explain care of common
injuriesDescribe how to
manage common injuries.

Lesson title: Treatment for mouth injury Time: 30 minutes
responding to unsafe or risky situations and behaviour.
Performance standard 5.4.2.c: Apply basic first aid to care and manage the
injuries.
Key concepts

• First aid for • Identify and describe first • Encourage friends • Describe a basic
various types of aid procedure performed and others to be first aid care to treat
injuries. for various injuries to parts aware of safety and manage a minor
of the body. when engaged in injury.
• Care and various activities.
manage injuries. • Explain care of common
injuries describe how to
manage common injuries.
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Lesson title: Treatment for toothache Time: 30 minutes
Content standard (CS) 5.4.2 Demonstrate how to provide care and manage
the injuries.
Key concepts

• First aid for various • Identify and describe first • Encourage friends • Describe a basic
types of injuries. aid procedure performed and others to be first aid care to treat
for various injuries to parts aware of safety and manage a minor
• Care and manage of the body. when engaged in injury.
injuries. various activities.
• Explain care of common
injuries.
• Describe how to manage

common injuries.

Lesson title: Treatment for nose injury Time: 30 minutes
responding to unsafe or risky situations and behaviour.
Performance standard 5.4.2.c: Apply basic first aid to care and manage the
injuries.
Key concepts

• First aid • Identify and describe first • Encourage • Describe a basic
• for various types of aid procedure performed for friends and first aid care to treat
injuries. various injuries to parts of the others to be and manage a minor
• body. aware of safety injury.
• Care and when engaged in
• manage injuries. • Explain care of common various activities.
injuries.
• Describe how to manage

common injuries..
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Assessment and reporting

Assessment and reporting is an integral part of curriculum. Assessment
is the process of identifying, gathering and interpreting information about
students’ learning. It is administered to provide information on student’s
achievement and progress. It directs teachers teaching and how students
learn. Ongoing classroom assessment is done to:
• support students learning
• monitor students learning
• diagnose students learning needs
• evaluate teaching program and
• inform students reporting process.
In Standards Based Curriculum (SBC) assessment is focused on

achieving benchmarks and is also designed to measure and promote
standards for a range of purposes.
Benchmarks
The standards based curriculum introduces benchmarks, a form of
assessment which is established to qualify student attainments in the
subject. Benchmarks are derived from the curriculum content standards
highlighting the key set of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes a learner
must achieve at the end of a level of schooling in numeracy, literacy,
scientific and life skills.
The Health subject has benchmarks that determine how much the
students will achieve when they complete Grades 3, 4 and 5 Primary
level. This ensures the students to be able to use the knowledge, skills
and attitudes they have acquired in the Grades 3, 4 and 5 Primary and
guarantee their partway of learning the aspects of health education as
they progress onto the next level of schooling.
Types of assessment strategies and methods

Teachers are encouraged to use varieties of assessment methods when
assessing students learning. SBC specifically promotes three types of
assessment. These are assessment:
• for learning
• as and in learning and
• of learning.
Assessment as or in learning
Assessment as or in learning is conducted when teachers interact with
students and assess their participation in the learning activities. Teachers
must be prepared for assessment as or in learning in all learning
situations and use this approach where applicable.
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Assessment for learning

Assessment for learning occurs during the course of teaching. It is an
on-going assessment also known as formative assessment. It is used to
inform teachers on how much and how well teaching and learning
program has been taught. This assessment approach assists teachers to
identify students’ strengths and weaknesses in the content learned.
For example: In a week’s teaching of the unit,’’ the assessment task on
identifying the secondary changes of growth and development revealed
that most students lack the knowledge on identifying and describing the
different stages of growth and development. This evidence will enable the
teacher to plan effective remedial lessons and re-teach them to improve
on the weak areas.
Assessment of learning
Summative assessment takes place at the end of a unit of study in a term,
year or a program. It is used to provide information on student
achievements and on the effectiveness of the content.
For example: The teacher may want to evaluate his or her teaching in
term 1 on growth and development and questions the students on what
they learnt about growth and development in term1? The teacher can
then use the students’ responses to plan for revision on particular content
areas in preparation for the new content to be learned.
Assessment strategies
Assessment strategies are used by teachers to conduct or deliver the
assessment tasks planned for their students. There are many options for
teachers to choose to develop assessment strategies. The few listed
below are recommended for teachers to use to assess the students.
These include:
• oral presentations
• observation
• role plays
• written test
• group work
• practical activities.
Oral presentations
Teachers plan assessable tasks for individual students or groups to do
oral presentations. They can be done is various ways such as peer
teaching, group or class presentations. For example, a topic on lifestyle
diseases can be given to the students to carry out a research with guided
questions. A set of criteria can be provided to guide students and used
for assessing students accurately.
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Observation
To observe is to look and listen attentively to a student in order to make
an assessment of and about what they know, understand and can do.
Whilst in the process of observation teachers can ask questions on how
the student/s can work as a group or an individual to complete a given
task.
Role plays
Role plays are also used as assessment strategies to cater for students
with different abilities and talents. Students demonstrate the knowledge,
skills, attitudes and values in a form of role plays which enable them to
find learning more meaningful and enjoyable.
Test
Test is an assessment strategy used in relation to students’ performances
of learning formatively or summatively on the content of the learning the
students are undertaking or have undertaken in a unit.
Group work
Teachers are encouraged to organize assessable tasks to target group
work. This strategy will encourage fast, average and slow learners to
discuss ideas and learn from each other in groups. Ensure that every
student in the group is given a task and contributes in the group to
complete that task.
Practical activities
Practical activities may include for example, planning and preparing a
nutritious meal or applying Fist Aid procedures. Teachers are encouraged
to design appropriate checklists to use to guide them as well as students
to demonstrate the assigned practical activity. By doing so, interactive
learning is evident and as such students give constructive feedback on
each other’s performances.
Assessment tasks
Assessment tasks are learning activities created from the performance
standards. These are especially written and specifically designed and
planned before conducting any assessment. This particular activity has
key knowledge skills, attitudes and values that must be achieved at the
end of performing the assessable activities.
Teachers are the best assessors of students and must ensure that all
assessment tasks are:
• clearly stated for students to interpret
• linked to the content standards
• balanced, comprehensive, reliable and fair
• engages the learner.
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Grade 5 assessment tasks overview

