Julia helped children from forms 3 and 4 burry some waste in our school garden. Her hands were too small to help but she was very happy to observe the whole process of first digging and then burrying the waste. This is what the children decided to bury in order to empirically learn what will happen to various things after some given periods of times and which will be the first to decompose:

- an apple

- paper

- a metal can

- a plastic bottle

- lettuce

- a banana

-a glass bottle

- a newspaper

Observations after the first week:

The lettuce fell into pieces and the newspaper got wet.

Observations after the second week:

The appel started to rot and the newspaper got into pieces

Observations after the third week:

The lettuce and the newspaper got into even smaller pieces, the decay of the apple continues

Observations after the fourth week:

a slow decomposition of both the lettuce and the newspaper

Observations after the fifth week:

The visible decay of the apple

Class 4a's happy foto halfway through the experiment!

The end observations of the experiment:

- the colours of the metal can started to fade, a very slow decay has started

- the lettuce - nothing was left

- the glass bottle - no changes whatsoever

- the plastic bottle - no changes

- the apple - nothing was left

- the newspaper - nothing was left