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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify living and non-living things and explain the importance of earthworms to the soil. They name some basic facts about earthworms, recognize basic worm vocabulary words and demonstrate vermicomposting techniques. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students use worms, puppets or other props to practice counting to 100. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students complete a unit of lessons on spiders and worms. They discuss worm and spider characteristics, create a garbage garden, observe worms, create gummy worm prints, read the book, 'The Very Busy Spider,' and construct a spider and spider hat. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students, who are in early elementary grades, pair with fifth grade students to study worms. They observe worms in experiments, create research questions, and complete the research using Internet sites. They participate in a "Worm Exhibit" at the end of the unit. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students determine the normal behavior of California blackworms. They determine how various concentrations of assigned toxicants affect the worm's behavior. Students are introduced to testing of potential toxicants, an important component in environmental health science. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Student build a habitat for worms and record observations. Students create the habitats with materials and cover them with a dark cloth. Each day they will record what its environment looks like, what changes they have seen, how the worm may look, etc. This is done for a period of 5 days. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students observe the aquatic segmented worm, Lumbriculus varigatus and the life processes. They explore the processes of nutririon, transport, regulation, locomotion, and removal of wastes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students find worms in the soil and observe their characteristics. They draw pictures of the worms based on their observations. Students discover how worms move through the use of their circular and longitudinal muscles by watching a demonstration with a long water balloon. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students study different aspects of worms along with the process of vermicomposting by participating in a class experiment to study the time it takes for breakfast cereal to be eaten by worms. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students observe three different worm models. They identify living and nonliving organisms using the Worm Model Characteristics. After discussing similarities and differences, they predict how the three worm models might react when using a flashlight, a heat source, and water for moisture. Full Review »
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