Exciting New Science Unit Beginning

This past week marked the beginning of our Interdependence in Ecosystems unit.  Part of this unit requires us to examine part of a food chain closely, and to do this we are studying decomposers... more specifically RED WORMS. In fact we have a thousand of them arriving early next week.


To learn about them, we spent some time on a webquest using a website about Herman the worm!  http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/anatomy/index.html  WHAT FUN!

We are really hoping to start a worm farm composting system in the school cafeteria.  We shall see how well fifth grade teachers are at worm babysitting over the summer though...


We began the week by learning about the source of energy for any food chain-- producers.  Producers are organisms that can make their own food.  We learned that plants are producers and get their energy from the sun.