How the Humane Education resources fit in with the Department of Basic Education’s Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS).
CAPS: Life Skills – Foundation Phase (Grade R – 3):
Grade R:
- Term 1: Topic: Summer: How animals are affected
- Term 2: Topic: Autumn: How animals are affected
- Term 3: Topic: Winter: How animals are affected
- Term 3: Topic: Dairy farming; Sheep farming
- Term 4: Topic: Spring: How animals are affected
- Term 4: Topic: Wild animals
Grade 1:
- Term 3: Topic: Pets. How to look after pets; showing kindness
- Term 3: Topic: Food: Healthy eating – dairy and meat
Grade 2:
- Term 2: Topic: Seasons. How seasons affect animals
- Term 2: Topic: Farm animals; Wild animals; Aquatic animals; Animal homes
- Term 4: Topic: Night animals
Grade 3:
- Term 1: Topic: Health Protection: Animal bites
- Term 4: Topic: Personal and social well-being. Recommended: stories about animals that help people
- Term 4: Topic: Animals and creatures that help us; animals that work for us.
Humane Education’s recourses that help achieve knowledge for Life Skills in the Foundation Phase as set out above, include:
Reader:
- Caring Kids (plus workbook) (also available in isiXhosa, Sesotho, isiZulu, SeTswana and Afrikaans in our online shop)
DVD:
- Becoming Dog’s Best Friend (also available in isiXhosa and Afrikaans in our online shop)
Posters:
- I am my dog’s best friend (also available in isiXhosa and Afrikaans in our online shop)
- Five Freedoms (also available in isiXhosa and Afrikaans in our online shop)
CAPS: Life Skills – Intermediate Phase (Grade 4 – 6)
Grade 4:
- Term 3: Topic: Religion Education: Weeks 8 – 10: Acts of compassion in different religions: caring for animals; acts of cruelty towards animals; protecting animals; places of safety for animals.
Grade 6:
- Term 2: Topic: Religion Education: Weeks 3 & 4: Significance of life – human beings and animals – killing animals
- Term 3: Topic: Religion Education: Weeks 1 – 3: Creative Arts: creating own symbolic inner animal
Humane Education’s recourses that help achieve knowledge for Life Skills in the Intermediate Phase, as set out above, include:
Readers:
- The Great Cage Escape (plus workbook)
- Magnificent Boy (plus workbook) (also available in Afrikaans in our online shop)
- Goosie’s Story (plus workbook) (also available in Afrikaans in our online shop)
- Heroes and Lionhearts (plus workbook) (also available in Afrikaans in our online shop)
DVDs:
- Dogs in Modern Society (also available in Afrikaans in our online shop)
- Farm Animals and Us (also available in Afrikaans and isiXhosa in our online shop)
- Let’s Ask the Animals (also available in isiXhosa in our online shop)
Posters:
- Companion Animals – Dogs (also available in isiXhosa and Afrikaans in our online shop)
- Companion Animals – Cats (also available in Afrikaans in our online shop)
- Help all animals to enjoy their Five Freedoms (also available in Afrikaans, isiXhosa, and Zulu in our online shop)
CAPS: Social Sciences – Intermediate Phase (Grade 4 – 6)
Grade 4:
- Term 3: Geography: Topic: Food and farming in South Africa: People and food; Ways of farming; Crop and stock farming; Unprocessed and processed foods; Need to take care of animals
Humane Education’s recourses that help achieve knowledge as set out above:
Reader:
- Goosie’s Story (plus workbook) (also available in Afrikaans in our online shop)
DVDs:
- Farm Animals and Us (also available in Afrikaans and isiXhosa in our online shop)
- Let’s Ask the Animals (also available in isiXhosa in our online shop)
Poster:
- Free range versus Factory farming
Please also note that two of Humane Education’s resources are listed on the Western Cape Education Department’s Prescribed List for Grade 7 (Afrikaans readers), namely:
