Garbology

Write up 1-2 paragraphs of predictions/hypotheses (part 1) about what garbage you expect to produce over the three days you will be tracking.

Garbology Project For this project, students will be asked to emulate the work of Archaeologist William Rathje who pioneered the study of garbage (Garbology) as a way to understand the lifestyle and consumption patterns of a society. Students will be asked to predict their own garbage production, and then to actually monitor what they throw […]

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