An indoor activity where youngsters act out the decomposition process.
Older students work with second graders to prepare construction paper signs for each youngster.
To insure full class participation, divide class in groups of eight. Instruct and supervise groups as they label and appropriately illustrate eight signs as follows. For each performance, eight second grade students hang signs around neck or tape them to shirts. To explain narration and sequence, older students pass out scripts to every second grader and role model how actors listen and dramatically respond to the narrator's words. Actors listen and act out the story by responding to prompts of name clues.