Every topic a child covers in JSS 1 under the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, as the app teaches it. 88 topics across 24 subjects: Explore, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Exam technique, Brain teasers, Mathematics, English, Writing, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, French, Reading, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama, Business studies.

This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the Nigeria (NERDC) programme rather than reworded.

Reading

35 topics in Reading this year.

Reading and Comprehension

Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

Art

9 topics in Art this year.

Drawing

Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at JSS 1: tone and shading, perspective, observational study.

Colour

How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at JSS 1: tints and shades, colour and feeling.

Painting

Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at JSS 1: brush marks, working from a study.

Printmaking and pattern

Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at JSS 1: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.

Sculpture and making

Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at JSS 1: carving and casting, working to a brief.

Textiles and craft

Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at JSS 1: dyeing and resist.

Digital art and photography

The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at JSS 1: framing and composition, editing honestly, drawing on a screen.

Looking at art

Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at JSS 1: what the artist did, why it was made, disagreeing about art.

Sketchbook and process

The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at JSS 1: keeping a sketchbook, trying it three ways, annotating your work, finishing a piece.

Physical education

4 topics in Physical education this year.

Movement skills

The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At JSS 1: agility and reaction.

Fitness and the body

What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At JSS 1: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, planning your own training.

Games and fair play

How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At JSS 1: playing by the rules, attacking and defending, tactics and set plays, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.

Safety and equipment

The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At JSS 1: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries.

Health

4 topics in Health this year.

Keeping the body well

Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At JSS 1: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.

Food and nutrition

What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At JSS 1: water and drinks, reading a label, allergies.

Feelings and wellbeing

Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At JSS 1: naming feelings, calming down, worry, screens and comparison, asking for help.

Safety and first aid

What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At JSS 1: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, when somebody is unconscious, medicines.

Computing

4 topics in Computing this year.

Algorithms and programming

Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At JSS 1: variables, debugging, breaking a problem up.

How computers work

What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At JSS 1: binary, networks and the internet, how a search engine works.

Online safety and citizenship

Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At JSS 1: passwords, judging what you read, being decent online, what a free app costs.

Creating with technology

Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At JSS 1: spreadsheets, making a program, using other people’s work, making it usable by everybody.

Social studies

4 topics in Social studies this year.

History

What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At JSS 1: cause and consequence, bias and interpretation.

Geography

Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At JSS 1: latitude, longitude and time zones, rivers, coasts and landforms, people and places.

Citizenship and government

How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At JSS 1: how a country is run, taxes and public services, having a say.

People, work and money

How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At JSS 1: buying, selling and trade, why prices change.

Mathematics

3 topics in Mathematics this year.

Number and Numeration

Perform the four basic operations on positive and negative integers.

Geometry and Mensuration

Identify and calculate angles at a point, on a line, and in plane shapes.

Everyday Statistics

Calculate mean, median, mode and range, and interpret data presented in charts.

Music

3 topics in Music this year.

Beat, rhythm and pitch

The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At JSS 1: scales and octaves, syncopation.

Reading and writing music

How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At JSS 1: the stave and clefs, time signatures, sharps, flats and keys.

Listening and traditions

Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At JSS 1: verse, chorus and structure, improvising, music with pictures.

Drama

3 topics in Drama this year.

Voice and performing

Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At JSS 1: being heard, staying in character, when it goes wrong.

Character and script

Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At JSS 1: conflict and status, improvising, monologue and soliloquy.

Stagecraft

Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At JSS 1: light and sound, rehearsal, working backstage.

Business studies

3 topics in Business studies this year.

How a business works

What a business is, who owns it, and why most of them close in the first two years. At JSS 1: types of business, costs, revenue and profit, customers and competition.

Accounting

Writing down what happened to the money so that somebody else can check it. At JSS 1: keeping records, assets, liabilities and equity.

Money, banking and enterprise

Banking, credit, tax, and what it takes to start something of your own. At JSS 1: banking and cards, interest and inflation, budgeting and saving, starting a business.

Quantitative reasoning

2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.

Quantitative Reasoning

Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.
Solve quantitative reasoning problems involving number patterns, figure operations and word problems.

Verbal reasoning

2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.

Verbal Reasoning

Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.
Solve verbal reasoning problems involving analogies, synonyms, antonyms and word puzzles.

Explore

1 topic in Explore this year.

Medicine

Explain how immune memory works and what a vaccine actually contains.

Physics

1 topic in Physics this year.

You and Energy · force and motion

Identify types of force, and relate force to change in the motion of a body.

Chemistry

1 topic in Chemistry this year.

You and Environment · matter and its nature

Describe matter in terms of particles, and classify substances as elements, compounds or mixtures.

Biology

1 topic in Biology this year.

You and Environment · living things and cells

Identify the cell as the basic unit of living things and describe its main parts.

Exam technique

1 topic in Exam technique this year.

Examination technique

Use estimation and elimination to answer objective questions efficiently.

Brain teasers

1 topic in Brain teasers this year.

Puzzles and reasoning

Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

English

1 topic in English this year.

Reading Comprehension

Read a passage and infer meaning that is implied rather than stated.

Writing

1 topic in Writing this year.

Composition · Expository Writing

Write a composition with an introduction, developed body paragraphs and a conclusion.

Igbo

1 topic in Igbo this year.

Igbo Language

Use Igbo vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.

Yoruba

1 topic in Yoruba this year.

Yoruba Language

Use Yoruba vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.

Hausa

1 topic in Hausa this year.

Hausa Language

Use Hausa vocabulary and simple structures in speech and in writing.

French

1 topic in French this year.

French (optional subject)

Use basic French vocabulary and expressions in familiar contexts.

Every grade in the Nigeria (NERDC) curriculum · All six curricula