Introduction Step Three
Section One. Biocontrol Basics - Extras
Navigating the Biocontrol In Your Backyard portal
Introduction Step Three.
In Step Two, you learned how to access Biocontrol Curriculum from the Lessons button on the Biocontrol In Your Backyard Home Page. Searching by Core Subjects you learned how to locate and download lesson plans and activities within the History Subject. You also learned how to seamlessly navigate to any of the four programs from the curriculum subjects, skill sets, concepts, and objectives. In Step Three, you will learn how to access graphic and media elements, and download these elements to your computer for use in the classroom. Note that later, in Section Three, you will learn how to sequence these media and graphic elements to customize your own lesson plan. For now, you will learn how to access and download the Extra content available for your use in the classroom.
Brief Overview. In the Whats In Your World Gateway, you learned how the impacts of invasive plants can change landscapes over time by accessing Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark seamlessly from the Biocontrol Curriculum Core Subjects History Subject. Researchers hope to integrate a variety of appropriate management methods, a concept called IPM, or integrated pest management to stop the spread of noxious weeds. In Step Three you will learn how to access PowerPoint presentations that discuss the basic concepts of integrating biological controls into management planning processes. You will learn how to find pencil drawings of native and non-native plants, photographs of people implementing integrated approaches to weed management, and color illustrations of biological control insects common in the western United States.
Step Three.
In this step you will learn how to find pdf and PowerPoint files, color illustrations, pencil drawings, and photographs of teachers and students in service learning activities. You will learn how to download the media elements for your use in the classroom.
Task #3a. From the Biocontrol In Your Backyard button at the bottom of the page navigate to the Home Page.
Task #3b. From the Home Page click the 
button to go to the Extras main page.
Task #3c. Note that you can at any time return to the Biocontrol In Your Backyard Home Page by clicking the banner at the top or the button on the bottom of the page.
Task #3d. From the Extras main page you can click on the Extras: buttons to search by a variety of media elements: Brochures + Pamphlets, PowerPoints and Slides, Photographs of People, Pencil Plant Drawings, and BioAgent Color Drawings. You will learn later in Section Three how to use these media elements to customize lesson plans that you develop to help you meet the State core curricular requirement methods you learn in Section Two. For now, click on the Extras: PowerPoints and Slides button or the words, Biocontrol In Your Backyard PowerPoint Presentations.
Task #3e. You will see a list of resources with bulleted titles for PowerPoint pdf and ppt files that are available for download and use in your classroom.
Utah's Noxious Weeds (courtesy Sage Fitch, Salt Lake County Weed Program Education Specialist)
Bugs With An Attitude on How To Start A School Knapweed Insectary (courtesy Todd Breitenfeldt and Mike Battaiola)
Bugs With An Attitude on "Adding" Invasive Species and Biocontrol of Noxious Weeds to Your Lesson Plans to meet State Core Content requirements
- How to initiate a project
- Education resources: biological weed control experts and contact information
Whitehall Biological Weed Control Institute on "How to do Biocontrol"
What is GPS? (courtesy Todd Breitenfeldt and Mike Battaiola)
- PowerPoint Presentation with Notes - Part I : [[Media:GPS-2.ppt|Part II]
Biological Control of Weeds 101 (courtesy Mark Schwarzlander, Carol Randall, and Joey Milan)
Leave No Weeds and kNOweeds K-12 Montana (courtesy Bitterroot and Lolo National Forests and the Missoula County Weed District)
- K-12 Montana Curriculum - Lesson Plans
- Leave No Weeds PowerPoint Presentation with Notes - Part I : Part II : Part III : Part IV
Task #3f. Look at the two files available listed under Biologicical Control of Weeds 101. Click on PowerPoint Slides Six on a Page. You are taken to a wiki page that features the Adobe Acrobat pdf file "Bio101x6.pdf". You can see in the definition that this file is an Adobe Acrobat pdf file and not a PowerPoint file. You will also note that the file is a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation with each page containing six of the presentation slides. Double click this file icon to download it to your computer for use in the classroom.
Task #3g. Click on the Slides Part I and Part II to link to the wiki page that features the PowerPoint (ppt) file "Bio101-PartsI-II.ppt". Double click the PowerPoint file icon with this name to download it to your computer for use in the classroom.
Task #3h. Follow the same process to download jpg and png files. You will use this same skill set to download Interactives elements in Introduction Step Four.
You can return to Steps One through Five
There are several options for you to iteratively access resources.
In five steps, you will learn how to access resources from five different access points.
Section One. Biocontrol Basics and Portal Navigation
- Step One. The Weed Problem (program access point)
- Step Two. Why We Care About Weeds and What To Do (lesson plan access point)
- Step Three. Integrating Biocontrol Basics (Extras access point)
- Step Four. Lessons Learned (Interactives access point)
- Step Five. Training Clips (Movies access point)
You can advance to Step Four
- 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.
