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For Educators | For Families

This fun, inquiry-based program will help you empower your students to play a central role in saving your community’s trees. Through flexible, standards-based units — one for Upper Elementary and After-School/Summer Programs, and one for Middle School and High School — you can achieve your teaching goals while challenging your students to make a difference in their community.

• The lessons are easy to teach. Each one includes Advance Prep sections and Supplemental Resources to “jumpstart” the activity.
• Lessons are engaging and relevant. You’ll find Introductory, Guided Inquiry, and Take Action aspects that will enable your students to engage and “show what they know.”

The Beetle Busters downloadable components are designed to use with your students both during the school year and for after-school and summer programs.

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Downloadable Education Components
The Beetle Busters cross-curricular classroom components include:

Beetle Busters: An Educator’s Guide to Stopping the Asian Longhorned Beetle

For Upper Elementary and After-School/Summer Programs

For Middle School and High School

Complete Educator’s Guide (Both Levels)

Learning Extensions (included in the Guides above)

Year-Round ALB Calendar with teaching connections

Parent Flyer for Upper Elementary Level to reinforce classroom learning In English In Spanish

ALB Poster: Includes ALB illustrations, lifecycle, host tree information and more — easily printed in four downloaded sections! Also available as a printable min-poster. ALB Poster: English ALB Poster: Spanish Mini-poster: English Mini-poster: Spanish

ALB ID Card template A portable tool for identifying the ALB at-a-glance. To Print ID Cards: Download the document and open it using Adobe Acrobat or the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download Acrobat Reader here. Print this document. For accurate sizing, follow these instructions: Set paper size: File -> Page Setup -> Paper Size -> US Letter Set layout: Choose File -> Print -> Page Scaling -> None (do not select Fit to Printable Area or Shrink to Printable Area). Select Print/Okay.

Additional Program Tools: for teaching the activities

• Supplemental Resources
  Organized by lesson, these multimedia resources will further enliven the activities in the Guides
• Scouting and 4H: Related Badges and Activities
  There are many specific badges and activities that can be met in full, or partially, by learning about, searching for, and raising awareness about the ALB.
• USDA Reporting Form
  A handy online tool for alerting USDA about sighting.
• Beetle Busters Public Service Announcements (PSAs):
  View the audio and video
• Beetle Busters Photo Gallery:
  View our ALB Gallery.
  Upload your ALB photos to the Beetle Busters photo stream.

 

Program Enhancements: ALB extension activities
Extend your Beetle Busters program with the following engaging resources:

ALB Interactive Game: “Freeze & Collect”
Children of all ages can actively find and freeze ALBs, while learning how to identify the beetle (Requires Adobe Flash Player).

Family Activity Pack
An integrated handout with puzzles/games
to engage children and adults alike!

 

Stay Engaged!

Learn more about helping your students search for the ALB and report their findings by checking out What Does It Look Like? and What If You Find It?".