Earthworm Watch is a national citizen science project that empowers young people, whether as part of a school class, outdoor learning group, home educated group or nature club, to get face to head (or tail!) with earthworms and otherworldly creatures that live under their feet. Earthworm Watch enables young people to discover more about their natural environment within their school grounds, allotments, parks or other green space whilst gathering valuable data that contributes to real scientific research.
Enabling young people to develop scientific literacy skills linked to the Science National Curriculum through hands-on experiences categorising earthworms and soils, taking part in a real scientific enquiry.
Earthworm Watch brings learning about science and the environment to life. It’s fun learning about earthworms, soils and climate change whilst getting involved in a practical activity outdoors.
Gather data that will help scientists at Earthwatch and The Natural History Museum answer important research questions around earthworm abundance, diversity and soil productivity.
Plants; animals including humans; rocks; living things and their habitats; evolution and inheritance; working scientifically.
Biology: Structure and function of living organisms; material cycles and energy; cellular respiration; interactions and interdependencies; genetics and evolution; working scientifically.
Chemistry: Earth and Atmosphere (The Carbon Cycle).
Human and physical geography.
Earthworm Watch is a collaboration between Earthwatch Institute (Europe) and the Natural History Museum in London