INVITE US TO YOUR SCHOOL!
Classroom Visits
A fun visit with Ms. Turner's class at Mt. Pleasant Elementary to chat about plastic pollution. They are already amazing advocates in the mission to reduce single use plastic pollution including authoring and illustrating a book, and developing a rap about plastic pollution! They advocated for the school to ditch plastic bags for delivering breakfast items to classrooms, and switch to reusable totes, saving more than 56,000 bags each year!
VIDEOS - FILMS - BOOKS for teachers' use
VIDEO SHORTS
Plastic Pollution Coalition. Open Your Eyes narrated by Jeff Bridges (3:55 minutes)
http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/
Food Service and Plastic Pollution in General Not as graphic. Climate Lab S1E9 "Take Out Creates a Lot of Trash. It Doesn't Have To." (7:02 Minutes)
https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/1/3/16842068/climate-lab-takeout-food
“The Story of Bottled Water” by Annie Leonard (8:04 minutes)
YouTube:
YouTube
“The Majestic Plastic Bag Mockumentary” Narrated by Jeremy Irons. Younger kids may not get. (3.59 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pi_45f1uX8
Short music video: Use Less Plastic to Save our Ocean (1:48 minutes) Upbeat Blondie like band singing.
Plastic Pollution and how humans are turning the world into plastic - https://youtu.be/RS7IzU2VJIQ In this video is a segment on a comparison of plastic bags to cotton reusable bags.
“All the Way to the Ocean” by Joel Harper hardcover book and a 14:21 minute YouTube video for K-3rd or 4th grades
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Ocean Pollution Awareness. https://youtu.be/1qT-rOXB6NI (shows 5 Patches now there are 7 as they are adding the Caribbean Sea and Arctic Ocean)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Explained
DOCUMENTARIES
“A Plastic Ocean” - currently on Netflix/library system has copies
“Bag It” – library system has copies/Amazon. Plastic Free Delaware can also provide, email info@plasticfreedelaware.org (45 minutes)
“STRAWS” - Plastic Free Delaware can provide, email info@plasticfreedelaware.org (30 minutes)
“A Plastic Paradise” –Amazon Streaming Rental
“Inside the Garbage of the World” library system has copies
“Water and Power: A California Heist” Amazon streaming
“Happening-A Clean Energy Revolution” HBO
Netflix
Before The Flood
Mission Blue
Plastic Ocean
BOOKS
“All the Way to the Ocean” by Joel Harper hardcover book and a 14:21 minute YouTube video K-3rd or 4th grades
OTHER CURRICULUM RESOURCES
https://couponfollow.com/research/saving-money-recycling
https://www.wristband.com/content/how-to-properly-recycle-plastic/
https://storyofstuff.org/resources/
- Including High School Program 9-12 grades: “Buy, Use, Toss- A Closer Look At The Things We Buy”. Made in collaboration with Facing the Future, “Buy, Use, Toss?” is an interdisciplinary unit that includes ten fully-planned lessons.This unit is correlated with national science and social studies standards and will lead your students through an exploration of the system of producing and consuming goods that is called the materials economy. Students will learn about the five major steps of...
Colorado Green Star Zero Waste for Schools
https://greenschoolsnationalnetwork.org/zero-waste-for-schools/
Central Vermont Zero Waste:
https://nerc.org/documents/Organics/CVSWMD_SchoolProgram_Webinar%20PPT.pdf
Ocean Conservancy and NOAA Marine Debris Program:
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/partnerships/talking-trash-and-taking-action-marine-debris
Use their 10 question pre-survey as a guide to class discussions.
Plastic Free Campus:
http://www.postlandfill.org/plastic-free-campus/