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Students collect litter found on school grounds and link this litter back to natural resources.
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Students learn about methods used to harvest an active worm bin at different stations while brainstorming ways to use finished worm castings.
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Students will set up a worm compost bin in the classroom, maintain the bin and observe how the contents change over time.
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Students learn about the process of decomposition, compost and why it’s important by setting up compost bin at school.
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Students learn about worms by observing live red worms in groups and record their observations.
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Students sort through compost in groups and identify different types of compost critters they observe and share their results with the class.
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Students learn about the benefits of adding compost to soil as an amendment. They design and conduct their own experiment to test how compost effects plant growth.
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Students learn about the food chain of a compost bin by playing a tag game illustrating the role of decomposers in a food web.
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- Download Lesson 18 - English (589.6 KB)
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Students learn about the process of decomposition by testing the effects of different variables on the decomposition of organic and inorganic materials over time.
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Students are introduced to the process of decomposition in a compost bin and classify found objects from their school grounds as biodegradable or non-biodegradable.
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