Wiggly
Worms!
Introduction
/ Task / Process / Evaluation / Conclusion
Do you think worms are creepy? Did you know worms can be our friends? Follow through this web quest and find out
all that worms do for you. After you
learn 5 facts about worms, you will be a “worm expert.” All of our worm experts will work together
to build a worm bin for our class.
Your job is to collect worm facts on your
fact sheet. You will work with a
partner. You must show your worm fact
sheet to your teacher before we can build the worm bin.
Look
Look
at the pictures of 2 worms.
Learn
Learn
some worm facts.
Answer
questions about worms.
Have some fun!
Read
a book about worms from our collection.
Look
at the worm fun page and complete the word puzzle.
Print out your copy of the worm
fact sheet by clicking here. Answer the questions in the Web Quest on
your fact sheet.
Step 1: Look at the two pictures below. Write down two describing words about them
on your worm fact sheet.
Step 2: Look at the picture of the worm body
parts. Copy the names of the body parts
onto your worm fact sheet.
Step 3: Worm facts. Click on the following link
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/facts/index.html
Look at your worm
fact sheet and answer True or False to the questions in part 3 after reading
the worm facts on this internet page.
Step 4: Choose one of the books about worms from
our classroom collection and read it with your partner.
Inch by Inch by: Leo Lionni
The Word Eater by: Mary Amato
It Could Still
be a Worm by: Allan Fowler
Worms Wiggle by: David Pelham
Slimey to the Moon by: Stephanie St. Pierre
If you are looking for a
longer book about worms to read on your own try There’s a Hair in My Dirt by
Gary Larson or How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell.
Step 5: Link to the worm fun
page and complete the word puzzle.
You might like the worm jokes too!
Click here for
the evaluation rubric and print it out.
You will complete it with me. Be
sure to keep your Worm Fact Sheet and your Worm Fun Page too!
Conclusion
Now the fun
begins. You are ready to build the worm
bin. We will work on this project
together as a class. Do you still think
that worms are creepy? Well, they are
squirmy, but worms can be a big help to
all of us in our gardens or in the big world around us.