Assessment is vital in teaching and learning of the content for Grade 5
students. Teachers are encouraged to develop their assessment
overviews for each term or year.
The suggested assessment tasks are written from the content standards
and listed performance standards to guide the teachers to develop their
own tasks. They are given as examples or you may want to adopt the
proposed assessment tasks shown below.
Table 1.1a: This assessment task has been taken out from the Grades
3, 4 and 5 Syllabus which will be used as a unit assessment.
Strand Unit Content standard Assessment task

5.1.1: Explore and identify 1. Identify the secondary changes
secondary changes at puberty of growth and development and
1. that are associated with growth recommend ways to improve
and development stages and their own developmental
My Body
discuss ways to address the changes.
related changes.
5.1.2: Develop strategies to 1. Identify situations in the home,

manage the influence of classrooms, schools and
2. individuals and groups on communities that encourage
Relationship attitudes and behaviors. positive attitudes and good
1. Growth and Development
behaviours.
5.1.3: Demonstrate an 1. Identify factors that influences

understanding of the the individual person’s identity.
importance of personal values, 2. Describe the difference between
3. attitudes and other influences moral behaviour and positive
Culture, Values that identify them as individuals.
attitude.
and Moral 3. Explain the benefits of having
positive relationships with family
and friends.
5.1.4: Demonstrate an 1. Identify and describe two types

understanding that setting goals of health jobs they know that
can further develop an exists in their homes, schools
4.
individual’s interest and ability and communities.
My career
to perform a particular activity
interests 2. Identify factors that influence the
or job.
decisions of people doing these
two jobs.
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5.2.1: Evaluate the impact of 1. Identify illegal drugs such as

harmful substances on young marijuana/alcohol and describe
1. people and take actions to their effects on personal health.
Alcohol and encourage healthy choices.
2. Explain why people take drugs
substance and other harmful substances
abuse and propose alternative solutions
to their problems.
2. Individual and Community Health
5.2.2: Explore and identify 1. Explain the differences between

causes of common illnesses communicable and
2. and take action to promote non-communicable diseases.
Protection behavior that reduces health
2. Describe how other forms of
against Disease risks.
sickness and diseases are
caused and recommend ways to
avoid spreading them.
5.2.3: Assess unsafe situations 1. Do a simple sign board about an

in the community and take unsafe situation at school or at
3.
action to reduce harm and home.
Healthy
promote health. 2. Plan an awareness of an issue to
Environment
address in the school.
5.2.4: Identify health services 1. List the reasons for immunization

and products in the community programs for young children.
4. and plan ways to assist and
Health Service 2. Explain the roles of health
care for the services.
services such as the ambulance.
5.3.1: Assess the nutritional 1. Collect and analyze local foods

value of different foods and take and group them in the categories
1.
action to promote healthy food of energy, protective and growth.
Food and choices.
3. Nutrition
2. Describe diseases caused by

Growth
eating unbalanced meals.
5.3.2: Describe the food groups, 1. Describe diseases that are

2. including recommended caused by not eating balanced
Food and portions to eat from each food meals.
Hygiene group.
5.4.1: Demonstrate and evaluate 1. Identify emergency situations and

strategies to deal with unsafe explain how to reduce risks.
4. Safety and First Aid
1.
and emergency situations in the
Safety
community.
5.4.2: Demonstrate how to 1. Write safety rules and

provide care and manage risk precautions when on the Road,
2.
in responding to unsafe or risky at sea, on the plane, etc.
First Aid situations and behaviour.
2. Suggest healthy and safe
practices at home and school.
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This assessment task can be used for short term assessment.
Table 1.1b: Proposed expanded assessment tasks - Grade 5
Term 1
Week Strand Unit Content standard Assessment tasks
1 Orientation
5.1.1: Explore and 1. Identify the secondary
2
identify secondary changes changes of growth and
at puberty that are development and
associated with growth and recommend ways to
3 My Body development stages and improve their own
discuss ways to address the developmental changes.
related changes.
4
1. Growth and development
5.1.2: Develop strategies 1. Identify situations in

5
to manage the influence of the home, classrooms,
individuals and groups on schools and community
6 Relationship that encourage
attitudes and behaviors.
positive attitudes and
7 good behaviors.
5.1.3: Demonstrate an 1. Identify factors that

8
understanding of the influences the individual
person’s identity.
importance of personal
values, attitudes and other 2. Describe the difference
Culture, Values influences that identify them between moral behavior
and as individuals. and positive attitude.
9 Morals 3. Explain the benefits of
having positive
relationships with family.
and friends.
10 Term one assessment week
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Term 2
1 Revision of term one

5.1.4: Demonstrate an 1. Identify and describe
2
understanding that setting two types of health jobs
goals can further develop they know that exists in
their homes, school and
development
an individual’s interest and

Growth and
3 ability to perform a particular communities.

My Career
activity or job.
1.
Interests
2. Identify factors that
influence the decisions
4 of people doing these
two jobs.
5.2.1: Evaluate the impact 1. Identify illegal drugs

5
of harmful substances on such as marijuana/
young people and take alcohol and describe
6
actions to encourage healthy their effects on personal
Alcohol health.
choices.
and
substance 2. Explain why people take
7 abuse drugs and other harmful
substances and propose
Individual and
alternative solutions to
Community
their problems.
Health
2.
5.2.2: Explore and identify 1. Explain the differences

8
causes of common illnesses between communicable
and take action to promote and non-communicable
behavior that reduces health diseases.
Protection
risks.
against 2. Describe how other
9 Disease forms of sickness and
diseases are caused
and recommend ways to
avoid spreading them.
10 Term two assessment week
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Term 3
1 Revision of term two

5.2.3: Assess unsafe 1. Do a simple sign board
2
situations in the community about an unsafe situation
and take action to reduce at school/ or at home.
Healthy harm and promote health.
3 2. Plan an awareness of an
Environment
issue to address in the
Individual and
school.
Community
Health
4
2.
5.2.4: Identify health 1. List the reasons for

5
services and products in the immunization programs
community and plan ways for young children.
Health to assist and care for the
Services services. 2. Explain the roles of
6
health services such as
the ambulance.
5.3.1: Assess the nutritional 1. Collect and analyze local

7
value of different foods foods and group them in
and take action to promote the categories of energy,
8
Nutrition
Food and healthy food choices protective and growth.

