More Links:
Academic Standards for Environment and Ecology, Section 4.5., Integrated Pest Management. Includes a detailed list of IPM topic areas to be included in curricula for students in Pennsylvania Public Schools through grade 12: http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/standards.html
Also from Pennsylvania: Memorandum of Understanding outlines five areas of cooperation to increase public education of IPM concepts and
tools:
http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/MOU.html
Advanced Arthropod Studies Curriculum:
http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/~dstone/advancedarthropodstudies.html
Bio-Integral Resource Center: IPM Curriculum for Grades 9-12: A 200-page book including IPM basics including monitoring and cultural, physical, biological and least-toxic chemical controls; insect profiles, study programs, case studies, lab experiments, resource list, glossary; designed to be part of a science, chemistry or biology course; emphasis on agricultural, horticultural and garden pests. BIRC, PO Box 7414, Berkeley CA 94707, (510) 524-2567, FAX (510) 524-1758, Email, Web site http://www.birc.org.
Help Yourself to a Healthy Home Web Site:
http://www.uwex.edu/homeasyst/
Iowa State
Entomology Index: K-12 Educators' Recommended Sites: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/k-12_educator_resources.html
MSU's
Elementary Urban IPM Curriculum Web Page:
http://www.pested.msu.edu/CommunitySchoolIpm/curriculum.htm
National 4-H Council: Food production and pesticides curriculum includes food production and environmental and health effects of pesticide use in agriculture; food webs and biological diversity; analysis of agriculture and pesticide use in the U.S.; global demand for food and population trends. Available in print from National 4-H Council, 7100 Connecticut Ave, Chevy Chase MD 20815. (301) 961-2908, FAX (301) 961-2894, E-mail: envstew%smtpgate@fourhcouncil.edu, and for more information including comments from reviewers available at http://www.reeusda.gov/4h/curricul/da2.htm
Pennsylvania IPM's List of Educational Sites:
http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/kids/kidweb.html
Texas A&M Insects in the Classroom Web Site:
http://iitc.tamu.edu/
University of Arizona's "Using Live Insects in Elementary
Classrooms for Early Lessons in Life" Web Site:
http://insected.arizona.edu/uli.htm
University of Florida's School IPM Web Site: http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/teach.htm
University of Minnesota: Radcliffe's IPM World
Textbook:
An electronic textbook including 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, links to IPM resources including photographs and decision-support
software:
http://www.ipmworld.umn.edu/ipmsite.htm