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Life skills

Grade 3

Travelling in our country

Module 2

Houses

Homes

The homes of the people in South Africa also differ a lot. Perhaps you have seen many different homes when you travel by car. Mum and Dad are looking for a home that will meet their needs. They would like the house to be close to a school and they must be able to afford it too.

  • Describe to a friend what your house looks like.
  • Draw a picture of your house.
    • What makes your house special to you?
    • Would you like to live in a different type of house?
    • Why do you say so?
    • Write a short paragraph about your dream house.

Here we have an example of a Ndebele home . Their houses are always decorated very beautifully. The Ndebele tribe are very proud of their houses. Note the many different patterns.

  • Now draw a Ndebele home, decorating it with patterns of your own design.
  • Remember that their houses are always very colourful.
  • Find two more pictures of other traditional homes. Paste them below.

Patterns

  1. Fold an A4 paper in four parts.
  2. Draw patterns using a black koki (find examples in magazines and other books).
  3. Colour your patterns with pastels or wax crayons.
  4. Iron the back of the page with a hot iron.
  5. Have it laminated or cover it with cling wrap.
  6. It can now be used as a place mat.

Hints: use the paper landscape.

Work from the top of your page to prevent smudging.

Remember to repeat your colours.

Apply the colours well.

Building materials

  • Have you seen that all the houses are not built from the same material?
  • See if you can find the right building material for each house: clay, reeds (straw), stone, wood, bricks, corrugated sheets.
  • Discuss in class why these houses differ.

  • Cut out an advertisement of a house that is for sale from an old newspaper and paste it below:
  • Answer the following questions:
  • What is the price of the house?
  • In what neighbourhood is the house situated?
  • Is the house big enough for your family?
  • Would you like to live in a house like that?
  • What changes would you like to make to the house?
  • Design a poster about one of these problems.
  • Suggest some possible solutions.
  • Now we have reached the end of our journey.
  • I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly.
  • Tick off, making a cross (no) or a tick (yes) to indicate how you feel about the journey.
Now I know exactly where I live.
I enjoyed speaking a different language.
I enjoyed listening to our guest speaker.
All the different houses are pretty.
It worries me that there are not enough homes for all the people in our country

Assessment

Learning Outcomes(LO’s)
LIFE ORIENTATIONLO 2
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of and responds to constitutional rights and social responsibilities, and to show an understanding of diverse cultures and religions.
Assessment Standards(ASs)
We know this when the learner:
2.3 explains relationships with members of the family, extended family, school and broader community.
ARTS AND CULTURELO 2
REFLECTING The learner will be able to reflect critically and creatively on artistic and cultural processes, products and styles in past and present contexts.
Assessment Standards(ASs)
We know this when the learner:
2.1 ( dance ) – identifies how feelings and moods are expressed through the body and face, the use of energy and the choice of movement.
LO 4
EXPRESSING AND COMMUNICATING The learner will be able to use enquiry skills to investigate the past and present.
Assessment Standards(ASs)
We know this when the learner:
4.3 ( drama ) – uses the voice, gesture and body shape to express feelings and thoughts.

Memorandum

  • Learners can work together in groups to build different houses. (This is an enjoyable project where learners can build the houses in class and work together in groups.)
  • Ask learners well in advance to collect advertisements of houses for sale.
  • Art: Use an A4 folio on which learners can draw four rows of patterns (Ndebele patterns). Colour them in with pastel crayons. The outlines are drawn with a thick, black koki pen. It can also be laminated and used as a place mat.

Questions & Answers

Three charges q_{1}=+3\mu C, q_{2}=+6\mu C and q_{3}=+8\mu C are located at (2,0)m (0,0)m and (0,3) coordinates respectively. Find the magnitude and direction acted upon q_{2} by the two other charges.Draw the correct graphical illustration of the problem above showing the direction of all forces.
Kate Reply
To solve this problem, we need to first find the net force acting on charge q_{2}. The magnitude of the force exerted by q_{1} on q_{2} is given by F=\frac{kq_{1}q_{2}}{r^{2}} where k is the Coulomb constant, q_{1} and q_{2} are the charges of the particles, and r is the distance between them.
Muhammed
What is the direction and net electric force on q_{1}= 5µC located at (0,4)r due to charges q_{2}=7mu located at (0,0)m and q_{3}=3\mu C located at (4,0)m?
Kate Reply
what is the change in momentum of a body?
Eunice Reply
what is a capacitor?
Raymond Reply
Capacitor is a separation of opposite charges using an insulator of very small dimension between them. Capacitor is used for allowing an AC (alternating current) to pass while a DC (direct current) is blocked.
Gautam
A motor travelling at 72km/m on sighting a stop sign applying the breaks such that under constant deaccelerate in the meters of 50 metres what is the magnitude of the accelerate
Maria Reply
please solve
Sharon
8m/s²
Aishat
What is Thermodynamics
Muordit
velocity can be 72 km/h in question. 72 km/h=20 m/s, v^2=2.a.x , 20^2=2.a.50, a=4 m/s^2.
Mehmet
A boat travels due east at a speed of 40meter per seconds across a river flowing due south at 30meter per seconds. what is the resultant speed of the boat
Saheed Reply
50 m/s due south east
Someone
which has a higher temperature, 1cup of boiling water or 1teapot of boiling water which can transfer more heat 1cup of boiling water or 1 teapot of boiling water explain your . answer
Ramon Reply
I believe temperature being an intensive property does not change for any amount of boiling water whereas heat being an extensive property changes with amount/size of the system.
Someone
Scratch that
Someone
temperature for any amount of water to boil at ntp is 100⁰C (it is a state function and and intensive property) and it depends both will give same amount of heat because the surface available for heat transfer is greater in case of the kettle as well as the heat stored in it but if you talk.....
Someone
about the amount of heat stored in the system then in that case since the mass of water in the kettle is greater so more energy is required to raise the temperature b/c more molecules of water are present in the kettle
Someone
definitely of physics
Haryormhidey Reply
how many start and codon
Esrael Reply
what is field
Felix Reply
physics, biology and chemistry this is my Field
ALIYU
field is a region of space under the influence of some physical properties
Collete
what is ogarnic chemistry
WISDOM Reply
determine the slope giving that 3y+ 2x-14=0
WISDOM
Another formula for Acceleration
Belty Reply
a=v/t. a=f/m a
IHUMA
innocent
Adah
pratica A on solution of hydro chloric acid,B is a solution containing 0.5000 mole ofsodium chlorid per dm³,put A in the burret and titrate 20.00 or 25.00cm³ portion of B using melting orange as the indicator. record the deside of your burret tabulate the burret reading and calculate the average volume of acid used?
Nassze Reply
how do lnternal energy measures
Esrael
Two bodies attract each other electrically. Do they both have to be charged? Answer the same question if the bodies repel one another.
JALLAH Reply
No. According to Isac Newtons law. this two bodies maybe you and the wall beside you. Attracting depends on the mass och each body and distance between them.
Dlovan
Are you really asking if two bodies have to be charged to be influenced by Coulombs Law?
Robert
like charges repel while unlike charges atttact
Raymond
What is specific heat capacity
Destiny Reply
Specific heat capacity is a measure of the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a substance by one degree Celsius (or Kelvin). It is measured in Joules per kilogram per degree Celsius (J/kg°C).
AI-Robot
specific heat capacity is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a substance by one degree Celsius or kelvin
ROKEEB
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Source:  OpenStax, Life skills grade 3. OpenStax CNX. Sep 21, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11107/1.1
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