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1

REVIEW OF LAST TERM'S WORK AND REVISION OF LAST TERM'S TESTS

2 1
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
2 2-3
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
3 1
CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)
Layering.
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
KLB BK II Pg 58-60
3 2-3
CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)
Tissue culture for crop propagation.
Transplanting crop seedlings.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To define tissue culture.
To describe the process of tissue culture.
To explain importance of tissue culture in crop propagation.

To describe the process of transferring seedlings from the nursery to the field.
To explain management practices before, during and after transplanting crop seedlings.
Teacher exposes new concepts.

Brief discussion on tissue culture.
Q/A, Explanations and brief discussion.
Activity: Transplanting crop seedlings.
Suitable crops.
KLB BK II Pg 60-63
KLB BK II Pg 61-62
4 1
CROP PRODUCTION III (NURSERY PRACTICES)
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)
Transplanting tree seedlings.
Crop rotation.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To explain management practices before, during and after transplanting tree seedlings.

Q/A, Explanations and brief discussion.
Activity: Transplanting tree seedlings.
Suitable seedlings.
Illustrative charts.
KLB BK II Pg 63
4 2-3
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
5 1
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)
Mulching.
Thinning, Gapping and Rouging.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To define mulching.
To state advantages and disadvantages of mulching.
Q/A
Brief discussion.
school farm
KLB BK II Pg 71-72
5 2-3
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)
Pruning.
Pruning tea.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To define pruning.
To give reasons for pruning.
To identify methods for pruning.
To identify tools used in pruning.

To describe methods of pruning tea.
Q/A
Detailed discussion.
Teacher demonstration: Correct and incorrect ways of pruning.
Teacher demonstration of formative pruning, pegging method, use of rings and pegs, use of fitos, tipping.
Probing questions and detailed discussion.
Secateurs, twigs, pruning saw, shears, e.t.c.
Tea bushes, fitos, pegs.
KLB BK II Pg 74-75
KLB BK II Pg 76-80
6 1
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
6 2-3
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)
Training.
Weeds, crop pests and diseases.
Timing 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
PKLB BK II g 85-86
KLB BK II Pg 88-89
7 1
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)
Methods of harvesting.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To briefly describe methods of harvesting of specific crops.
To enumerate precautions observed during harvesting.

Give specific examples of methods and precautions observed.
education trip
KLB BK II Pg 89
7 2-3
CROP PRODUCTION IV (FIELD PRACTICES)
CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)
Post-harvest practices. Storage.
Tomatoes Ecological requirement and varieties.
Nursery and field management.
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).





To describe ecological requirements and varieties of tomatoes.
To identify tomato varieties.
Probing questions and detailed discussion.





Brief discussion and exposition.
video
tomatoes
school farm
KLB BK II Pg 90-94
KLB BK II Pg 96-100
8 1
CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)
Tomato pests and diseases.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To identify tomato pests and diseases and methods of their control.
Detailed discussion of tomato pests and their economic importance.
Tomatoes attacked by various pests and diseases.
KLB BK II Pg 104-106
8

MID-TERM BREAK

8 3
CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)
Cabbages Ecology and varieties.
Cabbages Establishment and management.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe ecological requirements for cabbages.
To identify cabbage varieties.
Brief discussion and questioning.
Exposition.
Cabbages attacked by some pests and diseases.
KLB BK II pg 107
9 1
CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)
Carrots Ecology and varieties. Establishment and management.
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
9 2-3
CROP PRODUCTION V (VEGETABLES)
Onions Ecology and varieties.
Establishment and management.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe ecological requirements for onions.


To describe nursery management practices.
To describe field management practices for proper onions growth.
Brief discussion and questioning.
Exposition.

Discuss important nursery and field practices.




Onions attacked by some pests and diseases.
KLB BK II Pg 111-3
10 1
LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)
Introduction.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:



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



Q/A: Health and disease; and their economic importance.
KLB BK II Pg 115-6
10 2-3
LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)
Signs of good health.
Predisposing factors of animal diseases. Causes of animal diseases.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To explain signs that help to identify a healthy animal.
To identify and explain predisposing factors of animal diseases.

To describe causes of animal diseases.
Discussion: Physical appearance, physiological body functions and morphological conditions of the animal body.


Q/A & Detailed discussion.


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

different animals
charts
KLB BK II Pg 116-8
KLB BK II Pg 119-120
11 1
LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)
Bacterial animal diseases.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To identify bacterial diseases of livestock.
Detailed discussion of bacterial diseases and their control.
Chart: Bacterial diseases, causal organism and animals affected.
KLB BK II Pg 122-124
11 2-3
LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)
Viral animal diseases. Protozoan diseases.
Management of diseases.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To list down viral diseases of livestock.


To list down protozoan diseases of livestock.
To explain general methods of diseases control.
Detailed discussion of viral diseases and their control.

Detailed discussion of protozoan diseases and their 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.
Chart: Viral diseases, causal organism and animals affected.


Chart: protozoan diseases, causal organism and animals affected.

student book
KLB BK II Pg 125-6
KLB BK II Pg 125-8
12 1
LIVESTOCK HEALTH I (introduction to livestock health)
Handling livestock.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
To describe appropriate methods of handling livestock.
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.
student booK
KLB BK II Pg 129-131
12 2-3
LIVESTOCK HEALTH II (PARASITES)
Effects of parasites on animals.
Tse-tse fly.
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:




To describe host-parasite relationship.
To identify effects of parasites on livestock.

To describe parasitic effects of tse-tse fly.
To explain methods of control of tse-tse fly.




Q/A: Definition of a host, parasite.
Brief discussion and give specific examples.


Q/A: Disease transmitted by tse-tse fly; and methods of control of tse-tse fly.
illustrative charts
student book
KLB BK II Pg 133-4
KLB BK II Pg 134-5
13-14

REVISION AND END OF TERM TESTS AND CLOSING OF SCHOOL


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