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For Schools
Lord of the Weeds Competition
(Secondary)
Ghastly Guests Unit of Work
(Upper Primary)
Weed Warriors
Weed Wipeout Game
Misbehaving Plants
 
for schools
Lord of the Weeds

Misbehaving Plants
Misbehaving plants is a big book with an introduction to weeds, a narrative story, a cartoon strip and factual information describing weeds. This resource was developed in consultation with experienced lower primary / infants teachers. While the book was developed for early stage teachers, the content and lesson activities suit a range of abilities, making this book appropriate for all primary classrooms.

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Lord of the Weeds

Lord of the Weeds
The Weeds CRC has designed this competition, including all resources (such as suggested lesson activities, student proformas to guide students through writing the report, marking guide and appropriate contacts for teachers to use). This way, finding a weedy area in the school or local area should be the only difficult thing to do.

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Ghastly Guests

Ghastly Guests
Ghastly guests: Upper primary unit of work investigating weeds is a great resource for upper primary teachers nationwide. The unit includes suggested lesson activities with accompanying worksheets and teacher resources. Activities in the unit are linked to the curriculum in each state and territory.

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Weed Warriors  

Weed Warriors
Weed Warriors, an innovative national education and awareness program supported by the Weeds CRC, aims to empower the community and bring the weed message to the next generation of land and water managers. The program, targeted at the middle years of schooling but adaptive to all levels of education, utilises biological control as the vehicle to introduce weed studies into school curriculum.

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  Weed Wipeout   Weed Wipeout
Weed Wipeout is an interactive game where the player is in a position of managing a farm with some weed problems. The player is required to make decisions regarding the most appropriate weed management strategy, and then discovers the results of these decisions. Humorous and unexpected events appear, keeping the job at hand very interesting.

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  Tertiary Resources  

Tertiary Resources
Weeds CRC is improving current weed training and developing new initiatives to increase awareness of weed issues and provide skills in weed management at all levels, from the wider community to specialist weed managers.

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