JSS3 Physical and Health Education Scheme of Work

Nigeria • NERDC-aligned Junior Secondary School 3

Physical and Health Education — JSS3

Term-by-term breakdown for JSS3 Physical and Health Education, aligned with BECE/NERDC guidance.

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Syllabus Topics

JSS3
  1. Physical Fitness and Body Conditioning Programme
    1. Benefits of physical fitness; factors influencing physical fitness
  2. Recreation, Leisure and Dance Activities
    1. Pre-colonial/folk dances (Atilogwu, Bata/Agidigbo, Sharo, Langa); social and foreign/modern dances
    2. Computer games as leisure: types (tennis, cricket, soccer) and values
  3. Track and Field
    1. Pole vault skills: grip, run-up, pole carrying, take-off, hang, swing up, pull up and clearance, landing, recovery
    2. Javelin skills: grip, carriage, run-up, release, follow through
  4. Ball Games — Hockey
    1. Skills (hit, stop, drive, dribble, pass, flick, push, bully/center pass); rules; officials and duties; safety; values
    2. Draw/label the hockey stick and pitch
  5. Group/Combined Events
    1. Pentathlon and Decathlon: classification, events, duration, scoring, facilities/equipment, rules, officiating, safety
  6. Nigeria Sports Heroes
    1. Career guidance in physical education; past/present sports heroes and contributions; professionals in PHE in Nigeria
  7. Contact Games
    1. Taekwando: basic techniques, importance, safety rules and officiating; Boxing: basic techniques, safety, officiating
  8. Non-contact Games
    1. Swimming: basic styles, skills, equipment; Gymnastics: stunts and tumbling; Floor activities: classification, values, officials/duties, safety rules
  9. Personal, School and Community Health I
    1. Family life education: families, duties, puberty, teenage pregnancy, assertiveness, communication, career guidance
    2. Sport promotion bodies in Nigeria: sports associations, NAPHER.SD, NIS
  10. Personal, School and Community Health II
    1. Agencies promoting health education (NGOs, MOH, NAFDAC, WHO); Personal health: ageing and death; life-enhancing measures; support for dying/grieving/ageing
    2. Drug use/misuse/abuse: categories, gateway drugs, health consequences, prevention among youths
  11. Pathogens, Diseases and Their Prevention
    1. Communicable diseases (measles, mumps) — mode of transmission, factors/agents; prevention/management of non-communicable diseases (sickle cell, obesity, kwashiorkor)
  12. Family Health
    1. Types of diseases and transfer modes; vectors and lifecycle (mosquito, others); control measures
    2. STIs/HIV/AIDS; consequences on individual/family/society; prevention via sanitation, education, immunization, life partner choice
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