Table 2 Health-related topics for lower secondary school
Subject | Level | Topics |
|---|---|---|
English | Form 1 | Reading (health passages): Recall, comprehension, application, and analysis; extensive reading on literary materials on contemporary issues |
Mathematics | Form 1 | Fractions |
Rates ratios, percentages, and proportions | ||
Form 2 | Statistics (interpretation of data) | |
Home science | Form 1 | Safety in the home and first aid; medicine use and abuse |
Personal hygiene (choice, use, and misuse of cosmetics) | ||
Form 2 | Consumer education (importance of consumer education) Environmental hygiene (common communicable diseases) Advertisements; consumer awareness (effects of advertisements on consumers; sources of consumer information) | |
Business studies | Form 2 | Government (need for and methods of consumer protection) |