Resources include:
- secondary sources to explore food production, farming and pests,
eg CD-ROMs, photographs, video clips, gardening reference books and other literature such as information leaflets produced by environmental, farming and government organisations
- samples of a wide range of crops or plants
- microscope slides showing starch grains in plants,
eg potato
- food webs showing animals and plants associated with a crop,
eg cereals
- duckweed and/or wheat for growing
- examples of packaging or advertisements for fertilisers, weedkillers, pesticides
- data about crop yields with, and in the absence of, weeds
- case studies about the use of pesticides,
eg effect on bird populations, effect on locusts, malarial areas
- texts about use of pesticides and insecticides from different perspectives,
eg 'Silent Spring' by Rachel Carson
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