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I. Fill in The Blanks:: Clean and Hygienic Surroundings
I. Fill in The Blanks:: Clean and Hygienic Surroundings
on how to stay healthy and keep our surroundings neat and clean. We know clean
surroundings make us happy and keep us healthy.
(v) Why should we not allow water to stagnate in or around our house?
Answers:
I. (i) daily
(ii) washed
(iii) flush
(iv) disinfectants
(v) dispose
II. (i) We should keep our household items in order to look the place neat and clean
and to find the things easily.
(b) We should clean and dust the curtains and carpets on a regular basis.
(iii) A dirty kitchen should be cleaned at the earliest because dirty vessels will lead
to infection and diseases.
(iv) Kitchen garbage should be kept covered at all times because open kitchen
garbage will attract files which sit on uncovered food can spoil clean food.
(v) We should not allow water to stagnate in or around our house because
mosquitoes breed in such water can spread diseases.
Objectives:
Behavioural Changes:
Pupils should:
Wash hands before and after meals and after using the toilet.
Wash utensils, clothes, beddings and uniforms and dry them.
Come to school with clean bodies and uniforms.
Sub-Topics
Main Ideas
Germs live on dirty hands, clothes, beddings and utensils. Dirty clothes and
beddings smell badly and may spread skin diseases like scabies and ring worms.
The rash is most common on wrists between fingers, around waist and on genitals.
Figure
Hands, clothes, beddings, and utensils should be washed with soap and water to
remove germs. To avoid germs is to avoid disease. Always use clean utensils.
Putting our beddings in the sunlight will kill germs.
1. Teacher shows children proper ways of washing hands by using her hands or
one of the class pupils. After demonstration, let each child practise washing hands.
Provide them with clean water and soap.
Figure
2. In another lesson, Teacher shows pupils how to wash their uniform, paying
attention to stains, armpits, seams.
3. Using some school or class cups, plates, forks and spoons, teacher demonstrates
proper ways of washing and drying these items. Then let children wash their cups,
plates, etc.
4. Old pupils should help teach the young ones how to wash utensils.
For brushing teeth and washing the body see activities in chapter 2.
5. Children go to a house with a drying rack and learn how to use it.
SKILLS TO DEVELOP:
1. Observation.
2. Following instructions.
3. Sweeping e,g, bedrooms.
4. Making a bed.
5. Washing the uniform.
MATERIALS REQUIRED:
EVALUATION:
1. Teacher gives oral questions to enable children tell why and when they should
wash their bodies, uniforms and utensils.
2. Occasional visits to pupils homes to find out whether children practise what is
learnt at school are necessary.
FOLLOW-UP:
1. Twinning of the young children with old ones in order to carry out health
parades. (Child to child)
TEST YOURSELF: