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Name: ____________________________________________ Grade and Section: _______________________

Farm Tools and Equipment

TLE 7/8, Quarter 4 – Week 1-3

Learning Competency: Select farm tools and equipment (TLE_AFHC7/8UT-0a-1)

1. Identify the farm implements and equipment according to their use.
2. Categorize the farm tools according to their general use.
3. Create a scrapbook of farm tools and equipment.
4. Practice safety use of farm tools and equipment.

Background Information

Farm Tools
a. Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
b. Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
c. Pick-mattock is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up
stones
and tree stumps.
d. Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
e. Spade is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil
media.
f. Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to
another and for mixing soil media.
g. Rake is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
h. Spading fork is used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.
i. Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting.
j. Hand trowel is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small
amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.
k. Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and
removing weeds around the plant.
l. Hand fork is used for inter-row cultivation.
m. Pruning shears is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary
branches of plants.
n. Axe is for cutting bigger size post.
o. Knife is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in
horticulture.
p. Sprinklers are used for watering seedlings and young plants
q. Water pails are used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.
r. Sprayers it is for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.
s. Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and
other equipment.
t. Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for
cutting weeds.

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Farm Implements
1. Plows. These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a
working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large areas, making
furrows and inter-row cultivation.
2. Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal teeth and pulled by a
carabao while the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used
for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
3. Rotavator. The rotavator is an implement attached to a tractor and used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.

Farm Equipment

1. Hand tractor is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.
2. Four wheel tractor is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger
area of land.
3. Water pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source.

Source: Agu, Zain. “Common Farm Tools and Equipment: Names, Uses, and Pictures.” Legit.ng - Nigeria News., 27 June 2020, www.legit.ng/1186398-farm-tools-uses-pictures.html.

Activity 1
Directions: Categorize the farm tools according to their use.

Tools for cleaning Tools for digging Tools for Tools for watering Tools for
the land and pulverizing cultivating/ harvesting/hauli
soil scraping grass ng/transferring
items

Activity 2
Directions: Identify the farm implements and equipment according to their use.

Farm Implements/Equipment Function/Use

____________ 1. Plow a. These are used to draw
irrigation from water source
____________ 2. Water Pump b. It is used to pull disc plow
and harrow in preparing
____________ 3. Harrow much bigger area of land.
c. This is attached to a tractor
____________ 4. Four wheel tractor used to till and pulverize soil.
d. It is made of wood with metal
____________ 5. Rotavator teeth used to till and
pulverize soil.
e. It is used to make furrows or
inter-row cultivation.

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Activity 3
Direction: Fill out the crossword puzzle with the correct terms using the given clues.
1 2 3

4 7

10

Across
1. It is used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.
4. It is used for cutting planting materials
6. It is used for removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for
mixing soil media
8. It is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
10. It is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting
weeds.

Down
2. It is used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants
3. It is used for cutting bigger size post
5. It is used for inter row cultivation
7. It is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees
9. It is used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers

Guide Questions
Directions: Answer the following questions in your notebook.
1. Why is it important to select the appropriate electrical tools and materials for a specific
task?
2. Can you think of a situation where using the wrong tools and materials can lead to safety
hazards? Explain.

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Performance Task
Direction: Create a scrapbook featuring pictures and description of different farm tools and
equipment.

Rubric for scoring

Criteria 10 - Excellent 8 - Good 5 - Fair 2 – Needs

Improvement
Content Covers topic in- Includes essential Includes essential Content is minimal
depth with details knowledge about the information about OR there are several
and examples. topic. Subject the topic but there factual errors
Subject knowledge is knowledge appears are 1-2 factual errors
excellent to be good
Graphics All graphics are All graphics are There are graphics Graphics do not
related to the topic related to the topic. that are not related relate to the topic.
and make it easier to However, some of it to the topic.
understand was not easy to
understand.
Attractiveness Makes excellent use Makes good use of Makes use of font, Use of font, color,
of font, color, font, color, graphics, color, graphics, graphics, effects etc.
graphics, effects, etc. effects, etc. to effects, etc. but but these often
to enhance the enhance to occasionally these distract from the
presentation presentation detract from the presentation content
presentation content
Mechanics No misspellings or Only few misspelled Half of the content of Spelling errors and
grammatical errors. words and/or infographics got grammatical errors
grammatical errors Misspelled words are very rampant in
were spotted. and grammatical its content.
errors.
Promptness Submitted the Submitted the Submitted output 2 Submitted the
output on or before output one day late. days late. output 3 days late or
the submission date. more.

Reflection/Self-Monitoring
In this lesson, I have learned the _______________________________________________________.
I realize that this is important to learn because _________________________________________.
______________________________________________________________________________________________.

References:

Agu, Zain. “Common Farm Tools and Equipment: Names, Uses, and Pictures.” Legit.ng - Nigeria News., 27 June 2020, www.legit.ng/1186398-farm-tools-uses-pictures.html.

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Answer Key

Activity 2

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Activity 3

1. S 2. P R 3. A Y E R

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4. K N I F E 7. B

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8. C R O W B A R

10. S I C K L E

Prepared by:

Maria Jerecca S. Sierra

Teacher II
Eugenio Cabezas National High School / Trece Martires City, Cavite