Emerging Technologies… · SHS2 Agricultural Science

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 2.1.2.LI.3 - Identify other emerging technologies used to make growing arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) easier.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least four emerging technologies (beyond hydroponics, greenhouses, GMOs, tissue culture, and precision agriculture) used in arable crop production.
Explain, in their own words, how each identified technology reduces labour, saves time, or improves yields in cereal, legume, or tuber crop farming.
Categorise emerging technologies according to the stage of crop production they assist with (land preparation, planting, crop care, harvesting, or marketing).
Demonstrate the use of a digital platform, such as a tractor-hiring app or drone footage, and describe how it connects farmers to services.
Discuss, in mixed-gender groups, the benefits and limitations of emerging technologies and relate them to farming situations in their own communities.

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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.3 - Identify other emerging technologies used to make growing arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) easier.
Suggested placement: Semester 1, Week 9 (Week 9 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)

Collaborative Learning: Learners in mixed-gender groups, identify other emerging technologies used to ease work in arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) cultivation (e.g., drones and TROTRO Tractor that use digital platform to connect farmers and tractor services).
Digital Learning: Watch video documentaries on the use and application of drones.
Talk for Learning: In mixed-gender groups, learners discuss how the technologies help ease work in the arable crop (cereals, legumes, and tuber crops) production.
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.3). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 1 Recall; Level 2 Skills of conceptual understanding.