Earthworm Unit

1. Cooking Experience

1.1. Edible jello worms (Physical, Intellectual, Social)

1.2. Wormy Apples - cut apples horizontally and add gummy worms and peanut butter ((Physical, Intellectual, Social)

2. Outdoor

2.1. Obstacle Course (Physical, Social)

2.2. Wiggle Worm Relay (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

2.3. Inch Worm Walk (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

3. Music

3.1. Sing - Little Wiggle Worm sung to Itsy, Bitsy Spider (Physical, Intellectual, Social)

3.2. Dance with Walter the Waltzing Worm (Physical, Social)

4. Language/Literacy

4.1. Book - The Life Cycle of an Earthworm by Bobbie Kalman (Intellectual, Social)

4.2. And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano (Intellectual, Social)

4.3. Write/trace the word worm (Physical, Intellectual)

5. Field Trip

5.1. Go to local bait shop (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

5.2. Visit local compositing worm farm (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

6. Creative Art

6.1. Painting with shoelace strings (Physical, Intellectual)

6.2. Paper tube worm (Physical, Intellectual, Social)

7. Dramatic Play

7.1. Gardening Center (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

7.2. Dirt Sensory Table with plastic worms (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

7.3. Fishing poles and pipe cleaners (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social)

8. Construction

8.1. Blocks with pictures of dirt, grass, and local outdoor areas where worms are found. (Physical, Social)

8.2. Stuffed animals, plastic worms (Physical, Social)

8.3. Tubes for burrowing tunnels (Physical, Intellectual, Social)

9. Math/Science

9.1. Build a worm farm (Physical, Intellectual, Social)

9.2. Gummy worm in water experiment (Intellectual, Social)

9.3. Beads and pipe cleaners - counting and patterns (Physical, Intellectual, Social)