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IPM-Related Activity Resources for Parents/Teachers
Plant pathology online challenge! Simultaneously exercise your plant pathology and gaming skills and intuition in a contest to thwart a nasty virtual pathogen attempting to invade an innocent maize crop. The aim of the online "aMaizing Plant Disease Game," courtesy of The British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP), is to "grow" a maize crop, and do it profitably, with in a range of various input alternatives and a threat of disease capable of destroying the crop. The game, open to all, is on the BSPP website at: http://www.bspp.org.uk/.
Learn about mosquitoes! Leon County Mosquito Control has designed a curriculum outline, videos, a school activity book, worksheets, and examples of prizes and more to use when educating children about IPM mosquito control. Available at http://www.co.leon.fl.us/mosquito/index.asp.
Get
interactive! EPA's Region 2 (New York) office has
developed a free CD containing several documents relating to IPM in schools: 1) "Pest Control in the School Environment," the popular 1993
EPA publication designed to acquaint readers with IPM as a potential alternative to scheduled spraying of pesticides; 2) "Who Wants to be an
IPM Super Sleuth? Integrated Pest Management Activities and Resources for Kids of All Ages" developed by the IPM Institute of North America;
3) "Neato Mosquito," the CD developed by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) which contains a 4th grade curriculum designed to teach kids about
mosquito biology through the use of animation, video images, interactive games, and student projects; and 4) a
CDC-developed video about mosquito
biology. For copies of this CD, which includes all four items above, e-mail Henry Rupp at
rupp.henry@epa.gov or call 732-906-6178.
Go microscopic!
The Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for K-12
classrooms that enables students to remotely operate a scanning
electron microscope to image "bugs" at high
magnification. Check out this free resource at http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/
Play
Bingo!
The Environmental Protection Agency's Pesticide Safety
Bingo Game is a downloadable 49 pages plus cards and contains both
beginner and advanced level games for K-6 grades about pest management and
pesticides. It includes instructions, background information for teachers,
discussion questions, and picture and text cards in English and Spanish.
Find it at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6pd/bingo/index.htm
Play Bug-GO! This bingo-like game helps kids learn about beneficial insects. Match beneficials with their pests. Includes player game cards, templates, for overhead transparencies or display sheets, information about each insect and instructions. Find it at http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/IPM/teachers/bug-go/bug-go.htm
Have fun with 4-H! Join Our Pest Patrol 4-H Leader Guide now available online. This 6-page backyard activity book is formatted for 4-H leaders. Includes a brief description of IPM, a list of common pests, many ideas for projects, information on safe pesticide use as well as an extensive bibliography.
"Join Our Pest Patrol" and go on an "IPM Adventure!" Join Our Pest Patrol- A Backyard Activity Book for Kids- Adventure in IPM is a workbook with companion teacher's guide that includes many educational activities designed for 3rd and 4th graders. Find a downloadable version at http://www.mda.state.mn.us/IPM/IPMPubs.html#PestPatrol
A "Journey to Understanding Weeds!" "A Kid's Journey to Understanding Weeds" website created by Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom includes elementary school-level activities organized around 10 noxious weeds. Available at http://www.wyoagcenter.com/waic/weeds.html
Check
out this list of buggy websites!
It's a kid's guide to pesticides! This two-page fact sheet in PDF format includes discussion of pests, pesticides, risks, pesticide safety. Available at http://www.spcpweb.org/ (go to School IPM page and follow link).
Learn
about trees and the farm!
The LSU AgCenter has a variety of handouts to educate kids on fish
farming, trees, farms, and handwashing. Also has a lot of
information on 4-H and 4-H camp. Available at http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/en/kids_teens/for_kids/
Explore Urban
Integrated Pest Management! Michigan
State University Extension provides a comprehensive activities and
resource book for teaching K-6 entitled Exploring Urban Integrated Pest
Management. The workbook includes twelve classroom activities
and is available in PDF format at http://www.pested.msu.edu/CommunitySchoolIpm/curriculum.htm