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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 - Performing Arts

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There are Many Ways to Fight Weeds! What do we do about weeds? Without any natural enemies, noxious weeds can easily outcompete native plants and take over whole landscapes. These weeds are tough and don't give up easily. In this lesson students will learn about many tools we use to stop the spread of noxious weeds. Students will also create skits to demonstrate integrated weed management and participate in a journaling activity to discover how they could be "Weed Warriors."
What About Weeds Skits? (60 minutes)
Weed Warrior Journaling Activity (60 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Other subjects: Science, Language Arts, Performing Arts.
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Purple Loosestrife Lesson Plan. Purple loosestrife spreads rapidly through wetlands and quickly replaces native plants. Sooon nothing but loosestrife grows there. How do we control the spread of purple loose-strife? Students will examine the use of bio-controls to limit the spread of noxious weeds in a bio-control blast!
Bio-Control Blast! Discussion and Role Play (30 minutes)
Inspiring Insects - Collection and Observation (40 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Science, Performing Arts, Language Arts.
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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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Aquatic Invasive Species

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Purple Loosestrife Parts of a Plant (30 minutes) and Mapping a Wetland and Controlling Purple Loosestrife (60 minutes)
Students will be introduced to the 6 plant parts and participate in a hands-on investigation of plant parts and the function of each plant.
Grades: 1 and up: Parts of a Plant; 4 and up: Mapping a Wetland and Controlling Purple Loosestrife
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Performing Arts.
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Connecting Invasive Species, Local Landscapes, Social Studies, and History

Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark
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