Job: Science Researchers

 Children's Question: What job do my parents do?

Today the children wore "Caring Science Researcher" labels on their shirts as we researched the answers to their questions about worms.

"Do worms have heads?" Careful observation of the worms movements helped the children identify which end is their heads, where their mouths are located, and which end is their anus. The children referred to a diagram of a worm to confirm their findings and in the process the second question was answered "Do worms poop?" Yes!

"Where do baby worms come from?" The children used a worm life cycle chart to identify the egg, the baby worm, and the adult worm. The children were amazed to learn that there are no boy worms or girl worms; worms are both girls and boys in the same body! We observed the worms and identified the clitellum, where the eggs come from.

"Why don't worms have legs?" "Are they stretchy, do they change size?" The children observed the worms moving and noticed how their bodies stretched from short to long as they moved. Everyone wanted a chance to move like a worm and used words like "slithering" and "sliding" to describe their movements. An art activity extended this idea as they dragged pieces of yarn (worms) through glue to slither and slide on their paper (the dirt).

Moving like worms