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Marine Mammal Foundation & Plastic Pollution - EarthEcho Expeditions: PlasticSeas Virtual Field Trip

by  EarthEcho International

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EarthEcho Expeditions presents a PlasticSeas Virtual Field Trip with The Marine Mammal Foundation in Australian and Dr. Kate Charlton-Robb. Register your classroom for this engaging live 45-minute Virtual Field Trip! 

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About This Program

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FREE!


Expedition: PlasticSeas resources and programs are available for free on our website www.earthecho.org, thanks to our presenting sponsor the Northrop Grumman Foundation.

Length

45 minutes


Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Parent, Adult LearnersPublic Library: Library Patrons, Library Staff

Minimum participants:

1

Maximum participants:

N/A


Primary Disciplines

Career Education, Community Interests, International, Problem Solving, Sciences, Service Learning


Program Delivery Mode

WebinarYouTube Live


Visit http://earthecho.org/expeditions/plasticseas.


Booking Information

We are excited to bring to you exciting videos, engaging lessons and more from our Expedition: PlasticSeas! These events are the launch of our 2018 EarthEcho Expeditions: PlasticSeas. We traveled to Melbourne, Australia and examined plastic in the ocean, in October of 2018. The resulting engaging videos and STEM design challenges made by teachers for teachers are available for free on our website www.earthecho.org, thanks to our presenting sponsor the Northrop Grumman Foundation.

Sorry, this program is not currently available. To inquire about future availability, please contact EarthEcho International

Receive this program and 9 more for one low price when you purchase the CILC Virtual Expeditions package. Learn more

For more information contact CILC at (507) 388-3672

Provider's Cancellation Policy

Our Virtual Field Trips and live streams are open to everyone. Each event will focus on specific science standards for middle and/or high school students, but will be enjoyable and informative for a wide range of audiences. We consider a Virtual Field Trip or live stream participant anyone who logs on to view the event. We’d love it if you could watch for the duration and ask questions, but it is not required.

About This Provider

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EarthEcho International

Washington, D.C.
United States

EarthEcho collaborates with youth and educators around the world to provide knowledge and develop tools that drive meaningful environmental action to protect and restore our ocean planet. Reaching more than 2 million people in 146 countries, we support the next generation to become environmental leaders who will transform the future.

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Contact:
Kasey Gaylord-Opalewski
kasey@earthecho.org
202-350-3190

Program Details

Format

1. This program begins with a introduction to EarthEcho and our guest host.
2. We then discuss what is plastic and where does it come from?
3. We view photos of impacts of plastics in the ocean.
4. Participants learn about solutions to plastic use and what they can do.
5. Time is allowed for questions and answers.

Objectives

The participant will:
- understand different categories of plastic there are in the world;
- understand how their actions impact the environment, especially when involving plastic;
- suggest improvement methods to solve the problem of plastic waste for my community and beyond.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

NGSS
MS-ESS3-2. Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems • Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.


OCEAN LITERACY PRINCIPLES
Principle 6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
- The ocean affects every human life. It supplies freshwater (most rain comes from the ocean) and nearly all Earth’s oxygen. The ocean moderates the Earth’s climate, influences our weather, and affects human health.
- Everyone is responsible for caring for the ocean. The ocean sustains life on Earth and humans must live in ways that sustain the ocean. Individual and collective actions are needed to effectively manage ocean resources for all.