Curriculum Resources about the COVID-19 (Summary Table)

Upper Primary

Fighting against Novel Coronavirus

• To understand different ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection
• To learn to appreciate and care for others by writing a thank-you card to doctors and nurses
• To develop an understanding of the features of a thank-you card
• To develop reading, listening and writing skills

Junior Secondary

Fighting against Novel Coronavirus

• To understand different ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection
• To develop positive values and attitudes related to "responsibility" and "care for others"
• To develop an understanding of the features of posters
• To develop reading and writing skills

• Positive attitudes for coping with adversities
• Love and care for friends, families and community

• Reading and writing skills

• Understanding how to protect oneself from COVID-19 and stay positive
• Knowledge of features of short stories

• Responsibility
• Respect for evidence
• Critical attitude towards ideas and values

• Information literacy skills
• Writing skills

• Understanding the concept of "infodemic"
• Knowledge of features of visual texts

EMM: Let Our Imagination Run Wild Episode 1: The Lion and the Mouse

Let Our Imagination Run Wild Episode 2: Shark in the Park!

• likes/dislikes

• ideas/plans

• needs/wants

• good wishes

• concerns

• sympathy

• descriptions

• accounts of events

• explanations

• services

• enquiries

• requests

• excuses

• comparisons

• suggestions 

• predictions

• thanks

• greetings

• apologies

• rules/ instructions

• declarative 

• interrogative

• imperative

Downloadable resources in PDF 

Lower and upper primary

Clean your home

Live a healthy life

Solving daily-life problems involving time, capacity and areas

Junior secondary

Dilution of household bleach

Applying the knowledge of ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems

• Being careful in interpreting and presenting data

• Being thankful to the contribution of health care professionals

• Informing Literacy: Retrieving data from reliable sources 

• IT Skills: constructing statistical graphs using IT tools

• Interpretation and construction of statistical graphs

• Average of a group of number

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• The attitudes of responsibility and care for others 

• Informing Literacy: Retrieving data from reliable sources 

• IT Skills: using a spreadsheet for data computation and construction of graphs

• Computation involving powers

• Application of mathematics to real-life contexts

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• Being rigorous in  analysing data and formulating conclusions to avoid misleading results

• Critical thinking skills

• Applications of statistical concepts and knowledge to solve real-life problems

• Uses of statistics

• Construction and interpretation of the box-and-whisker diagram

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Junior Secondary

12. A Healthy Body

• Recognise that most infectious diseases are caused by infection of microorganisms
• State that some infectious diseases are caused by viruses
• Recognise some ways for preventing infectious diseases
• Recognise that healthy lifestyles are required for keeping our bodies healthy so as to prevent diseases

Senior Secondary

IV. Health and Diseases - Types of Diseases

Infectious diseases

• Causes
• Ways of transmission

Senior Secondary

III. Metals

IV. Acids and Bases

VII. Redox Reactions, Chemical Cells and Electrolysis

X. Chemical Equilibrium

XV. Analytical Chemistry

• Calculations relating to mole and concentration of solutions
• Volumetric analysis
• Redox reactions
• Chemical equilibrium

Senior Secondary

E2. Keeping Ourselves Healthy - Infectious Diseases

• Examples of infectious diseases and their modes of transmission

Junior Secondary / TE Knowledge Context:
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Computer Networks

Applications of computer communications and their impacts

• Use search engine to search and download useful information from the Internet
• Analyse the accuracy and reliability of information
  
  

Programming Concepts

Data manipulation

• Variables and simple arithmetic operations in assignment tasks
• Relational operators (>, >=, <, <=, = and <>) and logical operators (AND, OR and NOT)
• Simple programs with flow control statements and loops

Ideas of a stored program

• Importance of the stored program in an automated processing task and using programs to control the computer
• Input simple programs into the computer, execute and modify the programs, observe results of the programs

Senior Secondary:
Information and Communication Technology

Internet and its Applications

Internet Services and Applications

• Search for specific information on the Web by using search-engines
• Value and appraise the significance of the development of the Internet for various activities in society
  
  

Information Processing

Data Organisation and Data Control

• Identify data, records, fields, files and databases in the hierarchical organisation of data

The Use of Office Automation Software

• Describe and use basic features of spreadsheets to solve problems
• Demonstrate data manipulation techniques in spreadsheets
• Apply spreadsheets as a data analysis tool by using a pivot table (and pivot chart), and "what-if" scenarios

Junior Secondary:

Technology Education Knowledge Contexts:

Strategies and Management

Module：K7 Business Environments, Operations and OrganisationsTopic - Characteristics of business environment of Hong Kong

Identify the characteristics of business environment of Hong Kong in the related case of Covid-19:

• Lack of natural resources
• Dependence on external trade
• Free and open economy
• No foreign exchange control
• Well-established legal system
• Efficient infrastructure and communication network

Extended Discussion Topic: Interests and Responsibilities of

Smart Consumers

Understand the impacts of reacting blindly to rumours from relevant news reports and short clip and become a rational and responsible consumer.

