Students will conduct an experiment to determine the importance of earthworms in soil by analyzing how earthworms eat dead plant and animal matter and release nutrient-rich waste that enriches the soil and contributes to healthy plant growth.

2. Identifying the Students will
Analyzing conduct an
importance of
the success healthy soil.
experiment
determining
of a What are the the
vegetable contributing importance
factors to a of
garden. earthworms
healthy soil?
in the soil.

3. As they break As they break down the
matter from dead
Earthworms down the plant and plants, bacteria and
eat dead animal matter, it fungi, their waste is released
provides essential backed into the soil in the
leaves, grass, f form of a cast. Their cast is
nutrients to the packed with chemical
ungi, plants soil. nutrients such as
and animals. carbon, nitrogen, phosphoro