Economic Production… · SHS2 Agricultural Science

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 2.2.2.LI.1 - Identify resources and market needs for small and large ruminant production

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

List the major resources needed to start and sustain small and large ruminant production (land, breeds, feed, water, housing, vaccines, labour, and capital).
Identify and categorise the products obtained from small and large ruminants that are commonly patronised in homes, food joints, and cold stores in their locality.
Explain how market demand influences the choice of ruminant species and products a farmer produces.
Use a simple checklist to collect data on the types of ruminant products people buy most frequently in a community market or cold store.
Present findings from a market survey and relate them to the resources a farmer would need to meet that demand.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Farming for Jobs and Incomes (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Economic Production of Small Ruminants (2.2)
Content standard: 2.2.2.CS.1 - Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of the economic production of ruminants 2.2.2.LO.1 Use the knowledge acquired produce ruminants.
Indicator: 2.2.2.LI.1 - Identify resources and market needs for small and large ruminant production
Suggested placement: 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. 65

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Talk for Learning: Learners in mixed groups identify and list commonly/frequently used small and large ruminant products in their homes and food joints.
Project-Based Learning:
- Learners, in mixed groups (of 10), visit the community market (cold stores), with a checklist to ask for types of small and large ruminant products people patronise most.
- Learners in the same groups visit small and large ruminant farms, or watch a video of the 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
- Pen
- Small and large ruminants
- Feed
- Water
- Vaccines
- Pocket
- Advertising billboards
- Information Centres and FM stations * Posters
- Weighing scale * Plastic
- notebooks
- or paper bags.
Assessment (2.2.2.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.