3.
Growth
2. Describe diseases
9 caused by eating
unbalanced meals.
10 Term three assessment week
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Term 4
1 Revision of term three

5.3.2: Describe the food 1. Describe diseases that
2
are caused by not eating
Nutrition
groups, including
Food hygiene recommended portions to balanced meals.
3.
3 eat from each food group.
5.4.1: Demonstrate and 1. Identify emergency

4
evaluate strategies to deal situations and explain
Safety with unsafe and emergency how to reduce risks.
5 situations in the community.
5.4.2: Demonstrate how to 1. Write safety rules and

6
Safety and
precautions when on
First Aid
provide care and manage

risk in responding to the road, at sea, on the
4.
7
unsafe or risky situations plane, etc.
8 and behavior.
First Aid 2. Suggest healthy and
safe practice at
home/school.
9
10 Term four assessment week
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Sample assessment task plans
These sample assessment tasks are given as examples for teachers to

either use or adjust to suit the learning needs of the students.
Sample assessment task 1

Recording
&
Content Performance Assessment Assessment Assessment
Reporting
Standard Standard/s Task Criteria Method
Method
5.1.3: Evaluate 5.1.1d: Explain Do a mini 1. Reasons on Work sample Comments

the impact of why people take research and the use of on the work
harmful drugs and other state reasons harmful drugs. sample
substances on harmful on the use of
young people substances and harmful drugs 2. Suggested
and take actions propose and suggest ways to
to encourage alternative ways to minimize the
healthy choices. solutions to their minimize use. use of harmful
problems. drugs.
3. Sound
knowledge,
skills, attitudes
and values on
the information
gathered.
4. Sources of
information to
support
findings.
5. Creativity.
Guided questions
1. What are harmful drugs?

2. Why do people take and use harmful drugs?
3. What are some possible ways to minimize the use of harmful drugs in our communities? List
down three or more.
4. In your own words, describe your understanding on your findings and how it is important to your
health and as a member in the school and the community at large.
5. Who has assisted you to gather your information? Where have you sourced your information?
How did you gather your information to answer the above questions?
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Sample assessment task plan 2
Recording
&
Reporting
Method
5.2.1: Assess the 5.2.1b: In groups plan 1. Correct steps Practical Checklist for
nutritional value Demonstrate and and prepare a in preparing group activity. individual
of different foods prepare a balanced meal the balance student
and take action balanced meal and explain meal. performance
to promote and write a report how it helps record and
healthy food to explain why it is the body. 2. Correct type of group
choices. important. food from the activity.
four groups of
food.
3. Correct
description of
the benefits of
eating
balanced
meals.
4. Group
organization
and behavior.
5. Individual
effort and
participation.
6. Creativity.
Note: This task will require time and resources. Ensure that prior preparations and ways to source
income to purchase food or other things are done smoothly and transparently. Safety and care in
handling equipment and hot objects are paramount in this practical activity.
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Sample assessment task plan 3

Recording
&
Reporting
Method
5.1.4: 5.1.4d: Identify Identify and 1. Correct Work sample Commenting

Demonstrate an and describe jobs describe the descriptions on students
understanding in the health jobs in the of jobs in the work sample
that setting goals sector that are health health sector produced.
can further linked to their sector or in or other
develop an interest and other related related
individual’s abilities. sectors to organizations.
interest and health linked to
their interest
ability to perform 2. Description
and abilities.
a particular and reasons
activity or job. on the choice
of job interest.
3. Photos or
illustrations to
support
findings.
4. Creativity.
5. Neatness.
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Work sample
Name: Class: Date: Marks: /15

1. Health sector or other related organizations descriptions
Names of jobs Descriptions of the jobs

1.
2.
3.
2. My interests and reasons

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………….
3. Photos or illustrations
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Reporting and recording

The reporting and recording of students achievements in the classroom
affirms both the teacher and students achievements in teaching and
learning. Reporting is communicating students’ achievements to their
parents and guardians, teachers, and others. Formal reporting through
written reports or interviews are done to inform parents and guardians of
their children’s learning progress and other related areas such as student
behaviours.
Evidence of students’ learning and behaviour can be accessed from the

students’ portfolios and in teacher’s personal records or files. Teachers
must ensure that the student has demonstrated and achieved the content
standards independently on a number of occasions.
Recording and reporting strategies
The types of strategies teachers may want to use in recording student

achievements must be precise and informative.
Some of the strategies suggested include:
Checklists of various kinds-(individual, group and class)
Journals
Anecdotal Notes
Samples of recording and reporting templates
Keeping informed records of student performances on formal recording

tools is very important both for the student, guardians, parents and
teachers of the next grade level. Some recording tools are shown below
as samples for teachers to use apart from those already in use. These are:
Sample: Anecdotal notes – Class Grid 5A
- record the dates of assessment tasks.

