BEN TUTOR AND LEARNING RESOURSES

 Entrepreneurship  Entrepreneurship is the process of creating an innovative business with an aim of making profit under conditions of risks. It involves generating an idea,getting the necessary resources, organising them and creating a profitable business.  An Entrepreneur is a person who Identifies a business opportunity and Obtains the resources necessary to initiate business activity.  Importance of  entrepreneurship to the economy  1. Job creation  Entrepreneurs create jobs for themselves and for others, thus reducing the problems of unemployment in the country.  2. Promotion of an entrepreneurial culture.  Entrepreneurial culture is an environment that prepares the community to take advantage of available business opportunities in the society. Entrepreneurs employ other people to work for them.  3.Creation of market for goods and services   Entrepreneurs create markets for goods and services produced locally, eg. Raw materials. This enables the local producers to expand productio

 Introduction  The methods used by teachers to learn about human behaviours in the school can be grouped into two categories. These are Prescientific Scientific  Prescientific methods  These are methods that make use of everyday experience to study human behaviour in the school. They have not been proved or tested for validity. The following are some of the methods belonged to this category.  Use of certain habits  The teacher identify particular habit or practices used by the learners in the school eg.crying,rude,unable to complete assignments, fighting, sleeping in class,being late,truancy etc. The teacher uses the trends observed in these habits to learn about students behaviour from which he/she can generate a corrective action.  Pre-established beliefs Teachers may hold prior beliefs about learners and when they perform poorly in examination. Eg.family history ie aggressive, indiscipline, drug addicts etc Use of common sense  Common sense refers to basic rules of the thumb or prac

  Introduction  Agriculture is the growing of crops and the keeping of livestock . The growing of crops is cultivation while keeping of livestock is pastoralism or herding. This is also refered to as animal husbandry. The feeding of world population depends on agriculture and the type of agriculture practised in any region of the world depends on climate, availability of labour and other resources.  In early days man used to hunt. He moved from place to place in all sorts of weather looking for animals to kill and gathering fruits, roots and other items. As time passed man learnt to domesticated animals,he could keep them for food when weather conditions were not favourable for venturing out. The taming of animals made man to have a more settled way of life because hunting was now limited. Factors that led to growing of crops and Rearing animals in Early Days  There were climatic changes that caused the animals to migrate far from their previous locations.  This made the man not to rea

 Introduction  The shortage of food in a given country is a big problem to citizens. The population experience adverse effects such as hunger ,poor standard of living ,starvation especially in children,poor health etc. The shortage of food is contributed by various Factors especially in the third world countries.  Factors that have contributed to the shortage of food in the third world .  Adverse climatic conditions . The climatic conditions is when there is little or no rain at all. A place where the rainfall is limited experiences the shortage  of food. Where there is no rainfall at all in the country for a period of time, the place is most likely to be desert and no production is done. 2. Poor agricultural policies   Most of the third world countries have emphasised on cash crops such as coffee, tea, rubber, cotton sugarcane etc and abandon the production of food crops such as maize ,rice,beans,wheat etc. 3. Rapid population growth  As the rate of population growth overtake the rate

  Health and health education  Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or informity. It is a state of normal functional equilibrium or homeostasis.  Health education is a process through which people learn about their health and specifically how to improve it. It is an educational programme directed to the general public which attempts to improve, maintain and safeguard the health care of the community.  Objectives of health education  Optimum development of the individual with special reference to physical and emotional Development.  Betterment of the human relationship from the point of view of health. Application of health facts and principles in respect to economic efficiency in the production and consumption of goods and services.  Importance of health education to learners/children.  The child has more capacity to assimilate education and can be moulded into any shape It helps the children to obtain health habits

What is listening? Listening is a selective process by which sound communicated by some sources are received, critically interpreted and acted upon by the purposeful listener. This implies that one cannot listen properly from two or more sources of sound. Also for listening to be complete, the sound received is mostly interpreted and acted upon. Difference between listening and hearing  Hearing is a passive automatic process. It is the art of perceiving sound.it is physiological. On the other hand listening is more than just and involves both verbal and non verbal messages. It's also involves the manner of dress,cultural background, expectation of participants, venue etc. Types of listeners. Passive listener . The listener pay attention to the speaker than the message itself.  Active listener. Active listener pay attention to the speaker, hear,interpret, analyse,apply and evaluate the message.  Process of listening.  Reception. This is where you here without attending to the sound

  Introduction  Tomatoes are grown for their fruits which are beneficial to human beings as they are rich in vitamins A,B and C. The ripe fruits are cooked,eaten when they are raw in salads or processed to make tomato sauce and juice. Farming of Tomatoes  nowadays has become popular in some countries such as Kenya, Tanzania and other East and Central African countries. Most of the farmers in kenya grow Tomatoes for export and home consumption within the urban areas. In this way, they generate income and improve their standards of living.  Ecological requirements of tomato production Tomatoes grow well in warm climate with an altitude range of 0- 2100 metres above sea level. That is why in kenya growing of Tomatoes is done mostly in central and southern part of kenya I.e in Kirinyaga  ( mwea) ,Kajiado and Taita Taveta. Tomatoes do well in places with  annual rainfall of between 760 and1300mm.The rain should be distributed evenly over the growing period.However, irrigation may be done wh