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Agriculture and Horticulture Department
AIMS:
This Course is designed to develop in students an interest in Horticultural skills and knowledge.
SKILLS:
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Sow seeds in trays and open ground
- Prick out, harden off and transplant seedlings
- Design, prepare and maintain a vegetable garden
- Use and maintain common garden tools
- Grow plants from stem cuttings
- Follow basic safety procedures in gardening
- Practice basic plant husbandry skills
- Measure and record horticultural information
Students are required to keep a diary (1B4 exercise book) recording details such as climatic conditions, when seeds sown, the progress of plants, and when cuttings taken.
UNITS:
| Topic |
Objectives |
Unit one:
Getting started |
Understand class rules and safety
Know the Horticulture area
Ability to read a seed packet
Successfully raise plants from seed
Successfully raise plants to maturity in a plot
Name and give functions of tools
Explain how to care for tools
Recognise and name plants propagated
Understand factors that affect plant growth
List and explain considerations when planning a garden |
Unit two:
Flower Power |
Understand what sexual propagation is
Recognise flower parts
Describe the function of flower parts
Differentiate between Pollination and fertilization
Recognise seed parts
Describe how seeds are dispersed
Describe how to sow seeds directly + indirectly
List factors affecting germination |
Unit three:
Multiplying from one |
Understand what asexual propagation is
Understand ways that plants reproduce vegetatively
Recognise and name examples of vegetative organs
Explain how to do cuttings
Differentiate between cutting types |
Unit four:
How plants make food |
Basic understanding of photosynthesis
Basic understanding of respiration
Basic understanding of transpiration
Explain the importance of water
Define humidity and explain it’s affect on plants
Describe the structure/function of plant parts
Label internal parts of a leaf
Describe the structure/function of a leaf |
Unit five:
Fruit |
Define fruit
Recognise fruit is a from of dispersal
Identify a range of fruit
Recognise that NZ has a range of fruit growing areas
Appreciate the nutritive value of fruit
Present a fruit profile and poster |
Extra unit:
Solanaceae |
Understand what a plant family is
List plants in the solanaceae family
Describe how to care for potato plants
Describe how to train tomato plants |
Extra unit:
Roses |
Know how to care for Roses
Know what dead heading is + how to do it |
Extra unit:
Hydroponics |
Grow a plant using a hydroponic system
Understand what hydroponics means
Understand how hydroponics is used commercially
Graph growth of lettuces |
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo Galilei
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