· Demonstrate knowledge requires describing how soil management practices are carried out.
· Demonstrate in-depth knowledge requires explaining why soil management practices or steps within practices are carried out.
· Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge requires applying knowledge of soil management practices to given situations. This may involve comparing and or contrasting, or justifying management practices.
Lesson 1 Introduction
Using the soils -student booklet read pages 1 to 3
and then do question at the bottom of page 2 and page 3 open up and review the ppt soil components and then watch video Soil and Plants Lesson 2 Soil Texture
In this lesson your going to look at one of the soil properties
Soil texture- the size of the soil particles 1. Read pages 4 to 8 then watch the video Intro to soil texture 2. do the exercises on page 5 3. try the texture by feel Analysis- this gives you a basic idea in the field of the texture of your soil .(Use your soil). page 6. There is a video opposite to help 4 Now lets find our soil texture more accurately . Clip on the picture below to upload the experiment. the gear you will need is by the sink post a finish copy to Teams Classnote book Lesson 3 Soil structure
In this lesson your going to look at the way soil particles join together Soil structure. 1. open up and go through the soil structure PPT opposite 2. watch the video 3. Now read pages 5 through to 15 and exercises on pages 10, 12, 15 Lesson 4 Soil Profiles
in today lesson your going to look at the horizontal cross section of a soil-its Profile. It tells us a lot about our soils
Read pages 16 to 20 in booklet and then do Q's 13,14, 20 from page 20 Now for homework.get a spade and dig a hole. if you have a sidings even better. Dig down about 75cm and take picture of soil to show the profile, if you can put a measuring tape down beside it Lesson 5 Soil water and air
today is the start of a series of experiments,that will lead to your next Internal.
1. go through the ppt water and air and then 2. watch the video of soil moisture 3. Read very carefully pages 21 and 22 4. This is a trail run for the internal, its on Soil Air- pages 23 plan and carry out experiment 'Air in Soil'. Do this with one or two other people, once you've done lesson 2 you will know who has the different soils, you need three different soils 5. show me your plan, and then carry it out. I will make it and give you feed back. Now how much water is in soil, to experiment on page 26- and please keep soil for a later experiment Now to the Internal
Now go to the page 'Carry out a Practical Agricultural Investigation' click on the picture Lesson 6 soil organic matter
all good, right now we need to learn about soil organic matter, what is it? where does it come from? and what's good about it
View the video opposite Now go to page 28 in booklet. An experiment to do' you will need the soil left over from experiment in Lesson 5 Please see me before you start. gear will be made available to you. Complete and hand in. do exercises on page 29 and 30 Lesson 7 Soil Organisms
what lives in the soil, a healthy soil is one that has a lot of living organisms living in it
Read page 31 and do the exercises at the bottom Lesson 8 Soil Management
Okay so now we have looked at some of the major soil properties, lets look at how on the farm we can modify this properties to better produce things
Start by going through the two ppt's opposite We will now have a closer look at some of the key practices First cultivation Read page 36 and do exercises on page 37 Lesson 9 Drainage
removing excess water is really important
Read pages 38 -41 and do the exercises on 41 Lesson 10 Irrigation
water is essential to plant growth. Read pages 42-43
Lesson 11 Crop rotation
Read pages 44-45.
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