Creative students will love the craft projects and coloring sheets, while kinesthetic learners will love the fingerplay songs and poems.
This is a great way to get students thinking about the important work worms do.
Prerequisites
Teachers will need to explain the connection between worms, compost, and soil to give students a complete understanding of the importance of worms.
For the craft, teachers will need pink, white, and black paper, thin wooden dowels, tape, glue sticks, and scissors. Teachers may also prefer to print eyes and cut them out, and pre-cut the pink paper strips.
Differentiation & Implementation
Teachers can use these activities in conjunction with this compost lesson to introduce compost to their students.
Teachers can show students images of a worm bin, then have students create their own pretend worm bins out of cardboard, where they can keep their paper worms until it is time to go home.
If the weather is right, students can go outside to observe worms in or above the ground. Teachers can prompt students to think about what the worms are doing in the soil.
To make connections to climate change, teachers can explain the connection between composting and food waste.
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