Ethiopian grade 8 Student Textbook PDF

Ethiopian grade 8 TextBook

Download New Curriculum Ethiopian Grade 8 Textbook [PDF]

Subjects offered at the Primary education level Learning areas are broad groupings of knowledge and skills. In the primary curriculum, there are five such areas: aesthetics, languages, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Grade 8 Students take the following subjects

1. Amharic
2. English
3. Mathematics
4. Social studies
5. General Science
6. Performing And Visual arts (PVA)
7. IT
8. Citizenship Education
9. Mother tongue
10. Physical education
11. Career and technical education (CTE)

Structure of Grade 8 curriculum

There is a general belief that an educated person should develop the following knowledge and skills.

•  language skills including
• literacy in the mother tongue as a minimum, because it is generally accepted that children acquire literacy easily if literacy is based on their mother tongue.
• knowledge of a federal working language and an international language.
• mathematical knowledge
• scientific and technical knowledge and skills that can often be linked to work, training, and earning a living
• self-knowledge and self-understanding that is main knowledge, which enables people to operate effectively within their society
• knowledge about, people and one’s society
• knowledge and skills related to one’s physical well-being
• cultural knowledge-including the arts, music, dance, etc...
• health and environmental education
• civic and ethical values