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Our IPM curriculum in a nutshell:
teacher-and kid-tested designed for you carefully designed based on sound education theory interdisciplinary interactive and hands-on age appropriate rooted in biological and social sciences
Our curriculum meets teachers’ needs for time, resources, money,
and confidence building. It meets NYS and national standards. It is
built around age-appropriate learning objectives. And it incorporates
a number of learning styles.
Note to teachers …
We began this project by offering grade-specific curricula. We no
longer do, since there’s substantial variation in capability levels
within grades and between schools. Flexibility for teachers is key.
Teacher knows best in each teacher’s classroom—and so we leave
which materials to use up to you.
Our IPM K-5 units include:
Earthworms, Soils, Composting
K-5 Animals and Environmental Sciences Unit
Dandelions
K-5 Plant Unit
Ladybugs: Beneficials and Pests
K-5 Insect Unit
Coming in the Future: Insect Inventory
Our IPM tools for teachers include:
DIAL-A-PEST (with 3-D Demo Wheel and Make ’n Take Dial-Your-Own-Pests) IPM Detective Workbook Make
’n Take Helpers and Troublemakers Flapper IPM Pyramid (with 3-D Teaching Pyramid and Make and Take Pyramid) -
IPM Detective Pinball Machine
Our IPM Trunks accompany the Earthworm and Ladybug Units and include
Our IPM curricula
are informed by partnerships with enthusiastic teachers who are excited
about this program provide take-home lessons about how to balance different kinds of
risk in dealing with pests—a message that children carry far into the
future help children learn about the ever-shifting interface between science,
nature, and culture draw on the larger community of scientists and educators affiliated
with Cornell University to assure the highest quality and currency Our two-week loan includes a week’s worth of activities. You can
pick and choose, or use the whole shebang.
Need more help? We provide one-on-one advising.
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