As part of our Earth Day studies, we collected all the litter on our school grounds for four days. We worked in pairs, using tally marks to count the trash and sort it into 5 categories (cigarette butts, drink packages, food containers and waste, school items like pencils, and kid's stuff like broken toys). Next we added up our 4-day results, using calculators to check our answers.

Finally we added all our results together to get a class total, by using a computer spreadsheet. We made a spreadsheet chart to show our results. We made big posters for the totals of each category and presented our results to the whole school at an assembly. We had collected 2541 pieces of garbage and found that food wrappers and waste were the worst offenders! We decided that our school could do better!