Teacher guidance
This Internal Assessment Activity meets all of the requirements of the Achievement Standard. It may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher. If adaptations are made, teachers need to ensure that all achievement levels can be met in the activity and are reflected in the Assessment Schedule. Assessor judgements need to align with the Achievement Standard.
This Internal Assessment Activity meets all of the requirements of the Achievement Standard. It may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher. If adaptations are made, teachers need to ensure that all achievement levels can be met in the activity and are reflected in the Assessment Schedule. Assessor judgements need to align with the Achievement Standard.
This Assessment Activity should take place at the end of a teaching and learning programme of approximately eight weeks. The Assessment Activity could also occur within an extended topic.
Practical investigations and recording of observations are not assessed, rather they are used in the Assessment Activity. The time spent in collection and recording of observations is not included in the recommended timeframe.
It is important that students are given the opportunity to choose the format to present their understandings for this Assessment Activity. The forms listed are recommended but not exclusive.
In this task, management of life processes of bees to produce mānuka honey provides the context, but this task could be used with any host plant. Similarly, any bee product could be the focus of the Assessment Activity; propolis, pollen, queen jelly, wax or venom.
To engage students in this Assessment Activity, you could start by:
- exploring the saleable parts of mānuka
- exploring the use of mānuka in rongoā Māori
- exploring the flavours, properties and uses of different types of honey
- looking into employment and study pathways related to mānuka honey, for example:
- beekeeping job profile, listen to a beekeeper talk about her job
- research companies that market mānuka honey, propolis, pollen, queen jelly, wax, or venom.
This Assessment Activity should take place at the end of a teaching and learning programme of approximately eight weeks. The Assessment Activity could also occur within an extended topic.
Practical investigations and recording of observations are not assessed, rather they are used in the Assessment Activity. The time spent in collection and recording of observations is not included in the recommended timeframe.
It is important that students are given the opportunity to choose the format to present their understandings for this Assessment Activity. The forms listed are recommended but not exclusive.
In this task, management of life processes of bees to produce mānuka honey provides the context, but this task could be used with any host plant. Similarly, any bee product could be the focus of the Assessment Activity; propolis, pollen, queen jelly, wax or venom.
To engage students in this Assessment Activity, you could start by:
- exploring the saleable parts of mānuka
- exploring the use of mānuka in rongoā Māori
- exploring the flavours, properties and uses of different types of honey
- looking into employment and study pathways related to mānuka honey, for example:
- beekeeping job profile, listen to a beekeeper talk about her job
- research companies that market mānuka honey, propolis, pollen, queen jelly, wax, or venom.
Assessment schedule
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- Description: Agricultural & Horticultural Science 1.1a Assessment Schedule
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- AH 1.1a Assessment Schedule.docx
- Description: Agricultural & Horticultural Science 1.1a Assessment Schedule
