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IPM Lesson Plans Developed by Educators
The lessons listed below are IPM lesson plans developed by participants of the summer "IPM for Teachers" course taught at Penn State University Park campus. The lesson plans were created by educators to fulfill the summer course requirements. These lessons can be great starting blocks to adapt for your own classroom. The grade level that the lessons were designed for is listed in parenthesis after the title. However, most lessons can be adapted up or down a level. All lessons are PDF files and can be viewed with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader software.
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Elementary Lessons- Annotated Bibliography of Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Curriculum Material (all ages)- by Bailey Klinestiver
- Arthropod Key (2nd-4th) - By Dawn Lawless, King's Highway Elementary, Coatesville, PA
- Bat - Pests or Pals? (4th) - By Kathy Kelchner, Frances Slocum State Park, Nescopeck, PA
- Bug Time (3rd & secondary coop.) - By Jodie Chadwick, Fort Cherry High School, Prosperity, PA
- Create a Soil Aggregate (2nd-7th) - By Dawn Lawless, King's Highway Elementary, Coatesville, PA
- Food Chains Are Not a Necklace! (2nd) - By Bonnie Flurie, Susquehanna Elementary, McAlisterville, PA
- Give the Heave-Ho to Head Lice (2nd) - By Bonnie Flurie, Susquehanna Elementary, McAlisterville, PA
- How to Control This Pest? (2nd-5th) - By Dawn Lawless, King's Highway Elementary, Coatesville, PA
- Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers! (4th) - By Kathy Kelchner, Frances Slocum State Park, Nescopeck, PA
- IPM Basics (4th) - By Kathy Kelchner, Frances Slocum State Park, Nescopeck, PA
- Life Cycles: A Never-Ending Story (2nd) - By Bonnie Flurie, Susquehanna Elementary, McAlisterville, PA
- Organic/Regenerative Farming vs. Conventional Farming (2nd-4th) - By Dawn Lawless, King's Highway Elementary, Coatesville, PA
- Pest Populations: A Game of Survival (4th-6th) - By Micheline Balogh, Grey Nun Academy, Langhorne, PA
- Red Means Danger (2nd-3rd) - By Ron Wanner, Warwick School District, Akron, PA
- Spiders Are Special (1st) - By Kathy Kelchner, Frances Slocum State Park, Nescopeck, PA
- Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Curriculum Resources (all ages) - by Bailey Klinestiver
- Weeds - Wild and Wonderful (all ages) - By Kathy Kelchner, Frances Slocum State Park, Nescopeck, PA
- What's Hiding in Your Home Cabinets? (2nd-4th) - By Dawn Lawless, King's Highway Elementary, Coatesville, PA
Middle School Lessons- Duck, Duck, GOOSE! (6th-10th) - By Micheline Balogh, Grey Nun Academy, Langhorne, PA
- Household Inventory (7th-8th) - By Gary Lee, Southern Lehigh Middle School, Emmaus, PA
- Pick-a-Pest (7th-8th) - By Gary Lee, Southern Lehigh Middle School, Emmaus, PA
- Simple Samples (7th-8th) - By Gary Lee, Southern Lehigh Middle School, Emmaus, PA
- Strife in the Wetlands (7th-10th) - By Micheline Balogh, Grey Nun Academy, Langhorne, PA
- They're Bugging Us! (7th-8th) - By Gary Lee, Southern Lehigh Middle School, Emmaus, PA
- Those Pesky Mosquitoes: Carriers of West Nile Virus - By Jackie Krech, Center School, Glen Mills, PA
- Those Were the Good Old Days (5th-8th) - By Ron Wanner, Warwick School District, Akron, PA
- Vertebrates - By Jackie Krech, Center School, Glen Mills, PA
- Weed Walk - By Jackie Krech, Center School, Glen Mills, PA
- What do I have here? How do I know? So what? - Insect observation, identification, recording, analyzing, and drawing conclusions - By Judith Dore, Standing Stone Elementary, Huntingdon, PA
- What's All the Fuss About Labels? (8th) - By Gary Lee, Southern Lehigh Middle School, Emmaus, PA
High Shool Lessons- Beast Begone - Nuisance Wildlife Control (9th-12th) - By Susan Braun, Bald Eagle Area School, State College, PA
- Bioengineering and You (9th-12th) - By Eric Mitcheltree, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Biopotential of the common lawn pest Taraxacum officinale (9th-12th) - By Eric Mitcheltree, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Bug Time (3rd & secondary coop.) - By Jodie Chadwick, Fort Cherry High School, Prosperity, PA
