This is a self-facilitated field trip at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. In this program, students will learn about biodegradation and decomposition and consider how these processes factor into the impacts human waste production and littering have on the environment. Students will pick up trash in the C&O Canal NHP as an act of service while practicing data collection by recording the types of trash they collect. Students will use the data they collect to better understand the kinds of litter they removed from the park in the context of biodegradation rates and their lo