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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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How Close to a Plant Must Pesticides Be in Order to Be Beneficial?
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Test several household and natural solutions for their effectiveness as an ant repellent.
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Does Adding Polymers to Soil Prolong the Effects of Pesticide?
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Which Natural Insecticide Kills the Fewest Lady Beetles?
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Enhancing soybean resistance to the Mexican bean beetle
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The effect of pepper extract on the growth of sunflowers
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Pesticides
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Does Orange Oil Really Work? A Study of Synthetic vs. Organic Pesticides
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How Does Herbicide Temperature Affect the Killing of Undesirable Plants?
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What is the Most Effective Treatment for Whitefly Infestations on Plants?
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Experiment with Factors that Affect Roundup® Weed Killer
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Investigating a Practical Eradication Method for the Invasive Parrot Feather
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Find the best way to remove pesticides and their presence on produce.
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Can Copper Foil Snails?
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What is the Most Effective Treatment for Whitefly Infestations on Plants?
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How to decrease pesticide use and runoff
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Find a natural non-toxic material - mineral lime, ash, cinnamon, bay leaves, eucalyptus leaves, sand, and human hair - that can repel snails without killing them.
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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - decide if a herbicide application is necessary.
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Is caffeine an effective pesticide against drosophila (fruit fly)?
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Determine the most effective pest control method (organic vs. traditional), and what method produces the best tasting lettuce.
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The use of a natural method of allelopathic leaf extract treatments to eradicate Arundo donax (giant reed) in a environmentally-friendly and cost-effective manner.
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Pesticides
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
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High School - Grades 10-12
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Determine the effects of Neem tree extracts as antibacterial and antifungal agents as well as a pesticidal agent.
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Increasing global UV levels may stimulate allelochemical production in Helianthus annuus (sunflower) and the leachates could be used as natural herbicides against plants susceptible to allelopathic effects.
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Show that early crop health assessment can help farmers maximize harvest yield and minimize fertilizer and pesticide application.
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Natural methods for preventing attacks by bark beetles on pine - plant diversity, low density, and Manzanita.
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The antlion as a bio pesticide
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Pea flour as a control of stored grain pests such as the rice weevil and the red flour beetle.
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Pesticides
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
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Useful Links
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Botany Resources
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Biology Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Botany Science Fair Projects Books
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