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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 SUBJECTS - Geography

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Leafy Spurge and Spotted Knapweed Lesson Plans With Radio Plays. Twenty activities correspond with the CD and mp3 radio plays, The Meanest Flower That Blows! Each radio play builds on content from the one before it, setting the stage for the play that follows. One activity accompanies each 2 to 3 minute play. Ten plays are about Spotted Knapweed and its biological control insects. The ten remaining plays are about Leafy Spurge and its biological control insects. Written scripts for each play are available at Interesting Facts where you can listen to the plays online. Grades K-3. Subjects: Science, Language Arts, Mathematics, Geography, Literature.

Leafy Spurge Radio Play Lesson Plans
1 Snap-Crackle-Pop. Seeds in Air, on Water, on your Clothes.
2 Icky Stuff: Safety First With Noxious Weeds.
3 Cork-like and Wax-like Plant Defenses. Science Project Lesson Plan.
4 Chow Down. Mapping Investigation.
5 No Home on the Range: Play Migration Headache.
6 Meet the Beetles - Before and After.
7 Red-headed Stranger - Before and After.
8 Flying Flies - Before and After. Tip Gall Midge Points of Attack.
9 Bug Barf - Before and After. Hawk Moth Norn Worm Stored Poison Lesson Plan.<br.> 10 Defense Systems and Medicine. Exploring Plant Chemistry.

Spotted Knapweed Radio Plan Lesson Plans.
11 Pineapple. Spotted Knapweed Identification.
12 Spoons: Seeds and their Travels.
13 Pirates and the Backcountry.
14 Serious Conversation.
15 Pulling Weeds Quiz Show.
16 Sulfur Moth Collection.
17 Ranch Land Money Rodeo.
18 Bike Tires. Clean off the Seeds.
19 Snout Beetles and Scientific Name.
20 Weed Spread in Time.
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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.

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Regions 1, 4, and Northeastern Area; and Forest Health Protection Technology Enterprise Team.