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Teaching Integrated Pest Management in the Classroom—Middle School Curriculum
Environment and Ecology Lessons
The following IPM lessons are based on environmental and ecology concepts. Most lessons are in PDF form.
University of Connecticut’s Full Integrated Pest Management Curriculum
- A Weed by Any Other Name (Biodiversity of plants, especially weeds in a given area)
- Dormant Demons (Plant life cycles, seed banks, mulching, weed management)
- There's No Such Thing As Free Lunch (Model predator/prey population dynamics; demonstrate the impact of density-independent factors on predator and prey populations)
- Time Trials (Movement of pesticides through earth’s surface to ground water)
- A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words (Define and visualize biodiversity)
- More Than The Spice of Life (Necessity of biodiversity)
- Youtube clip that covers some of the same concepts as the WWF Exploring the Web of Life video listed in the materials section of More than the Spice of Life lesson.
- E ³ - Earth’s Endangered Ecosystems (Endangered Ecosystems)
- Acid Rain Ruin (Acid rain pollution; causes, effects etc.)
- Biosphere- Building a Balanced World (CO2, photosynthetic activity, relation to greenhouse gases)
- Building your Own Biosphere (Design an enclosed environment that will support plant and animal life)
- Exploding Population (Human population and the sharing of global resources)
- Consuming Passions (Environmental issues, and brainstorming ways to solve them)
- Biodiversity in Your Own Backyard (Observe diverse populations that occur locally; how humans effect biodiversity)
Pennsylvania State University Middle School Integrated Pest Management Lessons
- Simple Samples (Conducting a simple field sample in ecological investigations)
- Vertebrates (Classify vertebrates, food chains etc.)
Iowa State University IPM Pilot Program
- (Habitats, ecosystems, organism modifications, and organisms survival techniques)
- (Bee and plant relationships)
- (Habitats, trophic levels and organism interactions)
- (Creating an ecosystem in a jar)
- (Students create ecosystems and food webs)
Cornell University, New York State Integrated Pest Management Program Lessons for 4th and 5th grade.
- (four lessons and teacher guide)
- (lessons on a variety of agriculture, environment and IPM topics)