Learning objective 8-2: Life processes
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Assessment
Students will gain knowledge, practical skills, and experience to:
- critically examine how management practices used in production processes ensure marketable primary products.
Indicators
- Describes the attributes of marketable primary products (products that earn significant export earnings in processed and unprocessed form, allow for self-sufficiency, and provide employment for a significant workforce in the production and processing phases).
- Explains how production processes (ordered sequences of management practices and a calendar of operations from establishment to harvest) are used to ensure marketable primary products.
- Explains the requirements of different markets (for example, quality, quantity, end use, timing).
- Makes recommendations on the selection of management practices used in a production process to ensure a marketable product.
Possible context elaborations
- The attributes of potatoes suitable for deep frying: Identify and describe attributes (for example, specific gravity, steaming, sloughing, greying, stem-end blackening, crisping, storage) following practical investigations and research.
- The attributes of wool suitable for carpet: Identify and describe (for example, bulk, tensile strength, moisture content, medullated fibres, fibre diameter, flammability, and grease content) following practical investigations and research.
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Kiwifruit production: Examine management practices (for example, hormone application or use of beehives for pollination) to determine those that are essential for producing export quality fruit.
- Logs for the chipping, timber and/or paper markets: Investigate the specific quality, quantity, and timing requirements.
- Asparagus growing in the Waikato: Make recommendations on fertiliser, including rate, method, and timing of application, to ensure a quality, exportable crop.
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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 any one of these achievement standards:
- 91528 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.1 Carry out an investigation into an aspect of a New Zealand primary product or its production; Internal, 4 credits.
- 91529 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.2 Research and report on the links between production and marketability of a New Zealand primary product; Internal, 6 credits.
- 91530 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of how market forces affect supply of and demand for New Zealand primary products; External, 5 credits.
- 91531 Agricultural and horticultural science 3.4 Demonstrate understanding of how the production process meets the market requirements for a New Zealand primary product; External, 4 credits.
- 91601 Biology 3.1 Carry out a practical investigation in a biological context, with guidance; Internal, 4 credits
- 91602 Biology 3.2 Integrate biological knowledge to develop an informed response to a socio-scientific issue; Internal, 3 credits
- 91603 Biology 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of the responses of plants and animals to their external environment; External, 5 credits
- 91604 Biology 3.4 Demonstrate understanding of how an animal maintains a stable internal environment; Internal, 3 credits
- 91401 Economics 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of micro-economic concepts; Internal, 5 credits.
- 91403 Economics 3.5 Demonstrate understanding of macro-economic influences on the New Zealand economy; External, 6 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.
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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 July 15, 2021
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