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Plant pathology online challenge!  Simultaneously exercise your plant pathology and gaming skills and intuition in a contest to thwart a nasty virtual pathogen attempting to invade an innocent maize crop.  The aim of the online "aMaizing Plant Disease Game," courtesy of The British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP), is to "grow" a maize crop, and do it profitably, with in a range of various input alternatives and a threat of disease capable of destroying the crop.  The game, open to all, is on the BSPP website at: http://www.bspp.org.uk/.

Color the comic book!  Bugged by Bugs is a "family guide" to safe pest control.  The 15-page black and white pages are in comic book format for both parents and kids to enjoy.  Available at www.epa.gov/pesticides/ or look in the white pages of your local telephone directory for your Regional EPA Office.

Read a comic book!  The Pest Invasion is just one of three Safer Pest Control Project comic books that teach least hazardous pest control in a variety of settings.  To order The Pest Invasion, The Pest Invasion II, and La Invasion de los Insectos II for $1.00 each, call The Safer Pest Control Project at 312/641-5575 or email us.

Get artistic with insect models!  Includes fly, butterfly, dragonfly and cockroach models for kids to cut, decorate and fold. Find it in PDF form at http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/pdf/insectmodels.pdf

Go to the museum!  The museum of Natural Science and History has seven entertaining modules on microbes including Meet the Microbes, Bacteria in the Cafeteria, How Lou Got the Flu, and Prevention Convention. Find them at http://www.amnh.org/explore/infection/index.html

Get This Bug Off of Me!  The University of Kentucky Department of Entomology website contains a color photo guide to more than 30 dangerous and harmless arthropods. Find it at http://www.uky.edu/agriculture/entomology/ythfacts/stories/hurtrnot.htm

Head lice!  A truly unique website all about head lice from the National Pediculosis Association, includes interactive quiz and games, animations of the lice life cycle, frequently asked questions, books and poetry and a coloring page and word find. Find it at http://www.headlice.org/kids/index.htm

Play Bingo!  The Environmental Protection Agency's Pesticide Safety Bingo Game is a downloadable 49 pages plus cards and contains both beginner and advanced level games for K-6 grades about pest management and pesticides.  It includes instructions, background information for teachers, discussion questions, and picture and text cards in English and Spanish. Find it at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6pd/bingo/index.htm

Play Bug-GO! This bingo-like game will help you learn about beneficial insects. Match beneficials with their pests.  It includes player game cards, templates, for overhead transparencies or display sheets, information about each insect and instructions. Find it at
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/IPM/teachers/bug-go/bug-go.htm

"Join Our Pest Patrol" and go on an "IPM Adventure!"   Join Our Pest Patrol- A Backyard Activity Book for Kids- Adventure in IPM is a book with companion teacher's guide that includes many educational activities designed for 3rd and 4th graders. Find a downloadable version at http://www.mda.state.mn.us/IPM/IPMPubs.html#PestPatrol

Alien Empire!  PBS supplements a Nature program entitled "Alien Empire" with a website containing interactive puzzles, animated presentations, video clips, templates for insect masks and a teacher's guide. Find it at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/ To purchase the video, please contact WNET Video Distribution by calling (800) 336-1917, or by writing to WNET Video Distribution, PO Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407.

Get active!  The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides' School Pesticide Use Reduction program works to get Northwest (and other) schools to reduce their use of toxic pesticides on school grounds and in school buildings. Start your own club related to pesticides, IPM or bugs or look specifically into NCAP's School Pesticide Use Reduction program at http://www.pesticide.org/schools01.html

Play "Help! It's a Roach" on the web!  A pest prevention website full of activities provides a fun way to learn about managing indoor insect pests. The web version is available at http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/kids/roaches/english/, and paper version is available from EPA's publication center, http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/ordering.htm

Check out careers in entomology!  The Entomological Society of America keeps a page called "Educational and Career Information for High School and Undergraduate Students." Check it out with interested high school students at http://www.entsoc.org/education/educ_career/educ_career.htm

College-level IPM textbook!  Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook is an electronic textbook that includes line drawings, color and B&W photos, chapters on biological and cultural control, computers in IPM, crop and commodity-specific IPM, ecology, IPM policy, medical and veterinary IPM, pesticides, stored product IPM, and links to IPM resources including photographs and decision-support software. Find it at http://www.ipmworld.umn.edu/ipmsite.htm

Explore grasshoppers!  Canadian Geographic's grasshopper facts website, "A grand look a grasshoppers," includes interactive games, fun facts and scientific knowledge about grasshoppers.  Find it at http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/Mj02/etcetera/index.htm

Explore "Urban Integrated Pest Management!"  Michigan State University Extension provides a comprehensive activities and resource book for teaching K-6.  The workbook includes twelve classroom activities and is available in PDF format at http://www.pested.msu.edu/CommunitySchoolIpm/curriculum.htm

Explore Urban Integrated Pest Management! Michigan State University Extension provides a comprehensive activities and resource book for teaching K-6 entitled Exploring Urban Integrated Pest Management.  The workbook includes twelve classroom activities and is available in PDF format at http://www.pested.msu.edu/CommunitySchoolIpm/curriculum.htm

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