Introduction

Goals & Objectives

Curriculum Correlations

Part 1

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Teacher Notes

Glossary

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With your group visit the websites below to answer these questions:

• What is an invasive or exotic species?
• What is kudzu?
• When and how was it brought to the US?
• What were the goals of bringing kudzu to the US? Did it accomplish these goals?
• What are some reasons and methods for eradicating kudzu?

Take notes on your findings as you will use this information in Part 3.

Websites

• Controlling Kudzu in Western North Carolina
  http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/jackson/newsletters/nursery/kudzu.html
• Kudzu in Alabama: History, Uses and Control
  http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0065/
• Pueraria lobata
  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Pueraria_lobata.html
• How to control Kudzu
  http://www.safnet.org/archive/0503_howtokudzu.cfm
• Plants National Database
  http://plants.usda.gov/
• Controlling Exotic Species
  http://www.nps.gov/vick/preserve/exotics.htm
• ISFS Invasive Species Forecasting System
  http://bp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Nonindigenous Species
  http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/ns112.htm
• WERC Invasive Species Research
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/invasivespecies
  

Optional: Watch the movie "Kudzu: Misunderstood Weed"

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