Class Five Social Studies
Description
THEME: LIVING TOGETHER IN OUR COUNTRY, KENYA
Social Studies is the study of people and the environment in which they live. The environment contains resources that enable people to survive. As the people live and work together, they establish systems to facilitate relationship. Social Studies therefore, provides opportunities for learners to understand their environment and participate effectively in its activities. The course aims at providing the learners with knowledge, skills, desired attitudes and values, necessary in preparing them to live appropriately in the physical and social environments.
These also enables them to live as informed, knowledgeable and participating members of their local communities, nation and the world. Social Studies provides the learners with opportunity to appreciate the changing environment in which they live and realization of own place, privileges, rights and responsibilities as citizens. The knowledge gained exposes the learner to a broad variety of opinions and lifestyles. This process therefore facilitates the formulation, affirmation or reassessment of beliefs.
Social Studies attempts to explain to the learners their relationship with other people, institutions and their environment. The learner live in a family, play in a peer group, and make decisions about how they will relate with other people. The course also provides the learners with skills for productive problems solving, decision making, assessing issues and making of balanced value judgement.
What Will I Learn?
- Understand, use and manage the immediate environment for individual and national development
- Identify, understand and respect own and other people’s culture
- Recognize and understand the need for and importance of interdependence of people and nations
- Identify and promote economic activities in the society
Topics for this course
THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Lesson 1: Map Reading
Lesson 2: The 16 points of a compass
Lesson 3: Position of Kenya in relation to her neighbours
Lesson 4: Size and shape of Kenya
Lesson 5: Relief Features
Lesson 6: Drainage features
Lesson 7: Relief Regions of Kenya
Lesson 8: Influence of physical features on human activities
Lesson 9: Climate and characteristics of climatic regions of Kenya
Lesson 10: Influence of climate on human activities
Lesson 11: Soils of Kenya
Lesson 12: Uses of soil
Lesson 13: Causes of soil erosion
Lesson 14: Types of vegetation in Kenya
Lesson 15: Distribution of vegetation in Kenya
Lesson 16: Importance of vegetation
PEOPLE AND POPULATION
SOCIAL RELATIONS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND SYSTEMS
CITIZENSHIP
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
LAW, PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA
About the instructors
9 Courses
2 students