SHS2 Agricultural Science · Semester 1 Week 8: Emerging Technologies in Agriculture

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 2.1.2.LI.2 - Describe the use and importance of tissue culture in arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) enterprises.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Define tissue culture in their own words and list the basic steps involved in the process.
Explain at least four uses of tissue culture in the production of cereals, legumes, and tuber crops.
Describe the importance of tissue culture to arable crop farmers, including disease elimination, rapid multiplication, and uniform planting material.
Distinguish between tissue culture and traditional methods of crop propagation (such as using seeds or cuttings).
Present findings on the benefits of tissue culture in mixed-gender groups using cardboard posters.

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Curriculum details

Strand: New Dawn Agriculture (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Emerging Technologies in Agriculture (1.2)
Content standard: 2.1.2.CS.2 - Demonstrate knowledge and skills in emerging technologies of arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) enterprises and their benefits relating to real life situation 2.1.2.LO.1 Appraise and use emerging technologies in arable crop legumes, and tuber crops) enterprises. 2.1.2.LO.2 Distinguish between existing emerging technologies used in crop (cereals, legumes, and crops) enterprises and their
Indicator: 2.1.2.LI.2 - Describe the use and importance of tissue culture in arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) enterprises.
Suggested placement: Semester 1, Week 8 (Week 8 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. 56

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Problem-Based Learning: Learners in mixed-gender groups (of 4) are tasked to research and come up with the importance of tissue culture in arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) production.
Activity-Based Learning: Learners discuss the benefits of using tissue culture, present their findings on cardboard posters and paste them on the walls.
Teaching and Learning Resources:
- Parks and Gardens
- Vegetable farms
- Reading materials
- Functional Internet facility
- Laptop computer
- Wi-Fi
- Seeds of selected arable crops (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops)
- Containers for planting
- Water
- Field notebook
- Pens
- Video documentaries on tissue culture
- Laptop computer
- Smartphones
- Recorded videos on other emerging technologies * LCD projector
Assessment (2.1.2.AS.2). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 1 Recall; Level 2 Skills of conceptual understanding.