Soil

Soil projects

The folks at Red Wriggler Haven have a great program for schools. Highly engaging 60 min presentations. []

Project ideas Great growing bean race Save the six pack of annuals from summer. Cut in half to have three pockets. Go through the school yard and test to see which soil will work best in growing a bean plant. Tip: use pea gravel from play structure, soil from under an evergreen, and potted soil. Water reguarly!

Composting Dave Elmore presented to students about composting and vermi-composting. We will do a waste audit together to graph our waste before and after a composting program is introduced. This data can be used for our school-wide composting too. Students will use the design process to build a model compost bin based on the ideal conditions for composting from our research and presentation. [|www.greenactioncentre.ca] Students did their design project creating a compost bin. They heard the presentation by Dave Elmore to understand how composting works and the requirements. We did a waste audit to determine how much we could reduce classroom waste by composting and then used this data to work out how much wast could be reduced by the whole school. We used the following pages to work through the process. {data recording pages coming soon}