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Try This at Home: Backyard Compost
http://www.groundwater.org/kc/activity3.html
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This information will help students to identify biodegradable products, to build and maintain a compost pile in their own backyard, reduce the amount of trash they send to a landfill, and to create a useful product. Students will discover that by reducing the amount of material sent to the landfill, they can help to protect the groundwater supplies. The site has step by step instruction on how to build the pile, what to put in it, what not to put in it, how to tend to it, how to know when the compost is ready, and what to do with the composted material.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Primary (K-2)
  • Intermediate (3-5)
  • Middle (6-8)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Field activity
Subject:
  • Environmental science
Technical requirements:
No specific technical requirements, just a browser required
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
The use of Groundwater Foundation information, both print and electronic, is protected by copyright. However, The Groundwater Foundation does allow its information to be reproduced by users who have a primary educational purpose. Permission must be granted in advance and full credit must be prominently given to The Groundwater Foundation and www.groundwater.org as the original source of the information and artwork.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-006-209
Related resources:
This resource is referenced by 'Kid's Corner of the Groundwater Foundation'
http://www.groundwater.org/kc/kc.html
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: The Groundwater Foundation