JHS Social Studies – Year 1

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About Course

A JHS 1 (Basic 7) Social Studies course for Ghanaian learners.

Across 6 units and 24 short lessons, students explore their environment, family life, self-identity, citizenship, national development and Ghana’s journey to independence, building the knowledge, values and skills of responsible citizens.

 

What Will You Learn?

  • Keep your environment clean and use energy sources wisely
  • Read maps and identify the Earth's major physical features
  • Understand adolescence, reproductive health and socialisation
  • Explain population growth and its effects
  • Discover your strengths, weaknesses and potential, and build self-worth
  • Know how Ghanaian citizenship is acquired and how to be a good citizen
  • Explain how human resources, social security and tourism support development
  • Trace Ghana's road to independence, from the 1948 riots to 1960

Course Content

UNIT 1: Environment

  • Lesson 1: Our Environment and Sanitation
  • Lesson 2: Energy and Its Sources
  • Lesson 3: Introduction to Maps and Basic Mapping Skills
  • Lesson 4: Major Physical Features of the Earth

UNIT 2: Family Life

UNIT 3: Sense of Purpose

UNIT 4: Law and Order

UNIT 5: Socio-economic Development

UNIT 6: Nationhood