CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)

Nursery management practices.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To identify important nursery management practices and state their significance.

Q/A and explanations.
Expose new concepts e.g. hardening off.

School farm.

KLB BK II Pg 48-50

CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)

Grafting.
Budding.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:




To define grafting.
To describe methods of grafting.
To define budding.
To describe methods of budding.
To explain importance of grafting and budding.

Teacher demonstration/ illustration of whip grafting, side grafting, bark grafting.
Out - door activity: Students practise grafting.

Teacher demonstrations/ illustrations/ drawing diagrams.
Discussion: Types of budding.

Grafting tools.
budding tools

KKLB BK II LB BK II
Pg 53-55
KLB BK II Pg 55-58

CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)

Layering.
Tissue culture for crop propagation.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To define layering.
To identify appropriate crops for layering.
To describe methods / types of layering.

Teacher demonstrations/ Illustrations/ Drawing diagrams.
Out-door activity: Carrying out layering.

school farm
Suitable crops.

KLB BK II Pg 58-60

CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)
CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)

Transplanting crop seedlings.
Transplanting tree seedlings.
Crop rotation.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe the process of transferring seedlings from the nursery to the field.
To explain management practices before, during and after transplanting crop seedlings.

To explain management practices before, during and after transplanting tree seedlings.

Q/A, Explanations and brief discussion.
Activity: Transplanting crop seedlings.
Q/A, Explanations and brief discussion.
Activity: Transplanting tree seedlings.

Suitable crops.
Suitable seedlings.
Illustrative charts.

KLB BK II Pg 61-62
KLB BK II Pg 63

CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)

Importance of crop rotation.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To explain the importance of crop rotation.
To give examples of rotational programmes.

Brief discussion; with reference to rotational programmes.

Illustrative charts.

KLB BK II Pg 68-70

CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)

Mulching.
Thinning, Gapping and Rouging.
Pruning.
Pruning tea.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To define mulching.
To state advantages and disadvantages of mulching.
To define pruning.
To give reasons for pruning.
To identify methods for pruning.
To identify tools used in pruning.

Q/A
Brief discussion.
Q/A
Detailed discussion.
Teacher demonstration: Correct and incorrect ways of pruning.

school farm
Secateurs, twigs, pruning saw, shears, e.t.c.
Tea bushes, fitos, pegs.

KLB BK II Pg 71-72
KLB BK II Pg 74-75

CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)

Pruning coffee.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To identify specific aims of pruning coffee.
To describe various methods of pruning coffee.

Illustrative diagrams / Demonstrations on: single / multiple stem pruning, capping and de-suckering of coffee.
Probing questions and detailed discussion.

school farm

KLB BK II Pg 80-84

CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)

Training.
Weeds, crop pests and diseases.
Timing of harvesting.
Methods of harvesting.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To define training as a field practice.
To explain ways of training crops.
To explain the stage and timing of harvesting of a crop.

Expository approach: expose meaning of propping, trellising.
Q/A and discussion on importance of staking, earthing up.

Discussion on factors considered when timing harvesting.

school farm
education trip

PKLB BK II g 85-86
KLB BK II Pg 88-89

CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)

Post-harvest practices. Storage.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe various post-harvest practices and their importance.
To give characteristics of a good grain store (traditional / modern).

Probing questions and detailed discussion.

video

KLB BK II Pg 90-94

CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)

Tomatoes Ecological requirement and varieties.
Nursery and field management.
Tomato pests and diseases.
Cabbages Ecology and varieties.
Cabbages Establishment and management.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:




To describe ecological requirements and varieties of tomatoes.
To identify tomato varieties.
To identify tomato pests and diseases and methods of their control.

Brief discussion and exposition.
Detailed discussion of tomato pests and their economic importance.

tomatoes
school farm
Tomatoes attacked by various pests and diseases.
Cabbages attacked by some pests and diseases.

KLB BK II Pg 96-100
KLB BK II Pg 104-106

CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)

Carrots Ecology and varieties. Establishment and management.
Onions Ecology and varieties.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe ecological requirements for carrots.
To describe nursery management practices.
To describe field management practices for proper carrots establishment..

Brief discussion and questioning.
Exposition.

Discuss importance of topdressing, weeding, controlling pests and diseases.

