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Worm Your Way Out of This Lesson PlanWorm Your Way Out of This Lesson Plan
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Worm Your Way Out of This

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How can you provide healthy soil for your garden? Study worms, bacteria, and other microorganisms in a lesson about decomposition and organic compost. After discussing what you know about worms and watching a video, watch what worms do and make your own compost.

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Concepts

composting, decomposition, fertilizers, worms

Additional Tags

compost, class garden, vermiculture, worms, fertilizer, decomposition, science

Instructional Ideas

  • Use in your unit about animals or ecosystems, as well as with your class garden

Classroom Considerations

  • You will need access to both a computer and enough worms for each person in your class

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  • Includes a pre-test, video, worksheets for the experiment and observation, and a rubric for assessment

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  • None

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