Core Objectives
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.
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Core Objectives Whats In Your World
Core Objectives for Ages 8-14 - What's In Your World? Youth Naturalist - Weed Scientist
In Core Objectives Whats In Your World, you will learn how easily you can
swop out engaging science lessons about biocontrol for what you are already teaching
to meet your State's curricular requirements. You will learn "What is a Weed", and
how landscapes are changing - what it means to be a naturalist with many ways to
fight weeds. You will learn interesting facts about noxious weeds and their biocontrol
agents: spotted knapweed, leafy spurge, Dalmatian toadflax, yellow starthistle,
purple loosestrife, and saltcedar.
Core Objectives for Ages 6-14 - The Meanest Flower that Blows! Activities and Radio Plays
In Core Objectives for Ages 6-14 Interesting Facts, you will learn about two
noxious weeds, spotted knapweed and leafy spurge; and insects that help land
managers keep weeds from spreading. You will learn about interesting characteristics
of the insects from the insects point of view. Serious science is conveyed in
engaging ways through professional radio pays that build one on the next for a
complex understanding of biological weed control concepts.
Each Radio Play comes with a Lesson Plan.
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Core Objectives for Ages 6-14 - Our Wetland Project Aquatic Invasive Activities
In Core Objectives for Ages 6-14 - Our Wetland Project, you will find games and
activities for Kindergarten through 6th Grade that introduce students to watershed
concepts, invasive plants, and invasive species like mussels, mudsnails, and
aquatic diseases like whirling disease. The activities link to a children's
book that can be read aloud. Activities include serious science protocol for
setting up monitoring programs to help stop the spread of invasive species.
Students learn about the water cycle, characteristics of watersheds and how humans
and animals use them. Students learn skill sets like plant and macroinvertebrate
parts and how to identify them in the landscape. Students learn by enacting
parts of a stream through a story-based transition from healthy to degraded
and back again somehow different.
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Stand Alone Media Elements Gateways 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, Forest Health Protection, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team.
