Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Worksheet
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a hierarchy of strategies used to deal with pests, with the goal being to minimize the use of synthetic pesticides. This worksheet will provide students with a series of scenarios of farmers dealing with pests, and a list of options provided to those farmers. Students will rank those options from best to worst, while identifying them as cultural, mechanical, biological, or chemical means of pest control.
Essential concepts: Integrated pest management, cultural control, mechanical control, biological control, chemical control, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides.
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