List of Suggested Projects:

- Environmental issues/concerns surrounding IPM techniques vs. traditional pesticide spraying techniques

- Beneficial insects used by IPM to promote healthy growth

- Insects/pests that are harmful to apple trees, their role, and IPM methods used to protect against them

- Food chains and webs within an apple orchard and the role that each organism partakes in to maintain a stable ecosystem

- IPM and it’s affect on the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen cycles of an apple orchard (compare to the effects of traditional spraying)

- Evolution of apple trees and genetic responses to pesticides

- Evolutionary resistance to pesticides by specific insects or other pests

- The effect of weather and climate on IPM practices

- IPM’s role in the competition between apple trees (including competition for food, sunlight, and water)

- Ways in which IPM promotes symbiotic relationships within an orchard

- IPM’s effect on the carrying capacity of different organisms in an orchard

- Laws and restrictions surrounding IPM practices

- The effect of erosion and weathering on soils, and how IPM helps to decrease the negative affects of this

- Soil profiles of orchards sprayed with traditional pesticide methods vs. those of orchards incorporating IPM techniques

- The effect of pesticides on global warming (how does IPM play a role?)

- Water quality in areas heavily sprayed with pesticides compared to those where IPM is used

- The effect of pesticides on air pollution (how does IPM play a role in this?)

- Pesticides and their effects on human health (compare traditional methods with IPM)

- The effect of pesticides on the nutrition of the apples (compare traditional spraying methods with IPM)

- Economic effects of IPM products

- History of IPM

- Pros and cons of IPM methods

- Ethical issues surrounding traditional methods compared to IPM methods

- Environmental policies surrounding IPM