Pupils in St Joseph's NS, Halverstown, are conducting a very practical experiment in how bags of different materials decay in landfill,
writes Brian Byrne.
It's part of the Senior Room's study of materials and their properties. For the experiment, the pupils have buried two bags — one plastic, one paper — in a hole in the ground.
They will dig them up in two months' time to see how each have been affected. The bags are of similar size, and in the same place underground, so that the test in under the same conditions.
Well done, St Joseph's … that's real life science.
(Pics from the school's Facebook page.)
