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SHS 3 Agriculture 1st Semester Week 4 Lesson Plan

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Weekly Learning Plan
Subject	Agriculture	Week	4
Duration	60 minutes	Form	SHS 3
Strand	Concept of Agriculture in an Industrializing Society	Sub-Strand	Agriculture and Society
Learning Outcome(s)	3.1.1.LO.1 - Use the knowledge acquired to promote good Agricultural practices and sustainable Agriculture
Learning Indicator(s)	3.1.1.LI.3 - 180 \| AGRICULTURE Employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage Agricultural wastes. Initiating
Lesson Focus	180 \| AGRICULTURE Employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage Agricultural wastes. Initiating
Previous Knowledge	Learners recall related ideas, vocabulary or experiences from earlier lessons and everyday contexts.
Lesson Objective(s)	Describe the key idea in: 180 \| AGRICULTURE Employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage Agricultural wastes. Initiating Apply the idea through guided and independent learning activities. Demonstrate understanding through oral responses, written work or practical performance.
Essential Question(s)	What do we need to understand or demonstrate about 180 \| AGRICULTURE Employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage Agricultural wastes. Initiating? How does this knowledge or skill apply to agriculture in the learner's community and Ghana? What evidence can we use to justify an agricultural decision or conclusion?
Pedagogical Strategies	Talk For Learning Collaborative Learning Experiential Learning
Teaching & Learning Resources	Functional internet connectivity Computer Video/pictures on good Agricultural practices and sustainable Agriculture Farm implements and inputs Pens Notebooks Textbooks and journals on Sustainable Agriculture and GAP. Video/pictures on sustainable techniques to manage Agricultural wastes [[PAGE 183]] AGRICULTURE \| 181 Subject AGRICULTURE Strand 2 MODERN TECHNICAL AND MECHANISED AGRICUTURE Sub-Strand 1 MODERN MECHANISED AGRICULTURE Learning Outcomes 21st Century Skills and Competencies GESI, SEL and Shared National Values 3.2.2.LO.1 Use the knowledge, understanding and skills acquired to explain the meaning, importance, application and challenges of emerging technologies in Agriculture. Respect individuals of different backgrounds. Embrace diversity and practice inclusion. Examine and dispel misconceptions/ myths about gender and disabilities as they relate to Agriculture. Interrogate their stereotypes and biases about gender division of labour in Agriculture. Identify injustice in society, especially in the agricultural sector and advocate for change. Embrace gender equity and equality. SEL: Learners have been exposed to pedagogies that expounded socio- emotional issues while studying the Agriculture subject. Having studied together as learners with different
Key Notes on Differentiation
Content	Use concrete examples, labelled pictures, realia or simplified prompts for learners who need additional support. Extend confident learners with comparison, investigation, calculation, evaluation or enterprise-oriented tasks drawn from the same indicator.
Process	Use mixed-ability and mixed-gender grouping where appropriate, with meaningful roles for every learner. Adapt field visits, internet research or specialised equipment to locally available alternatives without changing the curriculum objective.
Product	Allow appropriate evidence such as practical demonstration, portfolio, table, report, poster, presentation, field notes or written response. Assess agricultural accuracy, procedure, evidence, collaboration and justification.
Success Criteria	Learners use correct subject vocabulary. Learners complete the main task with reasonable accuracy. Learners explain or demonstrate how the concept applies in a new situation.
Homework	Complete a short application task connected to the week's learning indicator.

Lesson Activities
Stage	Teacher Activity	Learner Activity	Assessment / DoK
Starter10 minutes	Show a farm tool, crop/animal example, photo or local farming scenario linked to 180 \| agriculture employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage agricultural wastes and ask learners what problem it addresses.	Share prior knowledge, listen to peers and record the lesson question in their notebooks.	Not provided.
Activity 115 minutes	Explain 180 \| agriculture employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage agricultural wastes using a farm-based example, labelled diagram, sample material or practical demonstration.	Observe the example, ask questions and record important agricultural terms.	Ask learners to identify the tool, practice, benefit or risk shown in the example.
Activity 220 minutes	Guide groups to classify, measure, plan, compare or recommend a practice related to 180 \| agriculture employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage agricultural wastes.	Work in groups to complete the classification, measurement, planning or recommendation task.	Review group work for correct agricultural vocabulary and practical reasoning.
Activity 310 minutes	Give a local farm case and ask learners to choose an appropriate practice or solution.	Apply the idea to the local farm case and justify the selected practice.	Use an exit question on how the practice can improve farm productivity or safety.

Lesson Closure

Summarise 180 | agriculture employ sustainable techniques (including feasible technology) to manage agricultural wastes and correct one common misconception using learner examples. State one thing learned and complete the exit response.

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