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What is compost?
What is compost?
Composting is organic material that can be added to soil to help plants grow. Food scraps and yard waste together currently make up more than 30 percent of what we throw away. So why not make a compost for you and your family?! Making compost keeps these materials out of landfills where they take up space cam release potential bad chemicals into our world.
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Getting Started
Getting Started
When you are first being to compost make sure to stay away from:
Avoid these fruits: pineapples, peaches, bananas. They tend to have fruit fly eggs.
Avoid any meats or dairy: any kind of meat, cheese, butter, yogurt, milk. These will become rancid and the compost will really stink.
Avoid cooking fats/oils: any mayonnaise, butter, vegetable oils
Please have a piece of white paper with twelve squares labeled 1-12 in the top right corner. Students will be placing their compost items on the white piece of paper on the first day and when they dissect their compost.
Composting project directions!
Composting project directions!
Grab a clear plastic container that is big enough to hold all of the items in your compost. Please place another clear container under the first one. Poke holes in the bottom of the container. Every 1-3 days please water your compost. You may use the water at the bottom of your contain to water the plants in your house.
Students then need to find a total of 12 items for their compost. Including, 2 slices fruits or veggies, 2 full fruits or veggies with a skin, 3 other foods such as gummy bears or crackers, 2 items that are not food and 3 plants from your mini garden project.
Each week students will take pictures of their compost pile and put them into a Google Slide.
Students will be dissecting their compost pile two times when directed to!
Students will use this data chart to help keep track of their compost!
Students will follow this calendar throughout the five week project!
Compost Items
Compost Items
Here is picture of the items I used in my compost pile. You can clearly see them numbered and placed into a square on my white piece of paper.
Compost Container
Compost Container
Here is a picture of the items inside the two container stacked on top of each other. The container with the holes is located on top of the second container. The items are placed gently within the container.
The first dissection!
The first dissection!
Here is a picture of the items the first time they were dissected! Some of the items are no longer identifiable but as every good scientist, we make predictions by observations to deiced what the items are!
Comparing Compost!
Comparing Compost!
Comparing Miss. Ebsary's compost pile!
Here are some questions to answer while looking at her compost:
What items/ foods are going to change the most?
What items/ foods are going to change the least?
How is her compost different compared to Miss. Woodall's?
Please click here to view her Google Slide!
Please click here to view her Google Sheet!
Things to remember:
Make sure you are watering your compost
Mare sure you do not put items in your compost that cause flys and other small bugs
Make sure to make observations and take pictures of your compost
Keep the lip on your compost at all times unless you are taking a picture/ dissecting your items!
Wear a mask and gloves while you are dissecting your compost (You will need it, trust me!).
Please click on the links below for some compost tricks and hacks!
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