GAMES and activities with invasive species in them

This page lists games and activities that help us learn more about invasive species.

Games

> Find the Weeds Concentration game (Bureau of Land Management)
> Weed Jeopardy (Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board)
> Test your aquatic nuisance species knowledge with the Want to be a Fish Biologist? game (Protect Your Waters Compaign Stop the Aquatic Hitchhikers Campaign)
> Weed Wipeout Game (Australian Cooperative Research Center for Weed Management) WebQuote: "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. "
> Alien Invaders: An Invasive Species Game (PDF download). NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellows Program, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
> Michigan's Least Wanted matching game (Michigan State University). WebQuote: "This matching game features several species that have invaded Michigan’s natural environment."
> It's an Invasion! (PDF download) (Michigan State University). "A fun way for kids to start to think and learn about how invasive species can crowd out native species and damage their new environments."

Coloring Books

> Noxious Weed Coloring Book (Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board)
> Exotic Animals in Hawaii Coloring Book (Bess Press Inc.)
> Invasive Weeds. What are they and why should we care about them? Coloring Book (National Park Service) (PDF download)
> Wetland and Invasive Plants of the Southeast - A Coloring Book (Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, University of Florida)
> Noxious Weed Coloring Book (Marin/Sonoma Weed Management Area)

Stories
> The Story of Rosy Dock (Jennifer Baker, HarperCollins Children's Books) WebQuote: "Intricately constructed collage paintings illustrate this gentle ecological lesson about rosy dock, an imported garden plant that has become a tenacious inhabitant of the Australian desert, spreading until it now threatens many indigenous plants and animals with extinction."
> Invasive Weeds. What are they and why should we care about them? Coloring Book (National Park Service) (PDF)

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