Senior Secondary
Business, Accounting and Financial Studies

Compulsory Part: 1(b) Introduction to Management

With reference to the characteristics of SMEs,

• think about the business situation of SMEs during the epidemic

• analyse the operating difficulties faced by SMEs in the period

Topic: Key Business Functions

Regarding the operating difficulties faced by SMEs during the epidemic,

• suggest how different business functions can help SMEs solve the problems and tide over the crisis

Junior Secondary / TE Knowledge Context:

Technology and Living

Leading a Healthy Lifestyle to Improve Immunity

• Food & Nutrition
• Home Management & Technology

Senior Secondary / Health Management and Social Care

Infectious Diseases & Strategies for Disease Prevention and Control

• Infectious Diseases
  • Understanding Epidemiologic Triangle (Agent, Host, Environment)
  • Identify different modes of transmission
  • The ways to break the chain of infection for the control of the outbreak of diseases
• Three levels of disease prevention
• Government strategies for prevention and control of infectious diseases

Junior secondary: Design and Technology

Standards of surgical masks and Common Product Standards

Operation and manufacturing - Production process (K6):

Product design

• Product standards

Senior secondary: Design and Applied Technology

Understanding Immunization Product Design – Common Product Standards and Testing for Surgical Masks

Compulsory part
Strand 1 : Design and Innovation

Design Considerations

• Understanding of the international standards of products
• Importance of product testing

Lower Primary

Healthy Lifestyle in a Day at Home

• use organic shapes to create images fluently
• use regular grid to express visual order
• appreciate and analyse several Australian Aboriginal paintings*, focusing on their use of organic shapes and grid
• create a painting about healthy living habits in a day at home
• paint flat colours with oil pastels

Upper Primary

Defender of Hygiene 

• use light and shade to create 3-dimensional effect
• compare and contrast the psychological effects of symmetrical balance and asymmetrical balance
• appreciate and analyse several Impressionist paintings*, focusing on the human postures, the use of light and shade in creating 3-dimensional effect, and the feeling and messages conveyed by symmetrical and asymmetrical balance in composition
• create a painting with the title "Defender of Hygiene" through observation and imagination
• paint in oil pastels with blending technique (blend black and white, or analogous colours to create light and shade)

Junior Secondary

Loving Lives

• recongise that positive and negative spaces are interdependent and interactive, and could convey multiple layers of meaning
• recognise different ways and their effects of using symmetrical and asymmetrical balance in graphic design
• appreciate and analyse several posters by Shigeo Fukuda*, focusing on the arrangements of space and ways of expression, and interpret the messages conveyed
• design 5 symbols with the title "Loving Lives" to encourage people to love their lives
• sketch with pencils or markers

Senior Secondary

Teachers may make use of the following resources for providing learning and teaching activities to their students.

• With reference to the example of teaching design in Appendix 1 of the Visual Arts Curriculum and Assessment Guide (Secondary 4-6), teachers may guide students to appreciate artwork online and develop their own artwork on a related theme, so as to help them learn how to develop a portfolio
• The website of EDB One-stop Portal for Learning & Teaching Resources* provides questions and annotated assessment on comparison of artworks. Students may use these materials to study writing art appreciation and criticism
  Students may use online resources and continue to develop their research workbooks and artworks according to their selected themes. Teachers provide guidance and feedback where appropriate through electronic communication.

Primary

Song of Rejoice

• Improvise body movements on music
• Express personal feelings to music
• Understand the positive messages conveyed by the lyrics
• Understand the relationship between music and films

Secondary

Joyful Music for All

• Understand how musical elements are employed in the songs
• Appreciate the positive messages conveyed by the lyrics
• Rewrite lyrics to express the beauty of the melody

Reference Song List

Examples of applying e-Learning tools to learn music

Extended Learning Activity

Examples of reference websites for learning music

Junior
Secondary
/Secondary 3

Health and Hygiene

• To identify good habits and ways to help people stay healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic;
• To develop reading and writing skills; and
• To write leaflets to inform different stakeholders in the neighbourhood of ways to stay healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PowerPoint Slides (Revised)

Worksheet (Reading Passage)

• To value the importance of fruit and vegetables; and
• To express their feelings towards their favourite fruit and vegetables

• To acquire the skills of writing acrostic poems; and
• To practise the four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

• To learn the English names of some fruit and vegetables; and
• To understand the health benefits of having enough fruit and vegetables every day