Wonderful World of Worms Incursion

Incursion Overview

Discover the wonderful world of worms and how they can help to reduce food waste and feed your garden! Check out the cute video one of our schools made of one of our recent visits with Wonderful world of worms!

Activities include:

• A story book introduction gets children tuned in
• The chance to meet and touch real live earth worms
• Build a pretend worm farm, (and/or a real one if you can provide the bin and materials)
• Worm puppets help children learn their favourite foods (and what they don’t like)
• Participate in a wriggly worm relay – to reinforce the foods worms like to eat!
• A song to wrap things up

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