Life Skills

LS.9 - The large variety of plants

identify plants in the school/local environment
participate as part of a team in an investigation into native plants growing in the local area
communicate information about the native plants growing in your area

Identifying native plants

Participate in an investigation

Communicate information

Identifying native plants

Eucalypyts - Fact Sheet, from the Australian Museum
http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/eucalypts.htm

SGAP Guide to australian plants - from Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/sgap1a.html
Search the Atlas of NSW Wildlife - lists plants in any given national park or reserve, from National Parks and Wildlife
http://wildlifeatlas.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/wildlifeatlas/watlas.jsp
Welcome to the Virtual Herbarium - Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
http://www.csu.edu.au/herbarium/

Information about some Australian Plants - from Centre for Plant Biodiversity, Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/australian-plants/australian-plants.html

Handbooks and Field Guides - (Geographical and Ecological) - a list of references useful for teachers, from Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian National Botanic Gardens
A list of references useful for teachers

Community Biodiversity Survey Manual - from Department of Environment and Climate Change
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/howyoucanhelp/01Introduction.pdf

Fact Sheets: Native Plants - form Gardening Australia, ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/native.htm

Weeds

About Weeds - from Australian Government
http://www.weeds.gov.au/weeds/index.html

Weed identification tool - from Australian Government
http://www.weeds.gov.au/cgi-bin/weedidtool.pl

What is a Weed? - from Hawkesbury River county Council
http://www.hrcc.nsw.gov.au/what_is_a_weed_.html

WHAT IS A WEED? - from COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE
http://www.growingyourfuture.com/programs/colorado_reader/natural_pdf/weed02.pdf

Participate as part of a team in an investigation into native plants

Getting To Know your Local Plants - from Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
http://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/revegetation/pins/localplants.PDF

How to Build a Plant Press - from The Online Herbarium Project
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/pond/buildpress.htm

Making Leaf Prints - from Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/inhsreports/fall-2000/leaf.html

Bush Regeneration - fact sheet from Greening Australia
BushRegenerationfactsheet.pdf

Whereis? - find the location of your school or local environment a map, enter the school's address in the boxes to get a map of your area, also locate nearby parks with places of interest
http://whereis.com.au/whereis/home.jsp

What's it all about? - a survey of native plants at Loreto Normanhurst with maps, reports and practical information for weed removal
http://www.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/Grounds/whats_it_all_about.htm

Flora for fauna - from National Heritage Trust and Nursery and Garden Industry
http://www.floraforfauna.com/createagarden/take_a_tour.asp

Working Together for the Environment - from Environment Trust
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/environet/

Vegetation Fact Sheets - from Queensland Government
http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/factsheets/groups.php?group=Vegetation

Alternatives to Invasive Garden Plants - a fact sheet from the CRC Australian Weed Management
http://www.weeds.crc.org.au/documents/fs26_alternatives_garden_plants.pdf

Garden Escapes List & Suggested Alternatives - from Sydney Weeds Committee
http://www.sydneyweeds.org.au/garden-escapes.php

Grow Me Instead - from Grow Me Instead project, download booklet in pdf
http://www.sydneyweeds.org.au/docs/Grow-Me-Instead.pdf

Communicate information

Creating Effective Poster Presentations - from North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/

Effective Presentations - University of Kansas Medical Center
http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html

Native Plants at Loreto Normanhurst - online report of an extensive survey of the school grounds carried out by National Trust
http://www.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/Grounds/Native_Plants_at_Loreto.htm

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