- write comments on the performance observed as per the criteria
given.
- one box is for a student.
- this same grid can be used for a term depending on the type and
number of assessment tasks prepared.
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Class 5A Anecdotal Notes- Group 1
May- 5.1.1 June July August September October
Kuma
29/05/17
AT 1
Performed C1 &2
satisfactorily
Areare
29/05/17
AT 1
Performed C1
satisfactorily but C1 was
incomplete
Konial
29/05/17
AT 1
Performed C2
satisfactorily but did not
attempt C1
Sample of individual checklist for several assessment tasks in a term

for a strand
Strand: Growth and development Marking code keys:

CS: 5.1.1 C: Competent PC: Partly Competent
Assessment task: Explore secondary changes at
puberty and discuss ways to address the related NC: Not Competent
changes.
Class List (Total number 1. Identify secondary 2. Recommend ways 3. Apply knowledge, skills,
of students on roll) changes of growth to improve own values and attitudes in
and development developmental real life situations
changes
1. Mathew
2. Ruth
3. Kila
4. Shalom
5. July
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A General Weekly Health Checklist for General Hygiene
Key: Clean: Untidy: X Needs improvement: 0
Week:
Finger
No. Names Body Hair Teeth Clothes Comments
nails
Paul Long nails
1 X
Saso Broken home
2 X X X X
Aiva
3
Junior
4
Pam
5
Evaluation
Assessment information can also be used by teachers to evaluate the

effectiveness and the quality of health lessons taught throughout the year.
Assessment information serves three purposes:

• to improve students’ learning
• to improve the quality of teaching
• to improve the content.
There are several ways to conduct evaluation; teachers are encouraged to

utilize appropriate methods to do their evaluations.
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Resources
1. Resources recommended in this Teacher Guide are documents issued
by the National Department of Education (NDOE), community
resources and materials published by other organizations and
commercial companies.
2. NDOE 1986 A Philosophy of Education for Papua New Guinea,

Ministerial Committee Report (P. Matane, chair), NDOE, Waigani
3. 2000 Primary Education Handbook (second edition), NDOE, Waigani.
4. Baker, C. 1996 Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism

(second edition), Multilingual Matters, Sydney
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Glossary
Health subject has words specific to the content of growth and
development, nutrition, Individual and community health and safety and
first aid. The words are taken from the subject content of learning for
Grade 5 Primary. The definitions are given here to assist with meanings to
help students as the need arises. The list is expandable according to the
students’ needs.
Word Definition
Asthma A disease of the respiratory system, sometimes caused by allergies, with
symptoms including coughing, sudden difficulty in breathing, and a tight
feeling in the chest.
Balance meals A meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) which consists of equal amount of food from
the four food groups.
Betelnut A nut of a palm tree that people in the tropics chew with mustard and lime.
Body features A part of the body that contributes to its distinct character, especially the
eyes, nose, or mouth.
Career Somebody's progress in a chosen job or during that person's working life.
Chronic disease Describes an illness or medical condition that lasts over a long period and
sometimes causes a long-term change in the body.
Courteous Polite in a way that shows consideration of others or good manners.
Decision making The process of making choices or reaching conclusions, especially on an
important political or business matters.
Diet A controlled intake of food and drink designed for weight loss, for health or
religious reasons, or to control or improve a medical condition.
Earthquake A violent shaking of the Earth's crust that may cause destruction to
buildings as results from the sudden release of tectonic stress along a fault
line or from volcanic activity.
Emergency drills An unexpected and sudden event that must be dealt with urgently.
Emotions A strong feeling about somebody or something.
Family values Group of people living together and functioning as a single household, usually
consisting of parents and their children and share same importance of
usefulness.
First aid Emergency medical treatment for somebody who is ill or injured, given before
more thorough medical attention can be obtained.
Floaters Somebody or something that is floating.
Food groups Grouping of food into categories especially the four food groups (High energy,
energy, and protein, protective.
Food poisoning Severe infection of the slippery tissue of the stomach and intestines caused
by eating food contaminated with toxic substances or with microorganisms
that generate toxins.
Gum The firm flesh that surrounds the roots of the teeth.
Grinding teeth The teeth that breaks up the solid food before swallowing .
Habits An action or pattern of behaviour that is repeated so often that it
becomes typical of somebody, although he or she may be unaware of it.
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Word Definition
Health record Keeping written documentation of the history of someone’s health
history.
Herbs A overpowering plant used fresh or dried for seasoning, for its medicinal
properties, or in perfumes.
Hygiene The practice or principles of cleanliness.
Injuries An instance of physical damage to a body part
e.g. a serious back injury.
Life jacket A sleeveless jacket made of light material or filled with air, used to keep
somebody afloat in water.
Molar teeth A large back tooth in humans and other mammals, used for chewing and
grinding. Human beings have twelve molars.
Morals Relating to issues of right and wrong and how individual people should be-
have.
Nutrients A substance that provides nourishment, e.g. the minerals that a plant takes
from the soil or the constituents in food that keep a human body healthy and
help it to grow.
Nutritional meals Food, or the minerals, vitamins, and other nourishing substances that food
contains in a breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Natural disasters A disaster caused by natural forces rather than by human action, e.g. an
earthquake.
Negotiation Skills The reaching of an agreement through discussion and compromise.
Oral health Relating to or belonging to the mouth. Eg tooth brushing, tooth medicine.
Polite Showing or possessing good manners or common courtesy.
Personality The somebody's attitudes and interests, behavioural patterns, emotional
responses, social roles, and other individual traits that endure over long
periods of time.
Positive behaviour Confident, optimistic, and focusing on good things rather than bad.
Physical changes Relating to the different stages of body growth.
Physical character Relating to the body physical differences in behaviour and appearance of a
person.
Quality food Food which is of high standard or good grade.
Regular meals Occurring in a fixed, unvarying, or predictable pattern, with equal amounts of
time or space between each meal.
responsibility The state, fact, or position of being accountable to somebody or for
something.
Roles The part played by somebody in a given social context, with any
characteristic or expected pattern of behaviour that it entails.
Role model A worthy person who is a good example for other people.
Safety signs Protection from, or not being exposed to, the risk of harm or injury.
Seat belts A strong strap or harness designed to keep the user securely in a seat in a
vehicle or aircraft.
Storage Space which is used to store things,
Teeth A hard whitish bony object inside a human or vertebrate animal's mouth, used
for biting and chewing food.
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Word Definition
Unconsciousness Unable to see, hear, or otherwise sense what is going on, usually
temporarily and often as a result of an accident or injury.
Utensils A tool or things , especially one used in a kitchen.
Values The worth, importance, or usefulness of something to somebody.
Volcano drill An emergency exercise conducted in preparation to respond to volcanic
erruption.
Warning labels A written piece of advice on poisonous or dangerous items that
persons must be careful of or to handle with care.
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Appendix
Background information
Human Development and Sexual Health classes help students learn

about the physical and emotional changes that will happen to them over
the next few years. For some students, this will be their first exposure to
the topic. Therefore, there may be some children who do not know basic
information and may be anxious about having to learn it.
Students may have different expectations about what will be discussed in

these classes. It is important for them to understand what the word
‘puberty’ means and why it is important to discuss this topic.
Teaching about puberty includes teaching about human sexuality. This

does not mean just teaching about how bodies change and function.
Human sexuality includes the following aspects: biological (sexual and
reproductive anatomy), psychological (mental health and self-esteem),
social (relationships and individual identity), spiritual (values and beliefs),
and behavioural (how we express our sexuality).
Key questions and answers
1. Why do you think we need to learn about puberty in school?”

