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Activities | Weeds – the real alien invaders
  • Biotechnology Online, Biotechnology Australia
    • Some introduced pests in Australia – students use internet resources to investigate a pest in the area in which they live.
    • A problem with weeds – students investigate the area of weeds in canola crops, ways of controlling the weeds and the cost of controlling them.

  • Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water, Australia
    • Controlling pests – students learn the ways in which agricultural pests are controlled.
    • Weed educational resources – provides a number of activities and information to explore the problem of weeds. Includes two Weedbuster activity booklets.

  • Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management, Australia
    • Weed warriors – working with land management agencies and community groups, students propagate a biological control agent and release them to control a local weed infestation.
    • Weed wipeout – an interactive game where the player is a farm manager with a weed problem and needs to decide on the most appropriate management strategy.

  • Wildscape, Gould League, Australia
    • Ring around plant diversity – an activity for student groups to investigate the diversity of plant cover in their school environment. They use simple mathematics to estimate weed and other plant cover.

  • AirWatch, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia

  • Global Education, AusAID, Australia
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