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Agriculture and Nutrition: Grade 7-Term 3

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Learning Area Requirements

  • Learners should have access to:

    • Basic classroom materials (exercise books, pens, ruler).

    • Locally available resources such as fabrics, knitting needles, seeds, soil, water, and farm tools.

    • Digital devices or print media for research (e.g., charts, photos, video clips).

  • A supportive environment for group work, practical activities, and projects.

  • Learning Area Description

    Agriculture and Nutrition in Grade 7 equips learners with practical skills and knowledge in production techniques, value addition, and sustainable practices. Learners will explore sewing skills such as knitting, constructing framed suspended gardens, adding value to crop produce, and making homemade soap. The subject encourages creativity, innovation, environmental care, and entrepreneurship, while promoting healthy living and self-reliance.

    Learning Area Outcomes

    By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate sewing skills such as knitting and apply them in making useful household articles.

    2. Construct and manage simple agricultural innovations such as framed suspended gardens using locally available materials.

    3. Explain and practice value addition on crops (e.g., drying, frying, processing).

    4. Make and use homemade products such as soap for household use.

    5. Apply safety measures during agricultural and practical activities.

    6. Appreciate agriculture and nutrition as important for self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and national development.

    Learning Area Curriculum

    • 4 chapters
    • 13 lectures
    • 4 quizzes
    • N/A total length
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    1 Production Technique -Sewing Skills: Knitting - Video
    2.56 Min

    This video introduces Grade 7 learners to the basics of Sewing Skills: Knitting under the topic Production Techniques. It demonstrates simple knitting stitches, guiding learners step by step on how to hold the yarn and needles, and how to form neat stitches. The video is practical and easy to follow, making it a helpful resource for learners beginning to develop knitting skills in line with the CBC Agriculture and Nutrition curriculum.


    2 Production Techniques -Sewing Skills: Knitting - PPT
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    3 Production Techniques -Sewing Skills: Knitting - Notes
    N/A

    This topic introduces learners to the ureter and urethra, two important parts of the human urinary system. The ureters are tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder, while the urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body. Learners will understand their functions, differences, and importance in the process of excretion.


    4 Production Techniques - Sewing Skills: Knitting -Questions [Quiz]
    5 Min


    1 Production Techniques -Constructing Framed Suspended Garden - Video
    1.27 Min

    This practical agricultural video demonstrates how to make a suspended garden using locally available materials. It shows learners how simple items such as containers, wires, wooden frames, and ropes can be used to grow crops in limited spaces. The video emphasizes creativity and resourcefulness, encouraging the use of affordable and easily accessible materials to support farming at home or school. It also highlights the importance of suspended gardening in maximizing space, especially in urban or small environments, while promoting sustainable food production. Such gardens are commonly constructed using materials like wires, wooden planks, metal bars, and containers for planting. Overall, the video is suitable for learners studying agriculture and helps them understand innovative farming techniques in a simple and practical way.


    2 Production Techniques - Constructing Framed Suspended Garden - Notes
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    This topic introduces Grade 7 learners to framed suspended gardens, an innovative farming method where crops are grown above the ground in raised frames. Learners explore the materials and tools required, steps in construction, soil preparation, safety measures, crop management, and advantages of this technique. The topic also emphasizes creativity, problem-solving, and entrepreneurship, enabling learners to apply modern farming methods for food security and income generation.


    3 Production Techniques - Constructing Framed Suspended Garden - Questions [Quiz]
    5 Min


    1 Production Techniques - Adding Value to Crop Produce - Video

    This educational video explains how farmers can add value to agricultural produce to increase income and reduce waste. It shows simple methods such as processing, packaging, drying, and preserving farm products to make them more attractive and long-lasting. Value addition involves transforming raw produce into higher-value products like juice, flour, or packaged goods, which can be sold at better prices. The video also highlights the benefits of value addition, including increased profits, reduced post-harvest losses, and access to wider markets. It is suitable for learners and farmers, helping them understand practical ways of improving agricultural productivity and profitability.


    2 Production Techniques - Adding Value to Crop Produce - Notes
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    This topic introduces Grade 7 learners to value addition in agriculture, where raw crops are processed into more useful, long-lasting, and higher-value products. Learners explore different crops suitable for value addition, safe processing methods such as drying, milling, frying, roasting, and packaging, and compare the value of raw and processed produce. The topic also emphasizes hygiene, safety, entrepreneurship, and food security, helping learners develop practical skills for self-reliance and innovation.


    3 Production Techniques - Adding Value to Crop Produce - Questions [Quiz]
    5 Min


    1 Production Techniques - Making Homemade Soap - Video
    4.57 Min

    This practical video demonstrates how liquid soap is made at home in Kenya using simple and locally available ingredients. It provides a step-by-step guide, showing the mixing process, measurements, and techniques used to produce liquid detergent for household cleaning. The video emphasizes that liquid soap making is easy, affordable, and can even be turned into a small business, since the product is widely used for cleaning and hygiene. Overall, it is suitable for beginners, students, and anyone interested in learning a useful skill for home use or income generation.


    2 Production Techniques - Making Homemade Soap - Notes
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    This topic introduces Grade 7 learners to homemade soap making as a practical production technique. Learners explore the ingredients, tools, and safe step-by-step procedures used in soap making, while practicing hygiene and safety when handling materials such as caustic soda. The lesson highlights the importance of soap in promoting health, hygiene, and entrepreneurship, encouraging learners to develop skills in self-reliance and innovation.


    3 Production Techniques - Making Homemade Soap - Questions [Quiz]
    5 Min


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