1. 1. *objective *The environmental technological, economic and social factors which influence the distribution of different types and systems of farming *The factors which influence the patterns of agricultural output and trade. *New agricultural techniques which increase yields.
2. 2. *Outcome *ALL: all students are able to make simple identification as well as identify factors that influence the patterns of agriculture. *MOST: students are able to work on skill of interpretation. *SOME: students are able to develop a sustainable plan.
3. 3. What is Ploughing? Ploughing is when you dig the soil making it loose. This brings the nutrients (all the goods things in soil) to the top and pushes the bad things (like weeds and seeds and old soil) to the bottom. Loosening the soil also means that water can get to the seeds instead of running off the top.
4. 4. What is Sowing? sowing is when the farmers put seeds in the soil they have ploughed. The seeds are then covered with soil and watered. The seeds are then left to grow. It needs three things to help it grow; water, soil, sunlight.
5. 5. What is Harvesting? Plants have matured when they are fully grown and ready to eat. When the crop has matured its get collected from the fields and this is harvesting. It then gets graded (sorting the good crop from the bad) and packed ready for people to buy and eat.
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8. 8. Old Farming Methods *Mostly small sized farms. *People and animals are used to do a lot of the work. *Old farms have a small yield (this means they produce less crops). *Old farms use less technology so a lot more of their plants die. New Farming Methods *Very large Farms. *Machines used to do the ploughing, planting and harvesting. *New farms have a big yield (this means they produce a lot of crops). *New farms use a lot of technology so the risk of their crop failing is not as high