What the Grade 7 Agriculture curriculum design is
At Junior School, Agriculture becomes a learning area in its own right, allocated four lessons a week under the KICD lesson allocation. The curriculum design is the official KICD document behind it — the authority on what a Grade 7 learner should know, do and value in Agriculture by the end of the year. Under the Competency Based Curriculum the design, not the coursebook, is what schemes of work, lesson plans and assessments are built from, so it is the right place to start whether you are teaching the subject, training to teach it, or checking what it now covers.
A quick note on the name: teachers and learners often search for "Agriculture and Nutrition," which is how the area is titled in upper primary. At Junior School the KICD table lists the learning area simply as Agriculture, with nutrition and food content carried inside it rather than as a separate title. This page covers that Grade 7 Agriculture design and the file downloads as PDF.
What the design contains
For every strand and sub-strand, the design sets out the specific learning outcomes, suggested learning experiences, key inquiry questions, the core competencies and values to develop, the Pertinent and Contemporary Issues to mainstream, and the assessment rubric. Grade 7 Agriculture is practical and project-oriented by nature — much of the learning happens through hands-on activities such as growing crops, keeping small livestock, and working with soil, tools and food — and the design frames those activities against clear, assessable outcomes rather than leaving them open-ended.
Where Grade 7 Agriculture sits in Junior School
Junior School runs nine learning areas plus a pastoral programme, and Agriculture is one of the nine core areas every learner takes. It builds on the agriculture and nutrition strands learners met in upper primary and carries them into more deliberate skills — crop and animal production, food and nutrition, and the link between agriculture, health and livelihoods — laying groundwork that feeds into the pathways learners choose later at Senior School. The design keeps the subject anchored in real practice while still developing the scientific and enterprise thinking behind it.
How to use the design
Read the general and specific learning outcomes first to see what the year is aiming at, then use the strands, sub-strands, suggested experiences and the assessment rubric to build your scheme of work and lesson plans. Because Agriculture leans so heavily on practical activity, pay particular attention to the suggested learning experiences — they show how a strand is meant to be taught through doing, not just described, and how to assess a learner on a project or a practical rather than only on a written test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it called "Agriculture" or "Agriculture and Nutrition" at Grade 7? At Junior School the KICD lesson-allocation table names the learning area simply Agriculture, with nutrition and food content carried inside it. Many teachers still search for "Agriculture and Nutrition," which is the upper-primary title, so both point to the same Grade 7 design.
Why is a curriculum design useful if I just want schemes or lesson plans? Because everything downstream is built from it. The design defines the strands, outcomes and assessment rubric; the scheme of work, lesson plans and assessments all trace back to it. Reading the design first is what keeps those documents accurate — and if a ready-made resource ever conflicts with the design, the design is the authority.
How much of Grade 7 Agriculture is practical? A great deal of it. The subject is project- and activity-based — growing crops, keeping small livestock, working with soil, tools and food — and the design frames those activities against clear, assessable outcomes rather than leaving them open-ended.
Does this download as a Word file or a PDF? The curriculum design is a PDF, as published by KICD. The editable Word resources are the schemes of work, lesson plans and records of work that you build from it.
Is Grade 7 Agriculture examinable? It is one of the nine core Junior School learning areas every learner takes, so yes — it is taught and assessed like the other core areas, using the rubric approach the design sets out.
Looking for another Grade 7 learning area?
This page covers the Agriculture design only. For the full set of Grade 7 curriculum designs — English, Kiswahili, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Pre-Technical Studies, Social Studies, Creative Arts and Sports, and Religious Education — start from our Grade 7 Curriculum Designs hub.
Download the Grade 7 Agriculture curriculum design (PDF)
The latest KICD Grade 7 Agriculture curriculum design downloads as a PDF from our catalogue. Use the button below to open it, then work from its outcomes and rubric when you build the schemes, lesson plans and assessments that follow from it.