On the 24th March 2006 it was Tuberculosis Day and we took part in the activities of that day by giving (Grade 9) learners a letters to go to their local clinics around Qwaqwa so as to seek information and education concerning this disease. The main reasons why I did this is because many people in our communities are suffering from this disease and we also have learners who are suffering from this disease presently and I have undergone a six-month treatment for the disease (1997). It really is my concern.

 

The learners were given a questionnaire which asked them what they are going to do help the community, and many indicated that they wish to provide them with health food. Therefore I realized that I need to give my learner more opportunities to plough in the school grounds so that they can be able to give vegetables to people in the community throughout the year. I did not know the problems that I was about to face, there are no forks, spades, watering can, hosepipes and water is a serious problem. I urgently need garden equipments, seeds and information on water purification.

Immediately after the Water Week we decided to teach our learners about the importance of water and our whole planning as a cluster is around sustainable living and our context is water is life . I started teaching my learners about this resources and I also told them it is their right to have access to clean water and importantly, that it is their responsibility to use their resources sustainably. Unfortunately for me again, I face another problem, my grade nine learners do not know what a wetland looks like! I want to take them to wetlands at Golden Gate. Usually when we ask learners to pay for their trips, only a small number of them afford to pay.

The Activities my dream will undertake to meet specific learning outcome

 

Learning Area: Natural Sciences:
Learning Outcome: 2: Constructing Science knowledge
Assessment Standard 1: Recalling meaningful information when needed.
Assessment Standard 2: Categorized information

 

My learners will be able to understand what a wetland really is and they will be able to recall the information they were thought in class and this will lead them to living sustainable. They will be able to categorized information by knowing the differences that exists between the following: river, dam, lake, pond and wetland.

 

While ploughing in the school grounds my learners will recall names of different plants and they will categorize alot information while learning about the different types of seeds and their importance in the body, e.g. carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.

Learning Outcome 3: Science, society and the environment:
Assessment Standards 2: understands sustainable use of the earth’s resources:

Responds appropriately to knowledge about the use if resources and environmental impacts. At the present moment the learners are busy with an audit of water use in sections of their local community. It is going to be highly important for them to know about wetlands and this will lead them to conserving them and to conserving other resources as well. It is going to be easy for them to educate their communities about sustainable living. The learners will also relies that the soil is the most important resource and that it is not only a place to play on and they will definitely respect their resources.

 

Learning Area: Life Orientation:
Learning Outcome 1: Health promotion:
Assessment Standard 2: Critically analyze the cause of common diseases in relation to socio-economic and environmental factors.

 

The learners will talk about the pollution of water in their area and the effect that this has on them and their community. The learners will advise their communities on health food and they will draw posters and ask parents to assess them. Learners will experience what it means to promote health.

 

Learning Area: Mathematics:
Learning Outcome 5: Data handling:
Assessment Standard 1: Collecting and organizing data.

 

The learner will pose questions about their environment. They will collect information on how to plant before doing the actual planting. The learners will collect a lot of information during the presentation which will be done at Golden

The garden equipments cost R4650-00
The bus R825.00x 2 = R1 650-00
Meals R20-00 x 126 = R2 520.00.