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CCEA GCSE Agriculture and Land Use revision

These activities are mapped to CCEA GCSE Agriculture and Land Use 0310. Twelve of them, eighteen to twenty-six minutes each, across soils and plant nutrition, plant biology, livestock, animal health and nutrition, crop production, food production and farm economics, habitats and countryside management, farm safety, renewable energy, and the investigation skills Unit 3 assesses. **This is a qualification almost nothing is published for.** CCEA is the only awarding body that offers it, the cohort is small, and commercial revision material for it is close to non-existent. The set is also among the stronger ones here. Ten typed-number questions and not one of them names the operation, four labelled diagrams, two hotspots, and an average length of twenty-three minutes.

This page lists what we actually have for CCEA GCSE Agriculture and Land Use 0310. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.

A qualification with nowhere to send students

Most GCSE subjects have a crowded revision market. A teacher's problem is choosing between resources, not finding one.

Agriculture and Land Use is not like that. CCEA is the only awarding body offering it, it is taught almost entirely in Northern Ireland, and the cohort is small enough that publishers have never found it worth serving. Departments build their own material, and students who want to revise on their own mostly cannot.

These twelve activities exist because of that gap rather than in spite of it. They will not be the only thing a class needs. They are, for a lot of students taking this subject, the only interactive revision that exists for it at all.

The set is genuinely demanding

Two measurements worth having, because "something is better than nothing" is a low bar and this clears a higher one.

Ten questions ask the student to type a value, and none of the prompts names the operation. The question describes a stocking rate, a feed conversion, a gross margin or a fertiliser application and stops. Working out which calculation applies stays with the student, which is the examined skill. Across this site, that ratio is at the good end.

The average activity runs twenty-three minutes, with eleven of the twelve at twenty minutes or more, and three at twenty-six. Food production and farm economics, habitats and countryside management, and farm safety and pollution are the long ones.

Anatomy you can point at

Agriculture is a subject with structures in it: a ruminant digestive system, the parts of a flower, the reproductive cycle of a cow.

Those are badly served by written questions, because a student can learn what the rumen does and still not be able to find it. Four activities use a labelled diagram and two use a hotspot, so the student places the structure rather than naming it from a list.

Animal Nutrition and Digestive Systems is the one to look at first if your class can recite the four compartments and cannot sequence them.

The investigation skills

Unit 3 is a controlled assessment on contemporary issues, and what it assesses is method: framing a question, planning an investigation, gathering and analysing data, and reaching a defensible conclusion.

Two activities cover exactly that, one on planning a practical investigation and one on analysing data and research. They do not and cannot do the assessment, which is your students' own work on their own chosen issue.

They are, however, the part of the controlled assessment that generalises, and they are worth setting before your class chooses a topic rather than after.

Using them

The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.

The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint and share one link. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.

Departments teaching this alongside Food Preparation will find that subject at AQA GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition, which covers the provenance end of the same story from the consumer's side.

What this page does not do

Nothing for the controlled assessment itself, only the skills it rests on.

No farm. This is a subject with a practical culture, and a screen does not replace a morning at a milking parlour.

Twelve activities is not a course. It is one pass through most of the content, and a student who works through all of them has used everything here.

It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.

Every live Agriculture and Land Use activity for CCEA

12 activities, all mapped to CCEA GCSE Agriculture and Land Use (0310).

See all 12, by topic

Try it with your class

CCEA Agriculture and Land Use 24 minutes

Animal Nutrition and Digestive Systems

16 steps, 11 interactive, 11 activity types.

Best used for
Intervention Mock preparation Cover lesson
  • Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.
  • Mock preparation: Asks students to build an answer, not just recognise one.
  • Cover lesson: Teaches and tests in one go, so a non-specialist can run it.

Try one question

Grass is mostly cellulose. What lets a cow use it when a pig largely cannot?

CCEA Agriculture and Land Use 26 minutes

Food Production, Processing and Farm Economics

16 steps, 11 interactive, 9 activity types.

Best used for
Intervention Mock preparation Cover lesson
  • Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.
  • Mock preparation: Asks students to build an answer, not just recognise one.
  • Cover lesson: Teaches and tests in one go, so a non-specialist can run it.

Try one question

A small farm near a city has limited land, a nearby customer base willing to pay more, and an owner with time to put in. Which system is worth considering, and why?

CCEA Agriculture and Land Use 26 minutes

Habitats, Biodiversity and Countryside Management

15 steps, 10 interactive, 11 activity types.

Best used for
Intervention Mock preparation Cover lesson
  • Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.
  • Mock preparation: Asks students to build an answer, not just recognise one.
  • Cover lesson: Teaches and tests in one go, so a non-specialist can run it.

Try one question

A farm has one field of improved grassland and one of unimproved. Which is likely to have higher biodiversity, and why?

Common questions

Who is this qualification for?

Schools in Northern Ireland. CCEA is the only awarding body offering GCSE Agriculture and Land Use, so a department teaching it has very little published revision material to choose from.

Do the calculation questions give the method away?

No. Ten questions ask for a typed value and not one of the prompts names the operation. Stocking rates, feed conversion, gross margins and fertiliser application all appear as situations rather than as sums to perform.

How long are these activities?

Eighteen to twenty-six minutes, averaging twenty-three, with eleven of the twelve at twenty minutes or more. They are among the longest on this site.

Is the controlled assessment covered?

The skills are. Two activities cover planning a practical investigation and analysing data and research, which is the method Unit 3 assesses. The investigation itself is your department's and your students' work.

Is there any diagram work?

Four labelled-diagram steps and two hotspots, on digestive systems, plant structure and livestock reproduction. For a subject built on anatomy and plant biology, that matters more than it would elsewhere.

Will I see who has completed them?

No. Following a shared link records nothing about who followed it, which is a deliberate choice about children's data.

Put one in front of a class

Tell us the subject and how long you have. You get a link to hand out, and it marks itself.

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