Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Each book in the series is illustrated with close up color photographs and contains background material and simple experiments to help students learn about biology and the basics of the scientific process. This book begins with general facts about earthworms including body structure, species specific adaptations, and reproduction.
Readers learn that earthworms are constantly burrowing and tunneling in the earth.
As they go, they gobble up debris and cast out new soil. Sample photographs provide up close views of worm castings, setae, and dirt in the mouth of a worm. A photomicrgraph shows the earthworm's tube within a tube body structure. Subsequent chapters describe how to collect and care for earthworms, how to determine their' preferences for water temperature, food, and light levels, and how to build a worm motel. Each experiment includes a list of materials required and an illustrated step by step procedure.