Dissecting a Compost Bin – CE – Clean Energy. Bright Futures.

Dissecting a Compost Bin

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Materials List

Handouts

Classroom Supplies (for 45 students)

Chromebooks or other device for web access
Compost bin (several 5 gallon buckets worth)
Microscopes
Tweezers
Petri dishes
Latex gloves
Thermometers
Large sheet of blank paper

Important Links

Lesson 2 of 7 / Time: 3 periods of 50-60mins

Students will be dissecting a compost bin to identify the organisms in it, create food web of the organisms in a compost bin, list the inputs and outputs of a compost pile and it’s biological community.

Methane to Music

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