Lessons

Biocontrol In Your Backyard is a Portal in The Bugwood Wiki that shares
lessons learned from four teacher-led Intermountain West youth biocontrol
education programs.

In this tutorial, you will learn the essential skills needed to navigate the Portal,
and to use and adapt the media resources for your programs.

The tutorial will help you effectively access and witness how the materials are
currently used in the Intermountain West.

Teachers and scientists share their methods to create projects and teach basic
biocontrol concepts. You will learn how to engage students with interagency and
community work groups. You will learn how to seamlessly integrate biological weed
control science into K-12 lesson plans to meet your State's core curricular
requirements. Kids, teachers, professionals, and agency program managers will find
interactive media, PowerPoints, illustrations, training clips, and other resources
that can be organized in a sequence for technical bulletins, crew training, and
communicating visually rich complex biological control science topics.

Biocontrol Basics
1. Introduction to biocontrol
2. Introduction to noxious and invasive weeds
3. Introduction to weed biocontrol agents
4. Setting up a school project, labs, insectaries, field studies
5. Getting started in Biocontrol In Your Backyard

Lessons
6. Working with your State Core Curricular Requirements
7. Working with core subjects
8. Working with core skill sets
9. Working with core concepts
10. Working with core objectives

Intermountain West Program Lesson Plans
11. Finding core elements in four Intermountain West programs
12. Designing a lesson plan using stand alone elements
13. Designing a training program for specific geographic sites
14. Writing grants to support workshops and service learning

Training Design Tips
15. Searching Biocontrol In Your Backyard
16. Creating lesson plans using stand alone elements
17. Accessing other biocontrol resources in The Bugwood Network
18. Designing your own biocontrol resource library

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Go Directly to Youth Environmental Education Programs focused on Biocontrol in the Intermountain West

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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.