Te Tipu Ora Scientific Process for Recycling

Process What we are doing?

Purpose To find out what we can do with our rubbish that we
bring to school each day
Research To find out what happens to our rubbish when it goes
into the landfill
Our Question What rubbish should go into our landfill and why?
Hypothesis White hat Recoding what we know and what we think
(predict) will happen to our rubbish that goes into the
landfill
Experiment Buried paper, plastic and food into three different holes.
Leaving them buried for 7 weeks to see which rubbish
will decompose. This will help us decided which rubbish
should go into our landfills
Analysis Record our results
Conclusion Compare the hypothesis (our predictions) to the
experiment results