This program gets students outside, introduces them to local ecosystems, teaches students plant identification skills and integrated weed management practices, as well as, the importance of participating in stewardship projects.

The Purpose of Plants program is a 2nd grade program that introduces and reviews the basic parts of flowers. The program will introduce students to common native plants and how their individual plant structures and functions encourage pollinators to visit. This program offers movement and hands-on activities.

The Youth in Restoration Program (YIR) exposes high school students to the processes involved in land management. YIR provides youth career mentorship and on the ground experience in natural resource/conservation work while building and strengthening partnerships within a diverse mix of stewardship and management organizations.

4-H is a diverse community of young people across Montana, the US and the world committed to learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. 4-H'ers participate in hands-on learning experience building knowledge and life skills that contribute to lifelong success.

This curriculum will provide teachers, educators, and weed professionals with an ecologically-based invasive weed curriculum that assists students in developing awareness, knowledge and skills that will result in responsible land stewardship in the state of Montana.