A Visit to the DECOMPOSITION Lab

I absolutely LOVED watching this video!  While watching the fruit and vegetables decompose was disgusting, the fact that the students were so engaged in learning science over the two and a half weeks was just wonderful!  They were really engrossed in the project.  They had to behave like real scientists since they had to wear gloves and some students made face masks so they would not have breathe in the smells.  They also had to record data everyday and draw conclusions from that data as to what was happening with their specimens.  Again, I said it before, it does not take very much expense to keep students engaged.  It just takes some creativity on the part of the teacher.