Composting
can be linked into many areas of the curriculum.
TEACHING
RESOURCES
Composting
and waste can be used to help deliver many parts
of the National Curriculum and can be integrated
into a number of QCA schemes of work. The process
provides a context for pupils to acquire, develop
and apply a broad range of knowledge, understanding
and skills about issues relating to their everyday
lives. The study of compost provides a great opening
for the delivery such subjects as science, geography,
citizenship, literacy and numeracy through topics
such as recycling, ecology, food production and
soil fertility.
Composting and decomposition is a completely natural
process, it happens all around us everyday and
represents half of all life. Not surprisingly,
we seem to prefer the growth side of life and
see decay as the negative side of the cycle. We
don’t always see it as a thriving process
of change, involving millions of organisms busily
recycling organic matter, creating a nutrient
rich substance to feed the growth side of the
cycle again.
