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- Original publication period
- January–June 2022
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- August 10, 2026
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Abstract
Agricultural crops production is learned most meaningfully when students connect technical knowledge with soil, tools, plants, markets, and community practice. A workbook can support this connection, but a sequence of activities does not automatically produce coherent experiential learning. This conceptual article analyzes Agricultural Crops Production: Student Workbook for Grades 10 and 11 as an instructional source and develops the Frame-Act-Record-Make Meaning (FARM) cycle for place-based agricultural education. The source workbook contains 21 activities involving garden-site analysis, mapping, hand tools, container gardening, indirect planting, soil, personal protective equipment, the Philippine agricultural economy, farmers, marketing, insects, community entrepreneurs, crop maturity, planting distance, harvesting, farm-production surveys, economic analysis, and insecticide-label inquiry. These tasks are reorganized into four instructional domains: agroecological observation; safe crop-production practice; agricultural enterprise and community knowledge; and evidence-based production inquiry. FARM supplies the missing process that links them. Students frame a local problem and criteria for success, act through supervised performance or community investigation, record observable evidence, and make meaning through analysis, feedback, recommendation, and transfer. The article proposes a task-to-evidence assessment chain, safety and ethics gates for fieldwork, and a minimum implementation architecture for schools with different levels of land, equipment, and community access. Its contribution is a design framework, not a claim of measured learning effects. The framework positions the workbook as a bridge among competency standards, school-garden practice, community knowledge, and reflective judgment while preserving teacher responsibility for localization, safety, consent, and assessment quality.