Worm Composting

Suzanne was our Grant MacEwan student teacher who helped develop this area of interest with the children. You will notice the drawings of worms that the were created before the study began.

We decided to introduce a worm composting center. In this photo you can see one of our Red Wiggler worms. Some of the food for the worms is mixed in with the dirt.

This is one of the worm egg sacs we found in the composting soil.

It was so much fun trying to find the little baby worms. 

Here is another "kid" worm.

This is one of the worm "kids".

Earthworms

Along with the composting worms, earthworms were brought in for study. They lived in a separate worm habitat which was covered with black paper. Worms don't like the light, so if the container wasn't covered, the worms would never crawl to the outside. This way we could study the tracks and tunnels they made. When we first started learning about worms, we only used spoons, but when we learned more about them, we liked to hold them in our hands. We learned that when they start to wriggle around very frantically that means they cannot breathe because they are drying out. We put them back in the moist dirt so they could absorb more oxygen.

This earthworm is an adult because you can see the band around its middle.