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Unit/Topic Can we dig it?: Worm farm Lesson # 7
ELA Year Level: P Focus: Social & personal learning: Social learning (sustaining relationships) - Ways of cooperating Active learning processes: Investigating the natural world - Investigating the natural world and phenomena |
Lesson Objectives:
Students will create a worm farm. From this they will discover the completion of the food cycle, that being the composting of food via worms. They will realise that all living things have a place in the world.
Lesson Structure:
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Introduction: Teaching Strategies |
Adjustments for the needs of learners (Differentiation) |
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8:30
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Hello Song
Book – Diary of a Worm Quickly have a student check on their experiments from last lesson. How are they doing. Is anything growing yet? Do you want to change your predications? Quickly review the life cycle of fruit and vegetables. Explain that we are going to build a worm farm. The worm farm will be built by the class and they all have different roles. ASK Has anyone got a worm farm at home? Does anyone know what worms do? Can somebody show me with your finger what a worm looks like?
“It’s time to do” Song
Students are given a choice as to what activity they want to do....
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Whole class
Group discussion
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Main Content: Teaching Strategies
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Adjustments for the needs of learners (Differentiation) |
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8:45
9:15
9:30
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Word: Write “worm house” on a piece of cardboard. Decorate Logic and Maths: Come up with a simple map as to where you think the worm farm should be placed. Space and Vision: Paint the outside of the worm farm Body: Work with the song writers to create a dance to welcome the worms Music: Work with the dancers to create a welcome home song. Instruments can be played too People: Gather scraps of veges from the cooking pots which have been placed around the room. Self: Read books about worms and the worm farm Naturalist: Clear a space outside under a shady tree for the worm farm to be positioned. Place the compost into the water.
Once the worm farm has been placed where it is going to live class comes together. Wet compost is shovelled in by those who wish to. Food scraps are placed on top by those who wish to Worms are placed on top by those who wish to Newspaper is placed over the top by those who wish to. ASK: What are the worms going to do with the food scraps? So we plant a seed and then it grows what happens after that? Why do we need the newspaper on top? Why do we need the lid?
Clean up |
Gardeners multiple intelligences.
Themed working areas
Students move around activities working as they wish
If activities are not interesting to the students they can develop some of their own
Whole class
Sing clean up song |
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Conclusion: (teaching strategies) |
Differentiation |
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9:20
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What have I learned this morning? Get children to respond to photo’s of themselves taken during activity centre time.
Photos are kept to make a story book on ‘making a worm farm’
Did you have fun?
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Whole class |
Resources
Book “Diary of a Worm” by Doreen Cronin Cardboard, pencils, paint, stickers Music instruments Worm books Brooms Shovels Worm container Worms Water Composting material Food scraps Newspaper Camera |
Safety Considerations/Materials
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First aid box Scissors Negotiated class rules Hand hygiene after touching dirt
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Assessment
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Take photos of
children moving through the learning centres. Observations of students social development as they work in groups |
