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Lesson Overview
By identifying plastics in our daily lives and tracing their pathways to beaches and coastal waters, can we minimize the volume of these harmful pollutants?
Students learn about plastic marine debris to find out where it comes from, its impacts on wildlife and humans, and how student actions can address the problem. (Gr 6-8)
Lesson Materials Media
File
Prodigious Plastic Pollution full lesson plan
(600.33 KB)
File
ORSEA Overview
(208.47 KB)
Program Name and Website
Grade Level
Middle School
Year
2021
Topic
Marine debris
Lesson Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
- ESS3.C – Human Impacts on Earth Systems
Common Core Math Standards
- 7.SP.B.4
- 8.SP.A.4