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Learning objective 6-2: Life processes

Indicators | Elaborations | Assessment

Students will gain knowledge, practical skills, and experience to:

  • explore how management practices affect the life processes of plants and/or livestock in primary production.

Primary production includes apples, dairying, deer, fine wool, forestry, arable cropping, timber, honey, tomatoes, kiwifruit, and grapes.

Indicators

  • Describes a range of management practices that relate to the key life processes of plants or livestock (for example, impact of pest and disease control, fertiliser use, cultivation, and irrigation on plant growth and development; impact of pasture management, irrigation, and pasture type on animal growth and development).
  • Relates management practices to their effects on primary production (for example, use of rose cuttings reduces time to market; use of silage compared to hay for dairy herds and the effect on milk production).

Possible context elaborations

  • Shearing practices: How these affect wool and lamb production.
  • Fertiliser type, application rate, and timing: How these affect production and attributes of products.
  • Pollination processes: How these are used in horticulture and the effects on production.
  • Propagation techniques for hebes, roses, and peas: Investigate (comparing, for example, softwood and hardwood cuttings and seed collection and sowing).
  • Management practices used in animal reproduction or plant propagation: Examine and describe the effect of management practices on the growth, development, and production of a specified primary product.
  • A local market garden or dairy farm: Visit and explore/compare management practices (for example, weed control through hoeing or grubbing compared with sprays) and the effects of each form of control on product quality.

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:

  • AS90918 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.1 Carry out a practical agricultural or horticultural investigation; Internal, 4 credits.
  • AS90157 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.2 Demonstrate practical skills used in agricultural or horticultural production; Internal, 4 credits.
  • AS90919 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of soil management practices; External, 4 credits.
  • AS90921 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.6 Demonstrate knowledge of livestock management practices; External, 5 credits.
  • AS90155 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.7 Demonstrate knowledge of pasture/crop management practices; Internal, 4 credits.
  • AS90923 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.9 Demonstrate knowledge of basic plant propagation techniques; Internal, 4 credits.
  • AS90924 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.10 Demonstrate knowledge of horticultural plant management practices and related plant physiology; External, 5 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.
  • AS90927 Biology 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of biological ideas relating to micro-organisms; External, 4 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.
  • AS90953 Science 1.14 Demonstrate understanding of carbon cycling; Internal, 4 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 May 6, 2021



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