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Teaching Integrated Pest Management in the Classroom—Greenhouse and Gardens Lessons
Resources for School Greenhouses and Gardens
- Sample School Garden IPM Plan
- Checklist for School Gardens
- Resources for School Orchards
- Sample School Greenhouse IPM Plan
- Greenhouse IPM Manual with an Emphasis on Biocontrols (PA Department of Agriculture)
- Join Maine School Garden Network
Greenhouse and Garden Lessons
The following IPM lessons are connected to Greenhouses and Gardens. Scroll through the list to find lessons of interest and then find the corresponding lesson on the host website above.
- School Greenhouse Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Lessons and Operations Manual [PDF] (Univ. of MD)
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Featured Lessons: Pennsylvania State Cooperative Extension Greenhouse Lessons
These lessons were written for high school students, but lesson objectives are applicable for all ages. You can modify as needed. Intended to be taught in a greenhouse.
- Greenhouse Curriculum Cover Page and Table of Contents
- Greenhouse Curriculum Introduction
- Lesson 1: Anyone’s Town (Introduction of IPM with Rachel Carson as a background and a greenhouse as the setting to practice concepts)
- Lesson 2: Whatcha Got There? (Compare pests and beneficial insects, inspect plants in greenhouse for pest damage in greenhouse, investigate and come up with solutions)
- Lesson 3: How Many Pests Are There? (Monitoring techniques to use on pests in the greenhouse)
- Lesson 4: Aphids, Aphids, Everywhere! (Exploring pest control options)
- Lesson 5: We Have What You Want! (Marketing IPM used in your greenhouse to increase market value of the commodities grown)
Additional Activities: Pennsylvania State—Weeds
These can be used in the classroom to supplement a lesson or introduce a new concept.
- Intro To Weeds—What are weeds and why do we care? (Defines weeds and lists characteristics)
- Understanding the Organism: Weed Ecology, Biology, and ID (Lifecycles and examples of weeds)
- Activity: Weeds, Weeds Everywhere! (Weed characteristics)
- Activity: Inventory and Sampling Weeds (Understanding the impacts of weeds on a habitat)
- Activity: Buried Treasure? Weed Seed Bank (Understanding seed lifecycle and habitats that harbor seed life)
Pennsylvania State Pesticide, Agriculture, and Biological Control Lessons and Activities
[Photo: (flower between greenhouses) Milton Tignor, Badger.uvm.edu]