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TEACHING ABOUT

Invasive
Species
A GREEN TEACHER PUBLICATION
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PERSPECTIVES
Exotic Invasive Species: The Guests That Wont Go Home
By Kim Cleary Sadler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Native and
Introduced Species
By Lisa Zinn, Jonathon Schramm and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder . . . . . . . . . . . 7
PROGRAMS
Tackling Aquatic Invasive Species
By Bob Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Tackling Invasive Species Using Citizen Science
By Sarah Morrisseau and Christine Voyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
From Removal to Restoration
By Steven Braun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Mass Pulling of Invasives
By Andrew Stiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Plant Wars: Invaders of the Lost Park
By Daniella Rubeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Studying Invasives with Project-Based Learning
By Lindsey Halman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Learning with Loppers
By Jessica Prince-Sharrar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Weaving with Invasive Weeds
By Sharon Kallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Surveying Garlic Mustard
By Amy DeFelice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Exploring Invasive Weed Species using Google Earth and Wikis
By Lisa Blank, Heather Almquist, Logan Mannix, Jennifer Estrada,
Jeff Crews, and Sarah Halvorson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Teaching 7-9 Year Olds to be Invader Raiders
By Rachel Gagnon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

ACTIVITIES
Around the World: The Invasive Species Challenge
By April Claus, Susie Moffett and Stacey Widenhofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Vectors of Spread: Invasive Species Getaway Vehicles!
By Sue Staniforth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Can Trees Catch the Flu?
By Janice Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Invasive Species vs Biodiversity
By Jeremy Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Fishing for Native Species
By Melissa Doubek and Alice Holcolm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Create Your Own Invasive Species!
By Sue Staniforth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Invasive Species Dodge Ball
By Kim Fulton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Zebra Mussel Baseball
By Nicole Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
From Here From Away
By Kim Fulton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Starling Mania
By Nicole Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Curriculum Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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