Bogs

We're Maya and Amy! We heard about a cool traveling exhibit at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History called The Mysterious Bog People. The bog people are actually mummies! The exhibit shows you how things can be preserved in a bog, but we also learned that not everything is preserved in a bog. We have bogs near us in Pittsburgh, so we wondered: What kind of stuff is preserved in a bog?

How would you investigate this question?
Even if you don't live near a real bog, you can still design an experiment about bogs. Come up with some ideas about what you'd like to try to preserve in a bog: an apple, a bone, a piece of cloth, newspaper... whatever! Make decisions about what to test, what to bury them in (sand, soil, water, leaves, etc), and for how long. Describe your investigation in your notebook and discuss it with your teacher, or go to Bogs to learn what Maya and Amy discovered.