What an amazing and busy day we had today! Our class made three exciting stops on our field trip. First, we stopped at Miller's Country Gardens to purchase pumpkins to decorate for Hayes' Haunt the Halls community event on October 27th. Students picked out their perfect pumpkin, weighed their pumpkin, and used a calculator to estimate the cost of the pumpkin. Each student had to determine how much their pumpkin would cost by multiplying the cost, $0.29 per pound, by the weight of their perfect pumpkin.
After leaving Miller's, we headed down to Columbus to visit the Rumpke Recycling Plant. Talk about a cool place to visit! We were met by the Rumpke staff and given a tour of the recycling facility as well as had an opportunity to learn a little more about recycling and ask questions. Did you know that it takes about 60 days for a recycled soda can to go from your curb to back to the store shelf? BUT ... when you throw your empty soda can in the trash, it takes over 500 years for it to decompose in a landfill. We are planning to use our new knowledge of recycling to encourage the students and staff at Hayes to start recycling more at school!
Then we headed over to McDonald's, where each student was able to pick out their own lunch, order their lunch, and pay for their lunch independently. They did awesome and we were all stuffed and worn out by the time we made our way back to Hayes!
This was SO much fun! The Rumpke plant is such an interesting place we all learned a lot
ReplyDeleteWhat was your favorite part about the recycling plant? I think mine was the bales of recycled material packed up and ready to ship off!
ReplyDeleteIt was kinda fun but the smell was bad but i when somewhere else that smell worst
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