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Cultivating Weeds

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Students investigate how our aesthetic values can create weed problems.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Explain how some weedsarrived in New Zealand.
  • Evaluate the role of historic cultural values in introducing weeds.
  • Investigate current cultural values and consider how they may affect the creation of new weeds in New Zealand.

Suggested prior lessons

  • What is a weed?

Curriculum Connections

Social studies, levels 2-7

Vocabulary/Concepts

weed, introduced, exotic, native, invasive, acclimatisation society

Time

1 ½ - 2 hours

Materials