Teaching Integrated Pest Management in the Classroom—Elementary School Curriculum

Elementary School Greenhouse and Garden Lessons

The following IPM lessons are connected to Greenhouses and Gardens.

K-1

• Some Seeds Grow Weeds (weeds vs other plants, plant life cycles)
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• Merrily We Move Along (plant growth and methods of seed travel)
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2-3

• Let the Sun Shine In (sunlight importance for plants, green plants importance for other living things)
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4-5

• Better Homes and Gardens (butterflies, butterfly gardens, important pollinators)
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• Presto, Chango (process of photosynthesis, importance of green plants for other living things food source)
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[Photo: (flowers between greenhouses) Milton Tignor, Badger.uvm.edu]