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!

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: Can be customised based on the needs of your learners. We recommend 45 minutes.

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

Curriculum Connections:
The Victorian Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes relevant to Recycling Rules 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