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Year 9 Mainstream and Enrichment
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Agriculture and Horticulture Department
AIMS:
The general aim of this Course is to offer a broad outline of things horticultural with a focus particularly on practical skills.
The emphasis is on the growing of vegetables and ornamental annuals, etc. from seed. Pruning, budding and grafting, and growing from cuttings have been deliberately left out at this level.
The optional unit on succulents does, however, hint at the possibilities of growing plants asexually.
SKILLS:
- Demonstrate the correct use of common tools
- Clean, maintain and repair tools
- Demonstrate the sowing of seeds in open ground and in trays
- Prepare a seed tray correctly and be able to thin out and prick out
- Keep a diary of outdoor activities
- Record daily temperature fluctuations in greenhouse and shadehouse
- Maintain a personal vegetable plot.
Students are required to keep a diary (1B4 Exercise book) recording details such as climatic conditions, when seeds sown, common weeds found, and the general growth of plants in the plots.
UNITS:
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TOPIC |
OBJECTIVES |
Unit one:
Horticulture |
Understand class rules and safety
Name the facilities in the Horticulture area
Define Horticulture
List places important to Hort (eg orchard)
List the uses of plants |
Unit two:
The Cabbage Patch |
List and identify common tools
Give uses of tools
Explain how to care for tools
State a range of months that veges can be grown
Understand the factors involved in planning a garden |
Unit three:
My Plant |
Draw and label plant parts
Explain the main function of each part
Recognise that seeds are alive
Draw and label seed parts
List germination requirements
Sow seeds directly and indirectly
Grow seedlings successfully
Draw and label a simple flower
List the functions of the flower parts
Define pollination and fertilization
Compare wind and insect pollinated plants
Study one vege and make a poster |
Extra unit:
Succulents |
Explain how to care for and propagate succulents |
"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy. Work is for others." - Dmitri Mendeleev
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