Inquiry learning - big ideas

As part of our inquiry learning we looked at the different types of rubbish in our school. We found that there was a lot of rubbish in the playground. There was lots of plastic. We decided to bury some of this rubbish. We buried a banana skin, a flower, newspaper, glad wrap, a plastic drink bottle and a whole apple.
We dug up this rubbish every week for 6 weeks.
We found that the banana skin, the flower, the apple and newspaper rotted away.
All the plastic remained! We decided this was bad for our environment.



All the plastic we buried was still there after 6 weeks.