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What is IPM?

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Focus Areas: Pest Control; Science, Language Arts

Focus Skills: evaluating data, making generalizations, forming conclusions

 

Objective

To understand the purpose and methods of Integrated Pest Management, IPM

Essential Questions

What is IPM?

Essential Understanding

IPM is a program to reduce the use of chemicals to control pests.

Background

Because excessive use of chemicals poses an environmental threat, alternate solutions to pest control are both practical and necessary. IPM makes use of multiple tactics to control pests. These include biological, physical or mechanical, cultural, and regulatory controls. Chemical pest control is used only when less … view full description & alignments

There’s A Wiser Way

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Focus Areas: Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Science, Language Arts, Graphic Arts

Focus Skills: summarizing, understanding the main idea

Objectives

  • To illustrate an understanding of IPM
  • To recognize the need for reduction of chemical applications in pest management

Essential Question

How can Integrated Pest Management reduce the use of chemicals in managing pests?

Essential Understandings

  • IPM seeks to understand the lifestyle of a pest and determine the pest population before taking action.
  • IPM applies the most environmentally sound methods to pest management.

Background

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Bug Busters

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Brief Description: Students will research, observe, and read for information on pest control, and nature’s food chain. Using this information students will understand and recognize that bats and other natural predators help control insect population and in doing so will find a deeper understanding of nature’s food chain.

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Pushy Plants

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Brief Description: Students will learn that all living things depend on plants and that plants that “overgrow” will threaten their habitat. They will also learn about invasive and endangered species of plants. Using their new vocabulary, students will play games and talk about methods to control these species.

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Nibble, Sip, and Grind

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Brief Description: Students will learn about different insect mouth parts and how that impacts their diet. They will observe, compare and contrast the three types of mouth parts using new vocabulary from the lesson. Students will also make hypotheses and experiment using variations of the three feeding types.

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