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Teacher Training Colleges ESD Pack Guidelines 2012/2013
TOPIC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &
SANITATION
ECOSYSTEMS &
BIODIVERSITY
PEOPLE &
ENVIRONMENT
UBARNIZATION
& MIGRATION
ESD & ICT
Sub
topics
Define Environment
-Components of an environment
-Environmental pollution & problems
Personal Hygiene
-Body and personal effects
Common communicable diseases
-Definition
-Some of the diseases
-Malaria
-Tuberculosis
-Skin diseases
-Water borne diseases
-Sexually transmitted diseases and
Immunization
HIV and Aids
-Definition
-Modes of transmission
-Control
-Impact on individuals, Nation and
Environment
Drugs and substance abuse
Definitions
-Different types of
ecosystems
-Benefits of ecosystems
-Weather
-Soils
-Plants
-Animals
-Threats to ecosystems
-Sustainable solutions to
ecosystems threats
Types of habitats
-Interdependence
-Plants and animals
-Animals and plants
-Plants and plants
-Animals and animals
-Food chains and food
webs
Adaptation of organisms to
their habitats
Definitions of
environment
-Components of
environment
-Biotic Environment
-A biotic Environment
Factors affecting
Natural Resources
-Renewable & non
Renewable resources
-Threats to some of the
resources
- sustainable solutions
Population growth
-Pollution
-Definitions
- Causes, effects
and control
Water air and soils
-Conservation of ;
-Soil
- Water
-Plants
-animals
Waste Management
-Making good use of
waste; e.g. coffee husks,
cow dung, saw dust etc.
-Reuse of materials;
glass, polythene, plastics
Recycling of Materials
-Water
-Waste papers
-scrap metals
Definitions
-Migration -
Urbanization
-Factors that lead to
urbanization
-Effects of
urbanization
-Sustainability
issues to migration
& urbanization
-Environmental
issues
-Social economic
issues
Responses to the
urbanization effects
-Policy responses
-Institutional
responses
Definition of ESD
-Principles of SD
-Aspects of SD
-Priorities of SD
-ESD and the school
curriculum
-Innovations and Inventions
-Entrepreneurships
-Partnerships
ICT
Definition of ICT
-Use of ICT as part of
learning process
-ICT integrated Education
-Strategies for using ICT for
assessment
-Essays
-Performance assessment
-Oral Presentations
-Demonstrations
-Exhibitions
-ICT & learning materials
preparations
ICT & the Society
-Knowledge economy
-Role of ICT in Globalization,
Democracy, and
Development
Importance of ICT
-Use of student centered
learning & teaching in an
ICT Environment
-Role of critical thinking in
an ICT environment
-Role of PBLs in ICT

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Teacher Training Colleges ESD Pack Guidelines 2012/2013
Energy
Definition
-Forms and energy
-heat energy
-light energy
-sound energy
-mechanical energy
-Chemical energy
-Magnetic energy
-Electric energy
Energy conservation
-improved jikos
-Biogas
-Hot box
-Solar cooker
Water
-Sources of water
-Uses of water
-Water cycle
-storage of water
Methods of obtaining
clean water
-decantation
-Filtration
-Distillation
-Boiling
-Chemical
environment
-Role of ICT illiteracies in
different subjects