• It is important for children to learn about puberty at this age because
it will help them understand the changes that are or will be
occurring, both within themselves and their peer group.
• Some students are going through puberty at a younger age than 20
years ago
2. What are some of the appropriate words used during the puberty
lessons?
• Be sure to use the more neutral words suggested. Avoid using
words like penis or vagina as the words may be offensive, and
sharing of childhood words may lead to embarrassment or ridicule.
• Being familiar with language that they can use in public is important
to enhance students’ sense of self. Because language is such a
powerful tool, it also helps them to develop greater confidence and
empowerment.
3. What are the stages of growth in human beings

• “During pregnancy – You start from a little dot this big (place a dot
on the board). This cell grows and multiplies in size many times over
nine months until the baby is ready to be born.”
• “Infancy – From the time of birth, the baby will grow quickly and
often triples its birth weight in the first year of life.”
• “Puberty – Height, weight, and body shape change rapidly as

children go through puberty.”
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Maintaining physical activity
i. Exercise regularly and continue daily activity
ii. Explain that it is important to maintain physical activity to:

• Improve blood circulation,
• Stimulate appetite and improve one’s mood,
• Burn fat to reduce chances of becoming overweight,
• Prevent stiffness of joints and muscle aches and wasting,
• Maintain and improve muscle tissue thickness.
iii. Ask the students to describe the kind of exercise shown in the
picture..
iv. Discuss with the students the kinds of exercises that they think they
could easily do:
• Taking short daily walks,
• Simple regular movements of the arms and legs for at least 10-15
minutes.
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Keeping Health Records for every person is very important. A health

record book is a must for a baby. This health record book has to be taken
to the clinic every month when checking their weight and growth and as
well as their wellness of growth. Keeping a consistent record helps to
indicate the growth rates and weights of a child and If they are not well
fed than their weight decreases.
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Four Food Groups
The four food groups are a simple way of putting the different nutrients
into main groups that will encourage people to include a variety of food in
their diet to meet their body nutrient needs.
Group 1: Staple (Energy)
Foods that contain a large amount of complex carbohydrate provide the

main basis of meals. Staple foods include; sweet potato, taro, rice, flour,
banana, sago, cassava, hard biscuit, potato etc. Provide energy to the
body for its daily process and for doing work.
Group 2: High Energy
Food that contain a large amount of fat or sugar.such as butter, cooking

oil, margarine, peanut butter, coconut cream, pork fat, sugar cane, sugar,
jam, honey. They are high in energy and provide the body about twice the
energy provided by staple foods.
Group 3: Protein (Body Building)
The main food in this group are meat, fish, milk, egg, bush animals, pork,
canned meat, chicken, peanut, beans, peas, pandanus and other nuts.
Helps the body build itself and replace new tissues and other building
blocks of the body.
Group 4: Vegetables and fruits (Protective food)
The most common vegetables eaten in PNG are, dark green leaves (ferns,
tulip, watercress, aibika, pumpkin leaves), tomatoes, cabbage, carrot,
pitpit, capsicum, corn.
The most common fruits in PNG are; mango, ripe banana, pineapple,
guava, pawpaw, oranges, mandarin, passion fruit, apple, rambutan, etc.
They are rich sources of vitamins and minerals. For example, mango is
rich in vitamin A and C. Provide more minerals and vitamins that are
essential for the general health of the body such as the immune system
and also involve in many of the body processes.
Water
Water is not a food group, but it is necessary for life because it helps the
body digest, absorb and transport nutrients and regulates body
temperature. People should drink at least 8 glasses (1.5 liters) of water a
day and even more when it is hot or they are doing heavy physical work
and sweating or suffering from diarrhoea, vomiting or fever. People can
also get water by drinking soups or fruit juices. Water for drinking, taking
medicines or making juices should always be boiled or treated with
chlorine tablet to make it safe.
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Other food include soft drinks, sweets, and chocolate.
The four food groups chart have been recommended to be used in

schools by the National Department of Health Papua new Guinea.
Choose food from the four food groups for each meal.
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Strand 3: Nutrition Unit 2: Food hygiene
Preventing food infections and spoilage
Practice food hygiene and safety
i. Explain that food hygiene and safety is one of the main ways of
preventing infection
• Food can be a source of infection if it is not properly handled,
prepared and kept.
• Most infections that arise out of poor food hygiene and safety
practices are associated with diarrhoea and vomiting. These reduce
intake and absorption of food, thus compromising nutritional status.
ii. Discuss vital food hygiene and safety practices in the picture:
• Wash hands thoroughly before handling, preparing and eating food.
• Keep food and drinking water covered and stored away from
insects, flies, rats and other animals.
• Wash fruits and vegetables with clean water before eating, cooking
or serving.
• Use clean, safe water for food preparation.
• Wash the food preparation area and eating and cooking utensils,
and keep them clean.
• Keep cooked food away from contact with raw food.
iii. Emphasize that the following should be avoided:

• Eating moldy, spoilt or rotten food.
• Raw eggs or foods that contain raw eggs.
• Raw fish.
• Meat that is not well cooked.
• Juices made with water that has not been previously boiled.
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Fire safety facts
1. Fire is fast! In less than 30 seconds a flame can completely get out of
control and turn into a major fire. Its takes only minutes for thick black
smoke to fill a house.
2. Fire is hot! A fire’s heat can kill. Room temperature in a fire can be 100
degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees level. Inhaling this
super-hot air will burn your lungs.
3. Fire is dark! Fire starts bright but quickly smoke and complete
darkness comes. If you wake up to fire you may be blinded,
disoriented and unable to find your way around the home you have
lived for years.
4. Fire is deadly! Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do.
Fire uses up the oxygen you need and produces smoke and
poisonous gas that kill.
When your clothes are on fire
Fire drills
Strand 4: Safety and first aid
Unit 2: First aid
How fire lights the house
1. Never leave candles burning alone in a room.

