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All Grades • Vermicomposting: Compost in your classroom with red wiggler worms!

This one-hour presentation helps students learn the science of decomposition and the role that worms, bugs and microorganisms play. After the presentation students will be able to build, maintain and troubleshoot a worm bin.

Benefits of this workshop:

• Through activities designed to illustrate worms life cycles, students will learn about decomposition and closed ecosystems.
• Students discover what can and can’t be composted in a worm bin at school or at home.
• Decomposition and how it works is explained and exemplified for the students.
• Students will have the opportunity to identify their own organic waste and determine if it can be vermicomposted.
• The class will have a chance to see a worm bin in action or create their own.

Target audience:

• All Grades (Especially great for k-6)
• 1 class per workshop for optimum learning achievement
• Preschools welcome

How schools can participate:

Bookings are available through the Clean Calgary Association. The cost to the school for this workshop is $75 for the first class. Discounts available for multiple presentations on one day (not limited to Vermicomposting).

Max. number of students: 35

OPTIONAL (Cost $62.00 + GST): Purchase worms and a worm bin for your class, delivered at time of presentation.

Please contact Lindsay by email or by phone at (403) 230-1443 ext 225 to book.

VermiComposting

Staff lunch rooms, classrooms, residents living in condos and apartments, or living in remote areas where outdoor composting is not permitted due to a bear presence can still compost, they just do it indoors!! One form of indoor composting is vermicomposting with red worms, a dark oxygen rich bin, and shredded newspaper. In this one hour VermiComposting Workshop you will learn what vermicomposting is, how it works, how to do it properly, the job and anatomy of red worms, and what can and cannot be put into a vermicompost bin.

Necessary Equipment to Be Provided By Host

• A place to put a projector
• A white wall or screen to project onto

Target Audience:

• Grades 1 to 6
• One class per workshop for optimum learning achievement

How schools can participate

• Bookings are available through the Clean Calgary Association. The cost to the school for this workshop is $75 per class.
• For more information or to book, please contact Lindsay at lindsay@cleancalgary.org or by phone: 403-230-1443 ext 225.
  
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• VermiComposting Evaluation Form