Cultivating Weeds
Summary
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
- copies of “What is a weed?”
- copies of “Homesick Travellers”
- Video — Heather: the making of a weed
- seed catalogues, garden magazines
- Plant Me Instead booklets for your region