Weeds – the real alien invaders
Activities
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 and Water (Australia)
Controlling pests – students learn the ways in which agricultural pests are controlled.
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (Australia)
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)
Pollen counting – students identify and count pollen on a glass slide.
Global Education (AusAID, Australia)
Integrated pest management in Indonesia – students explore the benefits of integrated pest management.
Page updated February 2007.