ORSEA: Prodigious Plastic Pollution

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plastic bottle on the beach

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
Grade Level
Middle School
Year
2021
Topic
Marine debris
Author
Eva Ahumada, Taft 7-12 HIgh School
Jim Grano, Siuslaw Watershed Council
Samreen Siddiqui, Oregon State University

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

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