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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 - Science

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What is a Weed Lesson Plan. In this lesson students will participate in discussions, brainstorming, skits and a learning game to discover the world of weeds, how noxious weeds out-compete native plants and why noxious weeds affect our everyday outdoor activities.
Weeds and the Outdoor World Brainstorm (60 minutes).
Native Plant Species Game (20 minutes).
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Science, Mathematics.
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Changing Landscapes Journey back to the time of Lewis and Clark and investigate how landscapes can change over time. In this lesson, students will use naturalist skills of drawing and mapping to explore landscapes from the past to the future. Resources to enhance further learning are available at Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark.
Grades 4-8. Other subjects: Science, Art, Language Arts.
Landscape of Lewis and Clark Discussion and Drawing (40 minutes)
Present and Future Landscapes Map (40 minutes)
Lewis and Clark Journal Excerpts: Landscape Map Lesson Details
Grades 4-8. Subjects: History, Science, Art, Language Arts.
Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark
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Be a naturalist! Lesson Plan. Explore the natural world! Use your five senses to observe the world around you. Students will learn to develop their skills as nature detectives through senses investigatons, journaling and drawing in a micro-mapping project.
Senses Investigations (45 minutes)
Micro Maps (45 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science.
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There are Many Ways to Fight Weeds! Lesson Plan. 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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Leafy Spurge Lesson Plan. If you're standing in a patch of leafy spurge in late summer, you might hear a popping or crackling sound. This is the plant's artillery ... Discover how leafy spurge spreads and how its biological control agent, spurge hawk moth, works to try to keep the plant in check. Can the spurge be contained? Students will participate in the to answer these questions.
Leafy Spurge Bonanza (50 minutes)
Create a Fantasy Plant (30 minutes).
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Art, Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Dalmatian Toadflax Lesson Plan. Some weeds are covered in thorns or have sharp, spiky stems and some weeds have leaves that are gray and waxy, making them look just like weds But not ll weeds are ugly! Students will determine which plants are weeds and which are not. Students will also participate in hands-on investigation of plant parts and the function of each plant.
Not All Weeds Are Ugly (25 minutes)
Plant Parts Identificaton (45 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Science, Language Arts
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Yellow Starthistle Lesson Plan. Look closely at the Yellow Starthistle -- the base of each flower is guarded by long, sharp spines that poke out in all directions. Seen from above, these spines look like the points of a star. Each spine is almost one inch long and as sharp as a sewing needle. That's starthistle's way of saying, Don't touch me! Students will take a closer look at this plant and other noxious weeds through back to back drawings. Students will also learn ore about plants and the plant life cycle through flower dissections.
Back to Back Observations (30 minutes)
Plant Life Cycle and Flower Dissection (40 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Science, Art, Language 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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Saltcedar Lesson Plan. Once saltcedar takes over an area, it keeps other plants out by oozing salt from its leaves. Soon, birds, animals, and even insects are driven away to look for food elsewhere. How does this plant affect habitats and ecosystems? Students will examine the impacts of saltcedar and participate in a webbing activity to understand ecosystem dynamics when saltcedar invades the landscape.
Exploring Ecosystems - Discussion and Webbing (60 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Science, 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 Activities for Ages 6-14

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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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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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Macroinvertebrate and Mudsnails. Students will explore a local stream to determine its relative health, physical attributes and plant/animal populations. During the investigation students collect and classify aquatic insects and learn how they are adapted to stream life.
What is a Sream? Mudsnail Invasion (15 minutes)
Dichotomous Keys (20 minutes) and Stream Exploration (45 minutes)
Grades: All. Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Native vs. Non-native Fish. In this lesson, students discover the features that make a fish a unique riparian animal! In a fight for survival, students will become the fish they have studied and learn how exotic species can affect native fish populations.
Fish Tales/Fish Life Cycle (30 minutes)
Fish Sorting (20 minutes) Native Species Game (30 minutes)
Grades: All. Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Whirling Disease. In this lesson students will participate in discussions, brainstorming and a learning game to discover what Whirling Disease is, how it spreads and how they can help prevent the spread of this parasite.
Grades. 3 and up. Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies.
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Eurasian Watermilfoil. Students will learn about the diversity of animal life in a pond and the interdependence among pond organisms. Students will illustrate how tolerance to water quality conditions varies among macroinvertebrate organisms and explain how population diversity provides insight into health of an ecosystem.
Grades: All. Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Habitat Hunters. Students will engage in a series of guided inquiry lessons to investigate relationships between organisms and the environment. Through data collection, analysis, interpretation and conflict resolution regarding local natural resource issues, students will experience the complex interactive influences of human and wildlife needs on the environment and themselves.
Carrying Capacity (50 minutes)
Habitat Assessment (45 minutes)
Pause for Poetry (30 minutes)
Grades: 4 and up. Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, Social Studies.
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