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Valerie Coskrey’s Classroom Tools and Ideas
Student Reports Theme: Invasive Species
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/melainv.html Report on Melaleuca tree that is
invading Florida wetlands. This site is owned by Univ. of Florida and links to a several reports that
would also be useful references.
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html
is the home page for this site and will link you to other plants invading Florida and programs that are active in
management of the invasive species.
http://news.google.com A list of links
to news reports on invasive species some of which were presented Sept.
6, 2005 on CBS.
http://www.invasive.org A list of
links to reports, images and sites to about exotic and invasive alien
species. This website is a joint project
of Univ. of Georgia and
USDA.
http://www.issg.org Website of the World Conservation Union. This site has a short white paper that describes
the problem of invasive species.
Students, be sure to say what role this organization takes on the
issue. This organization also has a
database of invasive species worldwide.
The address for the database is www.issg.org/database
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu The website of The Nature Conservancy and The
Global Invasive Species Initiative.
Information on invasions, planning and strategies for dealing with
invasions, images, and links to informative sites. Some news articles with personalized info,
one of which reports on “Two live adult …beetles…found outside a warehouse…”
http://www.cptr.ua.edu/kudzu A site that reports on the history of Kudzu
in Georgia, taking the
stance that if you cannot get rid of it, use it. This site has a list of folk recipes and
crafts that use the kudzu vine. It
contains a picture of a kudzu basket made large enough that a woman is sitting
in it. It links to a list of people that
use kudzu in artistic, herbal and culinary, or agricultural ways. This site would provide balance in a
discussion of pro and con concerning of invasive species. Teachers: This site is well worth the visit, and so are
the photos found in the sites it links to.
One of the sites has a humorous how to plant kudzu. The humorous site, though, links to a
commercial site with games and sports and other non-educational sites. I found no reason to censor the sites, except
that students will be tempted to go off task.
www.sciencenews.org has articles from the magazine Science
News. Search for invasive species. There were several over the past 10 years.
http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/index A government website for informing the
public of the definition and introduction to the policy of the US.
Has links to federal, state, and international laws governing responses
to invasive species. Has link to
vectors, a page that describes how these species enter the US and what happens to them
afterwards. The databases link goes to a
page of links to organizations either involved in the management of the
invasive species or have an interest in the management, or both and that
provide on-line databases for the public to view. A description of each organization is given,
also. The list is not complete, but most
organizations link to other organizations.
One of the links is to Slow the Spread Gypsy Moth
Database. The address to this link
is embedded in the link copied from the government page.: ento.vt.edu/STS. Try typing the address in yourself if the
link doesn’t work. invasivespecies.nbii.gov/ is the link to
maps and other information on the vectors.
http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/invasive.html
A site that connects to cultural information of the Great Lakes area, this site has links to invasive
species information, news articles on species invading the Great Lakes, air quality, wetlands, biodiversity,
and other treasures of scientific information.
Teachers, links go to cultural and tourist
sites, also, so students could go off task.
http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/
A Blog, but with scientific information and lots of links to the science
sites from which it takes its comments. Has years of posts that name species
by scientific and common names--so covers hundreds of species and comments
on the invasions.
http://www.cptr.ua.edu/kudzu/default.htm Discussion
of both the pros and cons of kudzu in the southern states. Includes uses
from baskets to jams to livestock feed and lots of pictures of kudzu taking
over. (Be sure to discover which animals can eat kudzu. Like Johnston grass,
what cows can eat, horses cannot and vice versa.)
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