PLE 2024 - SCIENCE REVISION TOPICS - DAY 1
PLE- TOPICAL TARGET AREAS 2O24
DAY ONE (
SESSION ONE)
TOPIC: BODY ORGANS
TEETH
·
Describing
types of teeth
and their functions
and adaptations
·
Describing diseases and disorders of
teeth.
·
Describing ways
for caring for
teeth ( oral health)
·
Tooth regions ( crown, root , neck)
COMMUNICABEL DISEASES
·
Describing
types of communicable
diseases ie , diarrhoeal/
insectborn, waterborne diseases.
·
Describing
how each diseases
is spread, and
controlled.
·
Describing
each causative agent/
vector for each
disease
·
Signs
and symptoms of each
disease.
Worm infestations
·
Types of
worms
·
Name
of worms with
their structures e.g liver
fluke, houseworms, tapeworms.
·
Control
of worm infections
mainly more about
a tapeworm and
hookworm.
VECTORS
·
Common
vectors ( insect
and now insect
vector.
·
How
vector spread germs
·
How
to control common
vector and germ
invasions.
·
More about
mosquitoes , house flies, cockroaches, tse tse flie
·
Life
cycle of each
insect vector.
·
Feeling
habbits of each
vectors.
·
Characteristics/ adaptations
WEATHER CHANGES
·
Elements / aspects of
weather
·
Types
of weather
·
Importance
of each weather
and disadvantages of each
weather.
·
Weather
instruments e.g anememometer,
barometer.
RABBIT KEEPING
·
Breeds
of rabbits and
products .
·
Care
for rabbits / feeds
given
·
Diseases
in rabbits
·
Types
of hutches and
their illustration.
PLANT LIFE
·
Crop
growing practices and
their advantages e.g
thinking, staking, mulching ,
·
Garden
tools
·
More
about dicots and
monocots ( diagram of bean seeds,
maize seeds parts
and functions.
·
More
about pollination ( types of
pollination) and characteristics.
SESSION 2 DAY 1
TOPIC 1: KEEPING POULTRY AND BEES.
·
Difference between poultry and poultry keeping
·
Types of poultry and types of chicken
·
Advantages of rearing local breeds over exotic
breed.
·
Advantages of rearing exotic breeds of chicken
over local breeds.
·
Examples of exotic breeds of chicken and their
purposes.
·
Litter
·
Systems of rearing poultry
·
Poultry vices.
·
Perches
·
Conditions for eggs to hatch
·
Factors that can make a fertilized egg fail to
hatch
·
Structure of an egg
·
Poultry diseases.
BEE
KEEPING
·
Social
and solitary insects.
·
Types of honey bees, their characteristics and
duties
·
Materials bees collect from the environment
·
Importance of bees to a crop farmer.
·
Swarming
·
Enemies of bees
·
Traditional bee hives and modern bee hives
·
Parts of a modern bee hive ( queen excluder)
·
Steps of harvesting honey
·
Methods of extracting honey.
TOPIC
2: KEEPING GOATS, SHEEP AND PIGS.
·
Advantages of rearing goats over other
livestock
·
Products got from goats
·
Local breeds of goats and exotic breeds of
goats.
·
Dairy breeds of goats and mohair breeds
·
Shearing, docking, lambing, kidding
·
Methods of grazing goats
·
Wool breeds of sheep
·
Diseases of goats and sheep
·
Exotic breeds of pigs
·
Qualities of a good pig sty
·
Diseases of pigs
TOPIC 3:
CROP GROWING.
·
Importance of a school garden
·
Tuber crops
·
Root tubers and stem tubers (example and
their propagation, harvesting)
·
Ways of caring for tuber crops
·
Weeds ( examples, advantages and
disadvantages)
·
Tuber crop pests, damage and control
·
Tuber crop diseases and their control
·
Storage of tuber crops.
·
Young farmers club ( roles)
TOPIC 4:
SOIL
·
Methods of soil formation
·
Types of soil ( and their characteristics)
·
Soil capillarity and drainage
·
Components of soil (experiments to show that
soil contains water, air)
·
Uses of soil
·
Soil profile
·
Soil erosion( agents, causes, types and
control)
·
Fertilizers ( types )
·
Green manure, compost and farm yard manure(
materials used)
·
Methods of applying artificial fertilizers
·
Harmful materials on soil ( soil pollutants)
SESSION
THREE: DAY 1
TOPIC 1. PHC
·
Principles of PHC
·
Elements of PHC
·
Responsibility of individuals, family and
community in promoting PHC.
·
Health parades( importance, activities done on
a health parade)
TOPIC 2.
IMMUNIZATION
·
Immunity and immunization
·
Vaccines and childhood immunizable diseases
·
Methods of administration of vaccines
·
Immunization site and dates
·
Summarize immunization table
·
Ways pupils participate in immunization
program.
·
Child health card( components, uses to child,
parents and health worker)
TOPIC 3.
FOOD AND NUTRITION
·
Define food, feeding, and nutrition.
·
Reasons for eating food and importance of food
in the body.
·
Breast feeding ( advantages and disadvantages
to the baby, mother and family)
·
Bottle feeding ( advantages and disadvantages,
conditions for bottle feeding)
·
Weaning
·
Vulnerable groups of people. (caring for these
groups)
·
Food taboos and beliefs
TOPIC 4. THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
·
Give difference between digestive system and
alimentary canal
·
Describe the digestive system (all parts)
·
Common enzymes
·
Peristalsis
·
Digestive juices
·
Absorption parts
·
Adaptation of ileum to food absorption
·
Disorders and diseases of the digestive system
TOPIC 5. BACTERIA AND FUNGI.
·
Compare bacteria and fungi
·
Reproduction
and feeding of bacteria and fungi
·
Examples of fungi and bacteria ( useful and
harmful)
·
Parts of a mushroom
·
Bacterial and fungal diseases
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DAY 1 SESSION 4
Heat energy
·
Properties of matter
·
States
of matter
·
Solutes,
solvents and solutions
·
Physical
processes in matter
·
Energy –
mixtures
·
Effects
of heat gain and loss
·
Expansion and contraction
·
Heat
transfer and their applications
·
Heat
conductors and insulators
·
Temperature, thermometers, thermometric
liquids and conversions.
·
Why
water is not used in thermometers.
Measurement
·
Mass and weight concept
·
Measuring volume
·
Floating and sinking objects
·
Finding volume and mass
·
Hydrometer
·
Types of changes in the environment
·
Examples of biological changes in
·
Rusting concept
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