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Level 2
Understand how places influence people and people influence places.
(Pollution in oceans.  Effects of Ocean pollution on people.  Human role in creating pollution and human responses to plastic problem.)

Understand how people make significant contributions to New Zealand’s society.
(How are people, groups, and organisations working to deal with the problem of plastic?  What could be a response for you and/ or our school?)

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How does plastic ffect our lives?

Material World
Planet Earth and Beyond
Interacting Systems
Level 2
Describe how natural features are changed and resources affected by natural events and human actions.

Nature of Science
Participating and contributing
Explore and act on issues and questions that link their science learning to their daily living.

Level 3
Nature of Science
Participating and contributing
Use their growing science knowledge when considering issues of concern to them.

Explore various aspects of an issue and make decisions about possible actions.

Living World
Ecology
Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced.

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Art from Recycled plastic

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Recycled Plastic Art - Tales from Te Papa

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This teaching resource features 100 Tales from Te Papa, mini-documentaries that showcase many of the unique pieces that Te Papa stores for the nation.

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https://www.good.net.nz/article/--drowning-in-plastic

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The eco-packaging heroes who are tackling the plastic problem, and how you can too.

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Netflix Documentary

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Using recycled plastic to make art / craft projects.

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Using recycled plastic to make art / craft projects.

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We could display these at the Pet Day?

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The extent of human waste being fed into our oceans has been captured on camera by a British diver.

Rich Horner posted a video on YouTube showing a deluge of waste in the water off the coast of a resort near Bali.

Horner was diving at Manta Point, 20 kilometres from Bali. It's a spot that's meant to be populated by stingrays and fish, but was instead just inundated with rubbish.

In his post, Horner describes what he's seeing.

"Plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic cups, plastic sheets, plastic buckets, plastic sachets, plastic straws, plastic baskets, plastic bags, more plastic bags, plastic, plastic," he says.

"So much plastic!"

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Extent of human waste in oceans caught on camera

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The extent of human waste being fed into our oceans has been captured on camera by a British diver. Rich Horner posted a video on YouTube showing a deluge of waste in the water off the coast of a resort near Bali. Horner was diving at Manta Point, 20 kilometres from Bali.

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NZ Oceans World's Worst For Birds Eating Plastic. Newshub article 2 July

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NZ Oceans World's Worst For Birds Eating Plastic. Newshub article 2 July

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New Zealand's oceans are the most dangerous in the world for seabirds eating plastic waste, according to research presented to Parliament's Environment Committee.

Forest & Bird says it shows the risk to seabirds from plastic rubbish is worse in the seas around our country than anywhere else in the world.

"Rubbish that ends up in our seas has a far worse effect on seabird species than anywhere else in the world," says spokesperson Karen Baird.

"Even though we don't have the most plastic pollution, we are unique in the world in having so many seabirds species in New Zealand. We also have the most threatened seabird species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world."

It's not just birds who are threatened by plastic pollution - one out of every three turtles recovered in New Zealand has died or become ill from eating plastic.

Ms Baird says it's only recently that the abundance of plastic waste in our seas has become a dangerous problem for native wildlife.

"Until recently, the unfussy eating habits of birds like shearwaters and albatross were an evolutionary advantage. But now, when they are at sea looking for food for their chicks, they can't distinguish between floating plastic and fish."

Australian shearwaters have been badly affected by ocean pollution, with some starving to death because there is no room for food in their plastic-filled stomachs.

Forest & Bird are warning that New Zealand's 10 native shearwater species could meet the same fate if things don't change.

"Around the world, plastic rubbish is being fed to young birds by their parents, and it's killing them," says Ms Baird.

We're known as the 'seabird capital of the world' because there are 36 species that breed solely on New Zealand islands. The country is also a 'sometimes home' to one third of all seabird species in the world.

Ms Baird says plastic - which makes up 78 percent of rubbish on our beaches - presents a major risk to New Zealand's economy.

"Floating plastic can also carry pest species from other parts of the world, so the risk is not just environmental but economic as well. The Ministry of Primary Industries should be very concerned that plastic pollution has the potential to harm our primary industries."

Forest & Bird urges all New Zealanders, from everyday citizens to businesses to Government policy makers, to take part in worldwide environmental effort Plastic-Free July.

Newshub.

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NZ oceans world's worst for birds eating plastic

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New Zealand's oceans are the most dangerous in the world for seabirds eating plastic waste, according to research presented to Parliament's Environment Committee. Forest & Bird says it shows the risk to seabirds from plastic rubbish is worse in the seas around our country than anywhere else in the world.

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Boomerang Bags: cotton bags shoppers can take, borrow and use in Thames and Ngatea.  This is being used in these towns and others? 

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Boomerang Bags: cotton bags shoppers can take, borrow and use in Thames and Ngatea.  This is being used in these towns and others? 

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Resources on plastic ocean pollution

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Ocean plastic pollution education resources

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Dear Teacher, Last Friday, the 08th of June, we celebrated World Oceans Day. The Volvo Ocean Race, the round the world sailing competition with more than 40 years of history, would like to share with you and your students our Sustainability Education Programme .