1. Earthworms in Your Backyard
Garden Wigglers
Earthworms in Your Backyard

2. Gallery Walk…possible pictures
Worms in the rain
Worms in the soil
Bird eating a worm
Worm on a fishing rod
Worm eating a leaf
Worms life cycle
Worm in their casting
Birth of a worm

3. KWL Promethien Board Activity
Begin with K (students will write what they already know.
Page 2 W (students will leave a question that they want to know about earthworms).
Page 3 L (students will share what they’ve learned after we read the text)

4. Academic Content Language Chart
Academic Language in Content
Beginning Definition
Expanded Definition
Our Class Definition
Worm castings might sound gross but they are actually important in making healthy soil
Around the middle part of an earthworm is a think ring called the clitellum
Gizzard

5. Read Text Aloud

6. KWL chart continued…..pg 3 (students will complete the learned section of the KWL chart

7. Vocabulary Jigsaw for Earthworms
Begins with A
Has 2 Syllables
Ends with s
Clue- Another word for poop
Begins with c
Has 3 Syllables
Ends with e
Clue- Used to make Cocoons
Begins with G
Ends with d
Clue- The place were food in found in the worm

8. Vocabulary Jigsaw cont…..
Begins with M
Has 2 Syllables
Ends with g
Clue- Male and Female join together with their body
Begins with A
Ends with s
Clue- What plants and animals need to stay healthy
Begins with S
Ends with e
Clue- Male and female body parts

9. Vocabulary Jigsaw cont….
Begins with S
Has 2 Syllables
Ends with s
Clue- Ringed parts that make up the earthworms body
Ends with e
Clue- Invisible bristles on earthworm’s body that helps it to move.
Answer Key for vocab jigsaw words
castings, clitellum, gizzard, mating, nutrients, reproductive organs, segments, setae

10. Graphic Organizer
Use 4 point graphic organizer and identify the 4 main body parts of the Earthworm