Year 7/8 - Design Technology: Horticulture
Year 7/8 - Design Technology: Horticulture
OverviewFood and fibre are the human-produced or harvested resources used to sustain life. They are produced in managed environments such as farms, gardens and plantations or harvested from wild populations. Challenges for world food and fibre production include an increasing world population and an uncertain climate, and competition for resources such as land and water. These pose ethical challenges, for example in relation to economic, environmental and social sustainability.
In Horticulture, students have opportunities to engage in these challenges by understanding the processes of food and fibre production, and by investigating innovative and ethical, including sustainable, ways of supplying agriculturally produced raw materials. They progressively develop knowledge and understanding about the managed systems that produce food and fibre by creating designed solutions.
This subject may be allocated to a student in Year 7 or selected at Year 8. Students study this subject with their year level.
| Units / Topics | Types of Assessment |
|---|---|
| Theory: | Practical Assessments |
| Food Production (Ethics and Sustainability | Research Tasks |
| Small animal nutrition (Food and Fibre products) | Journal |
| Native Planting (food and plants) | |
| Practical: | |
| Fruit and Vegetable Gardening | |
| Flock Care |
Future Directions
Students may go on to study Horticulture at Year 9.