2. Never put anything over or touching a light bulb.
3. Never open the gas knob before lighting the match.
4. Never light fire the plastics or flammable materials.
Fire is a serious hazard in homes. Most houses in PNG are made of wood
and bush materials. Many people use kerosene lamps and candles and
cook on open fires. Everyone must be careful with lit lamps and fires.
Never put the wrong fuel in kerosene lamps or stoves, and never leave
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a naked flame in the house when people are asleep. Don’t let anyone
smoke in the house. If you have an open fire in the house, it is a good
idea to keep a covered bucket of water supply.
Be careful with polyester clothes and foam mattresses. They burn and
melt quickly and the smoke they produce is very poisonous. It is also
dangerous to you and the environment to burn plastics on open fire.
Fire safety drills
1. Warn others. Shout “FIRE!” to wake everybody up and get help.

2. Get yourself and others out of the house as quickly as possible.
3. Stay low to breathe clean air.
4. Don’t try to save possessions.
5. If you have a chance of putting fire out, act quickly.
6. Once you and your family are out, stay out. Don’t go back inside the
burning house.
If a person’s clothes catches fire, stop them moving, push them down to
the ground, wrap them in a woolen coat or blanket if possible, and roll
them over to put the flames out.
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Life skills
Three main life skills will be reinforced throughout the learning period of
Grades 3-5 in the Primary level.
Interpersonal communication
Positive relationships support the development of healthy attitudes and

behaviours. The ability to appropriately convey and receive information,
beliefs, and emotions is a skill that enables students to manage risk,
conflict, and differences and to promote health.
Interpersonal communication helps to enhance and maintain a sense of

self and develop and maintain relationships with others. Skills needed
for interpersonal communication include assertiveness, sharing feelings,
empathy, evaluating, interpreting, and listening.
The three most important skills needed within each of the following
settings: family, school, work, and community.
Decision making
Managing health behaviours requires critical thinking and problem

solving. The ability to use decision-making skills to guide health
behaviours fosters a sense of control and promotes the acceptance of
personal responsibility.
Decision-making model
This decision-making model provides a process people can use in solving

problems or making decisions. It is applicable to most situations in life,
including sexual situations.
The steps in the process:
1. Define the decision to make or the problem to solve. State exactly

what the situation is about or what the problem is about and a
decision needs to be made.
2. Consider all alternatives. List all the possible ways to resolve the
problem, all the possible decisions that could be made. Eliminate
those alternatives you know you would never seriously consider, if
you are clear about the reasons for eliminating them. You may need to
gather more facts or consult with others to be sure you haven’t
overlooked any options.
3. Consider the consequences of each alternative. List all the possible

outcomes – positive and negative – or reasons for and against each
alternative or each course of action that could be taken. Make sure
you have correct and full information by this point.
4. Consider personal and family values. Values include beliefs about

how we should act or behave and the personal and family rules we
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live by and believe are important – for example, beliefs about honesty,
loyalty, or whether it’s all right to smoke or drink. Most of our values
come from the up-bringing we receive at home. Others come from our
friends and society. Consider whether each alternative is consistent
with your personal and family values.
5. Consider the impact on other people. Our decisions affect many

people who are important to us – parents, siblings, friends, others.
Think about the effect of each alternative on these people.
6. Choose one alternative. After carefully weighing each alternative,

choose the one that seems most appropriate, based on your
knowledge, values, morals, religious upbringing, present and future
goals, and the effect of the decision on the people who matter to you.
Does the decision feel good to you? If yes, continue. If no, think about
why not and then consider the other alternatives again.
7. Implement the decision. Do what is necessary for the decision to be

carried out as you want it to be. You may have to set up a
step-by-step program with a timetable to make sure things get done.
Or you may need to re-evaluate as you implement your decision and
new information or consequences emerge.
Goal setting
The desire to pursue health is an essential component of building healthy

habits. The ability to use goal-setting skills enables students to translate
health knowledge into personally meaningful health behaviours.
Put your plans into motion
Fear is often a cause of failing to meet our goals. If we face the fear or
issue we stand a much better chance of conquering that fear and
accomplish our fear. Goal setting in any area such as career, education,
family, exercise, arts and recreation you will be on course for success.
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Life skills: Practical knowledge, skills and behaviours which in

conjunction with cultural rooted knowledge, attitudes and values
empower an individual to live happy, healthy and productive life in his or
her community and beyond.
Benchmark
Components Elements Pointers
(statements)
• Students express verbally by Enable children to interact
using the correct forms of verbally/nonverbally with others
language i.e. respect and through active listening and by
consideration for others, expressing feelings and feedback
acceptable vocabulary. constructively.
• Students use appropriate

Interpersonal gestures or signs to respond to
situations.
communication
skills • Students respond appropriately
to a variety of different
audiences.
• Use verbal and non-verbal
features appropriately when
participating in
different situations.
• Students express themselves in Being able to empathise involves