Carrots attacked by some pests and diseases.

KLB BK II Pg 110-111

CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)
LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)

Establishment and management.
Introduction.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe nursery management practices.
To describe field management practices for proper onions growth.




To differentiate between health and disease.
To explain importance of keeping animals healthy.

Discuss important nursery and field practices.




Q/A: Health and disease; and their economic importance.

Onions attacked by some pests and diseases.

KLB BK II Pg 115-6

LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)

Signs of good health.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To explain signs that help to identify a healthy animal.

Discussion: Physical appearance, physiological body functions and morphological conditions of the animal body.

different animals

KLB BK II Pg 116-8

LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)

Predisposing factors of animal diseases. Causes of animal diseases.
Bacterial animal diseases.
Viral animal diseases. Protozoan diseases.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To identify and explain predisposing factors of animal diseases.

To describe causes of animal diseases.
To list down viral diseases of livestock.


To list down protozoan diseases of livestock.

Q/A & Detailed discussion.


Detailed description of nutritional causes, physical causes and chemical causes.


Detailed discussion of viral diseases and their control.

Detailed discussion of protozoan diseases and their control.

charts
Chart: Bacterial diseases, causal organism and animals affected.
Chart: Viral diseases, causal organism and animals affected.


Chart: protozoan diseases, causal organism and animals affected.

KLB BK II Pg 119-120
KLB BK II Pg 125-6

LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)

Management of diseases.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To explain general methods of diseases control.

Q/A: Control of nutritional diseases.
Discussion: Importance of proper housing, isolation / slaughtering of sick animals, imposition of quarantine, prophylaxis, vaccination, vector control, e.t.c.

student book

KLB BK II Pg 125-8

LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)
LIVESTOCK HEALTH II (PARASITES)

Handling livestock.
Effects of parasites on animals.
Tse-tse fly.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe appropriate methods of handling livestock.
To describe parasitic effects of tse-tse fly.
To explain methods of control of tse-tse fly.

Q/A: Handling of animals during treatment, milking, inspecting, e.t.c.
Discussion: Other activities necessitating proper handling of animals, i.e. drenching, injecting, controlling mastitis, hand spraying.
Q/A: Sites that should be sprayed with acarides.

Q/A: Disease transmitted by tse-tse fly; and methods of control of tse-tse fly.

student booK
illustrative charts

KLB BK II Pg 129-131
KLB BK II Pg 134-5

LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION (NUTRITION)

Food components.
Minerals.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To identify the components of food in animal feeds.

To state functions of water in an animal.
To state functions of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, oils, vitamins, in an animal body.

Use a flow chart to show food components.

Q/A and brief discussion


Q/A and detailed discussion; sources, deficiency, symptoms

illustrative chart of Components of food.
Seed cakes, fish meal, bone meal,
Lucerne.
student book

KLB BK II Pg 158-64

LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION (NUTRITION)

Feeds and Feedstuffs.
Feed additives.
To concept of rationing. Maintenance ration Production ration.
Feed digestibility Feed nutritive values.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To differentiate between a feed and a feedstuff.
To describe the composition of dry and succulent roughages.
To state and explain the composition of energy concentrates and protein concentrates.


To define food ration; balanced ration.

To define maintenance ration.
To state factors affecting maintenance ration.
To explain characteristics of a balanced ration.

Exposition, discussion and giving relevant examples.
Detailed discussion.

&

Probing questions.

 pictures of roughages and concentrates.
student book
student book
Chart- Nutritive values of some feeds.

KLB BK II Pg 169-171
KLB BK II Pg 172-3

LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION (NUTRITION)

Computation of animal feeds. Trial and error method. Pearson?s Square method.
General process of digestion.
Digestion in non-ruminants.
Digestion in Ruminants.

By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To state advantages and disadvantages of trial and error method of computing animal feeds.
To compute livestock rations using Pearson?s Square method.

Q/A and brief discussion.

Exposition- Teacher explains the procedure of computing livestock ration using Pearson?s Square method.
Worked examples.
Supervised exercise.

Calculators..
illustrative diagram of General digestive system.
illustrative diagrams  of Specific digestive
systems.
diagram digestive system of a cow,
Pieces of stomach compartments of a cow.

KLB BK II Pg 176-178