Learning objective 6-1: Markets
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Assessment
Students will gain knowledge, practical skills, and experience to:
- explore the influence that life processes of plants and/or livestock have on attributes of primary products produced for specific markets.
Primary production includes apples, dairying, deer, fine wool, forestry, arable cropping, timber, honey, tomatoes, kiwifruit, and grapes.
Indicators
- Identifies structures and functions for key life processes of plants (for example, transpiration, respiration, photosynthesis, sexual and asexual reproduction, nutrition, growth).
- Identifies structures and functions for key life processes of livestock (for example, nutrition, digestion, reproduction, growth).
- Describes how the life processes affect the end products of primary production.
- Describes the requirements of specific markets for a range of primary products.
Possible context elaborations
- Plants in a greenhouse: Use practical and research skills to explore the growth of plants in a greenhouse, with a focus on plant life processes (including internal and external plant structures, for example, the role of palisade and spongy mesophyll in leaves).
- Nutrition, digestion, and reproduction in cattle and pigs: Use practical and research skills to compare nutrition, digestion, and reproduction in cattle and pigs (including detail of animal structures, for example, the role of rumen in a ruminant digestive system).
- Consumer preferences: Compare consumer preferences in different populations for apples, kumara, lamb, chicken, or kiwifruit.
- 'Design a primary product': Use knowledge of consumer preferences and life processes to design and describe a possible new product that primary producers might develop (for example, lambs with slow wool growth and fast muscle development, pohutakawa with red and white flowers and a sweet perfume).
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Assessment for qualifications
Agricultural and horticultural science programmes integrate concepts and learning from achievement objectives in biology, science, economics, geography, and technology. For this reason, learning can be assessed using achievement standards from a range of subjects as well as those from agricultural and horticultural science. Teachers have considerable scope to select standards that will assess valued learning and engage their students.
Learning described by this objective could be assessed using one or more of these achievement standards:
- AS90918 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.1 Carry out a practical agricultural or horticultural investigation; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS90920 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.4 Demonstrate knowledge of the geographic distribution of agricultural and horticultural primary production in New Zealand; Internal, 3 credits.
- AS90925 Biology 1.1 Carry out a practical investigation in a biological context, with direction; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS90926 Biology 1.2 Report on a biological issue; Internal, 3 credits.
- AS90928 Biology 1.4 Demonstrate understanding of biological ideas relating to the life cycle of flowering plants; External, 4 credits.
- AS90929 Biology 1.5 Demonstrate understanding of biological ideas relating to a mammal as a consumer; External, 3 credits.
- AS90948 Science 1.9 Demonstrate understanding of biological ideas relating to genetic variation; External, 4 credits.
- AS90949 Science 1.10 Investigate life processes and environmental factors that affect them; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS90951 Science 1.12 Investigate the biological impact of an event on a New Zealand ecosystem; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS90983 Economics 1.1 Demonstrate understanding of consumer choices, using scarcity and/or demand; External, 4 credits.
- AS90984 Economics 1.2 Demonstrate understanding of decisions a producer makes about production; Internal, 5 credits.
- AS90985 Economics 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of producer choices using supply; External, 3 credits.
- AS90986 Economics 1.4 Demonstrate understanding of how consumer, producer and/or government choices affect society, using market equilibrium; External, 5 credits.
- AS90987 Economics 1.5 Demonstrate understanding of a government choice where affected groups have different viewpoints; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS90988 Economics 1.6 Demonstrate understanding of the interdependence of sectors of the New Zealand economy; Internal, 3 credits.
- AS91009 Geography 1.3 Demonstrate geographic understanding of the sustainable use of an environment; Internal, 3 credits.
- AS91012 Geography 1.6 Describe aspects of a contemporary New Zealand geographic issue; Internal, 3 credits.
At the time of publication, achievement standards were in development to align them with The New Zealand Curriculum. Please ensure that you are using the correct version of the standards by going to the
NZQA website.
The NZQA subject-specific resources pages are very helpful. From there, you can find all the achievement standards and links to assessment resources, both internal and external.
Learn more:
Aligned level 1 achievement standards were registered for use in 2011 and level 2 for use in 2012; level 3 will be registered for use in 2013.
Last updated April 8, 2021
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