How Compost Is Made: A Field Trip!

Composting is a way to turn scraps of food you aren't going to eat anymore into healthy soil for your garden! But how does food turn in to dirt?! Mister Brown and Squeaks take a trip to SoilCycle, a place that makes compost in their neighborhood, to talk to their friend Caitlyn and find out how composting works!

Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards

Disciplinary Core Idea:

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth - Some events happen very quickly; others occur very slowly, over a time period much longer than one can observe (2-ESS1-1).

Performance Expectation:

2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.