Wonderful World of Worms Incursion

Incursion Overview

Did you know that Australia is home to 1,000 species of earthworm, including the Giant Gippsland Earthworm, the world’s largest worm? Burrow into the world of the earthworm and discover how these creatures are able survive underground. What features do they have to help them breathe, move and feed under the soil? Earthworms can eat their own body weight in food every day, which makes them perfect to tackle our food waste problem. Discover how worm farms are helping homes, schools and kindergartens to recycle their food scraps. 

Check out the cute video one of our schools made of one of our recent visits with Wonderful world of worms!

Program Activities

The Wonders of Worm Farms: Using puppets and storybooks, children will discover how worms are adapted to life underground and the important role they play in recycling our food waste.

Worms Up Close: Children will meet our wonderful wriggly worms from our worm farm and uncover how they move, feed and reproduce.

Wiggly Worm Relay: Our worms are hungry and we need the children to feed them. The students will race through some wriggly worm tunnels to sort different food items for the worms’ lunch.

Suitable for 3 and 4 year old kinder kids!

Duration: 60 Minutes. Can be customised based on the needs of your learners.

Restrictions: Maximum of 25 children per Gould League educator. Greater Melbourne Only.

Curriculum Connections:
The Victorian Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes relevant to this program are as follows:

Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world (Community).
– Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners (Learning).  
– Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity 
– Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating  
– Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another 
– Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators (Communication).  
– Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media 
– Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes 

Programs also meet: National Quality Standards: Standard 3.3