Worm School
Worm School
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Welcome to Box Of Life's Worm School!
Your students will learn about the fascinating world of composting and earthworms, and how to set up and maintain their habitat, what and how to feed them, and understand the importance of healthy soil and worm castings. The workshop typically lasts anywhere between 60 to 90 minutes, and we often have so much fun that we lose track of time!
We recommend no more than 25 students at a time for maximum engagement, and we offer workshops for grades k-12.
If you choose to purchase a classroom worm bin, we will set it up with the students during the workshop. The classroom bin is compact and can be easily taken home to care for during summer and winter breaks.
NEW ADD-ON: Take-home 500 ml worm farms for students. Every student can take home their very own 500 ml worm farms, and watch food scraps turn into soil. These are almost like terrariums, requiring almost no maintenance, and students can watch the soil building process at home.
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We received our Box of Life about 3 weeks ago. I loved how all of the packaging was either used as part of the worm habitat or recyclable. There was no waste at all. The students were so excited to dig right in and see the red wigglers. The “parenting guide” to raising worms is great. It’s informative, easy to read, and has some great ideas for classroom experiments too.
Thank you Box of Life for the entertaining, educational, and hands-on workshops that you brought to the library during March Break. Our library clients (and staff) had a blast!
I am so happy to have found the box of life!! I am a librarian in Guelph, and decided to add the box of life to my library / learning commons in order to teach students about the importance of worms and composting, and the important cycle that helps our food and plants grow!
The box was so easy to set up, and I can confirm that a month in, it does not smell at all! I love being able to open up the box and show students what is happening with our leftover scraps.
Our plan for the worm castings is to add them to our school vegetable garden, which we grew from seeds!
Thank you to Audra for always offering engaging workshops for our students. Worm culture is growing in the OCSB.
My students and I absolutely love our Box of Life For School. We love checking in on our little wormies, and the students very excitedly hand me scraps of food throughout the week. Feeding time is always exciting as we all gather round to see how things are going. I teach grades 6 and 7 and both groups are equally excited and invested in the worms!
I highly recommend this amazing program - it is so easy to care for the worms (no smell, no fruit flies!!), and it has a huge positive impact.