Green+Waste+to+Garden+Gold

**Citizenship - My Contribution Counts "I can make a difference". **

In Term 1 we will investigate how to be good citizens. Our school produces a huge amount of green waste material that we put in the bin. We now have new compost bins and will look to see how we can recycle our green waste to produce compost for our school gardens. Our topic began with a field trip to the Auckland Botanic Gardens to investigate composting. **We explored the Botanic Gardens ** **The Educators taught us about Composting and how to make worm farms. ** **We found out about the FBI (Fungi, Bacteria & Invertebrates) **  **Here is some useful information about composting and worm farms. **
 * Dylan has created a Botanical Word Search. **
 * Click below to download the Word Search. **

**Worm Observation Notebook - A great way to observe what is happening in your worm farm **. **Recycling is one way we can help reduce the waste going into landfills. **
 * Recycling Facts, Games and Crafts - Lots of great class ideas. **
 * Recycle - Found Object Project Ideas from Favecrafts **


 * Earth Day Printables - Lots of great class ideas. **

__**Resources **__ [|__School resources__] - Posters & Booklets
 * Waste Wise **

[|__The Compost Collective__]
 * Auckland Council **

__ [|MyKids Adventure - 5 Composting Activities] __ __ [|Gardening Know How - Composting] __ __ [|A Teacher’s Guide to Composting - PDF] __ __ [|LifeLab - Composting Resources & Videos] __ __ [|Kids Go Green - Composting] __ [|__YouTube Videos - lots of side links__]
 * Composting Links **

[|__Compost__] - Fact sheet [|__Worms__] - Fact sheet
 * Suzy’s World **