Civic Education Lesson Note For  JSS 1 First Term

 

SCHEME OF WORK 

Week One: National Value

Week Two and Three: Importance of values and factors that promotes values

Week Four: National Values: Honesty

Week Five: Dishonesty

Week Six: National Values: Cooperation

Week Seven: Factors that promote cooperation

Week Eight: National Values: Self Reliance

Week Nine: Importance of Self Reliance

Week Ten: Process of identifying one’s natural talents

Week Eleven: Revision

Week Twelve: Examination

 

Civic Education Lesson Note For JSS1 (First Term) 

Below are the 2022 complete Civic Education lesson notes for JSS1 First Term

Week One: National Values

Introduction

Week Two and Three: Importance of values and factors that promotes values

Introduction:

Importance of Values 

Every decision we make is a reflection of our values and beliefs, and they are always

directed towards a specific purpose. That purpose is the satisfaction of our individual or

collective (societal) needs. When we use our values to make decisions, we make a deliberate

choice to focus on what is important to us.

For humans, some things have always been more important than others. That is why we value

people, ideas, activities, and objects according to their significance in our life. However, the

criteria used to give value to those elements have varied throughout history, and depend on

the values each person assumes. To learn more, click here.

 

 

Civic Education Lesson Note For JSS1 (First Term)

Week Four: National Values: Honesty

Introduction:

Honesty

Honesty is one of the most important qualities in life. Honesty means uprightness and

truthfulness. An honest person always tries to obey the laws and regulations. He would not

take what does not belong to him. An honest child will not tell lies against another child. Even

when he grows up he will not cheat those with whom he does business. He would not steal from his

neighbours. He would always be obedient to the rules, laws and regulations of the society in

which he lives. 

Honesty can be defined as the act of being truthful to yourself, and others and being

straightforward in whatever we do. Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes

positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness,

including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc.

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Week Five: Dishonesty

Introduction:

Dishonesty is to act without honesty. It is used to describe a lack of probity, cheating, lying,

or being deliberately deceptive or a lack of integrity, knavishness, perfidiously, corruption or

treacherousness. Dishonesty is the fundamental component of a majority of offences relating

to the acquisition, conversion and disposal of property (tangible or intangible) defined

in criminal law such as fraud. 

Consequences of Dishonesty

In Nigeria today, some people do not see anything wrong in engaging in criminal or unethical

things in order to achieve success. To learn more, click here.

Week Six: National Values: Cooperation

Introduction:

No human being can live by itself alone. This is because cannot provide everything that he

needs himself. People must work together for their own good. This idea of working together

for our own good is enhanced through cooperation. In other words, it is the act of working or

acting together to achieve a common goal. 

Cooperation is the process of a group of individuals working together for the purpose of

achieving a common goal. It means two or more people working together to achieve a common

goal. Cooperation is the means whereby people combine resources together for the purpose of

achieving a common interest. It is the process of working or acting together with the

willingness to help out to achieve a common goal. To learn more, click here.

 

 

Civic Education Lesson Note For JSS1 (First Term)

Week Seven: Factors that promote cooperation

Introduction:

Factors that Promote cooperation

 Goal: For cooperation to take place, there must be a goal, aim or purpose that bind

two or more people together that they intend to achieve.

 Need: For effective cooperation to be in place there must be a condition in which

something necessary or desirable is required or wanted e.g. member of social clubs,

member of political party etc.

 Understanding: In other to promote cooperation, there is the need for proper

understanding between two people or groups for peace to exist. This will pave way for

trust, humility, patience, tolerance, open-mindedness etc.

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Week Eight: National Values: Self Reliance

Introduction:

This means being independent, which is being able to depend on oneself without assistance

from others.

According to Emerson (1841), Self Reliance is an essential part of which is to rest one’s present

thoughts and impressions rather than those people or of one’s past self. Emerson stresses the

need to believe one’s own thoughts, while actively searching one’s internal mind in order to

capture the flash of thought that one may or may not come across.

“Self–reliance is the ability, commitment, and effort to provide the spiritual and temporal

necessities of life for self and family”. Self-reliance is the ability to depend on yourself to get

things done and to meet your own needs, and confidence in your own abilities rather than

depending on others. To read more, click here

 

 

Civic Education Lesson Note For JSS1 (First Term)

Week Nine: Importance of Self Reliance

Introduction:

Life is full of ups and downs. A cliché statement, yes, but true nonetheless. If you are able to

face the “downs” of life head-on and independently, you are more likely to build the resilience

necessary to overcome anything that life throws at you. I’m not saying it’s bad to rely on

others, but in reality, there will come a time that you must be able to take on life yourself and

take care of your own needs and responsibilities.

By being self-reliant in hard times, I feel confident that there is nothing I cannot bounce back

from. This is really important, especially when it comes to being denied by the employer you

so desperately wanted to work for, getting a C on the paper you thought you aced, and even

something as simple as taking responsibility for wrongdoing and apologizing in a mature

manner. To read more, click here

Week Ten: Process of identifying one’s natural talents

Week Eleven: Revision

This week, we would be doing a revision of all that we learned during the term.

Week Twelve: Examination

Afterwards, you would write an examination, which would test your knowledge of what has been taught so

far.