- Determining Carrying Capacity: How Many Codling Moths Can an Apple Orchard Support? - By Richard E. Thomas, Boyertown Area Senior High, Gilbertsville, PA
- Estimating Pest Population Size: Comparing Sample Census Methods (10th-12th) - By Richard E. Thomas, Boyertown Area Senior High, Gilbertsville, PA
- Estimating Pest Population Size: The Capture, Mark, and Recapture Method - By Richard E. Thomas, Boyertown Area Senior High, Gilbertsville, PA
- Food Chains from the Field (Whoo's for dinner?) (10th-12th) - By Lou Anne Gasperine, Jersey Shore Area High School, Waterville, PA
- Goldenrod: An Entire Food Group (10th-12th) - By Lou Anne Gasperine, Jersey Shore Area High School, Waterville, PA
- Herbicide vs. Algae (12th) - By Doug Dahms, Wilson High School, Fleetwood, PA
- How do you eat? Insect mouthparts (10th-12th) - By Lou Anne Gasperine, Jersey Shore Area High School, Waterville, PA
- How Many?!?! A Population Study (7th-12th) - By Ron Wanner, Warwick School District, Akron, PA
- Integrated Pest Management of Woody Ornamentals: Identification & Publication (12th) - By Sian Bailey, Lancaster County Career & Technology Center, Lititz, PA
- IPM at Wilson High School (12th) - By Doug Dahms, Wilson High School, Fleetwood, PA
- IPM Inquiry Lesson Set (9th-12th) - By Susan Courson, Clarion University, Emlenton, PA
- IPM in the Greenhouse Lab (10th-12th) - By Jodie Chadwick, Fort Cherry High School, Prosperity, PA
- IPM Radio Talk-show (10th) - By Bruce Shellenberger, Middleburg High School, Middleburg, PA
- LD50 of NaCl to Gammarus spp. (9th-12th) - By Eric Mitcheltree, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Local Pests and Management Strategies - How commercial growers in our area deal with pests (10th-12th) - By Gary Smith, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Mark-Recapture Method of Estimating Grasshopper Populations - Collecting and Sampling Insects (9th-12th) - By Susan Braun, Bald Eagle Area School, State College, PA
- Natural Areas - What Do They Do? Arthropod study (7th-12th) - By Ron Wanner, Warwick School District, Akron, PA
- Outwitting Squirrels - Nuisance Wildlife Control - By Susan Braun, Bald Eagle Area School, State College, PA
- Paper Bag Orchard Extended - Can a statistical analysis support the decision reached? (10th-12th) - By Gary Smith, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Pest ID Resource Review (10th) - By Bruce Shellenberger, Middleburg High School, Middleburg, PA
- Pest Management and Society (10th) - By Bruce Shellenberger, Middleburg High School, Middleburg, PA
- Pest Management Around the House - How the typical house controls pests (10th-12th) - By Gary Smith, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Pest Management in the Greenhouse: Biological Control vs. Insecticides (12th) - By Sian Bailey, Lancaster County Career & Technology Center, Lititz, PA
- Pests on the Web (10th-12th) - By Lou Anne Gasperine, Jersey Shore Area High School, Waterville, PA
- Pests - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (7th-12th) - By Ron Wanner, Warwick School District, Akron, PA
- Population Modeling and Management (10th-12th) - By Gary Smith, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Protozoa Population Lab - Controlling Bacterial Pests (10th-12th) - By Eric Mitcheltree, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- Risk Assessment of Lawns and Gardens (12th) - By Sian Bailey, Lancaster County Career & Technology Center, Lititz, PA
- Timing is Everything: Degree Day Calculations (10th-12th) - By Richard E. Thomas, Boyertown Area Senior High, Gilbertsville, PA
- To Bog or Not To Bog: Weed Analysis in a Small Bog (12th) - By Doug Dahms, Wilson High School, Fleetwood, PA
- Understanding Pesticides: Which are Most and Least Harmful? (10th-12th) - By Richard E. Thomas, Boyertown Area Senior High, Gilbertsville, PA
- What does the can say? Reading a pesticide label (10th-12th) - By Lou Anne Gasperine, Jersey Shore Area High School, Waterville, PA
- What's a Pest? (9th-12th) - By Eric Mitcheltree, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA
- What's on a Chemical Label? (10th-12th) - By Jodie Chadwick, Fort Cherry High School, Prosperity, PA
- Who invited the "Critters" to the Picnic? - What shares the park with us (10th-12th) - By Gary Smith, Muncy High School, Bloomsburg, PA