HA’YHWH🛐 YESHUA 🛐HAMASHIAC SCHOOL, 🛐 FIRST / HA’YHW🛐 YESHUA 🛐HAMASHIAC 🛐 TERM. JSS1 SOCIAL STUDIES. 2023.

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HA’YHWH 🛐YESHUA🛐 HAMASHIAC 🛐FIRST / HA’YHWH 🛐YESHUA🛐 HAMASHIAC 🛐 TERM, JSS1 SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON 1.12 OCTOBER 2023.
Topic: Introduction To Social Studies
Content-
1. Meaning
2. Objectives and Scope
3. Nature of Social Studies
4. Importance of Social Studies

Meaning
Social studies can be defined as the study of man in his environment. It is the study of man and his relationships with other people around him, including all the natural resources in his environment.
Social studies assess man in his physical and social environment as well as the effects of science, technology and religion on him. Man in social studies refers to human beings.
Scope of Social Studies
Social studies have related subjects like economics, geography, political science, anthropology and psychology. Social studies, therefore, is an integrated subject because of its many interwoven parts which give insight into what man is and everything connected to Man in his physical and social environments.
Social study is therefore defined as the study of man’s life, his interactions with his social and physical environments, and his knowledge of science and technology to solve this problem in his environment.

Objectives of social studies
The following are the aim and objectives of social studies
1. It makes us responsible citizens
2. It helps us to understand the importance of hard work
3. It makes us good leaders and followers
4. It helps us to understand the need for honesty, hard work, transparency and cooperation with others in the society.
5. It teaches us to understand to our culture and other people’s culture.
6. It is aimed at teaching people how to identify the resources in their physical environment and how to use them well.
7. The knowledge of social studies helps Nigerian national objectives in education to be achieved.
The Importance of Social Studies
The importance of social studies cannot be overemphasized. Some of the points below are the importance of social studies.
1. Social studies help people to understand their culture and other people’s culture.
2. Social studies help us to be good citizens by educating us on the right type of behaviours, attitudes and values.
3. Social studies train us to be good and effective leaders and followers because it encourages us to obey the laws that govern our society and have respect for constituted authority.
4. It helps us to develop a good sense of judgment and a sense of moral and social responsibility.
5. It helps man to understand his environment, identify the problems and provide a solution to the problems in his environment.
6. It helps an individual to develop the ability to relate well with people in his environment.
7. It helps man to be aware of what is happening around him as well as other parts of the world.
8. The major and overall importance of social studies is to produce good citizens for the society.

ASSESSMENT
1. The study of man in his environment called———? (a) Civic studies (b) English studies (c) social studies (d) elementary studies.
2. Man in social studies refers to——? (a) animal (b) science and technology (c) behaviours (d) human beings.
3. All of these are related subject in social studies except——-? (a) English language (b) economics (c) geography (d) psychology.
4. The importance of social studies is excerpt —–? (a) To be good leaders and followers (b) To produce good citizens for the society (c) To understand our culture (d) To make us law defaulters.
5. All of these are objectives of social studies except——–? (a) It makes us responsible citizens (b) It makes us to understand the importance of hard work (c) To achieve the national objectives of education (d) to teach us how to steal the public funds.