Biocontrol In Your Backyard

Portal and Main Menu for Youth Biocontrol Education Programs in the Intermountain West

Background. Biocontrol In Your Backyard is a developing Portal

Five Intermountain West youth environmental education program sponsors are providing curriculum, activities, and stand alone media elements for creating lesson plans. Curriculum and activities are applicable to Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana and Colorado.

Concepts of classical biological control and standardized impact monitoring protocol are applicable nationwide.

You can download directly from The Bugwood Network the high resolution documentary film
Biocontrol In Your Backyard. Innovative Biological Control Technologies in the Intermountain West
by clicking on this link [1]
or you can copy and paste this URL http://video.bugwood.org/browse/detail.cfm?vidnum=00001589

Two newer programs engage Kids In Action for Biocontrol in northern Utah:
You can view 4th Grade Students from Utah State University's Edith Bowen
Laboratory School at Hardware Ranch Wildlife Management Area on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZaHNTMxOU

You can view Science Honors Students from West Point Junior High School in
Syracuse, Utah at Antelope Island State Park on You Tube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDZeh-y_vg&feature=youtu.be

Learn how to navigate this Portal to access lesson plans and interactive media.

Section One. Biocontrol Basics and Portal Navigation

Step One. The Weed Problem
Step Two. Why We Care About Weeds and What To Do
Step Three. Integrating Biocontrol Basics
Step Four. Lessons Learned
Step Five. Training Clips

Section Two. Biocontrol Curriculum and Searching for Lesson Plans by Topic

Section Three. Designing Biocontrol Lesson Plans

Step One. Finding core elements in four Intermountain West programs
Step Two. Designing a lesson plan using stand alone elements
Step Three. Planning a training program for specific audiences and geographic sites
Step Four. Writing grants to support workshops and service learning

Section Four. Training Design Tips

Tip One. Access Points in Biocontrol In Your Backyard
Tip Two. Customizing lesson plans using stand alone elements
Tip Three. Access to biocontrol resources in The Bugwood Network
Tip Four. Creating your own biocontrol resource library

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

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Kids In Action for Biological Control Gateway
Bugs With An Attitude Gateway
Holding The Line Gateway
Idaho Student Bug Crew Gateway
Whats In Your World Gateway

Content. These five youth education programs provide biological weed control information for individuals, teachers, and agencies. Curriculum and activities are provided for teachers who want to engage students in service learning activities like insectary development or community education insect collection or more advanced Citizen Science responsibilities. Students learn community leadership skills working on bug crews in the summer, building partnerships between private landowners and government biocontrol programs.

Purpose. The developing site is designed for individuals, agency crew, trainers, and teachers, who are interested in integrating biological weed control curriculum into their programs. Content is designed to build skill sets and methods for teachers and agencies to work in partnership with communities to stop impacts by plants like leafy spurge, knapweeds, purple loosestrife and other noxious and invasive weeds. Teachers can access lesson plans and stand alone media elements to adapt and integrate to meet core curricular requirements according to each State.

Documentary Film Reference
1. King, Cami, Carol Randall, Janet Valle, Sage Fitch, and Carla Hoopes. 2014.
Innovative Technologies in the Intermountain West: Biocontrol In Your Backyard.
Bozeman: InterMedia Productions Partnerships and
Ogden: USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry Regions I and IV.

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 Assessment and Applied Sciences Team.