Learning objective 6-3: Sustainability
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Assessment
Students will gain knowledge, practical skills, and experience to:
- explore how primary production processes impact on the environment.
Indicators
- Identifies the biotic and abiotic factors of the environment that are affected by management practices (for example, soil and freshwater organisms, the local community, soil structure, the chemical composition of soil, water, and air).
- Creates a chart to show effects on the environment of particular management practices.
- Advises on management practices that minimise the impact on and/or restore the environment (for example, crop rotation, composting, and biological control).
- Assesses the strengths and weaknesses of soft (for example, plants) and hard (for example, structures) features, and designs and justifies a landscape plan for a specified location.
Possible context elaborations
- Water clarity – effects of effluent run-off from paddocks: Explore, using practical and research skills (for example, the Aparima River before and after riparian planting designed to reduce the impact of dairy production).
- The effects of irrigation of a wheat crop: Research and summarise (for example, on the Rangitata river plain).
- The effects of different methods of frost protection for a pip-fruit crop: Research and summarise the alternatives (for example, in Hawke's Bay).
- Soil loss by wind and water on cultivated paddocks: Investigate ways of minimising this loss (for example, in Central Otago).
- A landscape plan for the local marae: Investigate a plan that incorporates different varieties of native plants for productive use (for example, flax, medicinal plants).
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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.
- AS90919 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of soil management practices; External, 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.
- AS90160 Agricultural and horticultural science 1.5 Demonstrate knowledge of the impact on the environment of primary production management practices; 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.
- AS90929 Biology 1.5 Demonstrate understanding of biological ideas relating to a mammal as a consumer; External, 3 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.
- 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.
- AS91044 Technology 1.1 Undertake brief development to address a need or opportunity; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS91045 Technology 1.2 Use planning tools to guide the technological development of an outcome to address a brief; Internal, 4 credits.
- AS91046 Technology 1.3 Use design ideas to produce a conceptual design for an outcome to address a brief; Internal, 6 credits.
- AS91063 Design and visual communication 1.30 Produce freehand sketches that communicate design ideas; External, 3 credits.
- AS91068 Design and visual communication 1.35 Undertake development of design ideas through graphics practice; Internal, 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.
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 November 24, 2023
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