 Today, I'm going to be talking about an exploration and investigation of worms. You can do this with any small creature or insect caterpillars, things like that. Our overall goal is just to kind of introduce kids to nature and living things and respecting them and their habitats. We talk about the scientific inquiry method of wondering about worms. We ask questions about worms. We decide what we want to find out about worms. We explore and then investigate them and then kind of have an overall discussion at the end on what we have gotten out of the discussion and exploration. We start with trowels, different things like that. We go outside and we find them underground and bring them into the classroom so that we can kind of get an up-close look and really zoom in on them. We use things like the magnifying glasses and even little flashlights. We get all up-close so that we can talk about what the worms look like up-close, what we see, and then we kind of have, I always have a pen and paper and a camera for documentation. I then ask the kids to draw what they observe, what they see, and what they like about the worms. We just have an overall discussion and go to books, pictures, and even internet for further things.