Communication and
what they are and who they are understanding others;

in comparison to others; show anticipating and predicting their
interpersonal
consideration for others. likely thoughts, feelings and

skills
• Students use a wide range of perceptions. It involves seeing

Empathy things from another’s point of view
language and non-language
and modifying one’s response, if
features to allow children to
appropriate, in light of this
express and compare
understanding.
themselves.
• Students are prepared to listen, Enable children to

share and arrive at consensus. champion ideas while actively
working with
• Learn to take turns during
others. They use these skills to
discussions to help or support
influence and persuade others to
each other by persuading them
to part in discussion and investigate/ consider
activities. different ideas, strategies,
Negotiation/ solutions and values and share
Advocacy • Students participate in groups to ideas openly.
use a variety of communication
skills
strategies to negotiate e.g.
seeking clarification, agreeing to
decisions.
• Further develop the same skills
and use or practice in the wider
community.
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Benchmark
(statements)
• Students to work together as a Enable children to respect each
team in whatever circumstances other’s ideas, abilities, values,
ie sports/group work. contributions and different styles
Cooperation when working together. They
Communication and
and Teamwork • Students develop and use these skills to influence and
interpersonal
understand various roles played persuade others to investigate/

in groups in society. consider different.
skills
Refusal Skills • Students are prepared to assert Enable children to deal effectively
one’s opinion using a variety of with conflict they encounter in
strategies. their daily lives , firmly, decisively
and confidently.
• Students are prepared to assert
one’s opinion.
• Students can determine what the Enable children to develop

issue is. decision making skills by
• Students can gather relevant gathering, evaluating and
information using a variety of analysing information and
sources and mediums. determining solutions to problems.
Decision
• Students can think through the
Making information they have gathered.
• Students can identify the options
and consequences of alternate
decisions and select or chose
appropriately.
• Students can determine what Enable children to develop

information is required. decision making skills by
Decision Making and
Critical Thinking
• Students can gather information gathering, evaluating and

using a variety of sources and analysing information and
determining solutions to problems.
Skills
mediums.
Problem
• Students can think through the
Solving information they have gathered.
• Students can identify the options
and consequences of alternate
decisions and select or chose
appropriately.
• Students can recognise the Enable children to develop

influence of external factors such critical skills in analysing influential
as the media, peers, the factors and how they impact on
community, the church. their lives.
Critical • Students have the capacity
Thinking to question and think things
through.
• Students can make an informed
choice for action.
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Benchmark
(statements)
• Students can identify their Enable children to understand,
strengths, weaknesses and accept who they are and have a
potentials. healthy self-image. They use this
understanding to organise
• Students know their rights and
themselves, set goals and plan
responsibilities and take.
their learning to meet everyday
appropriate actions in situations. challenges.
• Students can express their
thoughts and feelings in a
constructive manner E.g.
Resolve a conflict amongst
peers.
Self-awareness
• Students know they are valued,
recognise and appreciate their
uniqueness.
• Students are assertive with their
strengths and acknowledge
their weaknesses by following a
leader as part of a team.
• Distinguish the difference
between rights and
responsibilities.
Self-management
Coping and
• Students acknowledge their Children use a range of strategies

skills
strong emotions/feelings such to recognize and cope with their

as anxiety, frustrations, loss and feelings. They know when, where
anger. and how to get help. They can use
this to maximize their behaviours
• Students initiate and identify and to regulate their learning.
ways to manage their feelings in They demonstrate resilience in the
a culturally relevant manner. face of difficulties.
• Students share and discuss their
feelings openly with trust-worthy
people.
• Students identify and utilize the
Skills for different support services
managing available to cope with situations
such as trauma, abuse, loss, etc.
feelings
• Students use a range of
strategies to cope with
demands/expectations placed
on them from their parents,
schools, peers and external
pressures.
• Students identify and utilize the
different support services
available to cope with
critical situations such as
trauma, abuse, loss, etc.
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Benchmark
(statements)
• Students identify sources of Students use a range of
stress. strategies to cope with demands
and expectations placed on them
• Students decide to take actions
by their parents, schools, peers
with regards to that stressful
and external pressures.
situation to avoid it.
Self-management
• Students recognise that

Coping and
Skills for recreational activities, spiritual

skills
and pastoral counselling can

managing help manage stress.
stress
• Students recognise the
importance of prioritizing tasks
within a given time.
• Students develop positive
thinking and make informed
choices.
• Students can identify the key Enable children to appreciate and

traditional values of their society. understand their values,
knowledge and skills learnt from
• Students can demonstrate their previous generations and to be
knowledge of traditional skills. able to use these as a basis for
• Students can identify key survival in their own changing
Traditional cultural traditions and how they environment.
knowledge and use them in their daily lives.
Livelihood
skills • Students can identify key

skills
(recognizing cultural values and how these

values affect how they learn in
diversity rooted classrooms.
in identity)
• Compare traditional with modern
cultural beliefs and practices.
• Utilize modern technology to
enhance performance of
traditional cultural performance.
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Benchmark
(statements)
• Describe characteristics of To enable students to acquire
well-being E.g. clean, happy, specific and practical
safe, secure, pain-free, sociable.
knowledge and needed skills
which are appropriate and relevant
• Identify behaviours that can
for their competent use in their
threaten their well-being E.g.
daily lives: recognize and
smoking, excessive sweets, poor
nutrition, lack of physical appreciate the elements and
importance of well-being; make
activities, disruptive,
informed decisions for healthy
uncooperative, sexually
actions and behaviours; apply
inappropriate actions. skills to manage pressures/
• Confide in appropriate and challenges/ threats that impact on
trustworthy persons when they their well-being (such as
feel threatened, basic substance abuse, all forms
Health information about nutrition, of-physical, verbal sexual abuse,
sanitation, hygiene and sexual sexuality, relationships, violence,
education. nutrition; advocate good health.
• Describe the pertinent/relevant/
related features of elements that
threaten their well-being E.g.
HIV,STI, poor nutrition,
substance abuse etc.
• Explain the benefits of practices
that promote good health.
Contextual or
Issue based
• Demonstrate good
Life skills
decision-making skills that

enhance well-being.
• Students use non-stereotyping Enable children to relate to

and respectful verbal and genders by recognizing their own
non-verbal communication skills. roles while at the same time
appreciating the differences
• Students actively listen to each
between the genders. It involves
other and participate fully in
being open-minded and accepting
mixed gender groups and share
full participation in all situations.
leadership roles.
• Students identify stereotypes
while appreciating comple-
mentary of all in traditional and
modern societies.
Gender
• Students take part in the
awareness
activities in the classroom
traditionally regarded as the role
of other gender E.g. cleaning up
of the classroom or technology.
• Students accept and appreciate
other person’s ideas beyond
who and what they are.
• Students encourage the full
participation of all citizens in
society.
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Benchmark
(statements)
• Able to recite the and sing the The creation of awareness in
national anthem. children of their duties to their
countries, and knowledge of the
• Respect for and observe the flag process of governance. To take
raising ceremony, show respect pride in being a citizen of their
for their school and classmates. country and to learn to behave
• Maintain a clean environment in in a manner that helps promote
the classroom, whole school and civic duties, a love for a clean and
beyond. healthy country, maintenance of
peace, observation of law and
• Be able to converse in a order and the rights of other
Civic language of another cultural people.
Education/ group.
Governance • Participation in public speaking
(content taught on peace themes.
Contextual or
Issue based
Life skills
in Social • Organise and participate in

