Explaining

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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 CONCEPTS - Explaining

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Spotted Knapweed Activities. Serious Conversation. The lesson plan engages students in a classroom activity to investigate why some noxious weed education programs describe invasive plant behavior as war-like. Students will understand why important websites like the Whitehall Schools biological weed control site is named Montana War on Weeds, or http://www.mtwow.org. Radio plays to enhance learning are available at Interesting Facts.
Serious Conversation (15 minutes)
Grades 3-6. Subjects: Science, Sociology, Language Arts.
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Spotted Knapweed Activities. Bike Tires, Clean off the Seeds. The lesson play engages students in role playing to act out human behavior in the outdoors. Students will learn the many ways seeds spread and understand that humans play a role in contributing to weed spread. Radio plays to enhance learning are available at Interesting Facts.
Bike Tires. Clean off the Seeds (30 minutes)
Grades 3-6. Subjects: Science, Art.
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Spotted Knapweed Activities. Snout Beetles and Scientific Name. The lesson plan engages students in library research project to describe the known natural world using scientific (Latin) names. Students will learn how to interpret scientific names of noxious weeds. Radio plays to enhance learning are available at Interesting Facts.
Snout Beetles and Scientific Name (15 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Language Arts, Science.
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Aquatic Invasive Species

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What is a Watershed?. In this lesson students will participate in discussions, brainstorming, and hands on activities to discover how stream bank disturbance can affect the shape and size of the stream bed, and impact water quantity and direction of flow.
Be A Stream (10 minutes) and Watershed Scavenger Hunt (15 minutes)
Grades: 3 and up. Subjects: Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics.
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Wild Wapiti - Elk Exploration Stations! Scat Investigations (45 minutes) and Oh Deer! (25 minutes)
Herbivores feed on plants. In this lesson students use their senses and observation skills to understand biological interactions where a predator feeds on its prey. Students will be define limiting factors with regard to animal populations.
Grades: All. Subjects: Science, Language Arts, 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.

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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.