Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Pennsylvania State University School IPM Education Resources
The premier clearinghouse for IPM curricular resources, this website includes a comprehensive searchable database on teaching resources related to IPM as well as lessons and links.

Become an IPM Super Sleuth! IPM Institute
Fun activities on the computer geared toward many different ages that teach about pest control and IPM solutions.

Michigan State University Pesticide Education
Kindergarten through sixth grade IPM curriculums available.

Join our Pest Patrol! Minnesota Department of Agriculture, 2000
Excellent resource and activity sheets on IPM targeted to upper elementary students (activity sheets and teacher information in PDF format) or call: 651-297-3217.

Insects

Best of the Bugs Website, University of Florida
This site provides links to websites judged by entomologists at the University of Florida to be the best that the web has to offer on insects. These links lead to many excellent sites for teachers and kids. 

Florida 4-H Bug Club
An excellent website for kids, provided by the University of Florida. The site provides lesson plans, games, and a lot of information for kids about insects. Also links to other lesson plans.

Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms
Center for Insect Education Outreach, University of Arizona, 1997
K-6 curriculum, which includes 20 lesson plans that utilize insects to teach all kinds of concepts to young learners. Includes activity sheets, fact sheets, and rearing sheets on the insects used. 

Katerpillars (and Mystery Bugs) Website
University of Kentucky Entomology Department
This site is fun and educational for younger kids. It includes activities and links to teaching resources, including lesson plans for field and classroom experiments. 

Insects in the Classroom
Texas A & M University's site for teachers, grades K-12. They list many, very comprehensive lesson plans, and separate them by age, grade, and topic.

Composting and Gardening

Seattle Tilth Garden Tours
Seattle Tilth hosts tours for classes through their organic demonstration garden in Wallingford. Even if this isn't close by, they might be able to suggest a garden or farm near your school that hosts tours.

Composting
Plans for a middle school class project to learn all about recycling by composting. 

Master Composters
No lesson plans, but a lot of great information about composting!

The Quest for Less -- Activities and Resources for Teaching K-6
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste, 2000
Provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal-writing assignments and other educational tools and skills relating to reusing, reducing, and recycling waste.

Biological Control

Purple Loosestrife K-12 Educational Materials
Michigan State University
Comprehensive and creative lesson plans and resources for K-12. Project focuses on purple loosestrife as an invasive species and biological control methods to control it.

Salmon and Endangered Species

Adopt-a-Salmon Family, Fish and Wildlife Service
Teacher's guide to a year of lessons and activities on salmon, rivers, and human impacts on salmon populations.

Salmon Life Cycle
This lesson provides students with an opportunity to learn about the life cycle of Pacific salmon, and the survival needs of salmon during the various stages of their life cycle.

Salmon in the Classroom
For Seattle-area schools, this program allows schools to raise salmon in the classroom, go on field trips, and learn about the salmon life cycle.