Welcome teachers! We put together this page with resources that will help you implement a decomposition project with your students. We are working on adding all these items to the webpage.

Decomposition study protocol

Example data

Example figures

Google data form to enter your data.

Standards that are compatible with the decomposition project

Example project descriptions and instructional sequence from teachers involved in the project

The decomposition triangle  and project introduction powerpoint presentation

For more information, see Long-Term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team and Morticulture: Forests of the Living Dead.

You might want to show your students this video about the project by Sandy High School students.