SHS1 Agricultural Science · Semester 2 Week 1: Economic Production of Animals

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 1.2.2.LI.1 - Identify resources and market needs for poultry production

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

List at least five poultry products commonly used in Ghanaian homes and food joints, based on their own observations and market enquiry.
Identify the key resources needed for poultry production, including day-old chicks, feed, drinkers, waterers, perches, vaccines, and housing, and state the purpose of each.
Distinguish between the main types of poultry (broilers, layers, cockerels, and local/indigenous fowl) and the market needs each type serves (meat or eggs).
Report on market demand for poultry products in the community by presenting findings from a group market visit or video enquiry.
Explain how knowledge of local market needs guides a farmer’s choice of poultry type and scale of production.

This lesson opens the topic of economic poultry production. It focuses only on identifying resources and market needs. Organisation of production and marketing channels will be treated in Weeks 2 and 3.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Farming for Jobs and Income (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Economic Production of Animals (2.2)
Content standard: 1.2.2.CS.1 - Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of the economic production of poultry 1.2.2.LO.1 Explain the key processes involved in poultry production.
Indicator: 1.2.2.LI.1 - Identify resources and market needs for poultry production
Suggested placement: Semester 2, Week 1 (Week 21 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 37

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Talk for Learning: Learners in mixed groups identify and list commonly/frequently used poultry products in their homes and food joints.
Enquiry-Based Learning: Learners, in mixed groups (of 10), visit the community market (cold stores), with a checklist to ask for types of poultry and poultry products people patronise most. One group of learners visits recognised hatcheries to identify types of dayold chicks. Another group visits to recognised poultry shops to identify types of feed, drinkers, waterers, perches, and vaccines.
Exploratory Learning: Learners in the same groups visit a poultry farm or watch a video on farms, and record activities of the farm on the sale of produce and products.
Teaching and Learning Resources:
- Community market
- Cold storage facilities
- Video documentaries
- Functional internet facilities
- Computer
- Projector
- Smartphone
- Hen coops
- Day-old chick
- Feed
- Drink dispensers
- Vaccines
- Pocket
- Advertising Billboards
- Information Centres and FM stations
- Posters
- Weighing scale * Plastic
- notebooks
- or paper bags.
Assessment (1.2.2.AS.1). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 1 Recall; Level 2 Skills of conceptual understanding; Level 3 Strategic reasoning.