Create Your Own Garbage Patch

Greetings!

We are going to set up our first experiment for this unit today. Take a look at the directions on the digital poster below. It has instructions and a materials list.

Visual

Tiny Garbage Patch

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Assignment

Science journal entry:

Answer the following questions in your science journal:

Describe how the jar looks today with all of the “trash” in it.
Is the “trash” that is inside your jar pretty common for what your household throws out on a regular basis?
What do you think your Tiny Garbage Patch will look like after one day? One week? What about a month?
Where do you think you would see garbage like this in the real world?

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