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Government of Alberta
Alberta Environment: Focus on Composting [Pdf]
Explains all the ins and outs of composting, including how to maintain a composter once you've started.
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Veg Web: Composting Resource List
This site provides links to pages dealing with composting of food.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Recipes for Composting
Some recipes for composting, with a link to how to compost with worms.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Gardens: Composting for the Home Garden [Pdf]
Compost is the most important amendment you can add to your garden soil. This article, provided by the Smithsonian Gardens, includes the ingredients for healthy compost.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is Compost?
Compost is decomposed organic matter that we can add to the soil to introduce some essential nutrients. Discover what compost is made of and what it is used for.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Compost
Are people wasting yard waste? Why not turn a small corner of a backyard into a nutrient source that not only replenishes the soil but supports the base of the bird food pyramid.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: 3 Rc (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost)
In this lesson plan, students expand their understanding of solid waste management to include the idea of 3RC (reduce, reuse, recycle and compost). They will look at the effects of packaging decisions (reducing) and learn about...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Composting Nature's Disappearing Act
In this activity, students explore the idea of biodegradability by building and observing a model landfill. This serves as an introduction to the idea of composting. Students learn about the role of engineering in solid waste management.
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Paul's Garden World: The Science of Composting
Very thorough description of different organisms involved in decomposing organic material through composting. Includes actinomycetes, bacteria, fungi, and a variety of macro-organisms which also function as decomposers. Also discusses...
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Compost Guide: A Complete Guide to Composting
This informative resource is a complete guide to composting. Common composting materials, site selection, seasonal schedule, making compost, and the compost bin are just a few of the topics explored.
Texas A&M University
Texas A&m University: Composting for Kids
Slide show with script from the Texas A&M University describing how to layer a compost bin, and how to make a trench compost or pocket compost. Gives nitrogen and carbon content examples of compostable materials. Explains gardening...
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Making Compost
How not to fail, hints, compost containers, assembling the materials, are but a few of the many topics presented in this competent site.
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Waste Watch: Recyclezone: Activity Zone: Wonderful Worms: Composting
Learn how to create a worm-powered compost system. Find materials needed, where to buy worms, what to put in the compost, and questions and answers about making nutrient-rich compost from table scraps.
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Master Composter
Learn about composting, and find our how it helps connect people to the Earth's natural processes.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Worm Farming and Composting
Students create a red worm composter. As the composter develops, they will make and record observations about its health and the growth of its red worm population.
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New Brunswick Waste Management /"Backyard Magic"
Comprehensive description of the environmental benefits of composting solid waste. Complete directions for composting, detailed description of composting chemistry, suggestions for applications of humus, question and answer page,...
Texas A&M University
Aggie Horticulture: Kinder Garden: School Gardens
Get all the information needed to begin and maintain a school garden and a composting program. Features include step-by-step slide shows for creating a school garden or compost program.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biorecycling: Using Nature to Make Resources From Waste
By studying key processes in the carbon cycle, such as photosynthesis, composting, and anaerobic digestion, students learn how nature and engineers biorecycle carbon.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: How to Be a Vermiculturist
Learn all about worm composting in this article.
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University of Idaho Extension: Idaho Landscapes & Gardens: Garden Basics
A gardening resource which addresses basic gardening tips, and also contains information on composting, preparing soil, irrigating, and using pesticides and fertilizers.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Tutorial on Compostion of Functions
This site offers a tutorial on compostion of functions. The tutorial works through several example problems to clarify the process.
University of Missouri
Microbes in Action: Classroom Activities: Composting by Microbes
A science experiment to observe how materials decompose over time, By recording the smell, appearance, and movement of materials over three weeks, students will be able to make conclusions about their decompositions. Students will also...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Dumptown Game
This fun game helps students learn ways to recycle, reduce waste, and compost. You can also create your own Recycle City Scavenger Hunt.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Will Biodegrade?
Students investigate what types of materials biodegrade in the soil, and learn what happens to their trash after they throw it away. The concepts of landfills and compost piles will be explained, and the students will have an opportunity...
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