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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 - Sociology

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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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Water Cycle. In this lesson students will participate in discussions, brainstorming, and hands on activities to discover the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the earth.
Water Cycle Chant (10 minutes) and Water Cycle Bracelet (25 minutes)
A Drop in a Bucket (45 minutes) and WOW The Wonders of Wetlands
Grades: All. Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics.
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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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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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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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Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark
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