Recycling

Purpose: To find out what we can do with our rubbish that we bring to school each day

Our Question: What rubbish should go into the landfill and why?

Experiment: We dug three holes to see what rubbish does decompose. After 7 weeks we will see what rubbish
should go into landfills.

Plastic

Our hole

Food
Paper

What rubbish do you think should go into our landfills?

Links to the Key Competencies:

Being an Active Participator
We are learning to show interest of the world around us and we like exploring ideas and working
together to make connections and choices.

Links to the Science Curriculum: Nature of Science

Students will:
Understanding about science
Appreciate that scientists ask questions about our world that lead to investigations and that open-
mindedness is important because there may be more than one explanation.
Investigating in science
Extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play,
asking questions, and discussing simple models.
Communicating in science
Build their language and develop their understandings of the many ways the natural world can be
represented.
Participating and contributing
Explore and act on issues and questions that link their science learning to their daily living.

12th May 2017