SHS3 Agricultural Science · Semester 2, Week 5
Economic Production of Pigs and Fish
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Curriculum details
- Strand
- Farming for Jobs and Incomes (Strand 2)
- Sub-strand
- Economic Production of Pigs and Fish (2.2)
- Content standard
- 3.2.2.CS.1 - Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of the economic production of pigs or fish. 3.2.2.LO.1 Explain the key processes in the successful production of pigs or fish.
- Indicator
- 3.2.2.LI.1 - Identify resources and market needs for pigs or fish production
- Suggested placement
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Semester 2, Week 5
(Week 25 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. 88
Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)
Talk-for-Learning: Learners in mixed groups identify and list commonly used pigs or fish products in their homes and food joints. Exploratory 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 a recognised fish farm to identify types of day-old chicks. Another group visits a recognised pig farm to identify types of feed, drinkers, waterers, and vaccines used. - Learners in the same groups visit a pigs or fish farm, or watch a video of a pig or fish farm, 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 - Fingerlings - Piglets - Feed - Drinkers - Waterers - Vaccines - Pocket - Advertising Billboards - Information Centres and FM stations * Posters - Weighing scale * Plastic - notebooks - or paper bags Assessment (3.2.2.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.