Life Orientation

Grade 8

Covid-19 Support Booklet (Term 2)

For this Booklet you will need your Textbook and work

book to write in

Day 1: Recap and Refresh

Topic: Learning Styles

In the last week of School in term-one, we looked at learning styles on page 41

in your textbook to refresh your mind answer the following questions.

1. Describe, in your own words, what a learning style is.

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2. Name four different learning styles and briefly outline each one.

Complete the table below.

LEARNING STYLES EXPLANATION

Now that we know the four learning styles and how to describe them we are

going to roughly try and identify your learning style on page 50 and 51 in the

textbook a table with a list of statements about learning and you need to tick

the ones that describe you the best.

Now keeping the colours in mind how many statements did you tick

Red

Blue Green

Purple

For a majority of you, you will have two prominent colours, the highest is your

primary and the other you secondary. (Please look at the definitions on page

52).

Read through the tips on how to apply your learning style on page 52- 54 and

summarise your primary learning style.

Red Visual Blue Aural

Green Kinaesthetic Purple Logical

Day 2: Case Study (From Spot On)

Please complete all the questions a) to i)

Day 3

Topic: Careers

In Grade 7 you learned about you learned about career fields, this year we are

going to group the fields together according to the type of person who would

enjoy them.

The Six career categories are:

1. Investigative (to inquire intensively)

2. Enterprising (Being resourcefully)

3. Realistic (being practical or hands on)

4. Artistic (being creative)

5. Conventional (something that is generally done)

6. Social (dealing with people)

In each category you always need to consider the following 5 Aspects

1. Careers or in better words jobs

2. Subjects that you need at school level

3. Abilities or talent needed for the job

4. Interests or feeling of wanting to know more about the job

5. Thinking and learning skills (to do something well/ to be good at it)

Do Activity 11.1 in your textbook page 59.

Please know the definitions in the word boxes on page 58, 60-36

Day 4

Topic: Social and economic needs.

First we need to define the term community. It can be defined as a group of

people or a gathering of people.

Common examples are your family, neighbourhood, school province and even

your country. In each of these communities you as a person and the

community have certain needs.

The first is Basic needs: this is the basics that you cannot live without like

water food and shelter. (This is what you need to be able to survive.)

Social needs are the needs of a group of people like education, transport and

security

Economic needs are best defined as “Money” you need to have money to be

able to pay for your social and basic needs.

These needs are fulfilled or met through Goods and Services.

Goods is defined as this that get used or touched such as food and clothes

Services are linked to actions people take like cutting hair.

Please do activity 11.2 on page 64 you need to complete the table.

On the left side you will see a list of needs of a community you need to

provide at least two examples of what goods and services meet these needs

e.g. if the need is Transport the service would be Busses or trains.

Day 5

Topic: Employment and how it meets your needs

Today you need to ask yourself where money comes from to meet all the

needs we have seen yesterday. Yes the government does provide us with

certain needs.

Where does the government get the money to provide these needs?

TAX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We all heard this term but what does it mean?

We are going to focus on three main Taxes

Income Tax- This is when you are working and earning a salary then you pay a

certain percentage of your salary to the government.

Company Tax- this works the same as income tax but now it’s the tax a

business pay to keep running.

Value-added Tax (VAT) - this tax is automatically added to anything you pay for

or buy.

All tax is paid to SARS (the South African Revenue Service.

Go through page 66 and 67 and summarise the content about how people

contribute positively to the economy.

The Word box is extremely important .

Day 6: Case Study (From Spot On)

Continue on next page.

Day 7: Identify the needs (from Spot On)

Continue on next page.

Day 8: Substance abuse

Topic: Four stages of getting addicted/ becoming dependant

Stage 1: Experimentation

You get introduced to the substance by peers or relatives.

Stage 2: Occasional User

This is when you have decided you like the effect of the substance and

use it whenever the opportunity arises

Stage 3: Regular User

You create opportunities/ find time to use the substance

Stage 4: Dependency

This is when you cannot function without the substance and will do

anything to get it.

For today’s activity you need to define the term Substance abuse and read

through pages 77 and 78.

Make a list of Substances and their possible street names, use page 81 as

guidance.

Day 9

Topic: Factors that contribute to Substance abuse.

Socially we interact and deal with people each and every day this is called your

environment and as you know the things you do and the people you deal with

have a big influence on your self- concept.

Factors that can expose you to substance abuse can be poverty, peer pressure,

unstable family background and the lack of supervision just to name a few

For today you need to do Activity 13.1 on page 78 in your textbook and write

and write your full length opinions and concerns about the bullet points in

question 2.

Day 10: Case Study (from Spot On)

Day 11

Topic: Refusal and decision making skills

Refusal skills are defined as skills that help you to avoid participating in risk

behaviours. Ideally thy ultimate goal of this is to be confident enough to say

“No” if you feel uncomfortable.

Some of the techniques include:

Make a joke about it

Make an excuse

Ignore the suggestion

But as young children that want to fit in with a group this becomes a difficult

task and we tend to fall under peer pressure this is where decision making is

the most important skill of all time.

By now you have learned the I.D.E.A.L or S.T.D.E methods of problem solving

and I want to introduce you to the 6 thinking hats by Eduard de Bono. Study

this and know what goes where.

Day 12

Topic: Long and short Term consequences

Summarise the small part about tis on page 82. Read through the picture and

add as many information as you can

Day13

Topic: Substance abuse and you future

We all can see now that the misuse of substances can have a horrible effect on

your body and future. Today you are going to use a mind-map of your choice

and link the effects substance abuse can have on crime, violence and

education. Page 82 and 83 in your textbook the following is extra information

you can add.

Day 14: Knowing the dangers and how to protect myself (From Spot On)

Day 15

Topic: Where to find help/ Rehabilitation options

Habits form easily and we all know it’s hard to unlearn this is the same for

addiction.

It involves many hours of patience, discipline, commitment, care and support.

In a fast paced world like we live in there is no quick fix for addiction otherwise

we start to run from addiction to addiction to get rid of the previous addiction.

We get many facilities and programmes that help with this process like

treatment centres, local support groups, recover houses, counselling and

medical care centres. At the end of the day the most important support you

will ever get is from your family and friends. It’s always important not to judge

them but be firm with them.

On page 84 in our textbook you will see 3 treatment programs make a list of

other possible treatment programs (at least 10)

Day 16 Case Study (From Spot On)

Day 17 Revision activity 6 (From Spot On)

Day 18 Revision activity 5 (From Spot On)

Day 19 Revision activity 4 (From Spot On)