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  • Invasive Species Handbook: A Resource for Educators - Grades 3-8

    • Dec 2022

    • Utah State University Extension; United States Department of Agriculture.

    • This handbook includes six chapters that discuss invasive species and their environmental, economic, and health impacts. It also reviews pathways of invasive species spread and prevention, monitoring, and control. The handbook is a resource for educators teaching children in grades 3 through 8. Learning objectives, activities, and vocabulary are also included.

  • IPM Curriculum K-6 - Exploring School Integrated Pest Management: Activities and Resources for Teaching K-6

    • Michigan State University. Integrated Pest Management Program.

    • This curriculum provides background information, hands-on activities, worksheets and links to additional sites that teachers can utilize to engage students in formal and informal real-world settings. While some of the lessons build on previous learning, most of the lessons can stand-alone. IPM can be used as a theme in the classroom for an entire year, or as enrichment to regular classroom activities.

  • kNOweeds: K-12 Montana Noxious Weed Curriculum

    • Missoula County Weed District (Montana).

    • This curriculum is designed to be a supplemental curriculum for teachers who want to integrate the topic of invasive weeds into their existing courses. This curriculum will provide teachers, educators, and weed professionals with an ecologically-based invasive weed curriculum that assists students in developing awareness, knowledge and skills that will result in responsible land stewardship in the state of Montana.

  • Non-native Invasive Species Learning Kit

    • USDA. FS. Eastern Region.

    • Interactive Non-native Invasive Species learning kits are available to educate pre-school to adult groups about non-native invasive plants and animals.

  • Nonindigenous Species Activities for Youth [PDF, 625 KB]

    • Nov 2015

    • Mississippi State University. Extension Service.

    • This manual contains three types of activities. First there are introductory, or awareness-building, activities. The second type focuses on both beneficial and detrimental characteristics of exotics. And finally there are activities intended as reinforcers. The best advantage can be gained from this set by selecting at least one introductory activity and several from the second set and following up with routine monitoring of a nonindigenous species in your community.

  • NY's Great Lakes Ecosystem Education Exchange - Aquatic Invasive Species Activities

    • New York Sea Grant.

  • Stop the Invasion Fact Sheet - False Codling Moth [PDF, 4.7 MB]

  • Stop the Invasion Fact Sheet - Oriental Fruit Fly [PDF, 2.4 MB]

  • Stop the Invasion Fact Sheet - Varroa Mite [PDF, 655 KB]

  • Stop the Invasion Fact Sheet Set

    • California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.

    • With the Stop the Invasion Fact Sheet Set, students will read about six different invasive species, the damage they cause and how to stop their spread. The accompanying lessons and activities are aligned to California Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. This resource was funded through a Specialty Crop Block grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).

  • Watershed and Invasive Species Education

    • Oregon Sea Grant.

    • WISE offers teacher trainings, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Based curriculum, and on-going teacher engagement in a community for learning and teaching about emerging watershed issues. Since launched started in 2007, the program has trained more than 70 teachers, reaching more than 4,500 students who have completed more than 50 stewardship projects.