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SOCIAL STUDIES FOR TTC TUTOR’S GUIDE YEAR 2 OPTION: Ealy Childhood and Lower Primary Education (ECLPE) © 2020 Rwanda Education Board All rights reserved. This book is property of the Government of Rwanda. Credit should be given to REB when the content is quoted FOREWORD The Rwanda Education Board is honoured to avail the Social Studies student book for teacher training Colleges (TTCs) in Social Studies for Early Childhood and learning of Social Studies. and Lower Primary Education (ECLPE) and it serves as official guide to teaching The Rwandan education philosophy is to ensure that young people at every level of education achieve their full potential in terms of relevant knowledge, skills and appropriate attitudes that prepare them to be well integrated in society and exploit employment opportunities. The ambition to develop a knowledge-based society and the growth of regional and global competition in the job market has necessitated the shift to a competence-based curriculum. After a successful shift from knowledge to a competence-based curriculum in general education, TTC curriculum also was revised to align it to the CBC in general education to prepare teachers primary education. The rationale of the changes is to ensure that TTC leavers who are competent and confident to implement CBC in pre-primary and different programs under education career advancement. are qualified for job opportunities and further studies in higher education in I wish to sincerely express my appreciation to the people who contributed towards the development of this document, particularly, Consultants, REB staff, UR-CE lecturers, TTC Tutors, Teachers from general education and experts from Local and international Organizations for their technical support. Special appreciation goes to the Development Partners such as UNICEF, IEE, USAID/ SomaI take thisUmenye, opportunity Save the to Children call upon and all educationalRight To Play stakeholders for their financial to bring support. in their contribution for successful implementation of this syllabus. Dr. NDAYAMBAJE Irenée Director General REB. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to sincerely express my special appreciation to the people who played a major role in development of Social Studies textbook for Early Childhood and Lower Primary Education (ECLPE). It would not have been successful without leadership of UR-CE who started the review of the TTC curriculum in 2015. the support from different education stakeholders. My thanks first go to the I wish also to thank Rwanda Education Board (REB) leadership who took over and supervised the curriculum review process. I wish to extend my appreciation to Consultants, REB staff, Lecturers from UR-CE, TTC Principals, TTC Directors of Studies, Deputy Principals, Tutors and Teachers from General Education for their outstanding efforts during this process. MURUNGI Joan, Head of Curriculum Teaching and Learning Resources Department/REB iviv TABLE OF CONTENT FOREWORD ................................................................................................................. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .............................................................................................iv PRESENTATION OF THE TUTOR`S GUIDE ............................................................1 Sample lesson plan on African nationalism and the acquisition of inde- pendence ....................................................................................................2 UNIT 1: INTERNAL LANDFORM PROCESSES .......................................................7 1.1 Key Unit competences ....................................................................................................7 1.2. Prerequisite (knowledge, skills, attitudes and values) ...................................7 1.3. Cross-cutting issues to be addressed .....................................................................7 1.4. Guidance on introductory activity ...........................................................................8 1.5. List of lessons/sub-heading .....................................................................................8 1.6. Guidance on different lessons outlined above ....................................................9 1.7. Skills lab Vulcanicity ..................................................................................................14 1.8. End Unit Assessment: Unit one ............................................................................18 1.9. Unit Summary ...............................................................................................................19 1. 10. Additional information to the tutor ..................................................................19 UNIT 2: INTERNAL LANDFORM PROCESSES .................................................... 21 2.1 Key Unit competences .................................................................................................21 2.2. Prerequisite (knowledge, skills, attitudes and values) ................................21 2.3 Cross-cutting issues to be addressed ...................................................................21 2.4. Guidance on introductory activity ........................................................................22 2.5. List of lessons/sub-heading ...................................................................................22 2.6. Guidance on different lessons ...............................................................................23 2.7. Skills lab Types of Mass Wasting ...........................................................................28 2.8. End Unit Assessment: Unit 2 ..................................................................................30 2.9. Unit Summary ................................................................................................................32 2.10. Additional information to the tutor ...................................................................33 UNIT 3: ROCKS .......................................................................................................... 35 v 3.1. Key Unit competences ................................................................................................35 3.2. Prerequisite (knowledge, skills, attitudes and values) ................................35 3.3 Cross-cutting issues to be addressed ...................................................................35 3.4. Guidance on introductory activity ........................................................................36 3.5. List of lessons/sub-heading ...................................................................................36 3.6. Guidance on different lessons ................................................................................36 .....................................40 3.8. End of Unit Assessment: Unit 3 ..............................................................................42 3.7. Skills lab Classification and characteristics of rocks 3.9. Unit summary ................................................................................................................43 3.10. Additional information to the teacher ..............................................................43 UNIT 4: SOILS ............................................................................................................ 45 4.1. Key Unit competence .................................................................................................45 4.2. Prerequisite (knowledge, skills, attitudes and values) ................................45 4.3. Cross-cutting issues to be addressed .................................................................45 4.4 Guidance on the introductory activity .................................................................46 4.5. List of lessons ...............................................................................................................47 4.6. Guidance on different lessons ................................................................................48 4.7. Skills lab Soils ................................................................................................................52 4.8. End Unit Assessment: Unit four ............................................................................55 4.9. Summary of the unit ...................................................................................................55 4.10 Additional information for tutor .........................................................................56 UNIT 5: WEATHER AND CLIMATE IN THE WORLD ....................................... 59 5.1. Key Unit competence ..................................................................................................59 5.2. Prerequisite of this unit .............................................................................................59 5.3. Cross cutting issues to be addressed ...................................................................59 5.4. Guidance on the introductory activity ...............................................................60 5.5 List of lessons .................................................................................................................60 5.6. Guidance on different lessons ................................................................................61 5.7. Skills Lab: Types of the climate and characteristics .....................................70 5.8 End unit assessment: Unit 5 ....................................................................................72