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Biocontrol In Your Backyard is designed for educators to access content by
State required core and standards. The purpose is to seamlessly integrate
biocontrol, integrated pest management, and noxious weed lesson plans into
existing programs by Grade level, Core Subjects, Core Skills, Core Concepts
and Core Objectives.
CORE SKILLS - Active Participating
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Leafy Spurge Lesson Plan. If you're standing in a patch of leafy spurge in late summer, you might hear a popping or crackling sound. This is the plant's artillery ... Discover how leafy spurge spreads and how its biological control agent, spurge hawk moth, works to try to keep the plant in check. Can the spurge be contained? Students will participate in the to answer these questions.
Leafy Spurge Bonanza (50 minutes)
Create a Fantasy Plant (30 minutes).
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Art, Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Aquatic Invasive Species
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Eurasian Watermilfoil. Students will learn about the diversity of animal life in a pond and the interdependence among pond organisms. Students will illustrate how tolerance to water quality conditions varies among macroinvertebrate organisms and explain how population diversity provides insight into health of an ecosystem.
Grades: All. Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark
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Stand Alone Media Elements Gateway to biocontrol still and motion video and graphics
for assembling in a sequence for individualized lesson plans will be available later this year.
- Content for Biocontrol in Your Backyard is provided by individual program sponsors.
- Content is formatted and uploaded by InterMedia
- The Biocontrol In Your Backyard Portal collaboration with The Bugwood Network and its
- content accessible format are sponsored by USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry
- Regions 1, 4, and Northeastern Area; and Forest Health Protection Technology Enterprise Team.
