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Plastic water bottle washed up on the beach.

Plastic Ocean

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Overview

Plastic flows from our neighborhoods to the ocean, but it can be tough to see and really hard to quantify! In this lesson, students will be asked to think about how plastic from their house might get to the ocean; what harm it might cause; and how we can count “microplastics” in nature.

Activity Type:

PDF

Target Grade Level:

K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Estimated Duration:

1 hour

Topics:

Oceans

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

2-PS1-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

MS-PS1-2: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.

Created by:

Dr. Drew Talley

Dr. Drew Talley

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