Science - PD campaigns towards a clean and
healthy environment in school
to enhance and outside.
through the
• Public display of pride in being a
application of citizen of their country in various
skill) ways.
• Observe and show support of
multiracialism through
participation in cultural activities
of other cultural groups.
• Show understanding of the basic
principles of human rights.
• Students observe the rules and
regulations of their school and
society.
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Benchmark
(statements)
• Students investigate, develop Enable children to acquire and
and apply local knowledge and apply knowledge demonstrating
understanding in managing and an understanding of the
conserving the flora, fauna, land environment (flora/fauna/water/air/
and water in the local context. land). Developing an awareness
• Students investigate the causes and respect to manage and
Environment conserve, ensuring sustainable
of air, water and land pollution;
(content extinction of species; identify use of resources through balanced
preventive measures that can be traditional and modern practices.
taught in
Contextual or
Issue based
used in the local context.

Life skills
Science and
• Students identify or investigate
Social
into alternate strategies to
Science - Skills manage and conserve fauna,
application in flora, land and water and apply
waste management and
PD)
recycling procedures.
• Students identify value and
apply local/traditional protection
laws, government policies and
recognize international
conventions.
• Explain and demonstrate Enable children to utilize

efficient & effective resource resources efficiently and
utilization. effectively by producing
Entrepreneurial
• Explain and demonstrate marketable commodities /services
& and to take risks in the business
efficient & effective marketing
Financial environment so as to generate
strategies.
maximum profit.
Management
• Explain and demonstrate
Skills risk-taking skills.
• Assess risks.
Contextual or
• Students appreciate Children to be able to

Issue based
Life skills
participating in activities whether appreciate/take part in

they win or lose. physical activities including
• Students understand the rules of traditional games and develop
the activity. their skills by knowing the rules,
teamwork and individual skills,
• Develop skills. fitness training and good
Sports & sportsmanship during school
• Develop skills in teamwork.
Physical years and beyond.
• Students appreciate that
Education
participating in activities will
require fitness training.
• Students should appreciate that
developing more complex skills
will require continuous
participation and training.
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Reference
NDOE ( 2004) OBC Lower Primary Syllabus and Teacher Guides
NDOE (1999) Reproductive and Sexual Health (Supplementary Text)
NDOE (1995) Set of Health pupil’s books: Take Care, Me and You, My
Skin, Germs: Our Unseen Enemies, Safe-Healthy Homes, Me and
Others, Malaria, Growing Well, Safe-Healthy Communities, Good Advice
for Growth, My Head, Deadly Habits
NDO (1994) Drug Booklets: You are special, Stop for Life, What about
me?, Betelnuts and Drugs, alcohol and Smoking.
NDOE,UNICEF (2001) Reaching the Community through Schools - HIV/

AIDS awareness.
NDOE,NDOH,WHO (2003) Health-Promoting Schools Training for

Teachers - Trainer’s Manual
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Teachers - Participants Activity Guide & Reading Materials 2002'
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Towards Health-Promoting Schools
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Graphic Design & Layout by Vitus Witnes Kanua

This Health Teacher Guide for Grade 5 was written by the

Teachers, school inspectors, community members, representatives from

The Subject Advisory Committee (SAC) and Basic Education Board of

Teaching and Learning....................................................... 5

Planning and Programing................................................... 9

Assessment and Reporting................................................ 109

Health education develops students to positively influence their health

Teachers are encouraged to read this teacher guide carefully to become

I commend and approve this Grade 5 Health Teacher Guide to be used in

The primary goal of health education is to improve academic achievement

• Critical thinkers and problem solvers when confronted with health

• Self-directed learners who have the competence to use basic health

• Effective communicators who organize and convey beliefs, ideas, and

• Responsible and productive citizens who help ensure that their

How to use the book

• Read each section of the teacher guide thoroughly and

• Read the syllabus and become familiar with strands, units,

• Meet with other teachers, discuss and share ideas to better

• Refer to the suggested lesson titles to help you to plan your

• Use the teacher guide to do planning for the year’s instructional

• Conduct in-services on sections of the teacher guide to assist

• Share ideas and carry out awareness with other stake

Health subject strands and units

Strand Units Emphasis of this unit

This unit enables students to be able to identify things around their

Prevention is better than cure. The students learn to take precautions to

Positive relationships support the development of healthy attitudes and

Managing health behaviors requires critical thinking and problem solving.

The desire to pursue health is an essential component of building healthy

Teaching and Learning

Students learn in different ways. Teachers are encouraged to use a variety

Guided discovery approach

The guided discovery approach to teaching is used when students are

Students discover different ways of solving problems. For example, if the

When students are involved in developing the research questions, either

• working in small group activities

• finding relevant information in books and newspapers

Problem solving encourages students to investigate an area of interest

How to use problem solving

1. Identify problems for discussion.

Anecdotes, fables, proverbs, mottos, quotes or famous sayings

This teaching approach uses stories or narrations, records of events and

An anecdote like that in Ephesians 6: 1-3 teaches about children’s

The use of games in teaching concepts is a fun and enjoyable way of

Cooperative learning refers to a specific instructional task in which

To implement cooperative learning effectively, teachers include five basic

3. Promoting one another’s successes

4. Applying interpersonal and social skills