[USCC] compost discovery area

[David Goldstein]

Teach the necessary ingredients of a backyard compost pile by having one group add water (blue construction paper if you can't do actual water into a pile), another add air (pitchfork or shovel turning if a real pile, blow if pretend), another add "greens" (grass if real, green construction paper strips if not), and a final group add "browns" (leafs if real, brown construction paper cut into the shapes of leafs if not).

david.goldstein at ventura.org
Ventura County PWA, W&S Dept.,
IWMD
800 S. Victoria Ave. #1650  Ventura, CA 93009-1650
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>>> "Sarah Siebach" <sbach33 at gmail.com> 11/12/2007 11:48 AM >>>
hello!  we are brainstorming for interactive and interpretive activities we
could include at our compost station--part of a larger "outdoor discovery
area" here at the ogden nature center.  does anyone have any ideas regarding
a compost-related activity children could engage in outside near the compost
heap?  materials/activity would need to be feasible in all weather types...

thanks for any replies!

sarah
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