Republic of the Philippines SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE Castilla Campus Mayon, Castilla, Sorsogon

Detailed Lesson Plan in Vocational Agriculture

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OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to: 1. Identify the different tillage operations; 2. Differentiate dry land (upland) and wetland (lowland) preparation; and 3. Select practices on soil preparation that they may apply in the future application. SUBJECT MATTER: Soil Tillage Reference/s: Crop Science 100- Crop Production Laboratory Manual Instructional Materials: Multimedia Presentation, word strips Agricultural Concepts: Tillage is one of the land preparation processes in preparing the soil for planting, thereby providing good physical, chemical and biological conditions that would permit optimum plant growth. PROCEDURE A. Preliminaries 1. Prayer 2. Checking of Attendance 3. Review of the previous lesson

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TEACHERS ACTIVITY B. Motivation Have a groupings. Count 1-4 then group yourselves. Do the word search game. Find and list as many as you can the words related to agriculture. Do it in 3 minutes. C. Unlocking of difficulties Let us define tillage. What is tillage?

STUDENTS ACTIVITY (Expected answer) Land, tillage, soil, weeds, crops, moisture, organic, erosion, plowing, harrowing, irrigation, flood, dry land, wetland pudding, spading, hoeing, subsoil, rotavator, soaking, pests, lowland, seeds, upland The mechanical manipulation of the soil from a known condition to a different desired condition. Plowing, harrowing, hoeing, spading

Can you give me an example? D. Lesson Proper

Those are the tillage operations. Let us classify those: Tillage operations may be divided into primary and secondary tillage. Primary tillage, it is.? This operation does the initial cutting or breaking of the soil at its state where either crop has been grown and harvested or a barren soil. Hoeing, spading, plowing These are operations on the soil after primary tillage. It includes breaking of soil clods or granulation (in dry land) or pudding (in wetland). Harrowing

Give me a common example. What about secondary tillage?

Example? We have mentioned wet land and dry land. Tillage operations may vary depending on the type of land.

Differentiate dry land/ upland form wet In dry land/ upland, tillage is performed land/ lowland. at relatively low moisture content (meaning dry), well below the saturation level while in wet land, the soil is tilled when it is saturated with water. Divide the class into two. (by row) Classify these practices of land preparation under lowland and upland, arrange these practices from first to last.
Lowland Plowing Soaking Harrowing/ rotavating Pudding Levelling Upland Levelling Plowing Harrowing/ rotavating Lowland Soaking Plowing Harrowing/ rotavating Pudding Levelling Levelling Plowing Harrowing/ rotavating Upland

Why is it that in upland there is no Because in upland/ dry land operations soaking? can be done with a presence of a low water amount or low moisture content. E. Generalization Why is it important to practice To provide good physical condition of the proper tillage operation? soil as well as good chemical and biological condition for the growth of the plant.

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EVALUATION Differentiate the following: 1. Primary and secondary tillage 2. Dry land and wet land operations AGREEMENT Study about the amount or intensity of tillage.

Prepared by EVANGELINE V. MENDEZ BSAD Ag. Ed. III