We are learning about Earth's surface in science. To help us understand how humans can affect the Earth's surface with trash, we are performing an experiment on items that decompose quickly and not so quickly. We stuffed an old jack-o-lantern with trash today and made predictions. Some children think the pumpkin will be really smelly when we dig it up in April. Others think it is going to turn brown and the trash will stink. Just a couple students thought the pumpkin will disappear into the soil but the trash will be left behind. (I wish I had taken a picture of the pumpkin BEFORE we buried it. It was full of plastic baggies, a plastic Pringles container, left over goldfish snack and wet paper towels.)
