Agricultural Science

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

COURSE DESCRIPTION Would you like to make a real difference? Do you want a career that can take you anywhere in the world? Are you dreaming of being able to vary your work between indoors and outdoors? Does the thought of working with cutting edge technology excite you? Is spending your days working with plants, animals, machinery and getting your hands dirty appealing to you? Then Agriculture might just be the career for you.

Studying Agricultural Science is an opportunity to explore approaches to problem solving and innovation within the context of sustainable and regenerative farming. Students will explore the areas of soil, plant and animal sciences and machinery, looking at the

application of cutting-edge

technologies such as drones, breeding and genetic manipulation. This course is a theoretical science-based course that also has a practical component where students will have firsthand experience of working with soils,

machinery/tools, plants and/or animals.

AIMS Agricultural Science aims to develop future citizens with

an appreciation and understanding of the reality of Australian food and fibre production, now and into the

future. It gives students the opportunity to develop an insight into

the interactions between farming practices, environmental management and climate change through the study of sustainability and regenerative agriculture.

Students develop skills in the application

of theoretical understandings in practical contexts, which is transferable to many other subject disciplines. Agricultural Science is intended to expose students in Years 9 and 10 to a range of senior academic and vocational Agriculture studies. It leads into post-school pathways that follow tertiary, vocational education and on-farm trajectories as well as many careers in agricultural support

industries. ASSESSMENT Students will be assessed using an exam plus a folio of work including a Paddock Diary, weather observations, tool & machinery maintenance logs and a plant collection.