Montana Noxious Weed Education Project

Getting Started

We would like to welcome you to the Montana Noxious Weed Education project. This educational project has many components, including posters, noxious weed identification and fact cards, common core aligned lesson plans, illustrations, and resource documents.

Lesson Plans for Grades K-9

All lessons are Common Core Aligned.

• 3 Ways to Know Montana Noxious Weeds (Grades K-2)
• Life and the Noxious Weed Web (Grades 2-3)
• Allelopathy and Invasion (Grades 6-9)
• Human Interactions and Noxious Weeds (Grades 5-8)
• Unwanted Neighbors (Grades 5-7)
• Final Vocabulary for Montana Noxious Weed Education

Learning & Bulletin Board Resources

One way we can communicate educational materials to a wide variety of learners on subjects as important as noxious weeds is to create school bulletin boards. This information packet has illustrations on all of the 32 noxious weeds in Montana. Please have students color the illustrations according to the correct colors of the noxious weeds, paying attention to the plant details.

Photos for all weeds are on the illustration pages and also on each of the 32 cards. Photos of each noxious weed can also be seen on the accompanying poster for this educational unit.

The 3 Ways to Know Montana Noxious Weeds lesson plan for grades K-2 and Unwanted Neighbors lesson plan for grades 5-7 both include activities for preparing a bulletin board.

We invite you to PLEASE share photos of your bulletin boards with us and other classrooms on Facebook. Thank you for your educational help in the fight against noxious weeds in Montana.

Noxious Weed Information Cards

Please read Introduction Information Card first.

Additional Educational Curriculum & Resources

• Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign
  Information about the Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign
• Montana Weed Control Association
  Contact information for all of the county weed coordinators throughout the state of Montana, and a library that contains information about noxious weed research
• Missoula County Extension & Weed District
  Program information for the 'Leave No Weeds' outdoor field trip
• Missoula County Extension & Weed District
  Lesson plans included in the 'kNOweeds' curriculum developed by Missoula County
• Invasive Species Council of British Columbia
  Many great resources available for educators and youth to learn about invasive species in BC

Links for More Information

• Montana State University Extension
  In-depth publications on specific noxious weeds
• Montana State University Extension
  Plant Identification Basics
• USDA APHIS
  Attack of the Invasive Species Factsheet
• Montana State University Extension
  Invasive Plant Extension Projects

For more information on classroom integration of this project, please contact Shantell Frame-Martin