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Kids Go Green: Litter and Our Oceans | PBS LearningMedia

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In this video animation from WNET, follow Al the aluminum can on a journey into the ocean after he is tossed away as litter. Students learn about the impact of litter on bodies of water and discover ways to reduce litter. In the accompanying activity, students attempt to clean a simulated polluted lake using various techniques and materials.

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Read by Suzanne

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Look Out for Litter (picture book K-1, read by Suzanne).webm

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What Is Marine Debris? | A Cartoon Crash Course

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Watch this brief video from Mystery Science to learn more. Consider the "good side" of plastic and the "bad side" of plastic.

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Voting for this episode is now closed. Would you like to vote on the most recent poll?

I pulled three questions from my jar. Which question do you want to explore next week?

What makes food delicious?

-Xiomara, 3rd Grade

Why do different instruments make different sounds?

-Sadye, 5th Grade

Why do we have allergies?

-Justice, 2nd Grade

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Voting for this episode is now closed. Would you like to vote on the most recent poll? I pulled three questions from my jar. Which question do you want to explore next week? What makes food delicious? -Xiomara, 3rd Grade Why do different instruments make different sounds?

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Collecting plastic on the open sea and then making a small seat with it, all done from a fishing boat

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Short film about collecting plastic to make a chair on a fishing boat at sea. 
Read more at www.studioswine.com

Since the discovery of the Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997, which is predicted to measure twice the size of Texas, five more have been found across the world’s oceans with the Atlantic gyre predicted to be even larger. This plastic takes thousands of years to degrade, remaining in the environment to be broken up into ever smaller fragments by ocean currents.

The gyre stretches from the coastlines of California to the shores of Japan. Recent studies have estimated 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer of the world’s oceans. The number of plastic pieces in the Pacific Ocean has tripled in the last ten years and the size of the accumulation is set to double in the next ten.

Sea Chair is made entirely from plastic recovered from our oceans. Together with local fishermen, Studio Swine collects and processes the marine plastic into a stool at sea.

Credits
Concept & Design : Studio Swine 
Director : Juriaan Booij
Music : Elisa Luu / 22 Marz

Links
studioswine.com
juriaanbooij.com

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Plastic Ocean film was created with waste collected from the streets of Bangkok, hopefully before it reaches our rivers and oceans.

Our concept was to create an underwater world re-imagining plastic waste into dream like coral sculptures, vibrant sea creature puppets that tell a metaphorical message we hope will inspire change.

www.nicemonster.tv

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Adventures of a Plastic Bottle Read-Aloud

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Adventures of a Plastic Bottle Read-Aloud

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Read by Anastassia

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Life Cycle of a Plastic Bottle Read Aloud.mov

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Read by Suzanne

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Start with this video about Mr. Trash Wheel

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Start with this video about Mr. Trash Wheel

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Solar-Powered Water Wheel Cleans Baltimore Harbor | NBC News

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Rewatch "Mr. Trash Wheel" video at bottom of the article and think about these questions

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Rewatch "Mr. Trash Wheel" video at bottom of the article and think about these questions

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- What types of trash did you see floating in the water?
-How do you think those items ended up in Baltimore's harbor?
-Write down a few ways you could reduce the amount of trash you produce on a given day.

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Brainstorm Part 2: What materials do you have at home?

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Brainstorm Part 2: What materials do you have at home?

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Gather some basic materials before you finalize your design so that you can see what you have available.

Here's some ideas:
-corks, old sponges, cut up pool noodles, nets, mesh, other fabric
-twist-ties, alligator clips, twine, string, tubes
-recycled plastic trash like cups, berry baskets, spoons, scoopers of other kinds
-specialty materials are also listed in the slideshow above! consider looking for things that will float in water and won't fall apart when wet!

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Your device needs to REEL, SWEEP, SCOOP, or GRAB plastic trash.

Your device can be focused on any kind of plastic trash in the ocean, and can use any materials you have at home. Consider incorporating recycled materials in your design for some extra "trash in action" power. Be creative and determined!

Take a look at this slideshow for materials and design ideas!

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Think about how it will capture the plastic trash. Will it sweep it up? Reel it in? Scoop or snatch it?
Do you need to build moving parts (like a grabber) or will your design float in the water and capture things?

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You have a couple options here. However you test, ask yourself: "did it capture trash?", "did my design stay together or fall apart in the water?", "how can I grab more trash or different types of trash?"

1. You could test it in a bathtub, baby pool, or other tub that you fill with water. Once it's full enough, add some pieces of trash from your recycling bin and see how your design works out. This might get messy but it is maximum fun!

2. You could also test using a dry method. Simply put trash from your recycling bin out on pavement or backyard (safe space you can clean!), and then use your device to pick up the trash.

3. What else could you do to test our your design? If you do something different, comment here and let us know what you did.

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If you want to keep going and have time this week, redesign your trash collector device to make it work EVEN BETTER!

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plastic can be made into
really cool stuff

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I got two sticks and put them together with rubber bands. Also put a wood block in the middle to make sticks move more.

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I connected an old net to a lone of pipe cleaners. And, covered pipe cleaners with straws not to get hurt.

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Caitlin made something to help scoop trash in water

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Caitlin made something to help scoop trash in water

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I used tubing, a plastic bottle, straws, tape, and modeling clay. See video.

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Brainstorm Part 1: what kind of plastic trash will you remove?

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Brainstorm Part 1: what kind of plastic trash will you remove?

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Are you trying to remove bags, bottles, microplastics, wrappers, straws, or something else?
Consider that the size and type of trash you want to remove and base your design off of that.

For example, if you want to remove small microplastics, you will want a trash collector device that can capture tiny particles (so perhaps some kind of fine mesh net). If you are working to remove bags, you will want a different design that perhaps reels in the bags.