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

 -          Plants & Animals 


 ·       Examples of body changes

 ·       Ways of managing body changes.

 ·       Characteristics of physical changes.

 ·       Examples of physical changes

 

·       Rusting concept 




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