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Yucky Worm World

For Students 8th - 10th
For this earthworm worksheet, students use an on line site to answer questions about the structures and their functions of an earthworm. They also answer questions about planarians, leeches and tapeworms.
Worksheet
Curated OER

How Many Worms?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting worksheet, students count items and recognize numbers in sequence 1-10. Students count one to ten and circle the numeral ten to answer one problem.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Those Amazing Earthworms- A Worm's World

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate earthworms. In this organisms lesson, students observe earthworms in their environment and record their behavior towards light and how they eat. Students continue on a month long observation.
Lesson Plan
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Worms in a Bottle

For Teachers K - 12th
Students gain a better understanding of the worm and its role in the recycling of organic materials into simpler forms by constructing worm bottles and observing for 60 to 90 days.
Lesson Plan
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Worms Crawl In and Do Lots of Things

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe the aquatic segmented worm, Lumbriculus varigatus and the life processes. They explore the processes of nutririon, transport, regulation, locomotion, and removal of wastes.
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LIfe Underground

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate the ecological relationship of worms and plants. They discuss the experiment of observing worms in a jar with plants. Then record the data every few days. The students write an imaginary story about their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Gummy Worm Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a lab experiment with gummy worms. In groups, they record the qualitative and quantitative observations during the lab. They use their senses to make inferences about the experiment and share them with the class.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Bird and Worm Match

For Students Pre-K - K
In this matching pictures worksheet, students match the pictures of the worms to the birds. Students then circle the set of animals that has more than the other.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vermicomposting

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore agriculture by viewing compost related presentations. In this worm and soil lesson, 5th graders identify the relationship between good soil and the worms who inhabit it by reading assigned text in class. Students...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Gone Fishing Counting

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this counting one to five activity, students view a picture of a man fishing and count how many fish, weeds, worms and Zs they find in the picture. Students write their totals in the boxes provided.
Lesson Plan
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Specialized Structures and Environments

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore biology by completing an Internet activity in class. In this adaptation lesson, 5th graders identify several organisms and mammals that fight for their existence through slow changes to their anatomy over the course...
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Middle Ages and Religion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
How prominent was religion and religious figures during the Middle Ages? Learners first answer three review questions in a social studies presentation, then dive into a lecture. Slides provide graphically organized information and images...
Worksheet
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Long, Longer, Longest

For Students Pre-K - K
This worm might be long, but can scholars draw an even longer worm? Focus on relative size as they draw a longer worm and then a longer necklace. Next, youngsters examine two sets of objects and check off the longest in an introduction...
Worksheet
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Mollusks and Segmented Worms

For Students 9th - 12th
In this mollusk and segmented worm instructional activity, students will review 7 vocabulary words associated with these groups of organisms by completing a crossword puzzle.
PPT
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Owl Sharing: Odd and Even

For Teachers K - 1st
Owl shares her worms with her best mates Fluffy and Bill. As worms are distributed to the two of them learners will see that when there is one left over the number is odd and when they have the same amount the number is even. This is a...
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Classroom Activities: Planaria Regeneration Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Observe a flatworm as it regenerates its own head. A laboratory exploration asks learners to cut a planaria worm at different locations and then observe it regenerate. Using data collected during the exploration, they make conclusions...
Lesson Plan
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"ART ZOO 'Blacks in the Westward Movement', 'What Can You Do with a Portrait', and 'Of Beetles, Worms, and Leaves of Grass'"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study black history, examine portraits and portrait making and create their own portraits, and  investigate their natural environment. This humanities lesson provides a text that can be used to teach lessons in black...
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Beacon Learning Center

Cartesian Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Elementary schoolers become points on a Cartesian Plane in their classroom. They review ordered pairs, positive and negative coordinates, quadrants, and the x and y axes. Pupils follow commands that help review vocabulary, such as...
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Recyclers to the Rescue

For Teachers 5th
Producers, consumers, food chains, and plants are the stars of this science lesson. Learners take part in an inquiry which helps them to discover the most effective and efficient way to grow a producer. They have a variety of containers...
Lesson Plan
BW Walch

“Outsider” Poet Kay Ryan Goes from Poetry Club Reject to Poet Laureate

For Teachers 6th - 11th Standards
The cat might have got your tongue, but you can’t avoid the elephant in the room while you wait for the other shoe to drop. After all, the early bird gets the worm and the chickens are circling. After researching Poet Laureate Kay Ryan...
Worksheet
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Are Beds Made of Balsa Wood?

For Students 3rd - 4th
Here is an interesting resource which describes different kinds of wood and their uses. There is a table with six different types of furniture wood listed, and the number of worm holes found in each one. Based on the information in the...
Handout
Gottlieb

Kennings vs. Stock Epithets – A Quick Review

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Bone-crusher. Troll-wife. Battle-sweat. Blood-worm. What study of Beowulf would be complete without offering readers of this Old English epic poem an opportunity to craft their own kennings and epithets? Provide individuals with a copy...
Writing
Curriculum Corner

"Would You Rather?" Writing Prompts

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Would you rather eat a cricket or a worm? Have your young writers decide and write about why. Choose from 35 different writing prompts to spark interest and creativity. Even your most reluctant writers are sure to enjoy. Each prompt also...
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Purdue University

Getting the Dirt on Decomposition

For Students 5th
Sometimes science requires getting a little dirty. A hands-on lesson explores the idea of decomposition by building a compost structure. Using red worms and dirt, individuals build and collect data on the rate of decomposition. The STEM...

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