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Worms and Spiders: "Critters That Crawl"

For Teachers K
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...
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Animals: Worms

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars research the physical characteristics of mealworms and tubefex.  In this worm lesson, students explore worms using a microscope.  Young scholars search their environment for worms.
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Facts or Opinions - Wonderful Worms

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students watch a video about how the worm's value affects the environment and create a fact and opinion chart about it. In this fact and opinion lesson plan, students create a 2 column chart analyzing what is fact and what is opinion...
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Organizer
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Life In the Soil: Home Sweet Home: Red Worms

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this soil worksheet, students complete 2 pages about the importance of soil in plant growth. Students read about red worms and answer 2 questions about composting. Students fill out a chart with their observations of plants planted in...
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Worm Compost & Vermicomposting

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore vermicomposting, the species of worms needed and the proper climate for it.  In this composting lesson students make their own worm compost bin. 
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Let's Build a Worm Bin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the process of decomposition. For this ecology and measurement lesson, students prepare a worm home to be used for vermicomposting. Students weigh a group of worms and the added food, recording this information on a data...
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Worm Composting

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss worm composting. In this decomposition instructional activity, 2nd graders look at the anatomy of the worm and how it eats food. They have their own worm bin and review what foods can and can not be given to the...
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Worms: Nature's Recyclers

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore vermi-composting. In this vermi-composting lesson, students listen to the story Diary of a Worm and discuss the parts of a worm. They create worm bins and add organic food for the worms to recycle. 
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Making a Mini Worm Habitat

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create an earthworm habitat. In this worms instructional activity, 3rd graders construct a KWL chart about earthworms and research their habitat. Students create a mini habitat for their earthworms by using gravel, sand,...
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Worm Family Needs A New Home

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine different types of soil. In this soil lesson plan, students research different types of soil. Students create a podcast about a worm family looking for a new home using storyboarding or graphic organizers.
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Worksheet
Biology Junction

Segmented Worms - The Earthworm

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology activity, students color and label the different parts of an earth worm. They complete 41 short answers and fill in the blank questions about earthworms.
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Composting With Worms

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders predict what happen in two (control and experiment) containers -- one with soil and trash, the other with soil, trash, and worms.
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Don't Worm Your Way Out of This One!

For Teachers K - 6th
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.
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Big Fat, Juicy Worms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect and study information about worms. They discover how an earthworm helps process and loosen the soil. They write in their journals as well.
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PPT
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Earthworms

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Investigate the wonders of worms, earthworms to be precise. This presentation is perfect prior to studying earthworms in class. It provides basic information about their habitat, life cycle, predators, and what they like to eat.
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Open Inquiry Using C. elegans

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Ever wondered what motivates a roundworm? Introduce your biology class to C. elegans, a non-parasitic model organism that can help them understand behavioral stimuli. Paired pupils design an experiment to test the worm's reaction to...
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Worm Wranglers

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders set up and maintain a worm composter. They monitor the waste from their lunches, prepare the menu for the worms, and determine how the keep the worms alive.
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I Can Use a Worm to Count

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners use worms, puppets or other props to practice counting to 100. First, they listen to a read aloud of Count Worms by Roger Hargeaves. A worm pattern is used to count to 100, with each segment of the worm representing a...
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Investigating the Response of Worms to Soil Improvers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, but do they care what soil is all about? Find out in an easy and fun controlled experiment. Have your young  biologists hypothesize, test, and draw conclusions about which type of soil worms...
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Worms, Nature's Recyclers!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study what worms need to survive in different environments. They study how worm composting improves soil and reduce waste. They discuss composting techniques and present a puppet show about a worm's life.
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Worksheet
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Mollusks and Segmented Worms

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Keep clam and read on! After reading the textbook selection about mollusks and worms in the additional materials section, your young zoologists check their comprehension by answering the questions on the handout found here. To...
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PPT
Biology Junction

Unsegmented Worms

For Students 9th - 12th
While you definitely don't want to have tapeworms, they are an interesting species to say the least! They are just one of the species of Platyhelminthes that are part of the lesson presentation. The lesson begins with an overview of the...
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Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students read the books Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm, and Diary of a Spider and write diary entries about them. In this reading lesson plan, students also draw pictures to go along with their diary entries.
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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom: Worms on a bun

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research worms as being recyclers of nutrients. In this worms lesson plan, students research the worms and create a poster to present to the class.

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