About Home Economics Scheme of Work for Primary 5
Home Economics is a subject that equips pupils with the basic skills needed to manage their homes effectively. It enlightens the pupils on their expected roles in the society. It also trains the pupils in basic home management skills.
Some of the topics covered in this class include; Family, roles of each family member and functions of the family, family relationships and family tree, identification of simple cooking tools and equipment, guidelines for use of cooking tools and equipment, simple sewing tools and equipment, basic stitches, sewing processes and care of personal belonging.
Primary 5 First Term Scheme of Work for Home Economics
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Primary 5 Second Term Scheme of Work for Home Economics
| CLASS | Primary/Basic 5 | |
| SUBJECT | Home Economics | |
| TERM | Second Term | |
| WEEK | TOPICS | Learning Objectives |
| 1 | Resumotion test and revision of last term work -Meaning and types of family | By the end Of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. explain the meaning of family ii. discuss the types of family iii. compare and contrast the feature of each family types |
| 2 | Family Values and Family Cycle | by the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. explain the meaning of family values; ii. give examples of famly values; iii. compare and contrast the stages of family |
| 3 | Resources Family and personnal resources | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. explain the meaning of resources; ii. list personal resources and family resources; iii. examine personal resources and personal belongings |
| 4 | Cleaning agents for cooking tools and equipment | By the end ofthe lesson, pupils should be able to: i. list cleaning agents for cooking tools and equipment; ii. classify cleaning agents for cleaning cooking tools and equipment; iii. produce a cleaning agent for cleaning cooking equipment and tools. |
| 5 | Cleaning cooking tools and equipnent | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. match cooking tools and equipment with the appropriate cleaning agent; ii. use cleaning agents for cleaning cooking equipment and tools; iii. evaluate the use of cleaning agents on cooking tools and equipment. |
| 6 | Care of cooking tools and equipment | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. discuss the guidelines for care of cooking tools and equipment; ii. practice proper way of handling cooking tools and equiment |
| 7 | Mid-term Test and Break | |
| 8 | Basic sitches (Permanent Stitches) | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. highlight types of permanent stitches; ii. state the importance of permanent stitches; iii. create an album of permanent stitches. |
| 9 | Basic stitches (Decorative/ embroidery stitches) | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. list types of decorative/ embroidery stitches; ii. discuss importance of decorative/ embroidery stitches; iii. make an album of decoratjve stitches. |
| 10 | Sewing processes (production of an article) e. g an apron table cover, knitted/ crocheted belt, arm rest, headrest etc | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. discuss the processes in sewing ii. list the equipment for sewing; iii. create an article using a sewing process. |
| 11 | REVISION | |
| 12 | EXAMINATION | |
Primary 5 Third Term Scheme of Work for Home Economics
| CLASS | Primary/Basic 5 | |
| SUBJECT | Home Economics | |
| TERM | Third Term | |
| WEEK | TOPICS | Learning Objectives |
| 1 | Resumption test and Revision of last term’s work: family values | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. enumerate family values; ii. state the importance of family values to the family members and society |
| 2 | Uses of personal and family resources. | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. list personal and family resources; ii. state the use of personal and family resources; iii. discuss the importance of personal and family resources. |
| 3 | Care of Personnal Belonging | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. state the guidelines for care of personnal belongings ii. discuss the reason for care of personnal belongings |
| 4 | Food Safety | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. discuss the meaning of food safety; ii. justify the importance of food safety; iii. write food safety rules. |
| 5 | Food Contamination | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. explain the meaning of food contamination; ii. recognize contaminated food; iii. examine types of food contamination; iv. discuss the risk factor in raw food item |
| 6 | Cooking of Food | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. explain the meaning of cooking ii. discuss the reasons for cooking food; iii. list methods of cooking food |
| 7 | MID TERM TEST/BREAK | |
| 8 | Cooking Methods Baking, roasting, frying | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. discuss each methods of cooking ii. compare and contrast merit and demerit of each method of cooking iii. choose a suitable method of cooking for a particular food |
| 9 | Cooking Methods Baking, roasting, frying | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: i. compare each meothods of cooking ii.compare and contrast merit and demerit of each method of cooking iii. choose a suitable method of cooking for a particular food |
| 10 | Cooking Methods | By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to; 1. experiment each method of cooking; 2. evaluate the outcome of each cooking 3. recommend method of cooking suitable for particular food |
| 11 | REVISION | |
| 12 | EXAMINATION |
