A Green Kid's Guide to Composting

by Richard Lay

Overview

A Green Kid's Guide to Composting will teach students how to build a compost bin with help from an adult, what to recycle in your compost bin, and how to use compost to fertilize a garden-all without harmful chemicals! A compost research project will give students a hands on activity to get them interested in gardening. Common Core and State Standards for life cycles, soil, measuring, observing, and reporting can all be connected to A Green Kid's Guide to Composting. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades PreK-4.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614805816
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Green Kid's Guide to Gardening! Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
Lexile:	580L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	4 - 9 Years

Table of Contents

Take Out the Trash! 4

Plants Love Worm Poop 7

What You Can Recycle 8

Never! Never! Never! 11

Getting Started 12

Building Your Pile 15

Keeping Your Pile Alive 16

Fertilizer Gold 19

You're Ready! 20

Compost Research Projects 22

Glossary 23

Web Sites 23

Index 24