DECISION MAKING

TITLE: LESSON NOTE ON CHRISTIAN RELIGION STUDIES

SUBJECT: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES

TERM: SECOND TERM

WEEK: WEEK 2

CLASS: PRIMARY 6

DURATION: 40 MINUTES

Period:

Age:

TOPIC: Decision Making

UNITS:

1. Meaning of Decision Making
2. Importance of decision making.  Ephesians 5: 16
3. Examples of decision making

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

At the end of this Module, Pupils should be able to:

• Know the Meaning of Decision Making.
• Mention the Importance of decision making. 
• List three examples of decision making

TEACHINNG AND LEARNING MATERIALS

• The Holy Bible
• My Book Of Bible Stories

REFERENCE MATERIALS

• The Holy Bible.
• My Book of Bible Stories.
• Universal Basic Education Curriculum.
• Unified Schemes of Work Primary Schools for Christian religious studies (MIDDLE BASIC)
• NERDC Basic Education Curriculum for primary schools.
• Online Materials.
• Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council scheme (NERDC)
• Edudelight Christian Religious Studies for Primary Schools.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR/ PREVIOUS LESSON: The students are familiar with Goal Setting.

WORD FILE: organize, possible,importance, ranking.                 

                              CONTENT

Memory verse:  Ephesians 5: 16

Bible references:  Ephesians 5: 16

Meaning of Decision – Making

Decision is the act of making up your mind about something. It is the process of choosing what to do. To achieve our goal we must make right decisions, organize our plans and arrange our task to save time.

Importance of Decision – Making

The following are the importance of decision making.

1. It helps us to identify various options.
2. It allows for ranking of choices.
3. It reduces mistakes
4. It allows you to set your goals and work out to achieve them.
5. It allows you to identify problems that may rise, and come up with possible solutions.

Examples of Decision Making

The following are different situations where we can make decisions.

1. When to sleep.
2. What type of gift to buy for a friends?
3. Which dress to wear to church.
4. What to eat.
5. When to go to school.
6. Which television programme to watch.
7. When to do homework.

Advantages of Good Decisions

The advantages of good decision are:

1. It helps us to achieve good result.
2. It helps us to achieve good goal.
3. It helps us to save time.
4. People will be proud of us.

Disadvantages of Bad Decision

1. It waste our time.
2. Bad decision also bring shame to us and our guardians.
3. It make us lose good things.
4. It will produce bad result
5. It will lead to mockery

Prayers: O lord, help us to make the right decision at all times, in Jesus name. Amen.

PRESENTATION

• The Teacher revises the previous term lessons (GOAL SETTINGS).
• Teacher leads the pupils to understand Decision Making
• The teacher explains the meaning of decision making.
• The teacher explain the importance of decision making.
•  Teacher leads pupils to mention the Advantages Decision making.

EVALUATIVE ACTIVITIES

• What is Decision Making?
• Mention three importance of decision making.
• List three advantages of Decision Making.
• Mention three Examples of Decision Making.
• Mention three disadvantages of bad decision.

CONCLUSION: the teacher summarize the lesson.

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