Grade 5Agriculture and Nutrition
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 5 Agriculture and Nutrition curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1Conservation of ResourcesLooking after the three things a garden cannot do without: soil, water, and peace with the animals around it.
Soil Conservation
3 skillsFinding the spots that need help, building an organic waste pit, and putting plant remains back into the ground.
Water Conservation
3 skillsWays to save water for a household garden, and then actually doing it at school or at home.
Conserving Wild Animals
3 skillsKeeping wild animals off the crops without harming them, and living alongside them.
2Food Production ProcessesThe largest strand: growing it, keeping it, knowing what is in it, and cooking it.
Growing Vegetables
4 skillsThe practices that matter, setting up a nursery bed, and caring for seedlings after they go in the ground.
Uses of Domestic Animals
3 skillsWhat each animal is kept for, and matching animal to use.
Preservation of Cereals and Pulses
3 skillsThe methods used locally, and doing them, so that a harvest lasts until it is needed.
Food Nutrients
4 skillsSorting foods by the nutrient they mainly give, what each does in the body, and the illnesses that follow poor eating.
Cooking Food
3 skillsThe methods of cooking, and dry fat frying and deep frying in particular.
3Hygiene PracticesThree topics about keeping a person, a home and a garment clean, which is health before it is housework.
Good Grooming Practices
3 skillsWhat good grooming is, as a daily habit rather than an occasion.
Home Hygiene
3 skillsThe different surfaces in a house, and how each one is properly cleaned.
Laundering Cotton Item
3 skillsHow a cotton item is washed, dried and finished, start to end.
4Production TechniquesTwo topics that both end with something made: a mended garment, and a garden.
Repairing Garments
4 skillsThe stitches used for repairs, practising them on samples, and then closing a gaping seam for real.
Constructing Innovative Gardens
3 skillsHorizontal against vertical gardening, and building one, which is how a family with little land still grows food. The biggest topic in the subject.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 5 Agriculture and Nutrition curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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