Whats In Your World Gateway

What's In Your World is a youth naturalist approach to weed science.

Teacher trainer programs prepare motivated teachers and youth organization leaders to engage students and youth in their communities and initiate service learning projects that benefit watershed health and community economies. Boasting more than 220 episodic learning activities for the classroom and the field, the teacher guide and interactive student resources provide more activities than the number of days in the typical school calendar.

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Inquiry-based teaching approaches provide teachers with activities and resources to seamlessly integrate weed science into core standards in Idaho, Montana and Utah. Much of the content is also applicable to Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada. The activities and resources were peer-reviewed by students, agencies, teachers, researchers, and outdoor science school directors.

More than 300 end-users, teachers, and agency educators piloted the program in Montana (Ophir Elementary, Montana Outdoor Science Schools, Montana Conservation Corps, Gallatin National Forest), Utah (Salt Lake County teachers) and Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (fourth grade teachers in Box Elder and Cache County school districts), and Nevada (Department of Agriculture and statewide education program managers to launch the program across Nevada).

By 2012 the program reached three Tribal communities: (1) university Capstone students in natural resources at Rocky Boy Stone Child College, (2) agency and extension educators in Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal College, and (3) Blackfeet Nation elementary and at risk students and teachers and 4-H leaders in Browning and Heart Butte, Montana. New education technologies are being explored to improve learning integrated weed management skill sets across cultures; bringing together traditional ecological with Western science knowledge and teaching methods.

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Join educators, scientists and resource managers to connect youth to their natural world.

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Content for Biocontrol in Your Backyard is provided by individual program sponsors.

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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.