 Hey guys, I'm going to teach you how to build a terrarium for your classroom today. And a terrarium is really great to have in your classroom because it allows children a chance to explore and study insects and bugs that they might find on the playground. A terrarium really gets the kids thinking about what the insects need in their habitat to survive. So before we build the terrarium, I'll sit the children down and I'll ask them what they think we need to include in our terrarium for the insects to live. And we'll make a list of those. So some things that they might say would be dirt, rock, sand, or maybe sticks. After that, I'll take the children outside and we will explore the environment looking for insects to put in our terrarium. So you can collect worms, snails, other insects you might want to add, and just put those in another container for now. And then we will go back in. I'll gather up all the materials we collected and I'll ask the children to just name each of the materials we collected just to practice that vocabulary. You're going to start by adding a layer of pebbles to the bottom about an inch. The next step, we bought some charcoal from the store and this kind of just helps to keep the terrarium fresh. So if you have charcoal, you can add that. If not, that's okay. I've made them without before and it works just as well. Alright, the next step we're going to do is we're going to add about an inch of soil to our terrarium. So I just grabbed this soil from the playground outside and kind of just spread that around there. Nice layer of soil. You might find just some little plants out in the soil that you want to add. So here I have just these little plants that I found and I'm just going to dig a little hole in there and put those right in. And you can add as many plants as you want. You can also add other things that you might have collected like rocks and sticks, maybe some leaves. So I'm just going to go ahead and add a few rocks here. And once you have all of that stuff in there, your terrarium is ready for insects. So you can put the insects that you found outside right into here. And I just have this lid here with some holes on it. That works great. I wanted to show you that you can also make a terrarium out of any other container really. So this one we made just out of a to-go container. You can even use a Tupperware plastic container, two liter bottle. Really any container that you have access to will work for this. So it's a great easy activity that you can do with your kids to teach them about the life cycle of insects and what they need to thrive in their environment.