Nature’s Recyclers
From watching composting worms create soil, to modeling the nutrient cycle, students have the opportunity to use their investigations to understand the organisms that carry out the process of decomposition and recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.
View a Nature’s Recycler’s Module Summary
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Full Module
A full module includes a Teacher Print package, student books for 30, and a classroom ExploraGear kit. (Supplemental Classroom Supplies and Spanish science notebooks are also available.)
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Teacher Print Package
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Science Notebook Teacher Guide
Student Reference Book (1 per Teacher Print Package)
Assessment Book
Teacher Masters
Visual Pack
Lesson 0
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Student Books
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My Science Notebook
Nature’s Recycler’s Science Notebook pages
Students record their Nature’s Recyclers explorations, data, and conclusions here.
Student Reference Book
Student Reference Book pages
102 full color pages of high-interest science readings integrated with the Nature’s Recyclers module, in a durable hardback.
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ExploraGear®
These unit-specific kits contain hard to find equipment that the students use over and over during lesson explorations. They also contain some consumable materials for student experiments and data collection activities. Kits are designed to facilitate both individual and small group work by students and to allow for hands-on activities.
Materials for hands-on exploration for 30 students
View a list of contents for the Nature’s Recyclers ExploraGear.
Download an order form for replacement parts.
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Also available (not in module packages)
Supplemental Classroom Supplies
These kits are meant to enrich the existing ExploraGears® by providing teachers with additional classroom supplies. These give teachers the option of spending less prep time gathering common materials.
Additional, more common materials for 30 students
View a list of contents for the Nature’s Recyclers Supplemental Classroom Supplies.
Download an order form for replacement parts.
Spanish Science Notebooks
Nature’s Recyclers Spanish Science Notebook pages
Spanish Student Science Notebooks are available in pdf or print. To inquire, write to orders@sciencecompanion.com.
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